On Monday, December 8, 1996 at about 10:45 pm a
brightly lit object as big as a nickel at arms length was seen in
the eastern sky by a couple driving down a cul-de-sac in Surrey,
BC where one of the witnesses (Sarah, age 20) lives. As they
turned and approached to park across from her house they kept
their eyes on the object as it now moved at a steady pace heading
west. It seemed to make several unorthodox movements (ups and
downs) as it went across their vision. It was at this time
Sarah became somewhat agitated and her only thought was to get
her key out of her bag and get into the house. While she
was looking down at the seat and her purse, her boyfriend Craig
(age 22) said "Look! Another one!". Sarah looked
but the second object had vanished, although Craig said it
followed the same path as the first light. Both of them
were very excited and Sarah said "I thought I was going to
have a heart attack. I could feel my heart beating through
my sweater".
It
was now the main event was about to begin. What Sarah called "The
Grandaddy" appeared in their view, approaching again on the same path as
the prior object(s).
They both said
it was very large, the size of two $2.00 coins at arms length about a
mile north from them and about two inches above the tree line, the trees
being about 50-60 ft high. With our estimate of the trees being a mile
away we believe the object to be 30 - 50 feet in diameter. They could
plainly see it was disc shape, pewter colour, with a row of white lights
around the centre. Sarah said she was absolutely amazed how well she
could see the object's shape and colour in the night sky and how it's
lights enabled her to make it out. She said it looked like it was "out
of a fifties movie" and she was surprised that a UFO "would really look
like that".
"It was
spinning and seemed to dip in the sky as it spun" and, according to
Craig, at one time "looked like it turned on it's side". Sarah told
Craig to turn off the headlights of the car as the object grew very
bright. They were not sure if it was coming closer or just glowing
brighter. It was also at this point the object again started to make up
and down, and back and forth, movements. They at this time decided to
follow it and went in pursuit of the UFO. They drove to Crescent Beach
where they thought they would be afforded a better view of the sky.
However they could not see anything, and after waiting 15 or 20
minutes, left for home. One particular strange note was when asked why
they decided to follow the object after being so frightened, Sarah
became puzzled and said "You know, I don't even remember it leaving".
At the time of
the interview (Dec10) Sarah had not eaten and a was still having a hard
time sleeping. It was important she said to talk to someone and she
thanked us for listening to her. She had called the local RCMP who
brushed her off saying "lady we haven't had any calls like this for a
while". Her sister then phoned the airport and was given UFO*BC's
number.
Bill Oliver -
UFO*BC
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