Green light, then vanished...
While driving north on highway 416 toward Ottawa, just passing Kemptville, I was noticing how one star to my left was the only one brig enough to be seen from inside the car. I figured it was Venus, which I've heard is very bright in the winter. I could not see any other stars.
Suddenly, while it was on my left, I noticed a new light over the tree line directly ahead of me to the north. It was green, and very bright. There were red lights along the tree line which I knew were tops of cell phone or radio towers. This green light was well above the red lights - much higher than the red ones. I thought it was strange, so kept my eye on it until it suddenly disappeared. There was no visible direction that it went. It was like it was just turned off, which leads me to believe that it moved off very fast.
I didn't see it again. I confirmed that the star I believed to be Venus was still to my left (west) to be sure I wasn't just seeing it. Minutes later, I saw a plane fly in the general area I had seen the light.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to draw my wife's attention to the light before it disappeared because I didn't think it was worth pointing out to her until it was too late.
While driving north on highway 416 toward Ottawa, just passing Kemptville, I was noticing how one star to my left was the only one brig enough to be seen from inside the car. I figured it was Venus, which I've heard is very bright in the winter. I could not see any other stars.
Suddenly, while it was on my left, I noticed a new light over the tree line directly ahead of me to the north. It was green, and very bright. There were red lights along the tree line which I knew were tops of cell phone or radio towers. This green light was well above the red lights - much higher than the red ones. I thought it was strange, so kept my eye on it until it suddenly disappeared. There was no visible direction that it went. It was like it was just turned off, which leads me to believe that it moved off very fast.
I didn't see it again. I confirmed that the star I believed to be Venus was still to my left (west) to be sure I wasn't just seeing it. Minutes later, I saw a plane fly in the general area I had seen the light.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to draw my wife's attention to the light before it disappeared because I didn't think it was worth pointing out to her until it was too late.
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Ottawa
Canada
15 seconds
15 seconds
45.40
-75.69
light
ON
Occurred : 2/11/2012 18:30 (Entered as : 02/11/12 18:30) Reported: 2/11/2012 8:52:17 PM 20:52 Posted: 3/13/2012 Location: Ottawa (Canada), ON Shape: Light Duration: 15 seconds Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Green light, then vanished...