Sightings1990

Lights over Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal

When: 7 Nov 1990
Where: Montreal, Canada
Sources: 1 public source

Place Bonaventure in Montreal, topped by the Hotel Bonaventure where the lights were seen in 1990 Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Guests, staff, police officers and La Presse reporters watched a cluster of lights above the Hotel Bonaventure for nearly three hours. A 1992 study by Bernard Guenette and Richard Haines argued for a large object; the case has no official explanation.

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PressArea 514: The 1990 Montreal UFO sighting (opens in a new tab)Canadian Geographic (John Batt) / 2025-10-06

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