As long ago as 1863, animals were disappearing
when mysterious lights appeared in the night
sky.
From August
5, 1863 and until early 1865, white lights shone
over the night camps situated on the Cariboo
Trail in Canada's westernmost province of
British Columbia where supply train mules were
resting.
On every
appearance by the lights it was found that three
mules were missing.
The Pinkerton
detective agency set up a decoy mule train but
were foiled in their attempts to stop the
disappearances of mules every time the lights
paid the camp a visit.
As agents
actually saw the hovering white lights they were
at a loss to explain three more missing mules
when a head count was taken.
None of the
missing mules was ever found that vanished
whenever the brightly shining lights did their
dance in the night sky.