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Published: July 17, 2010

Location: King and Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario
Date: July 16, 2010

I saw a bright, white light (very small) that first appeared be a very high flying bird about 60 degrees up from the western horizon.

Unusually high for any bird in Toronto... since I'm a "birder," I took a close look but there was no sign of wings flapping.

It moved in a straight line from West to East a little north of my location. The whole sighting lasted about 8 seconds.

By that time it had crossed the sky and disappeared in the eastern sky about 30 degrees up from the Horizon (light cirrus clouds might have obscured it at that point).

Like I said, it crossed 50% of the sky in about 8 seconds. Any plane at that height would have taken longer, even a jet fighter, and there was no noise.

It could not have been a satellite because that a) would not have been visible during the day, and b) moved across the sky far too fast.

Could not have been a meteor because it lasted way too long and didn't appear to be burning up... no trail being left behind, no contrail, no sound... just a very small, very bright dot (looked round and reflective, ie. not emitting its own light).

It was a bright sunny day with a few high, faint, cirrus clouds.

I'm hoping someone else might have seen this. I am a birder, amateur astronomer, with a backyard interest in Meteorology and Entomology, and I've been to about 30 air shows.

So, I can say that in my experience it was not a bird, airplane, meteor, planet, star, satellite, or insect.

Any ideas?