Mount Washington - When Candice Kowalchuk decided to spend the summer on Mount Washington, she never imagined the nightlife would be quite like this. "It wasn't a plane. I saw it flying at a right angle trajectory and then it starting flying horizontally straight up, then it did some zig zags, and it was hovering" she says.

Kowalchuk says Monday and Tuesday night, beginning around 11:30, she has seen up to eight objects darting through the night sky, changing in colour from orange to green, and looking like nothing she has ever seen - or can find online.

But Kowalchuk has been unable to capture what she says five others living on the mountain have also seen - for the rest of us. She says she tried to take pictures, with no success.

At the Centre of the Universe observatory in Saanich, where a giant telescope scans the night sky, people call in up to 100 UFO sightings per year. "But they usually turn out to be mundane, anything from car lights bouncing off vapour trails in the sky, to lights bouncing off the wings of bats or birds" says Astronomer Dr. James Di Francesco.

An /A News viewer from Sooke sent in shots of what astronomers believe is a meteor streaking across the horizon Tuesday night.

So it is likely cosmic rock that lit up the sky in Sooke, space junk. But as for what's keeping people glued to their windows on Mount Washington at all hours of the night, astronomers in Saanich can't say without some visual evidence.

But for her part, Candice Kowalchuk is a believer. "From a young age I've always known the galaxy, the universe is massive, there must be something out there" she says.

And next time she sees whatever it is, we'll make a house call, with our camera.