RCMP are searching for the landing place of a UFO
that crashed flaming to earth in the Mount
Razorback area near Alexis Creek Saturday. Alexis
Creek is in the Chilcotin west of Williams Lake.
UBC geophysicist Prof. William
Slawson said in Vancouver Wednesday, after talks
with RCMP and RCAF officers, that the object was
probably a meteor. Wing Commander Douglas Biden
of Mt. Lolo radar base near Kamloops thought the
object was a meteor, but “There’s a one percent
chance it could be space garbage – station
debris from a satellite.” He said he recommended
a government investigation after reporting it to
Air Defence Command Hdq. at St. Hubert, Quebec.
The object was first sighted by
Chilcotin area ranchers when it fell to earth
with a boom heard for 100 miles.
It came to RCAF notice four hours
later when it was reported by telephone to Mt.
Lolo radar base 300 miles away. Wing Commander
Biden said the radar equipment at the base could
not pick up signals from objects travelling as
fast as a meteor might. Wednesday an RCMP light
plane found a charred mountain area while
scouting Mt. Razorback of the Niut range, about
100 miles northeast of Mount Waddington. But
RCMP could not positively identify the spot.
RCMP said Wednesday at least six
persons saw the object and others heard the boom
of its landing from Hanceville 16 miles east of
Alexis Lake, to the Upper Lake area, 100 miles
west.
Mrs. K. A. Telford, a rancher,
reported seeing a cone-shaped object flying over
her land 10 miles west of Alexis. She said it
was wide at the front, tapered and burning at
the tail end. She thought it was about the size
of a small plane, about a mile up, and said it
was moving overhead and westward away from her.
Prof. Slawson said he has asked
government officials in Ottawa for permission to
investigate in a helicopter. New snow fell
Wednesday in the Mount Razorback area, to about
the 8,000 ft. level
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