Thanks to a contact from over the border for this short report: "Hello, I'm glad I found this web site. Although someone has written that there was no activity last night, Sunday, January 15-2006....we saw a lot of "orbs" in the sky. They appeared to be over or in front of the CN tower and the Toronto skyline as seen from Wilson, NY. We have never seen this before as we are only in that area from time to time. They are not aircraft because we saw airplanes also. The next time we are up there in Wilson, I will definitely have a camera, video camera and binoculars. We watched them for quite a while between 8:30-9:30. I will be interested to see if I can capture some on film next time..." The contact continues, saying: "They were round, orange, yellow and/or white, hovering then disappear..weird but interesting."

18th November 2005 Last night (17th November) I just happened to be looking out over the lake when one light ball appeared at 21.42 hrs and wandered around a while until the beam came down and it disappeared/submerged. I was on the south shore at Niagara-on-the-Lake and the event occurred between me and a spot way east of the Toronto skyline. The location was unusual as the light balls are normally seen west of the Toronto skyline in the area of the lake offshore from Lakeview Generating Station (now decommissioned.) Last Thursday evening (10th November) I witnessed an active hour of orb movements from the north shore in Burlington. I commenced watching at 17.33 hrs and left the park at 18.35 hrs. The orbs were appearing east of the Niagara River in the area that we used to call the "dark area." For the most part the orbs would appear at a few degrees above the horizon as if they were aircraft with strobing white lights. However, as they approached closer to the water, the reflection/beam would appear and they would become large golden light balls which would slowly meander around before disappearing into the water. On several occasions the orbs did not disappear downwards immediately but lifted up again and continued meandering After several sequences of this "close approach" to the water's surface most of them would disappear downwards. On one occasion a light ball increased in luminosity, seemingly about to submerge, but appeared to change plans, ascended again, took on the appearance of a strobing white light and wandered off east. Just prior to the moment of disappearance (or submersion) the light balls seem to increase in size and level of luminosity. September 2005 I had been away in England for most of the summer months and did no orb watching over the lake during that period. I returned 11th September to base but had few opportunities to do any watches. The first night that I went out was Saturday 24th September at approximately 20.00 hrs. I had an acquaintance watching with me and we saw several light balls descend during the fifteen or so minutes that we were on the beach. The final one was very large and bright as it came down and then disappeared. Moments later this light ball (or possibly another, as I cannot prove it to be the same one) shot up vertically at high speed then just "winked out." I went out alone on the Monday night, 26th September, and several light balls were seen descending as on the previous Saturday but with no repetition of the fast ascent.

2004

ORB activity was noted on the nights of Sunday 10th October and Tuesday 12th October. We were located on the south shore of the lake and on both nights the ORBs were simply appearing in one spot (compass bearings were logged) and lingering for a very short time before disappearing. On the Sunday night there were approximately 9 minutes between each event. On Tuesday night the intervals were approximately 2 to 3 minutes and almost all the events were emergences. On both nights aircraft activity was clearly visible above the ORB appearances and emergences. I videotaped on both evenings (approximately 19.30 to 20.45 hrs) but as yet have not reviewed the tapes due to other commitments.

Light Balls were apparent on evening of 11th September when I went to the beach at 20.30 hrs. Descents were similar to those of the August events. No videotaping. Just working with GPS.

Considerable ORB activity on Tuesday night, 24th August. Videotape has yet to be reviewed.

Strings of Light Balls occurred on the night of the 1st of August. They appeared in the usual location as seen back in August 2001 and June 2004. This Video Clip (2.42 MB) shows a double orb changing to a triple. This image below, from a later video clip, also shows a triple orb that developed from a double orb. Going back to 12th June the ORBS were present as strings of "light balls" descending to lake level observed from south shore. 12th June 2004 Video clips

From 2003

Images from the Hackpen Hill, Wiltshire,
formation photographed on 24th July 2003
Please click on thumbnail below to view images

The ORBS were out in force Sunday night, 6th July.

I was on the south shore facing towards Mississauga, and the string of light balls was there, very similar to the events of August 2001.

More Valleyford, Wa., images are on the
Comparisons page

Images from 1999 showing an object making a very fast turn and displaying an inordinate number of lights. I have also produced an approximately 1 second sequence of a descending triple light formation. This is also linked from the Comparisons page below.

Considerable ORB activity observed on
7th November
east of the Toronto skyline.

Submersions and Emergences
commencing at 18.31 hrs.
Spectra images added.

