UP IN THE NIGHT SKY?

Prince George resident Brad Camozzi was outside in the yard of his home in the Lakewood subdivision enjoying the warmth of his hot tub Wednesday night around 9 p.m. when he saw something in the sky above he could not explain.

There were four bright round orange lights traveling silently following similar paths moving in a northwesterly direction. He banged on the window to alert his girlfriend, Lisa Morgan, who came out and saw the same lights and took out her phone to record it. One by one, the lights disappeared. Some gradually got smaller and some remained the same size before they vanished from sight.

“It looked like a giant orange light, like a pumpkin,” said the 51-year-old Camozzi.

“I saw one and then all of sudden there was a second one and a third one and then there was a fourth one. We thought it was kind of strange because they went for a ways and then they went out. Five or 10 minutes later they came out again and I saw all four of them again. It was the same kind of deal where it was kind of one and one behind it, and then another one and another one and then, boom, they were gone.

“The weird part was the formation they were in,” he said. “They were kind of on an angle, about the same distance apart. At first I thought they were planes but they were going too slow to be planes to be one behind each other there and I was thinking ‘I hope there’s other people seeing this.’ I don’t doubt that there’s something else out there.”

On the video Morgan recorded, the orange lights show up as small white dots and the clip lacks the clarity needed to help determine what they were.

One of Camozzi’s Facebook friends, Brian Engbrecht, said it could have been candle lanterns made of paper light enough so the heat of the attached candle causes them to rise in the sky. The orange glow is the lanterns catching fire and burning until the paper fuel is exhausted, which could explain why the objects over Prince George suddenly went dark.

Camozzi has a hard time believing it was a flame in the sky he was watching.

“They were super-bright, I think too bright to be candle lanterns, and they were close,” he said.

There were no UFO reports received by the Prince George Airport Authority for that particular night.

“Helicopters, you would hear them, and they wouldn’t be doing that kind of night flying, so I’ll go back and look at our logs just to be sure, but typically, particularly if the tower had noticed, something like that would be reviewed the next morning,” said PGAA president and CEO Gordon Duke.

Duke said there is a federal government website available to the public - Civil Aviation Occurrence Daily Reporting System (CADORS) - which catalogs daily incidents pertaining to Canadian-registered aircraft which occur at airports or in Canadian airspace. There was nothing reported to the website about Wednesday’s incident.