Houston & Telkwa British
Columbia
Date: July 29, 2002
Time: approximately 10:30 - 10:45 p.m.
In the following report there is mention of two
names out of the 9 witnesses (Only one of these
names - Mr. Stewart goes with the July 29th
sighting, Mrs. Stewart has a separate report). Mr.
Gordon Stewart is his real name, and the only
reason I am placing his name in my report is
because the Interior Newspaper received permission
from the witness to print the information,
otherwise I would have left the name out of my
report. Although I have permission to use some of
the other witnesses' names, I choose not to place
their personal information in my report, a policy
HBCC UFO sticks to.
Location information - Gordon's farm: (Telkwa,
British Columbia, Canada) - The witness owns 160
acres of farming land, treed with Spruce, Aspen
and Pine in areas, with a good number of acres in
Hay fields. This supports his 57 head of cattle.
The Stewarts's home sits at 3,000 feet in
elevation and overlooks the Bulkley Valley and
Telkwa mountain range in the distance. (Photos I
took from Gordon's farm will be added to my report
and will be seen on my website at a later date.
Anyone wishing to post these reports to their web
sites may request the photos and I will send them
along). Gordon's farm is approx 6 kilometers off
Highway #16. The next largest town is Smithers
which is approximately 15 miles west from Telkwa,
B.C. and has an airport for the surrounding areas.
I received a telephone call on July 30, 2002 from
a reporter (Nicole Fitzgerald) at the Smithers
Interior Newspaper, Smithers, British Columbia,
asking if I had received sighting reports from any
of the residents from the Telkwa, B.C. area. I
told Nicole nothing had come in so far. She went
on to give me a brief description of what one
witness (Gordon Stewart - a farmer and resident of
the Telkwa area) had told her he had seen at 10:45
p.m. on July 29, 2002. I asked her if it would be
ok to get his contact information as I wanted to
look into the matter and investigate the report. I
received Gordon's contact information.
I telephoned Gordon and set up an interview with
him at 8:00 a.m. on August 1, 2002 at his home in
Telkwa, British Columbia. When I arrived at the
gentleman's farm the first thing I noticed was the
view, from their beautiful home and picture window
they had an unobstructed view of the valley below,
and across the valley the Telkwa Mountain range
stood, still snow capped. I knocked on the
witnesses door and a tall well-built man greeted
me and invited me in.
We discussed farming as we made our way through
his home to the living room and kitchen area.
Before sitting down for a coffee and discussing
what he saw, Gordon took me into the living room.
He sat down in his chair, pointed out the window
and moved his arm to indicate the location and
flight path of the object. Gordon mentioned that
he had been going to catch a late movie before
retiring to bed. He said that he never expected to
have such an exciting night.
At this point Gordon's wife joined us both, and we
all sat down at the kitchen table and he gave me a
description of what he saw on July, 29, 2002.
It was exactly 10:45 p.m. on July, 29, 2002.
Gordon was sitting watching a late movie when he
saw a "HUGE", round white/yellowish object
traveling at approximately 600 miles per hour, fly
at low altitude (about 1000 feet above the ground)
through the Bulkley Valley below. "From my
distance", he said, "the object was about the size
of a pickup truck." He later went on to say that
the actual size may have been closer to a school
bus. The object traveled, according to the
witness, west to east. There was "no" sound at all
and no reaction from his two dogs which were
outside at the time the object passed by. I asked
if there was a tail trailing it, he said no. It
was completely round and very bright.
As I mentioned above, the Stewarts's farm sits
roughly at an elevation of 3000 feet, and the
Telkwa Mountain Range sits at about 3500 feet. The
object was traveling below the top of the Telkwa
range, and below the elevation the Stewart's farm
sits. He also mentioned the object would have
passed directly over top of Round Lake which can
been seen 2 to 3 miles in the distance from the
farm.
Gordon did step out onto his patio to look around,
but the object had already departed from his
sight. He came back in and woke his wife (Joanna)
and told her what he just witnessed. She for some
reason wasn't really surprised. (I will explain
below - very interesting!). Gordon made a call to
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to make a
report of what he just witnessed, also wondering
if anyone else had reported anything close to what
he just saw. The RCMP told him they had not heard
from anyone else. A Constable took the report by
way of telephone. The next day Mr. Stewart
telephoned the Smithers Interior Newspaper and
talked with reporter Nicole Fitzgerald who
requested a meeting with Gordon and took the
interview. This is where I came into the picture,
as Nicole had contacted me.
As I mentioned in the report from Gordon, his wife
Joanna was not all that surprised. After Gordon
explained what it was he had just seen, thinking
his wife may not believe him, but she spoke up and
said that she had seen a similar light two months
prior to his sighting. She did not want to tell
her husband because she thought he wouldn't
believe her.
I asked Mrs. Stewart what she had witnessed, she
went on to tell me she was laying in bed a wake
with the drapes closed over when a "really bright
white light" lit up the whole room. Joanna said it
frightened her, but still got up slowly and
approached the window carefully. She pulled over
the side of the drapes and looked out to see a
"HUGE" very bright light. As the object moved very
slowly across their farm, it shone a beam of white
light towards the ground behind their home in a
large field. She started to lose sight of the
object, so she moved from the bedroom to the
living room and watched the object fly "slowly"
across their field, across Boundary Road and onto
their neighbors farm where she finally lost sight
of it. She said the object moved completely in
silence and went on to describe the beam of light
as if someone held a flashlight upside down
pointing downwards. Joanna said it was as if the
sun was out, but within a circle on the ground.
(Investigators
Note: I received a report this year (2002) from
a witness south of Burns Lake, a small farming
community called Grassy Plains which is across
Francois Lake. This witness went on to tell me
of a similar object which did exactly the same
thing Joanna saw, or described. This may or may
not have anything to do with one another, but
both reports would be in the right time frame.)
I sincerely thank Mr. & Mrs. Stewart for
sharing the story with me, and taking the time
to allow me in their home to discuss what it was
they saw.
Next installment - Why all the aircraft traffic
? - Why was the military in the area ? - The
three witnesses from Houston, B.C, to the July
29 th sighting. - My Visit to the RCMP.
Copyright -
HBCC UFO Research
Brian Vike (Yogi)
Independent UFO Field Investigator/Researcher
HBCC UFO Research
Box 1091
Houston, B.C.
Canada
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