CaseLight1970
Whitby (Canada), ON, Canada
At 1:30 a.m. in Whitby, Ontario, in September 1970, a witness saw a flashing light change direction and speed repeatedly, over about two minutes.
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 (145 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-09-22
- Where
- Whitby (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.883, -78.933 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-whitby-canada-on-1970-f566fe
In context
- This is one of 28 reports logged in Whitby (Canada), Canada.
- This case is one of 13 Canada reports filed in 1970.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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