Pilots aboard a Canadian North airline flight bound for Yellowknife couldn’t identify “two white lights” dancing in a circular pattern some 10 nautical miles northwest of the Yellowknife airport, where an air traffic controller couldn’t see the objects on radar.
The ATR 42-500 charter that departed from Fort McMurray, Alberta, sighted the lights when approaching its destination in the Northwest Territories capital city late at night on Jan. 29 at 11:15 p.m. local time.
A report on Transport Canada’s aviation incident database, the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS), says the pilots could still see the lights “as they continued their approach all the way to the ground.” The report shows the sighting at 6:15 a.m. the next day, based on Zulu time used in aviation, which is 7 hours ahead of Mountain Standard Time used in Yellowknife….