At about 9:30 p.m. on July 15, two Parry Sound residents "observed a long, pencil-thin object floating over an island across the bay.  It moved slowly for 30 seconds, then turned jet-black and floated out into the sky until it was lost in the clouds."

  On Thursday, July 31, 1997, at 10:10 p.m., a man in Barrie, Ont. (population 34,381), a city on the western end of Lake Simcoe 66 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of Toronto, "was out setting up my telescope for an evening of observation" when "a brilliant meteor with a brilliant green trail and a trail of sparks like commercial fireworks came from magnetic south and traveled toward magnetic north, right over my house. It disappeared behind some houses and trees to the north. Total time observed--about four seconds."

  "Now for the strange part," he reported, "It made a noise as it passed overhead. Not a whistle, not a whine, (but) a rushing noise, and a series of pop-pop-pop noises, like an out-of-tune car engine backfiring.  As an amateur astronomer, I know meteors are usually silent unless they are bolides and explode in the atmosphere or on impact.  I have seen lots of meteors before, and all were silent."

  In British Columbia, a UFO was observed in Vancouver on Saturday, July 26, 1997. At 12:40 a.m., a resident living near the intersection of Boundary and Grandview Highway was "outside my house with a friend, looking to the north at the Big Dipper, talking about the (Hale-Bopp) comet and satellites." It was a "clear night, lots of stars. Saw a large dark orange object flying east to west. No sound, no lights, not an airplane, helicopter, falling star, etc. I noticed it at the one o'clock position (and it moved) to the ten o'clock position. Took about nine