From The Citizen, June 8, 1965:
A Prince George man has reported
sighting a strange object in the skies above the
Central Interior late Sunday night (June 6). The
man, who prefers to remain anonymous, and his
two children in one car and his wife in a second
car all spotted the object at about midnight 20
miles west of Prince George on Highway 16.
He said the object, which
appeared as two bullet-shaped back-to-back
sections joined by a dark area, travelled
through his line of vision from south to north
for about 5 seconds. The light sections, he
said, acted as if activated by a light switch,
brightening and darkening with no apparent
pattern. He said the object appeared to be
headed toward the ground on a 30 degree angle
above the front of his car.
He said the tail-less object gave
off a light as bright as a standard fluorescent
tube light but with a “greeny-yellow tinge”.
He said it occupied a space of
about 10 inches across in the centre right
portion of the car's windshield. The object was
said to be travelling relatively slowly, “not as
fast as a meteorite would go”.
The sighting was reported to RCAF
Station Baldy Hughes and in turn to USAF
Unidentified Flying Object personnel in Seattle.
From the Citizen, June 9,
1965:
A Prince George man’s report that
he saw a strange object flash over the Central
B.C. late Sunday night may have ended up in
Washington.
But whatever the strange object
was that the man and his family spotted at
midnight Sunday, it has been around before. The
men, arriving home after the sighting of the
object about 20 miles west of Prince George on
Highway 16, telephoned RCAF Station Baldy
Hughes. From there, his call was "patched
through" to McChord Air Force Base in Seattle,
which is sector commend post for Baldy Hughes in
the North American Air Defence network.
McChord personnel in turn sent
the report along to NORAD headquarters in
Colorado Springs. Most unidentified flying
object reports which stand up to careful
scrutiny finally go to USAF headquarters for
further study by a team studying UFO sightings.
And then a housewife, who, like
the man, prefers to remain anonymous, said this
morning she spotted an object at midnight
Thursday (June 3), which closely resembled the
one described in the original report.
She said she was looking out the
window of her home in Prince George “and I
thought I was seeing things”. She said the
balloon-shaped object appeared high in the sky
"moving faster than a helicopter". She agreed
with the man’s description --- that the object
appeared as two bullet-shaped light sections
separated by a dark section.
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With this sighting we also have an account of the
liaison between the RCAF and the USAF when it
comes to UFO matters.
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