At the time that these photos where
taken, I was driving long haul, pulling "B" trains, and fully loaded
with scrap metal that I loaded at a Kelowna refuse site, I believe in
the same area as the "MISSING TIME IN KELOWNA" experience...and about
the same date. After I left Kelowna, I stopped in Westbank, as I always
did, we had an office there, and my kids lived there also, at that time
with my ex-husband so I would always stop and see them. That evening I
left Westbank, just as the sun was going down. When I started to climb
Brenda mine hill, it was dusk but still light enough to see the shapes
and shadows of the mountains and the canyons running between. I was
climbing very slowly, about 20Kms. per hr...about 20 minutes into the
long 45 minute trek to the top. I looked up ahead just in time to see
the most spectacular sight I've ever seen in my entire life, a huge disk-shaped vessel, enormous in size, at about two kilometers away from where
I was, I would have to estimate that it was well over 1000 feet in
diameter, and maybe 50 feet in height at the edge, to 75 feet in height,
at the center. It was the brightest neon blue I've ever seen, the only thing I could ever compare it to besides Las Vegas, would be a
"Neon tetra" a small fish common in fish tanks, it has a blue stripe on
each side that seems to glow as it reflects of the light, like, "NEON".
That was the first thing that popped into my head when I laid eyes on it, beautiful !!!! you would have had to have been blind to not see this,
so close and so clearly visible, it had windows all the way around
it...there was no mistaking this for anything other than what it was.
It was traveling so slowly and with such grace, it traveled low,
through the canyon, ever so carefully maneuvering around the next bend
just ahead and around the mountain that I was climbing, then I lost
sight of it before I could get my camera out of the pouch. Knowing that
it was just on the other side of the mountain from me, I tried in vain
to move faster up the hill, but my truck was much too heavy to go any
faster than I was already. I had to get a photo of this, it was too
beautiful to ever explain, "not that anyone would care to take me
seriously anyway". I prayed and begged to GOD, to please let me catch
up to it before it's too late, I was almost at the top when I all but
gave up hope of ever seeing it again, there was no way, I thought,
then, just as I was about to crest the top of the hill, I looked to my
right, out over the tree tops, there it was, out in the open, about 2 Kms
away at about my eye height, I put my passenger window down as fast as
the button would work, came to an abrupt halt, on the hill, almost
immediately I noticed that it was now moving in the opposite direction as
before, and was beginning to gain speed, it was going to take off and I
knew it, I wasn't going to miss this chance, I raised my camera and took
three consecutive photos, one after the other, which was instantaneous,
and automatic with this 35 mm. camera. This thing was gone in the blink
of an eye, it was gone so quickly, I really felt that there was no way
that I could have possibly caught it on film I was so disappointed, you
can imagine the excitement when I open the pictures and found that I had
indeed caught it on film, in only the first photo, but the next two
really show how fast it took off, gone in less than one second, but I
still got it, not only that, I captured it in the process of, launching, leaping, taking off, jumping, changing frequencies or
bending time or space, and it shows in the photo with the most stunning
display of design and colour, as though it were turning time inside out,
or pulling space inside itself and out the other side, maybe a
physicist could explain it, but I doubt it, I feel so lucky to have been
fortunate enough to not only see this amazing piece of technology, but
to have a very, very, important piece of history that the world will one
day accept as fact..... It's mind boggling. I still can't get over the
way that this vessel, ship, craft, what have you, as gigantic as it was,
how gracefully and peacefully it moved, as though not to disturb a
single branch, it was completely silent not a sound, it was almost as if
it were sightseeing, like a tour bus, to look, but don't disturb the
natives. lol !!...Well, I Well! I continued one my way, and just as I
was thinking that this evening couldn't possibly get any better,,,,IT
DID !!! maybe 20 minutes down further I looked to my right, out over the
vast wilderness, like a shag carpet of tree, as far as the eye could
see,,, there they were, everywhere!! I pulled over, put my window down
and proceeded to take pictures, it was so dark by now, I didn't know if
they would show in the pictures or not, but I still took a lot of
pictures, suddenly, I realized, that I was all alone, not another
vehicle in sight, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the
mountains, on the Coquihalla highway, at sunset road, between Westbank
and Merritt, just me, AND, them, I thought I should be on my way.
Feeling thankful that I didn't disturb THEM!, [enough to approach me
anyway], I moved on down the highway, again. I got to Elkheart road in
about 25 minutes or so, only to notice that over the trees ahead, was a
glowing of light, that I'd never seen before, "I travel this highway "ALOT"
,, as I got closer, I realized, "that this night wasn't over yet" I
figured I had stretched my luck about as far as they were going to let
me, "Oh well!! nothing I can do, I'd never get away anyway, so I may as
well push it more while I got the chance, it's not like I can just take
a picture and run, I had nothing to lose, unless I got away, and didn't
take more pictures." I was so sick of not being believed, it was worth
the chance. Sooooo, camera in hand, and window down, "shaking like a
leaf by now" traveling fairly slow down the hill, at the bottom is a
clearing, that clearing I was sure, is where the light was coming from.
