'This is really strange': U.S. fighter jets soar over Vancouver Island

An unusual sight in the skies over Vancouver Island on Saturday sparked conspiracy theories online.

Wendy Brown was riding a transit bus heading to Langford when she noticed contrails being left in the sky.

"I figured it was aircraft, it was just the way they crossed each other," she said. "I thought that was strange, I immediately pulled my phone out and started recording."

She didn’t think too much about it until she saw postings on Facebook by people trying to figure out what would have caused the trails. That’s when she posted a video she had taken on the bus.

"I was like, this is really strange, I definitely knew it wasn’t those big airplanes but it was pretty interesting to see," she told CTV News.

A short time later, Graeme Alexander spotted the aircraft flying over Sproat Lake near Port Alberni.

"Not a cloud in the sky, and obviously you could see the trails of the planes flying in formation quite high," he said. "They just came right across the skyline over the lake."

"There was an airline flight that was travelling head on with them and they were below that airline because you could see that trail in the sky as well," he said.

Graeme Alexander takes a photo of the jet trails at Sproat Lake near Port Alberni, B.C. (Graeme Alexander)