Size of Object(s)

40 feet by 60 feet

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

5-6 kilometers

Shape of Object(s)

modern clothes iron without handle until it exploded.

Color of Object(s):

reflective and then black after explosion

Full Description & Details

In June of 1977 I lived in a subburb of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada called Castlegreen Co-operative Housing. My friend and I were standing behind the 600 row of Castlegreen

at the edge of the center field tossing around rocks,etc. and basically wasting time before dinner. Some of the residents of the 600 row were outside working on their yards, barbequing and tending to their gardens. Their were only a few clouds in the sky off to the Southwest and they were slowly moving away to the north. The clouds had a mild hint of pink and grey to them which caused me to admire them for a second. I then noticed that one small area of the cloud cluster (the only one in the sky) was not moving along with the rest, it was staying stationary. I couldn't make out the full shape of the object at that point but I noticed that the object was reflecting the clouds like a mirror, which had camoflaged it until that point. My friend Andy looked at the sky in the direction to where my eyes were fixated. "What are you looking at?" I pointed to the left side of the cloud cluster and said, "Right there,..can you see it?' He looked for a second and then replied "No, what is it?" I told him to wait a second because the cloud cluster was going to be moving away from it in a few seconds. When the clouds drifted away, my friend and I both had the same verbal reaction "Whoaa." We watched the reflective object turn from the color of the clouds to the blue of the sky as it was exposed from the clouds and highlighted against the open sky. It sat motionless while we watched. The object was the general shape of a modern clothes iron without the handle on top of it. I would estimate that the object was at least 5 kilometers away and aprox. 1500 meters in the air. I estimate that it was about the size/mass of a standard duplex or two level barn. Andy immediately piped up, "Dad!!" and ran into his townhouse which we were standing right behind. Andy and his father both came out of the patio doors and out to the edge of the yard line. Andy's father examined the sky as I pointed in the direction of the object and Andy struggled to put on his glasses which he retreived while inside. Andy's father looked puzzled, said nothing and then went back inside. (I figured he was going inside to get someone else.) He returned with Andy's older sister and stated that he called his friend on the phone and told him to get a look at this thing. His friend from the 500 row arrived a few minutes later and other people from the 600 row had began to take notice. After the better part of ten or fifteen minutes, there must have been 12-15 people all observing this object and making their own conclusions as to what it was. I then said aloud "I think it's moving." Everyone became quite and stifled as we watched the object move very slowly across the sky toward the south. I don't believe it was propelling itself, it looked more like it was just drifting across the sky like a beach ball on water. We noticed that the point/nose of the object was now pointing in the direction it was drifting. It gradually started to pick up speed until it was evident it was begining to excel and propel itself. When the object was going at a modest rate of speed (aprox. 90 kilometers an hour) and was directly over the south end of the city it let out an incredible flash of light. The flash was pure white and very brilliant, like a gigantic distress flare. Everyone gasped and blurted their reactions "Jesus!", "Woaa!",

"Holy *%#*!" during the explosion.

Black smoke began billowing out from behind the flare as it moved across the sky and the flash began to subside. (The flash lasted about 5 seconds.) The flash died out and the object was still moving across the sky in the same direction. The object was now smaller, rounded, and totally black with a great deal of black smoke trailing out from behind it. The object continued to streak black smoke across the sky until it went out of view over Lake Superior aprox. 2 minutes later.

The small crowd began to gradually disband after the object went out of view.

As I walked over to the 900 cluster of housing (Where my family lived at the time.) I kept watching the black smoke in the sky fading. I told my father about what I had seen and took him onto the back deck so he could see the faint black smoke off in the distance.

My father was in the army years before and did conventional missile testing in WhiteSands, N.M. so I wanted his angle on this. My father dismissed it as a fallen satellite or a peice of space debris that had entered the atmosphere.

God bless him, but three things don't concurr with his deduction...

1. Why was it camoflaged or hiding in the only small batch of clouds in the entire sky?

2.Why did it stay stationary for so long and then begin to excellorate?

3.Why was there no mention of this in the media in the proceeding days to come?

It was evidently seen by many people in ThunderBay. To this day, every so often I hear someone out camping or fishing begin to tell the story about that sighting which was over 26 years ago and I usually finish the story for them.

Witness Background

Intervention Officer, (PT) Support worker, Freelance Artist.

Other Comments

"The Thunder Bay sky explosion of 77"

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