George currently resides in Whitehorse,
Yukon and is the gentleman who has in his possession a slide of seven glowing orb-like UFOs taken over Tagish Lake.
Although he didn't take the photo himself, we were pleasantly surprised when George had
his own story to relate, back from his youth, when he lived in British Columbia on
Vancouver Island.
It was about 1937-38, when
George would have been in his late teens. He was commercial fishing in the Porlier Pass
off the east coast of Vancouver Island in a 16 foot open boat. Porlier Pass is located
between Galiano and Valdez Islands, about 17 km east-northeast of Ladysmith. It was
daylight, the weather was dead calm, cloudy and misty. Suddenly in the distance, perhaps
three or four hundred yards away he spotted a “whitish-bluish” sphere hovering
over the water. It was about 6 to 7 feet in diameter he figures. The object appeared to be
following him and at one point was within a hundred feet of him. He could clearly see it
had a defined edge and that it was composed of a variety of blue tones. He estimates that
he watched it well over 5 minutes when it just seemed to dissipate. He had seen this
object in the same general area about 3 or 4 times but this was the closest encounter he
had with it.
He had always believed that it
was a phenomenon called “St. Elmo's Fire”. Doing some research on this we found
that St. Elmo’s Fire is a blue-violet or sometimes greenish glow often seen at the
top of ship's masts during thunderstorm conditions. It is different from lightning in that
it is a continuous electrical discharge into the atmosphere from long metal objects which
causes the air to ionize and glow. It is a faint glow and it has to be dark out for it to
be seen. It is always attached to a metal objects such as a ship's mast or a lightning
rod.
When George was shown the above
information, he could clearly see that what he saw could not have been St. Elmo’s
Fire. However, he did believe it was likely some other form of natural phenomenon.
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