My UFO

It's not much of a pic, I know. But this is what eight of us saw - five adults and three kids - while we were trick or treating on October 31. It was bright orange and moving at a steady pace. It didn't bob or wobble. It had a firm trajectory. It passed over our heads, and was luminous for the entire 30 seconds or so that we watched. It didn't flicker, twinkle, or extinguish. It was moving westward and eventually it was swallowed up in the gloom (the horizon was smoky from fireworks). We couldn't guess at its altitude, but if it was very high up, then it was moving impossibly fast and was probably the size of a small town. If it wasn't so high up, it still maintained an impressive speed. It was silent.
Of the five grown-ups that were there, I'm easily the doofus. But my wife is a pretty reliable skeptic and she agrees that it wasn't: a plane, helicopter, lantern, flare, meteor, satellite, firework, Venus, or swamp gas. None of us thought it was anything we could explain. I privately toyed with the idea that I put it up there myself, coz I happen to be reading three books on the subject at the moment, and have been wishing a little more ardently than usual for a sighting. But the good people of UFO BC tell me that orange lights have been quite common in the area for the last two years. I had no idea! They added that "it might have been a chinese lantern, but otherwise we have no explanation." It wasn't a goddamned chinese lantern.
The streak in the picture is due to the shutter speed. My mom took it, bless her heart.

Of the five grown-ups that were there, I'm easily the doofus. But my wife is a pretty reliable skeptic and she agrees that it wasn't: a plane, helicopter, lantern, flare, meteor, satellite, firework, Venus, or swamp gas. None of us thought it was anything we could explain. I privately toyed with the idea that I put it up there myself, coz I happen to be reading three books on the subject at the moment, and have been wishing a little more ardently than usual for a sighting. But the good people of UFO BC tell me that orange lights have been quite common in the area for the last two years. I had no idea! They added that "it might have been a chinese lantern, but otherwise we have no explanation." It wasn't a goddamned chinese lantern.
The streak in the picture is due to the shutter speed. My mom took it, bless her heart.
