After an
article on UFO sightings in Telkwa and Houston
was published in last week's edition of The
Interior News, reports on UFO sightings are
flying in and credibility of the sightings are
gaining momentum.
"I can't keep up with all
that is going on, " said an excited and
exhausted Houston UFO researcher Brian Vike.
A flurry of phone calls,
on-site interviews and investigative research
has left Vike with little sleep. Since the
papers hit the stands, five witnesses came
forward, claiming they saw the white ball of
light Telkwa resident Gordon Stewart glimpsed on
the evening of July 29.
After reading the paper,
Quick teacher Dina Hanson called Stewart to
share the details of her sighting, which she
recorded in her journal the day after her
experience. Her son, civic engineer Ryan Hanson
also saw the object, which partially matched
Stewarts's description.
The Hanson's sighting also
took place July 29, five minutes earlier than
Stewarts's sighting, traveling in a
southwesterly direction from Quick towards
Telkwa.
Both observations commented
on the awe striking brightness and size of the
light; the white and yellow hues and soundless
travel at a speed, which exceeded the propulsion
of a man-made object. Some of the differences
between the two incidents was that Dina's light
shape was an elongated circle opposed to
Stewart's round one. Dina also noted a slight
downward trajectory to her object, unlike
Stewart's parallel flight pattern.
However, Ryan introduced that
because the object was moving away from his
mother and himself, the object may have just
appeared to be dropping because of their
perspective. Dina originally attributed her
experience to a meteorite sighting, but after a
phone call to a professor at the University of
Northern B.C. revealed that meteorites produce
sound, Dina is uncertain. "I am pretty cynical
about things like UFO's, " she said. "But
because there was no sound, I think it is
remotely possible it was something else."
A Smithers family of late
night hot tubbers comprised of both adults and
children also contacted Stewart, sharing a
similar story, adding that the light engaged in
a series of loops. Smithers resident Dan
Derbyshire was also added to the list in an
unrelated sighting. However, he wanted to
support those stumbling upon these unexplainable
phenomenon's. "Sometimes people feel they are
the only ones (that are seeing unusual sights),"
Derbyshire said, "But I thought I'd let them
know, they aren't alone."
Like many other UFO reports,
the edges of reality expand with the number of
incidents reported as viewers digest science
fiction's fanciful imagination with tangible
physical experiences. "It was not what I
classify as a flying saucer," Derbyshire noted
of the craft, which reminded him of a metallic
40-gallon barrel, heading towards Houston at an
estimated 300 kilometers per hour. He stated he
is a UFO believer, but dismissed his incident as
an American flight exercise in one breath while
pondering over why he heard no sound in another.
His experience neither fits
H.G. Wells' War of The Worlds where aliens
employ mass destruction in tea-cup-and-saucer
shaped crafts nor did it fit with the
characteristics of a man-made aircraft. Reality
and rationale collided as he attempted to
interpret what he saw. Unlike a plane, there
were no wings on the ribbed object and its
flight was soundless, Derbyshire noted. Unlike
many UFO sightings, the object did not emanate a
white glowing light nor assume the regular
saucer form, he added.
Vike surmises Derbyshire's
suspicions are correct after a series of phone
calls attributed the sighting to a military
reconnaissance drone. Although, if this
assessment is correct, many more questions arise
about what is going on for Vike. "A secret
military exercise?" Vike questioned. "Who
knows". Vike's suspicions are rising as reports
of military trucks are detected around Houston
and the Telkwa High Road. Vike and his wife also
saw and heard the hum of large turbo propellers
of military type crafts flying over Houston on
August 8. "Something is going on," Vike alleged.
Despite the couple both seeing and hearing the
two military crafts, the Smithers air tower told
Vike there was no air activity in the Houston
vicinity.
Stewart is heartened by the
additional reports coming in. "(People) can't
say I've lost my marbles," Stewart laughed.
"There are too many people who have seen it. I
am not the only one."
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