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Map of area showing an estimated
flight path of object. The direction
of travel was from West South West to
East North East. The actual track may
have been further North or further
south.
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On August 12th 2003
at approximately 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time I
received an Email from Peter Davenport of the
National UFO Reporting Center. Peter told me of a
sighting report he had received as the witness
lived in the same city as I do.
I contacted the principal witness and arranged for
a visit to his house that evening. The gentleman
had informed me that he had a video of the
unidentified flying object and he seemed very
excited about it
I must admit that I did not expect much as the
normal videos we get can be divided into two
categories. The first category is astronomical
objects interpreted as unidentified flying objects
and the second category is video of totally
unidentifiable blobs distorted by overuse of
digital zooming and autofocus systems that can’t
focus on the object. I expected this video to be
of the second category.
I met the gentleman and his family and asked them
to separately describe the details of the
sighting.
The gentleman’s wife was the first witness; she
was seated at the kitchen table near the west
facing window. She told me that the time was
approximately 6:20 PM and the date was Monday
August 11th. The weather was clear and warm with
small scattered cumulus clouds covering less than
10 percent of the sky. The witness’s attention was
diverted outside the window by movement and
observed what appeared to be a balloon. The
witness went outside and noticed that the object
was rotating clockwise on a horizontal axis facing
the witness. The witness told me that the object
appeared to have an angular diameter slightly
larger than that of the full moon (1/2 degree).
The object seemed to be shiny on the side facing
the witness with a dark centre. The object then
proceeded to tilt away from the witness revealing
the fact that it was disc shaped. The object
continued to tip until the opposite side of the
disc was revealed. The witness said that this side
had a reddish orange hazy glow.
The witness yelled at her husband who came out to
look and then ran inside to get his new video
camera. The husband ran out and attempted to video
the object.
This witness had a problem in tracking the object
with the camera which was evident in the video as
the object went in and out of focus and went in
and out of the video frame. The camera was a newly
purchased JVC GR-D90U.
Although it is impossible to positively identify
the object I am satisfied that it is NOT an
artifact of the camera, hoax, weather or any other
kind of balloon, aircraft, bird or insect.
For more information on
this case and to view the video clip, please visit
the HBCC UFO website at:
http://www3.telus.net/public/wilbur8/reports/bc/new_westminster.html
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