NUFORC Sighting 176496

Occurred: 2014-06-01 23:59 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-06-28 06:40 Pacific
Duration: ~45 secs
No of observers: 2

Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Location details: About half way down Nanaimo River Road (half way to the camp site at the end of this road)

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Left a trail

Two white orbs stationary in the night sky; left orb shot off horizontally and curved upwards very fast; right orb crept away slow.

A friend and I were talking and listening to music close to midnight, down a road called "Nanaimo River Road" quite far away from the city. My friend saw something out of her window and got out of the car– I followed, curious. The moon was on our left side and on our right hovered these two white orbs, both emitting white light but not appearing to "glow" or "flicker" in any way. They were absolutely silent. We started gawking at them and immediately the orb on the left went from being completely still to what I can only describe as "warp speed." It took off faster than I have seen anything travel in my entire life. It took off horizontally then bent upwards until it was just a pinprick of light in the night sky and then it was gone completely. From it being stationary to being a pinprick of light, no more than a half a second elapsed. It seemed to travel faster than our eyes could follow it but if I recall correctly we were able to make out the direction it headed (away from us) due to the presence of a very quick light trail that followed it and was also gone in an instant. To make matters weirder, as we were still in awe of what just happened, we noticed that the second orb (the one on the right of the orb that shot off) started to slowly creep away from us, traveling horizontally until it too disappeared. No more than a minute elapsed for this entire sighting and at no time did these two entities create any sound. Please note: this sighting took place about a decade ago. I told (and continue to tell) everyone about what my friend and I saw that night. I've also posted about it in multiple places, such as Reddit and in YouTube comments. I never really thought to report it to the police or to any official website, perhaps I was a little bit scared that the Men in Black would try neuralize me… I'm still paranoid about this but I figure that if 'they' wanted to silence me they probably would have done it by now. I imagine that 'they' have bigger fish to fry, like trying to silence Travis Walton, etc. The people I've told about this encounter/sighting are able to easily shrug it off as being a drone or a Chinese lantern or a flare or naturally-occurring phenomena, etc. etc. The only theory I'm willing to entertain is the possibility of it being some naturally-occurring phenomena that hasn't been well studied… but, intuitively, it just didn't feel like some phenomena as both orbs appeared to have unique motions that could be better explained by the presence of "beings" controlling these crafts. I say this because these two "unique motions" we witnessed could easily be interpreted as being indicative of two separate "behaviours," in which case their unique "behaviours" could also be interpreted as being akin to two separate personalities. One was eager to leave at all costs, and the other seemed almost curious but, having been seen by us, almost reluctantly agreed to follow the first orb and leave the area… It was the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life and it's likely that I will never see anything quite like what I saw that night ever again. Lastly, in response to people theorizing that perhaps our government has some top-secret advanced technology, which would allow them to seemingly leave Earth's atmosphere in under a second, I say (1) they're not being very secretive about it and (2) if our military has technology as advanced as this would appear to be then they are, in my opinion, more extraterrestrial than terrestrial at that point. Would our military risk people laying eyes on such technology if they had it? And for what, to eavesdrop on two friends listening to Lana Del Rey? To me, it's just as preposterous as the Chinese lantern theory… I only hope that all the naysayers have an opportunity to witness such insanely magical, incredibly surreal UAPs/UFOs for themselves. If they ever do get such a chance to witness paranormal activities such as these, I can only imagine how fast they'll discredit the "Chinese lantern" theory! P.S. sorry for the lack of evidence, it all happened so fast that it wasn't until days after this event when I actually started kicking myself that I forgot to begin filming. In all honesty, I'm glad that I didn't go grab my phone because the second I turned my back I would have missed one of the strangest/otherworldly things I've ever seen. Besides, my iPhone likely would have captured nothing anyways considering my phone back then could barely capture the full moon at its largest.

Posted 2023-07-10