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.”
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