Participants Of An Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Tour
People look at the night sky using night vision goggles during an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) tour in the desert outside Sedona, Arizona February 14, 2013. Picture taken February 14, 2013. Reuters/Mike Blake

On Oct 2, two bright orange UFOs were captured on camera over Lake Ontario in Canada. A professional photographer from a town named Greece in New York, Jim Montanus, snapped the image that he said he took from due north at about 10 p.m.

Montanus took to his Facebook and Twitter accounts to share his photo, reported Open Minds. The photograph was accompanied with the following message on Twitter:

UFO's over Lake Ontario tonight! Or Canadian invasion. You be the judge! #Roc #LakeOntario #DiscoverOn pic.twitter.com/60pEVrB5gS

— James Montanus (@JamesMontanus) October 3, 2014

A newspaper, Democrat and Chronicle, contacted a U.S. coast guard search and rescue controller in Buffalo, Paul Angelillo. He said the objects weren't UFOs but flares that were part of the search-and-rescue training exercise by Canadian pilots.

Captain Jean Houde, an aeronautical coordinator at the Canadian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton, Ontario, confirmed the same. The exercise used yellow flares and took place between 8 p.m. and 12 midnight in Lake Ontario on Oct. 2.

On Facebook, Montanus had written that people had said the lights were Canadian military exercises but he wasn't sure. To his message, a 911 operator replied saying the Coast Guard conducted training exercises, and they often got calls about such sightings. Montanus then took to Facebook and wrote the following message:

"Thanks everyone for your feedback. To those who suggested Canadian Coast Guard, I think you are correct."

Usually, when such sightings over Lake Ontario are reported, people offer an explanation that says it was the Canadians. But, Democrat & Chronicle notes a number of witnesses of such sightings refuse to believe that and go on thinking the bright lights are either visitors from space or secret military maneuvers.

Angelillo explained the objects used by the Canadian pilots weren't similar to little firecracjker flares but were industrial-military flares. He added they could be seen for miles and are usually reported as either UFOs or ships on fire.

In May, Montanus had posted photos of objects captured along the lake shore on social media that were assumed to be classic flying saucers. The explanation that the newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle, provided for this was that it was an artefact that was caused due to light shining brightly on the lens of his camera.