‘Super weird’: Mysterious object in sky over Calgary explained

Calgarians looked up to the sky to see something quite mysterious on Saturday, but one man solved the mystery and identified the object as a plane soaring through the night.

Calgarians looked up to the sky to see something quite mysterious on Saturday, but one man solved the mystery and identified the object as a plane soaring through the night.

Karina MacConnell was at her home in Radisson Heights on Saturday evening when she observed something strange in the sky.

“I noticed something in the sky and I looked up and we started filming because I didn’t know what it was,” MacConnell said. “It was going pretty slow to be a meteor, in my opinion, but it definitely looked like one.”

MacConnell captured the mysterious object as it moved across the sky.

“(It was) super weird, definitely not something you normally see,” she said.

And MacConnell wasn’t the only one looking at the sky on Saturday evening, several other people also described seeing the “bright object.”

Julian Redwood-Henry also took a video of the sky — and the illuminated object — from his home in Thorncliffe.

“The sun had just set and there was a lot of smoke in the atmosphere,” said Robyn Foret who is the past president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.  He happened to have his telescope out on Saturday evening and saw the object drift by.