“THING” SEEN OVER VANCOUVER

Flying Ice Cream Cone Spotted By Airport Official; Went Fast

VANCOUVER (CP) — Airport officials reported last night they saw an object “about 200 feet long and shaped like an ice cream cone" flash over the city.

The officials at International Airport said the object first appeared in the west at about 15,000 feet and passed beyond the airport at a tremendous speed, disappearing about one minute later to the southeast.

Among those who saw the object were F. W. Magar, superintendent of airport operations, and Allan Sharp, airport attendant.

Police, newspaper and radio station switchboards were flooded with calls from all parts of the city.

“I have never seen anything like it before,” sajd Magar, “And I have never turned in a report about a flying saucer, either."

It was Magar who gave the “ice cream cone" description of the ship.

He said a “white substance hung about the tail but did not trail out as vapor does from a fast-moving plane.”

"It must have been doing at least 700 miles an hour.”

Magar said he checked with the air traffic control and found no traffic was in the air at the time.

At Medicine Hat today a V-shaped object with a large front was reported to have been seen speeding through the sky over that southern Alberta point about last midnight.

Carl Sillak said he was attracted by a bright silvery light “a great distance from the earth and apparently closer to the stars.” He said there were no sparks or flames following it. “It was very bright and clear. . .it suddenly turned upwards in an arc and disappeared.”