UFO or meteor?

A dozen or more people, eight of them in the Haines Junction area and the rest in the Whitehorse area, reported that they saw an un-identified bright object, or flare in the sky at 9 pm November 30.

The RCMP sub division at Whitehorse said this week that the phenomenon seemed to be brightest at Haines Junction, 100 miles northwest of Whitehorse, but was clearly seen here as well.

They said that one report came from a group of four people, two of whom were standing beside a car on the highway, one working beneath the car and a fourth person in a house. They saw an object travelling in an arc at a steep angle from south to northwest. No bursts were noticed but it was very bright, comparable to a bright light from a welder's torch and it "lit up half the sky"