Toronto Police receive several UFO reports, object remains unexplained

Something is out there.

Several UFO sightings were reported in North York after the weekend.

Two videos shot by Finch Street resident Sarah Chun, 36, shows a string of diagonal lights flashing in the sky, and a glowing object high above them.

"It was really high up, and was round, bright, and shining," Chun told the Toronto Star. "At first I thought it was stars or something, but it was too bright to be. I didn't know what it was."

According to Chen, the object "just sat there" for about 25 minutes before "it kind of flew, and then disappeared."

Chen's videos, which she posted late Saturday evening, went viral overnight.

Toronto Police confirmed that they received several UFO reports on Saturday, and that the object was not a police drone. Some officers working the late shift saw the mysterious lights on the way to work.

"Somebody did see something in the sky, but what it was we don't know," Sergeant Barry White, 32 Division, told the Toronto Star. "It might have been someone playing with one of those remote control helicopters from one of the condos."

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White added that he wasn't aware of police protocol regarding UFO sightings.

"If it was something dangerous and we could do something under the criminal code, we might. Police would go try and check it out," he said. "But to actually go and investigate it further as a UFO — I don't think we would. I'm trying not to laugh!"

On Twitter, Constable Craig Brister attributed the UFO reports to a multirotor helicopter, otherwise known as a "quadcopter."

The quadcopter wasn't the only theory.

A North York resident named Alejandro told CTVNews.ca that he saw some kids in a park preparing a kite with a light rig on Saturday evening.

"After it got dark, a couple of hours later, I notice a line of lights," he wrote in an email. "(It) looked like a very potent laser pointing vertical to the sky, but it was the kite these people were preparing."

Others believed that the lights were flying lanterns, released to mark the end of Ramadan.

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According to NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) spokesman Julie Roberge, NORAD saw nothing unusual on radar over Toronto's skies and received no calls reporting the UFO. She told the Toronto Sun that most UFO sightings turn out to be aircraft or other "normal phenomena."

"We never usually find anything; there is usually an explanation," she said.

Last year, there were almost 1,200 reported sightings across Canada, according to Ufology Research. More than 40 per cent of the sightings were in Ontario.

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