Flight Crew Reports Sighting of Unknown White Lights Over Yellowknife

Flight Crew Reports Sighting of Unknown White Lights Over Yellowknife
The control tower at Yellowknife Airport in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Chuck Stoody
Andrew Chen
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Pilots aboard a Canadian North airline flight bound for Yellowknife spotted “two white lights” dancing in a circular pattern some 10 nautical miles northwest of the Yellowknife airport but couldn’t identify them. Meanwhile, 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.