I then came around the curve and stopped as fast as I could, I
then took a picture as fast as I could push the button. because ???, I
was at the bottom of a hill. now, I had another hill to climb right in
front of me, there was no getting a run at it now, so much for getting
away fast... it was a little nerve racking, and a little embarrassing,
"they probably thought I was crazy too", needless to say, I did manage
to get away with the one shot. There are two, disk shaped objects,
lights were on, and you can clearly see, what looks to be windows
around the outside" no neon blue though, just what seemed to be normal
light, and these objects seemed to be smaller, in comparison to the
others that I had seen previously, { maybe they're unrelated} but !! you
can see the light cast by these objects, on the ground, just a couple of
feet below them.
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UFOBC Investigation ---
It was a
very interesting meeting with Janet F. We were welcomed into her rural
home and shown around her amazing vehicle collection – then the
interesting started. We sat down and watched as Janet went through about
3 hours of footage in about an hour span. It was the same footage she
took while driving her 18-wheeler along the Coquihalla. She showed us
various lights in areas where she claims should be no lights. I must
admit that I am familiar with the area, and have never seen anything
like that during the day or night that could account for some of the
lights. However due to far too much shaking and reflection off the
glass/mirror/window it is impossible to say anything. Her demeanour was
certainly credible and has nothing to gain from any type of publicity
and would rather not be known personally as a witness.
There
were however 2 facts that both Gavin and myself found interesting. Oddly
enough they were mentioned in passing, and not dwelled upon that
certainly added to both the credibility and validity of the report.
1. She
mentioned that while driving her rig down the road she was being
followed by a luminous blue object and that while it passed her she felt
like the trailer on the truck was coming off the ground. The interesting
part is that later I questioned what type of load she was carrying, it
wasn’t fruit or some perishable items as I had suspected, however it was
scrap metal. Interestingly she didn’t think anything of this fact and
continued on talking about the light she was seeing on the video tape.
The part
that was intriguing was that having a ferrous metallic load would allow
potentially for the entire trailer end to be picked up by a huge
magnetic field (theoretical UFO low speed propulsion system), and
describe the feelings of being lifted off the ground… however the best
was yet to come.
While
we were leaving we stopped out by her gate and chit-chatted about the
local area. In passing she told this intriguing story:
2.
While on a pickup in Merritt, she arrived at 3am – the transfer station
would not load her until they opened at 6am, so she and her friend in
another trailer had a few hours to wait. As they got out of their rigs,
the evening was clear, cold and the area had a fresh coating of snow.
They looked up and the night sky and she suddenly had the feeling that 2
of the stars were “not stars” … she told this to her friend who looked
at them and said nothing. So with 3 hours left, Janet told her friend
she would drive about 1KM on the other side of the huge lot and rest.
She got into her truck, maneuvered away, and went into her sleeper to
play some “Scratch and Win” while waiting for the load. As she was
playing, she heard a noise of rustling from the front of the locked cab.
She leaned forward and started to pull back the curtain. As she started
to do so, she saw a thumb and 2 fingers of an odd coloured hand close
the curtains. She suddenly got the feeling of “Oh that isn’t important”
and went back to playing her scratch and win! She said after that she
drifted off into a sleep and discovered that when she awoke a few hours
later she felt completely refreshed as if she had been sleeping for days
– although she had been up all of the previous night. As she went to
move her rig around, she noticed that the driver side mirror was
smashed, although it had been fine just hours before when she arrived at
her stop and there were no signs in the snow around her truck save her tyre marks. There were no rocks or signs of impact on the glass and the
truck had not been on (and thus not a crack due to the mirror heaters).
When she
went back to her friend, she found him looking at the sky. She noticed
that the 2 “stars” were gone, and when questioned her friend said “oh
yeah, they just took off at a high rate of speed just a while ago” in a
very nonchalant type of way, and never mentioned anything else about it.
From an
investigation point of view, the interesting thing about this is that
the entire story about the “hand” was told very “as a matter of fact” with
little to no emotional association – the same way you would describe
having a bad jug of milk from the corner store. Both Gavin and I believe
that this could potentially be a very interesting abduction report, as
it was said as a matter of fact, nonchalant – with far less emotion that
such an encounter (human or otherwise) would certainly dictate. Indeed,
her reaction to go back and play her scratch and win, was certainly not
in character nor was it normal, and her recounting of the event as an in
passing manner was in itself very odd.
If Janet
had made up the account, she certainly would have paid much more
attention to the story and embellished it, as she is a very creative and
intelligent individual – thus her manner of recounting the story and the
details themselves would lead to a very credible story.
Overall
I would rate this as a very interesting interview and Janet certainly is
a credible witness, and in my opinion was potentially involved in a
classical abduction case, or some other type of bonafied experience.
Janet
plans to visit the same site and obtain steady daylight photographs and
video in order to help us further our investigation.
Richard
T
UFOBC
*NOTE - Names have been changed to protect the identity of the
witnesses.
