GREENWOOD - One of those upcountry unidentified flying objects was back Wednesday.

Sixteen earthlings, including two RCMP officers, watched it frisk and hover in the sky above this West Kootenay community for about an hour.

It then moved rapidly westward and disappeared.

Heavy equipment operator Walter Jackson, 29, said he looked at it through a 60-power telescope.

“I've never seen anything like it,” he said.

Jackson said he spotted the object, which to the naked eye was the size of a dinner plate, about noon.

“At first I thought it was a jet or a balloon,” he said. “It was moving around, circling right above the town and then it stopped and just hung there about a mile up.”

He said it appeared through the telescope to have a raised cabin-like structure on top, but he said no windows or lights were visible.

It was a metallic color on the bottom and red on top, he said.

“I wouldn't say it was a flying saucer, but it sure looked like one,” Jackson said. “I don't know what it was.”

He said 15 others that he knows of saw the object.

Store Operator Adrian Hoogers, 59, estimated the saucer was about 30,000 feet up and 70 miles west of Greenwood.

He said it moved very quickly and had no exhaust.

“Through a telescope it was the shape of a half-moon,” he said.

Jackson said both the Mounties in town looked at the object through a telescope. “They couldn't figure out what is was.”