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Nov 16, 2018 | 4:00 AM

WITH ALL OF THE world’s knowledge now available on the internet, it can be kind of jarring to come across an answer we don’t immediately know.

Harprit Singh sent us a video this week of something happening in the sky he didn’t recognize.

It looked like an object making erratic movements in and out of the clouds above New Afton, where Harprit works.

CFJC Today published a short story online, not suggesting that the video showed a UFO, but just pointing out it was strange.

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Wouldn’t you know it, the good people of the internet took it from there.

Within 24 hours, Harprit’s video was CFJC’s top played video of the year.

People weighed in with all sorts theories.

Some said it was a kite, or the clouds themselves doing funny things.

Others are convinced it actually was a type of alien craft.

The most popular being that the object was murmuration of starlings – birds who fly in tight, unpredictable formations.

In all honesty, we may never know, but that last one is probably the right answer.

A quick search reveals unidentified flying object stories and investigations taking place around the world right now – and by legitimate authorities, not just conspiracy theorists and slightly kooky bloggers.

Researchers at Harvard have even raised the possibility that an object observed meandering past the sun last year is a piece of alien spacecraft.

There was a time, not too long ago, when it wasn’t so easy to look up the answer to literally any question we might have about the world around us.

We couldn’t type it into Google or ask Siri or Alexa.

If we didn’t know, we would just say, “I don’t know” and leave it at a mystery.

It’s kind of nice to see there is still some mystery in our world, the type of mystery that spurs people to keep asking the questions we have still yet to answer.