(Original headline:> UFO sighting may have educational explanation)
IQALUIT - Several Iqaluit residents claimed they saw strange lights in the sky Wednesday night near the Road to Nowhere.
Witnesses say they saw up to eight lights they claim were not airplane lights.
Jeremiah Veevee says his brother called him about the mysterious lights.
Veevee says he watched the show with binoculars from his home near the cemetery.
"I went to our backdoor area, started watching the lights come in, probably from the direction from the Road to Nowhere," he says.
"Something orange like light moving towards this area with one single light further back from the first one there were two of them flying side by side at about same speed."
Veevee says he called the air traffic control tower at the Iqaluit airport.
He says he was told that the strange objects were not showing up on the radar screen.
Other witnesses called the Iqaluit RCMP.
RCMP Sergeant Dale MacLeod says someone called about the lights just before 8 p.m., and police investigated.
He says the French School students were conducting experiments with balloons and candles at about the same time.
He believes that's what several people in Iqaluit witnessed, not UFO's.
