Just finished reading the
story in Life magazine about space ships and
the mention of your investigation.
In the middle of Feb.
1951, around 4:15 PM. I was reading a
newspaper in an arm chair in my kitchen. The
door is facing North and from my seat to the
steps where my wife was standing and called
me to “rush” and see a peculiar object in
the sky, I took about 3 seconds to go to her
and came just in time to see a long object,
cigar-shaped, throwing a bluish kind of
smoke at its tail end. It disappeared moving
South Eastward. Our island is facing a
rather large island called Texada, in the
Gulf of Georgia, BC. I am sending you a
picture to give you an idea of the distance
covered in the flight of this object from
the time my wife sighted it and my own
observation just below the near tree at the
right hand of the photo. As I mentioned, the
time elapsed to cover the distance from A to
B was 3 seconds. The distance is, if taken
directly above the hills of Texada Island,
about 6 miles. If the object was farther,
which I believe it was, the distance, of
course, would be much greater. The height
above sea level would have been around
14,000 feet (above the island). If much
beyond, a guess would be anywhere from 20 to
35,000 feet.
HOMEPAGE