Not The Real Moon!

North Burnaby - February 24, 1958

Saucers, Space & Science No. 5 July 1958


And from North Burnaby, British Columbia, comes this report which was sent into the Vancouver Area Flying Saucer Club. A club member wrote in asking whether what he had seen was the same UFO that was in Grahame Langton's backyard. "I found the April report especially interesting because the incident happened so near home. But it was several days after the report came before I suddenly realized that perhaps I had shared the viewing ... I was drawing the curtains across the living room window when I noticed what appeared to be the full moon in the south. It looked very bright and metallic and seemed to hang out from the sky a long way, and it was unusually low. It was so brilliant I stood still to watch and admire it. As I watched I was astonished to see a streaky cloud pass behind it and come out the other side. This did amaze me so I stayed to watch other clouds come up and do the same thing. I then went out of the front door and saw the same thing happen from the top step. Even then I did not connect what I saw with the flying saucers. If I had done so I would have watched longer, of course. I puzzled about it a lot for the next few days but was on the wrong track figuring I had seen some strange optical illusion. It was several days after I had received your bulletin that what I had seen suddenly flashed across my mind... that it was not the real moon at all.

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