2005-04-05 - Toronto, ON - Formation

Light formations, Toronto

Formations of lights flying across the sky in Toronto Visibility: clear sky, but poor visibility due to downtown light pollution.

The first one was around 10.20PM and it was a pattern like a large swept-back wing, without a fuselage. The pattern was symetrical and I thought it looked like an advertising plane with lights on the wing. Only problem was that it was too large and silent. Only the single points of light in formation were visible.

Then around 10.30-10.35 there was a skalene triangle formation of 3 lights flying across the sky in a southward direction. They looked like fighter jets in formation from the apparent speed and distance. The span of the formation was about 1 inch at arms lenth. There was some other normal air traffic, but on the aircraft you could make out multiple lights as well as the body of the plane. The light formations observed were white and single points.

I then saw a linear formation of 3 lights head north. A little while later a single light head south. That was the last one I saw.

All the lights were too far apart to be a single airplane, although they kept perfect formation. Straight line travel, no turns that I saw. From the way they faded when heading toward the horizon I would guess they were quite high. Too fast for a satelite, plus this was downtown and a satelite would be too dim. I estimate they were traveling 30 degrees of arc in 5 second when overhead.

((NUFORC Note: Source elects to remain totally anonymous. PD))