Dear UFO BC,
I live in Duncan and tonight [Friday, January 9,
1998] while driving with my friends in my car I
spotted a bright orange object in the sky to my
left. It was about 10:52 pm. It looked like a
blurred star, but much larger because it appeared
closer. We were travelling SW on Sherman Road. We
decided to follow it to see what it was. We
followed it for approximately 15 minutes at a
distance of about 3 kilometers, which enabled me
to get ahead of it; it was then behind me but
remained on my left. The object looked the same in
size and shape until we got ahead of it. It then
looked rectangular in shape with 3 bright orange
steady lights(no flashing or blinking) inside the
rectangle and very close together. The object was
now much closer and larger. We had our windows
rolled down and one of my friends even hung out
the window to see if we could hear any sounds. We
also stopped several times during this 15 minute
interval. There were no sounds at all that we
could hear. It did not follow a straight path, but
looked like it was moving up and down while it
travelled forward.
At the end of this 15 minutes I got out of my car
and ran to a pay phone to call my mom. While I was
on the phone to explain what we were seeing the
object was above us and slightly to the SE. It
moved across the sky and near the moon and this is
where we could see that it wasn't very far away,
because the moon helped to light it. It looked
like it was only a few kilometers away now. This
all happened within a few seconds and then the
object started to disintegrate. Colored pieces
(like welding sparks) started falling off the
object and fell to the ground, pieces at a time -
some large and some small. The first piece was
fairly large with a faint upper portion and the
bottom had a tint of orange. After that there was
a number of various shapes and sizes, about 8
pieces in all. It took about 1 minute to totally
disappear and there was no sound while it fell
apart. During this time the object travelled in a
gentle wavy motion while travelling forward -
appeared floating, and just before it started to
disintegrate it started losing altitude. It may be
possible that there are pieces of this object on
the ground in this area.
There was no way that it was an aircraft and it
was not a flare or fireworks.
Any ideas or reports that may help us in finding
out what this was?
Stacey, Trina and Colin
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