Just after 10 pm on Monday June 12th,
Peter and his fiancé were returning home from
Horizons Restaurant on Burnaby Mountain, riding
Peter’s new Harley Davidson. The sun had gone
down but visibility was good in the evening
twilight. Leaving the park area, they turned
right at the stop sign on Centennial Way to go
down Curtis Street. Peter noticed that the two
cars behind him were both turning left to go up
the hill towards Gaglardi Way. Peter is in the
habit of checking his mirrors at regular
intervals and confirmed that there were no cars
behind them. Travelling down the hill, they both
felt as if they were being followed. Peter
checked his mirrors again and determined that
nobody was behind them. He also confirmed that
they did not have any traffic in front of them.
At this point Peter’s fiancé turned and glanced
back to see a single relatively large slightly
yellowish white light high up, which she assumed
was a vehicle far up the hill, coming towards
them. See point A on the map.
About this time Peter described
hearing a racket. He said it was definitely
electrical with a high frequency buzzing,
snapping, crackling sound modulated by a low
frequency stutter. Peter’s fiancé described it
as sounding like the loud buzzing of an
overloaded electrical transformer. Peter at
first thought there was something wrong with his
bike, but realized it was something else when
the noise became far louder than the bike. The
noise was not steady but occurred in three
waves. The second wave was louder than the other
two. Looking up, Peter saw the leading edge of
an extremely bright ball of bluish white light
travelling with them, directly over their heads.
Peter estimated that the light was approximately
the size of a car and ten feet above the sodium
vapour (orange) streetlights. Because Peter was
driving a motorcycle down a hill at about 80
kph, he had to take his eyes off the object.
Anna had looked up also, but because of her
extended visor, was not able to tilt her head
far enough back to see the ball of light above
them. Peter geared down to a safe speed so that
they could have a really good look, but by that
time both the light and sound were gone. This
was approximately at point B on the
map.
Peter
and Anna remember that the sound had come in
three waves and had lasted about 30 to 40
seconds total. Peter’s view of the light, which
"was like a small white sun", lasted for only
about 3 seconds. After discussing the light Anna
had seen behind them, they realized that it
could not have been a car, as the angle she had
seen it at would have placed it above the road.
Also, no car had passed them coming down the
hill. A few days later, they went over that
stretch of the road several times, but could not
find an obvious source for the light.
UFO*BC
investigated a very similar case from September
12, 1999 on Fromme Mountain. Five companions had
decided to party on Fromme Mountain (just east
of Grouse Mountain). They parked and hiked up
for 1-˝ hours to a cabin. They were sitting
around with the ghetto Blaster playing when two
of the members noticed flashes of light in
amongst the trees. When they turned off the
ghetto Blaster, a sound could be heard that
resembled a high-pitched generator. One person,
Marc, walked away from the group about 20 to 30
feet, until he was underneath the source of the
sound, which seemed to be above the 80 foot pine
trees. The noise, which had now changed to a
distinct pulsing, was so intense that he had to
put his hands over his ears. Another companion
later said that the noise seemed to send a
"wave" through his head. The pulsing sound
continued for another 5 -10 seconds, then
suddenly stopped. Throughout the experience,
nothing was observed that might have caused the
noise. The total event lasted about 45 seconds.
The group remained a further hour before
descending the mountain path and returning home.
Please read our report at: http://www.ufobc.ca/Reports/partypooper.htm
or obtain our Fall 1999 issue and read the
article called: "The PartyPooper".
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