CaseLight1999

Richmond (near Ottawa) (Canada), ON, Canada

We saw a light travelling high across the evening sky which stopped, changed direction, grew very bright, and disppeared rapidly upward

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1999-08-28
Where
Richmond (near Ottawa) (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Light
Duration
2 min.
Geo
45.183, -75.833 · exact
Slug
light-over-richmond-near-ottawa-canada-on-1999-ed733f

In context

  • Richmond (near Ottawa) (Canada), Canada has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1999 brought 136 reports from Canada.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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