2022-08-21 - Toronto, ON - Light

7 days ago, I thought I saw the greatest single meteor in decades of watching the Perseid meteor showers. Tonight, I saw something else.

I live on the edge of lake Ontario, at the top of the Scarborough bluffs. The view from my balcony is approx 160 degrees, with nothing but sky. I know every flight ' route' landing at Pearson airport, and the Toronto Island airport. I can see 3 to 4 planes at equal distances to one another at the same altitude entering the descent into Pearson. I know that It takes about 3-4 full minutes for me to watch a plane come into sight from the east, and north, and lose sight of them as they travel west and south.

At approximately 1:30 am, My huband and I watched a bright orange light appear. Out of nowhere. We did not see it come from any direction. It suddenly appeared, really bright orange. The first thing that made me notice it, was that it didn't belong there. Then, we noticed that it was completely stationary. It didn't move. I opened the balcony door to get my binoculars. I was afraid that if I took my eyes off of what I was actually looking at and grab the binoculars, it would go away. But it didn't. I saw it through binoculars. There was a constant glowing orange light above and below. In the middle was a thin darkish center. Imagine a hamburger. The dark area looking like a patty. It did not have any wings like a plane. After a couple of minutes, the light started to fade as if it was going backwards. Into the distance. Then about 5 seconds later, the same bright orange object reappeared about 45 degrees to the west. I looked at it again with the binoculars. Same thing again. Completely stationary, then faded quickly. We never saw it fly/ move. It just turned on a bright light in the dark, then after a couple of minutes, faded like turning down a dimmer switch.

I know what I saw, and really wish that I could come up with a bs explanation that I could believe.

I was 16 when Omni magazine came out. I had a subscription. I have had an interest in science and space most of my life.

I am 60 years old. In my lifetime, I was there before man went to the moon. Before the International space station. Before we proved tachyons were faster than the speed of light, inventing the large Hadron collider, proving the existence of the higgs boson particle, amending the theory of 13 parallel universes to only 11. And, apparently black holes exist, and they are evrywhere.

I know what I saw, and I can say with certainty , it was an unidentified aerial phenomena.

I cannot tell you how happy I am that I found this website. Because, there is no way I will ever say what I saw out loud. Ever. To anyone. Even my husband who witnessed it, is in denial. He knows what he saw, and cannot explain it. He stopped talking, shut down and went to bed within minutes.

There was no scale to judge distance, but the object's altitude was the same height as the commercial flights that cross my horizon.

I take no medications, I have no mental illness. This is the first time I have ever reported anything, ever.