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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