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 35mm
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 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.
--- UFOBC Investigation
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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 this is that the entire
story about the “hand” was told in a 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.
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