“I was just going to take his picture and he looked up and pointed and was sort of frantic.

“Then I saw them. They came out from behind the trees and seemed to be sort of spinning.”

Fifteen-year-old Robert McNicol of 4011 Lynn Valley Road was explaining how he happened to take four pictures of two Unidentified Flying Objects in his back yard at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday, July 11.

He was taking a picture of 14-year-old Doug Miller of 3957 Phyllis Road with his 1916 model Kodak box camera when they saw them.

During the minute and a half the objects were visible to the boys, Robert took a total of six pictures of them, four of which turned out.

“They seemed quite far away,” Doug explained, “and they were sort of metallic-colored. We've never seen anything like it before.”

“They moved out from behind the trees and stopped as if they were watching us then they seemed to spin away very fast; they just disappeared.”

The boys emphasized there is no chance what they saw were two logging balloons being used on Seymour Mountain. The balloons are situated to the east of the McNicol home while the picture was taken facing the west. “Besides, we've seen the balloons and they're much bigger than what we saw,” they said.

They told their parents and a few friends about the happening.

“But they didn't believe us. Now we've got the pictures to prove it.”

Robert, who has a collection of flying saucer magazines and books, said his father plans to write to the United States Pentagon explaining the sighting.

They said they didn't believe in flying saucers before and don't know what to think.

“I've never seen anything like that before, ” Robert said, pointing at one of the pictures.

We asked them if they now think what they saw were "flying saucers."

“Yeah, I guess so,” Robert replied, “I guess they're some sort of flying saucer.”