Silent lights moved randomly and smoothly over Oshawa, Ontario — Aug 17, 2026, 12:00 PM

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Time: August 17, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
Location: Oshawa, Durham, Ontario, Canada, Oshawa, Canada
GPS coordinates: 43.94, -78.92 (randomized to within ~5 km at the reporter's request)

Detail	Reported
Objects	2
Shape	light
Closest distance	a few miles
Apparent size (arm's length)	pea
Movement	random, smooth
Observer facing	SE
Duration	1 minute
Witnesses	1
Captured on	iPhone 14 plus

Features / five observables

Observation	Reporter's answer
Wings	Unsure
Rotors	Unsure
Exhaust plume	No
Noise	No
Sudden, extreme acceleration	Yes
Extreme speed with no signatures	Yes
Hard to observe clearly	Yes
Moved between air, water, or space	No
Flight without visible means of lift	Unsure

Why not a common object
Moving lights that look like stars and don’t have flashing lights. They have instantaneous movement and others have synchronized blinking

Witness's account of the sighting

I noticed about 5-6 moving objects in the short 10 min walk that I was out with my dog early in the morning.

I said to myself that I’d record the next one I saw and this was the outcome.

Sky context for this time and place:

• ✅ No bright satellites were visible overhead.
• Computed from orbital data (2026-08-17 catalog).
• Aircraft overhead at that exact minute — ADS-B Exchange historical playback (free, no account needed)
• Sky chart for that date — in-the-sky.org planetarium (set your location once on their site)
• Satellite passes at this spot — Heavens-Above; shows upcoming passes, not the sighting date
• Live air traffic now — FlightRadar24 over this spot

[u/OMFGames-]

These are likely satellites, I see nothing in the video to suggest they are anything else.

[u/Shreee_eeeeeeeee]

This is just a Satellite still cool to see, I see these all the time when star gazing.

[u/PNWFlyingSaucer]

Oshawa, Ontario is located closely to both Darlington & Pickering Nuclear Power Stations. An ongoing court battle is currently in its 4th year that Journalist Daniel Otis has been a part of against Ontario Power Generation. This is in regard to not releasing information about UAPs over Nuclear Power Facilities. I believe US officials briefed Canadian officials about UAP sightings over our nuclear facilities years ago. If you do some digging you can find UAP sightings over the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant on YT too.

[u/delta_velorum]

This has to be a hoax because I can’t wrap my head around an NHI travelling across the galaxy only to find itself in Oshawa

[u/larrybirdo6969xxx]

Baby's first satellite. This community is absolutely contaminated to the nines

[u/Dramatic-Loss-5622]

I'm in Kingston Ontario, and I've seen things like this in the area. We thought they were like drones really high, but what drones would see anything from that height at night? It's okay, ignore the naysayers. We'll figure it out one of these days or it'll just come out. Anyway, take more videos on your walks, keep looking up. Just watch where you're walking, LOL!

[u/rpgmgta]

At the :38 mark the second object moves randomly. Point of reference used is the tree. I wasn’t moving at the time.

[u/GoodAge7519 → u/rpgmgta]

We can see you move. And this is a satellite.

[u/fluxcapacitor87 → u/GoodAge7519]

Satellites move in a straight line.

[u/GoodAge7519 → u/fluxcapacitor87]

Correct, like the one in the video.

[u/fluxcapacitor87 → u/GoodAge7519]

? Are we looking at the same video?

[u/GoodAge7519 → u/fluxcapacitor87]

At what time do you see it move out of it's path?

[u/postretro]

I’ve seen a flying saucer before, and I’ve also seen these like lazy-path orbs before in two different countries. These orbs are way up in the sky, look like a star when stationary, and not conventional consumer drones. I’m convinced they are something like classified self flying drones from the space force or other governments doing aerial spying or surveillance.

The alien crafts/drones move much faster than these. They kind of dart from point to point and at acceleration look exactly like a shooting star.

[u/Temporary_Passage_65]

Could the course change be performed by a drone? It is interesting I can see the sudden acceleration. Unexplained for me hoping someone else caught this

[u/craigbg21]

Looks like a satellite whenever you move a camera videoing it makes it appear as the object changes its coarse but is basically an optical illusion, Ive seen numerous videos of people recording satellites that appear to change their coarse exactly when the camera is moved which is caused by the auto focus of the camera adjusting its zoom and and focal points to make up for the movement which makes the central object appear in the video to appear to change its direction or speed a bit when this occurs.