Apr. 22, 1965
APRO,
Tucson, Ariz.
Dear Mrs. Lorenzen,
This is probably not worth
publishing in the Bulletin, but I believe all
available details should be registered, in case
they come to reveal some underlying pattern.
On Sun. March 7th, I drove home to Victoria BC
from Vancouver BC and caught the 11 p.m. ferry
from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay. I drove down to
Victoria from Swartz Bay as usual, and I was
going along the very last 100 yards of road
before the lane which leads down to my house in
the country, when all at once my lights all went
out, and on again: this happened four times in
quick succession, during the space of some
twenty or thirty yards. Next day, I took the car
in for a check of the wiring, but nothing was
wrong with it. (The engine did not stall however
at that time). It must have been around 1:15 a.m
in the early hours of Monday morning when this
happened. Now, it has been announced recently
that late in Feb., a saucer rose from the field
in front of the very nose of farmer Albert
Wilson near Mount Newton, Victoria BC, leaving
the ground radio-active; and yesterday I
discovered that my ‘cello teacher Herr Siegrist,
347 Richmond Ave, Victoria BC, was awoken in the
early hours of Monday morning, March 8th, by a
high-pitched noise zooming over his house at a
terrific speed, so that it could not have been a
jet. Ten days ago, by the way, we had another
sighting reported by the papers from Victoria to
Nanaimo. The object behaved erratically and was
certainly not a plane, yet the papers
'explained' it away so foolishly that I sent
them a memorandum pointing out the five
inconsistencies in their article (it was
described by them as Just a plane, definitely a
jet, unusually large, going unusually fast, of
an unusual grey instead of normal silver, and
with an unusual array of lights ‘which the
pilots might have forgotten to turn off” (!!),
and closing with the statement that neither US
nor Canadian military sources, nor commercial
airlines, had any plane in the area at the time.
It also hovered 2 minutes over the Islands, and
made no noise. Yet they described it as Just a
plane!
Yours sincerely,
P. M. H. Edwards
HOMEPAGE