1967 - A Pretty Good Year

Lone Butte, BC - July 1967

Jon Ruddy, "Look - There's a FlyingSaucer!"
MacLean's, Nov. 1967


This (1967) has been a pretty good year for the flying-saucer set. In British Columbia - where more people see more Unidentified Flying Objects than anywhere else in Canada - 23 sightings were reported to the RCMP in the first seven months, compared with seven in all of 1966. Brian Gratton [sp], a dude-ranch operator in Lone Butte, in the Cariboo country, sat up for five consecutive nights last July (1967) with his wife Pat, horse-wrangler Shawn Broe and some cowhands and dudes, watching a whole cupboard-full of stellar crockery. “They had red and green blinking lights and shifted, bobbed and weaved in the sky,” Gratton reported. “I saw one of them veer off toward Green Lake and the front of it looked like some kind of space craft. It was saucer-shaped. Some nights you could hear a drone or hum like a high-tension wire. The sound woke my mother out of her sleep two miles away. The cattle were restless and even the dogs on the ranch were acting up.” (180: 35)

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