Dear UFO British Columbia on August
17th at 11:47 and 11:58 p.m. I started
witnessing strange gliding and hovering orange
orb-like lights over the Georgia Strait/Howe
Sound directly in view of my house in Gibsons
which faces due south towards Vancouver Island.
I e-mailed these sighting reports in to you as I
was witnessing this strange event.
This strange phenomenon has continued on and off
for the last couple of weeks and here's an
update (inclusive of what I have already sent to
you) of what I witnessed a couple of nights ago.
For approximately 3 weeks (off and on as they
don't appear every night) I have been outside in
my front yard watching strange orange lights in
the sky. I must admit, it's kind of freaky. My
house is located in Gibsons, B.C., Canada and
faces due south towards Vancouver Island.
The sky on most occasions was fairly clear with
maybe a few patchy clouds. This area, especially
over the Georgia Strait does see it's fair share
of planes of all shapes and sizes. There is a
military base located in Comox on Vancouver
Island. I've lived here for over two years and
I'm VERY familiar with the commercial air
traffic. I initially began noticing a bright
light and at first thought it was a plane headed
E-W up the Georgia Strait/Howe Sound area
towards Gibsons. Hard to say at what altitude,
it didn't seem that high, maybe 10,000-15,000
ft. It glided REALLY slowly heading up the coast
then stopped altogether in the sky, it's
orangey/red light PULSING and reflecting off the
water. Like a ball of fire. Then it stopped and
hovered directly out over the water in front of
my house.
If I drew a line from my house in Gibsons it
would run straight south towards Vancouver
Island I would run right into it hovering in the
middle above the water. I watched it for a few
minutes as it hovered. Then it moved slowly back
West to East in a straight line following the
direction it had just came from. Then it stopped
again and hovered for a few minutes. Then it
came back again and moved slowly towards the
other direction East to West and stopped and
hovered some more. And so on it went. Then
appeared out of nowhere another similar light
hovering over the Howe Sound area moving slowly
up the coast towards Gibsons but this time
closer to the shoreline. This one looked like a
small bright orange ball of fire. Then before I
knew it there were four smaller but bright
orange lights above the Georgia Strait, well
separated by each other, but following the same
path, East to West. One light appeared to be in
the lead as the others followed in their East to
West direction up the middle of the Strait,
parallel to Gibsons and Vancouver Island. They
occasionally stopped in the sky, hovered a bit,
and/or slowly moved in the opposite direction
from which they came, almost in a straight line.
Nothing seemed to be going up, coming down,
dancing around at great speeds or anything
fancy. The most notable thing I witnessed was
that there was NO sound whatsoever coming from
these strange lights. One light came so close to
the coastline it looked like a big bright orange
ball of fire that scared the hell out of me I
thought it was going to land in my backyard.
Looking at it from behind our sliding glass door
inside the house I saw it stop and hover over
the water in the middle of the Strait, again,
directly in front of my house. Then it slowly
moves away, almost again in a straight line,
back in the direction in came from, East. As
they moved they sometimes changed color from
orange back to white and occasionally back to
orange again.
It's all tooooo weird but very exciting I must
say. I contacted the nearest military base
located in Comox, Vancouver Island twice and
reported this to their duty officer. In the
second phone call I was describing what I was
seeing as it was happening, they confirmed that
there were no planes flying in our area and
there was NO Canadian military exercise taking
place above the skies in this area. Unlike the
eyewitness accounts in New Jersey what I
witnessed over the Howe Sound/Georgia Strait
region of B.C. these lights changed from white
lights (like moving stars) to small orange
lights. They were also not moving in any
specific type of v-shaped formation. They seemed
to just appear out of nowhere in the sky, very
slowly glide along, stop and hover awhile
glowing brighter and brighter into a huge bright
orange light. Sometimes they travel very low at
what seems to appear to be approx. 1,000-2,000
ft. above the water. A couple of times I swear
one of them looked like it landed in the middle
of the Strait. Don't know where the heck it went
after that. Last night there were two, one even
hovered in the same spot for up to a half an
hour before disappearing as mysteriously as the
appeared. During last nights' show I contacted
our local RCMP and asked them to send an officer
out to identify what I was witnessing at the
same time I was talking to their dispatch. She
instead chose to contact a local weather service
that simply told her I was witnessing nothing
more than a meteor shower. Since when did
meteors start performing in this strange way?
What do you think?
Blessings!
Suzanne Smart
Gibsons, B.C., Canada
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