On June 17, 2024, an odd phenomena occurred in the skies above northern Canada. Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing a massive, shimmering object slowly moving across the late morning horizon. Local Inuit people observed the object for over an hour as it drifted almost silently on the light northern breeze.

While some dismissed it as an unusual cloud formation or weather balloon, the Royal Canadian Air Force was alerted. Two CF-18 fighter jets were scrambled from Cumberland Air Force Base to investigate. As the aircraft approached 150 miles east of Rankin Inlet, the pilots got their first good look at the trespasser in Canadian airspace. It was unlike anything in their training or any known aircraft. An elongated teardrop shape bordering on the size of three football fields, with strange symbols and lights flashing irregularly upon its surface.

Speculation ran rampant online when amateur photos and videos surfaced. While scientists hypothesized it could be a naturally occuring optical phenomenon caused by the mixing of differing air densities or temperatures at high altitude, most were at a loss to explain it rationally. The RCAF declined to make any determination, but acknowledged they could not identify the object or its purpose. To this day, the files regarding the 2024 Rankin Inlet incident remain classified, leaving historians and ufologists still searching for answers to what exactly transited the skies above the Canadian Arctic that midsummer morn.