A story without an ending that had been in our
files for a long time concerned an incident
reported in Vol. 1, No. 6 when Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Hills, who operate a lodge at Green Lake in the
Cariboo country of British Columbia, watched an
enormous object of glowing red come in for a
landing on the lakeshore. As it approached at high
speed it looked for one fearful moment as if it
would crash into the ranch home of their
neighbours, the Gammies. Shirley Hills rushed to
call Bert Gammie and heard him give a startled
exclamation before he dropped the phone.
As the Gammies were leaving on a
trip just at the time we hoped to get the rest
of the story, we did not find out what happened
that night as their place apparently stood in
the path of an onrushing UFO. Nor did we make
contact on two later visits. But finally we did
catch up with this hospitable couple. In fact,
we had a pleasant overnight visit at their
beautiful ranch and so had a good chance to hear
more about the big red UFO.
As it turned out, however, that
was not the story we left with. Although Bert
remembered the sighting well enough, trees
interfered with his view and eventually the
incident took its place among several things
that happened in that "invasion" year, 1967.
What had left a more vivid impression was an
incident that occurred on a June evening in 1964
as he, his mother and his daughter Lynn were
returning from the Cariboo city of Kamloops.
While the incident is not as
recent as many others, it is of particular
interest because of the care taken in observing
the object at close quarters and because of what
happened later. This is how Bert Gammie
described it:
It was about 6:30 in the evening,
a glorious evening. The sun was going down but
not yet setting and the moon was already up. We
were travelling toward our ranch, the Flying U,
along the north shore of Green Lake, when Lynn
spoke up and said, "There`s a light over Jack‘s
Mountain." This was south of our position across
the lake. But I was so relaxed and enjoying the
evening, I didn't even look and told her it was
probably the evening star.
The conversation didn`t continue
and we went on driving along when about a mile
farther on my daughter said, "That light’s
moving!" I said, "Oh, it’s probably just a
shooting star," and again the conversation
lapsed until about a mile or so from the ranch
and my daughter said in an absolutely terrified
tone of voice, "That's the most awful-looking
shooting star I've ever seen!" I said, "Is it
still there, dear?" and she said, "It's almost
overhead!"
I leaned forward and looked up
through the windshield and there was this
enormous object almost directly overhead, a
little to the right. I stopped the car
immediately and started to jump out. My daughter
almost tore my shirt-sleeve off, shouting,
"Don’t get out, Dad, don’t get out!" So I had to
steady her down and said, "lf he wants us, he’s
got us. Besides, they’ve never hurt anybody, so
let's just get out."
She was absolutely terrified.
I've heard of people when their legs wouldn`t
support them, and this was her condition. She
had one arm around me and I was holding her on
her feet, telling her to watch carefully, that
we’ve got to remember everything we see.
The craft was circular in shape,
dull metallic in color, not reflecting the sun
even though the sun was still shining. It had a
series of exhaust vents along its rear end and
was trailing exhaust-type hot gases or hot air,
white to blue to red that tapered off into an
orange flame color.
We had this vehicle in view for
about three minutes or so. It was moving very
slowly, I would estimate not in excess of 50
miles an hour, making a whistling noise rather
like wings of butterball ducks when they come in
to land on a lake in the evening. No doubt
you’ve heard them. It's sort of a broken
whistling sound.
(Here Gammie made a swishing
sound through his lips, something like that of a
stick whipped through the air. It was strikingly
similar to the sound made by witnesses in two
other cases we have on tape.)
We watched this thing travelling
north and suddenly it made an absolute
right-angle turn and travelled west. Before it
disappeared from sight, it looked cigar-shaped
as seen from the side, and there didn't appear
to be a dome either on top or bottom.
After it had gone we rushed home
to tell the others about our sighting. We had
just got over the excitement when the phone
rang. It was a friend calling from Watch Lake
Ranch, the home of the Edens. He asked if I had
been outside in the last half-hour or so. When I
said l had, he asked if I had seen anything. So
I asked, "Well, what did you see?" I made him
tell me, and he saw exactly what we saw. He
thought it was halfway between the two ranches,
which would put it three or four miles from his
position. But I figured from our sighting that
he must have been about 10 miles away, so this
will give you some idea of the size of this
vehicle.
CUFOR: When your daughter
first saw the object, she said it looked like a
light. Did you see any light coming from it when
it was overhead?
Gammie: No, I did not,
perhaps because I was looking almost straight up
at it after it approached the car. But Lynn, who
had a good look at it as it came toward the car,
said there was a bright light in the center of
the front part of the object.
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That concluded Bert Gammie's
account of the incident itself. The aftermath
came when, having phoned the RCAF in Vancouver
to report his sighting, he was visited soon
after by a senior air force officer, whom he
knew, and an aide. The pair brought with them a
bulky portfolio of photographs which he was
asked to study.
To his surprise, Gammie found himself
looking at a set of glossy prints of UFOs, many
of them showing the craft in fine detail. More
than any case we can think of, that small
episode showed the extent of official awareness
of the problem in Canada.
Asked if any of the vehicles in the photos
resembled what he saw, Gammie said some were
similar but none fitted the description exactly.
After taking notes, the two then prepared to
leave. But before doing so the officer told
Gammie that if their visit received any
publicity the air force would deny they were
ever there.'
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