On April 14, 1967, at about 8.05 p.m., lan
Squire and Scott McNeill (two boys aged about
13 or 14) were on their cycles going along
Cedar Hill Crossroad. They crossed over
Cadboro Bay Road into Upper Terrace Road
(Uplands residential district), and proceeded
down into Ripon Road as far as the Circle.
From there, they saw a red and a green light
hovering over what they thought was probably
the area of the Uplands Golf Club-House on
Cadboro Bay Road. They were on their way down
to the Yacht Club, and didn't stop to
investigate. The two lights were not blinking,
and seemed stationary (but it must be
remembered that on their cycles, they were
moving, which prevented their being certain
about this last point). The sky was dark and
starry: there was hardly any wind at all.
At 8.10 p.m. the same night, i.e. five or six
minutes later, Ian Squire's grandmother (name
withheld at witness' request) was driving
uphill along Cadboro Bay Road southwards
towards the northern gates into The Uplands
district, when suddenly she saw a red and a
green light over the roadway at about the
height of the roofs of the houses on the upper
bank of the roadway, i.e. higher than a very
tall tree. The witness, who is known to me
personally and through her daughter, and
grandson lan, unfortunately did not stop to
investigate. Instead, she continued on right
underneath the object which, she said, looked
like a very indistinct dark shape which spread
entirely over the width of the wide roadway.
The two coloured lights, she said, seemed to
be shining only forwards, and to be from four
to six feet from the extremities of the dark
shape behind them. There was a tiny white
light behind, which did not seem to be
attached to the object in any way; but as the
night was very dark, she admits that this
could also have been a star. The coloured
lights were not blinking, and the object
seemed not to move, although she of course was
moving towards it in her car. She described
the object (which, she admits, she saw very
indistinctly in the almost complete darkness),
as a black wing-like thing which made no
noise. Then she suddenly thought: "Surely it
can't be a plane, this low. Perhaps it is a
flying-saucer". The size of the two coloured
lights was small, about the size of ordinary
car blinker-lights. If the witness had stopped
to investigate, this could have been a most
important sighting. Unfortunately, she
preferred to continue on her way, and thus
lost a great opportunity.