It was 10 o'clock on the hot still night of August 26, 1967, when at least a dozen residents at McLeese Lake on the Cariboo Highway, British Columbia, saw a glowing blood-red object about the size of a soccer ball move into sight from the south. It was travelling directly above newly installed cables leading to the giant Peace River power project-to-be far to the north.

“It didn't seem to be in any hurry and it stayed right over those lines as if it was studying them,” said Mrs. Alfred Beck.

A noteworthy point of this incident was that the Peace River project had not then started operation, so no power was passing through the cables at the time. Therefore the object's interest, for reasons unknown, must have been focussed on the mere existence of the system.