On January l7th, 2000, Darren
and his friend Brian were out together for a
social evening, returning home to Sooke Basin,
which is located outside Victoria on the
southwest side of Vancouver Island. At around
12:30 a.m. they decided to go down to their own
private beach and do some stargazing. It was a
fairly clear evening and they noticed a rather
strange dark cloud that was in the southern sky,
shaped like a beehive. It soon vanished over the
hills towards the city of Victoria. The evening
was cold and snow covered the ground, there was
fortunately no wind. Commenting upon the
strangeness of the cloud the two men suddenly
noticed three lights that appeared to outline a
dark triangle that, to their mutual amazement,
seemed to be lower than 10,000 feet.
Brian said, "what if those
lights go out?" and immediately one did,
quickly followed by the other two. "Did you
see that?" Darren promptly acknowledging that
indeed he had. However even with the lights
extinguished they could still see the outline
of the triangle above them. Shortly afterwards
the craft began to move in the same direction
as the strange cloud, towards Victoria. Within
ten minutes the object had vanished from
sight. Both of the men felt that something
strange was in the air. The time now was
around 2:30 a.m. Despite feeling frozen both
men were reluctant to move. Around 3:00 a.m.
they noticed another strange cloud seemingly
appear from nowhere moving towards east Sooke.
As it did so it emitted a Krypton green flash
that illuminated the whole sky, just like
turning a switch on and off a few times, a
really bizarre spectacle. On reflection the
two men speculated that what they had just
witnessed may have been some way to affect the
sleeping residents of the Sooke area by the
way of a "frequency alteration". At any rate
the "discharge" occurred about three times. It
certainly didn't look like lightening and
there was no expected accompanying thunder.
Nor were they in anyway convinced it was the
northern lights. They then noticed a second
and third cloud appear, all moving gently
together over the Sooke basin, giving the
observers the impression that each was
concealing something inside it. Finally coming
together they spanned the sky, completely
covering the basin.
The whole mass looked very much saucer-shaped,
very wide in the middle, then narrowing down
at each end. At this point Darren pulled out
his Pentax P5 camera with its 200mm lens
attached and promptly shot off three pictures
from right to left so that it would encompass
the whole cloud. He had also taken photos of
all the other strange things that they had
previously seen. As the two men stood in
silent awe the cloud began to disperse
revealing a huge spacecraft that seemed to
have mist hanging from it and which still
partially hid it. They estimated that the
craft was at least TWO MILES across! It was
hard to believe that no one else was seeing
what was so evident to them. The craft
remained in position for a good fifteen
minutes as more photos were taken of it. Then
the clouds began a slow motion swirl as it
began to move from stop into cruise mode and
also headed off in the direction of Victoria.
More pictures were taken as it departed. It
was now 3:30 a.m. The whole experience had
been very freaky. Now totally frozen stiff
they decided to head back to the house to warm
up as the object was no longer in view. It had
been quite an evening, although by this time
it was well into morning of course. Changing
into some warmer clothes, grabbing his wife's
camera and a flashlight, Darren headed back to
the beach and the water's edge. Only this time
he was confronted with something entirely
different in the ocean about 75 feet away, a
sea serpent no less! But that's enough
excitement for one story, let's save those
details for another time.
Oh, yes, did I hear you ask
about the two rolls of film that were exposed
that very memorable night? Sorry folks, he
can't find 'em, just vanished, no-one has any
idea what happened to them, so you'll have to
be content with these drawings.
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