Under the title "Strange Event Confounds Scientists: Mysterious Object Seen Flying Over Canada," Sky News reported that late on July 30, two pilots from a military aircraft and a commercial flight reported seeing a mysterious green object fade into the clouds over the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Canada's Atlantic coast, as noted by Vice News. According to a report from the Canadian government's aviation incident database published on August 11, both flights witnessed a "shiny green object" that "flew into a cloud and then vanished." The report indicated that the object did not affect the safety of either flight.
One of the aircraft that reported the sighting was a Canadian military plane flying from a base in Ontario to Cologne, Germany, while the passenger flight was a Royal Dutch Airlines plane heading from Boston to Amsterdam. Aviation and shipping researcher Stefan Watkins analyzed data from the transponder of both flights and noted that the military aircraft had ascended 1,000 feet (300 meters) at the time of the sighting—potentially to avoid the object or get a closer look—suggesting that the mysterious object could be a meteor entering the atmosphere.
Watkins added in a tweet, "Yes, I know that the sighting of the mysterious object could have been in the early phase of the Perseid meteor showers." The Perseid meteor shower begins on July 25 but peaks on August 12 and 13, appearing each year as Earth passes through the debris stream caused by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits between the sun and beyond Pluto once every 133 years.
Watkins noted that the Canadian aviation report suggested several possibilities for the strange incident, including that the object could be a weather balloon, which is filled with hydrogen and helium for conducting scientific studies on the Earth's atmosphere, or a meteor, or a rocket, and did not rule out the possibility of a space rock being responsible for the mysterious phenomenon.
It is worth mentioning that the Pentagon issued a long-awaited report in June 2021 regarding over 140 documented sightings by U.S. Navy pilots. The U.S. report concluded that "most of the unidentified aerial phenomena reported likely represent physical entities," although there was no evidence that extraterrestrial beings were behind any of the incidents.