Please check out some interesting
Comparisons
between Lake Ontario and Valleyford, Wa.
Images from Colorado, 2009, added to the page above

24th October 2002

23rd October 2002

20th and 21st October

One ORB event occurred on the
evening of 3rd October.

Single ORB - 3rd October 2002

Visitors' Reports (up to 2008)

Table showing times/dates of
ORB sightings 1997 - 2001

On 6th April the horizon was very clear. There were a large number of aircraft evident. The ORBS were appearing further west of where the aircraft were descending into Pearson I.A.

6th April 2002 - ORB events

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ORBWATCH ANNEX
(Reports/video/stills commencing March 1999)

An event from April 1975

(An account of the events at Niagara-on-the-Lake
which are mentioned in less detail in Hugh Cochrane's book
"Gateway to Oblivion.")

I have taken some high resolution frames
from the daylight events of 21st May 1997

Lights and Yacht

Reviewing an item of "lost footage" - please click on the image:

Video Archive
This page will link directly to "resurrected" video clips.
(updated when time permits)

Globes of Fire
From the Diary of Mrs. Simcoe (1791)

Visitors' Reports

Updated 30th October 2002

Alternative links page to events

Early one summer's morn

Yacht Race

Since my first sightings at the lake in 1997 I have taken much video footage and, more recently, stills with the Pentax attached to the telescopes on several occasions. I still find that the images of (Click on image to view) are the ones that most encourage me to press on with this "mission" and find out more about this phenomenon that has been reported over the lake here for centuries. Sightings were being reported long before there were towns, cities, cars, ships and aircraft.

ORBwatching from the South Shore

21st December 2001

North Shore:

6th December 2001

...and the South Shore back in November:

24th November 2001

Additional links to some video footage.
2nd Annex Index

(including clips showing aircraft travelling east to west)

3rd September 2001 - ORB submersion

30th August 2001 - ORB submersion

30th August 2001 - Light activity

25th August 2001 - ORB submersion

25th August 2001 - Double to Triple

I was working through our earliest reports and found it interesting to view the first submersion that I caught on videotape The ORBWATCH website comprises written and/or visual reports pertaining to Unidentified Submerging Objects, and, at times, Unidentified Emerging Objects. The main theatre of operation is usually the western end of Lake Ontario. Here are some accounts of sightings in the Lake Ontario area during the 1960s and 1970s. Further down the main page here you will see an account of strange happenings in the Lake Ontario area in 1915.

For those visitors who have not seen our earliest images, please check:

Annex Page Three

I have been searching out historical records which indicate that the ORBS have been present around the Great Lakes for a good long while. I found particularly interesting items in Hugh Cochrane's "Gateway to Oblivion," regarding sightings of strange aerial craft over Lake Ontario during the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries. Sadly for all of us, Hugh Cochrane passed on in the summer of 1999. I had visited him at his home in Toronto during the summer of 1998 and enjoyed a fascinating afternoon hearing about his research. I had the opportunity of showing Hugh some of the video footage that I had taken on my early sorties to the lake. His book, published in 1980, is very hard to come by, but there are some copies available in public libraries in Ontario. Here is a short quote from his book, "Gateway to Oblivion:" ............"It was a strange sight that confronted residents of Morristown, New York, and Brockville, Ontario, on February 14th 1915. Aircraft were still relatively new and were an oddity that attracted the public's attention. But for the residents of these two St. Lawrence River communities the aircraft that appeared in the skies above them were more than just an attraction; they were downright weird. When these three aircraft first passed over during the evening, they caused a commotion because few such machines had ever been seen in that area. When they returned a few hours later, they created an even greater commotion. According to the account carried in the New York Times on February 15, the aircraft were first seen near Gananoque, Ontario, forty miles southwest of the Morristown-Brockville area. At that time, the three aircraft were on a northeast course almost paralleling the St. Lawrence River. On the return trip they travelled southwest, pausing along the way. Just how these objects were able to hover in flight when such aircraft had not been invented is a question difficult to answer. Even more difficult to explain is how such aircraft could carry the equipment necessary to power the powerful searchlights, whose beams, according to witnesses, were swept back and forth, illuminating the communities. This problem caused enough concern among the residents of Brockville that the mayor requested the Canadian Government to provide an immediate answer. The government's reply suggested that what the residents had seen were balloons, not aircraft. They did not say who the owners of the balloons might be, nor did they attempt to explain how a balloon could hover in a wind or travel in a direction opposite to it. .........In most of the accounts there is mention that there were three dark objects, and at times each had been accompanied by bright lights. These match the description being supplied today by observers in the same area who are reported to have seen UFOs."

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