On April 22, 2000, five
youth were playing soccer at Cloverdale
Elementary School: Luke (14), Adam (12),
Jacob (11), Matthew (13) and Ricky (12).
About 7:45 pm, they spotted a strange
object in the sky. Three of them
(brothers Luke, Adam and Jacob) were
interviewed on April 29.
Drawing by Gord Heath, based on witness
testimony.
April 29
Interview:
Three brothers were playing soccer with
two friends at Cloverdale School, when one looked
up in the clear sky and noticed a disk-shaped
object that was silently moving in an easterly
direction. The black or dark blue disk had white
domes on top and bottom. It was constantly
wobbling about its vertical axis, like a plate
spinning on a table, which allowed the viewing of
the top dome that was otherwise hidden by the
saucer's base. The initial size of the object was
about the width of three fingers held up at arm's
length. The witnesses watched it as it travelled
east in a horizontal direction and then started to
rise higher into the sky as it got further away
and eventually got too small to see. Although it
was hard to estimate the altitude, speed and size
of the object, the witnesses thought it might be
anywhere from 5 to 50 feet across and travelling
as fast as an airplane. The total viewing time was
about three minutes. The boys talked about the
sighting for about 10 minutes after it
disappeared, but couldn't figure out a
satisfactory explanation for the object.
Further Notes:
The three brothers appeared with Graham
Conway on the Jeff Rense Radio Show.
While the sighting might possibly sound
like an oddly shaped, wind-blown helium balloon,
certain aspects of the report don't seem to
support this possible explanation. (reported
speed, horizontal movement). The wobbling motion
might be observed in a balloon that was weighted
in the base, but even in these circumstances, the
motion would tend to be random, rather than a
constant "spinning/wobble".
The reported size of the object would
tend to indicate that if it were a balloon, it was
either very close or very large.
The boys themselves indicated that they
had wondered if it might be a balloon, but seemed
quite sure that it was more likely from an
advanced technology (one friend proposed maybe a
"satellite" or "solar panel").
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