How to explain the stunning increase in UFO reports — all those humming, blinking, blinding lights — which have more than doubled in Canada in the last year?
Are observers simply seeing the orange glow of Chinese lanterns floating aloft?
Are they inspired by guitar-strumming Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to gaze skyward, seeking the bright light of the orbiting space station and seeing other strange phenomena?
Is it evidence of Laurentian University Prof. Michael Persinger’s “tectonic strain theory” that luminous shapes precede earthquakes?
Or, as ufologists would have it, are more of them watching us?