Dear UFO*BC,
I would like in response
to your article in The Valley Echo, Invermere, BC Jan 29/97 to
relay the following information:
I was just returning home after
walking my dog (5:55 am) on a very cold clear morning one fall
(Oct?) probably 1994. Sorry about the date & year. I had a
clear view and noticed the ski hill was lit up brighter than day
- unusual, since there was no snow yet. An object that resembled
the body of a large airplane with no wings was moving silently
across the sky just past (almost over) the ski hill. Looked like
lights or lighted windows along its body. I felt calm, but
thought "I hope they can't see me". I also blinked my
eyes several times because I couldn't believe it. The dog had no
reaction. Didn't tell anyone at the time. Hopefully some of the
miners on shift change at Cominco's Sullivan mine saw it, too,
and will contact you.
Good luck,
Tish S. - Radium Hot
Springs, BC
Dear Sir,
However interested I am in UFO's, I
have no idea whether my experience with a single light in the sky
has anything to do with UFO's. But here it is and you be the
judge. What ever, I hope you can use it in your book.
It was in the early 1970's. We lived
in Winfield, about 6 miles north of Kelowna. Every evening around
11' O'Clock I took our dog for a short walk up the street. I
remember a clear crisp night walking northward. The stars were
very bright, there was no moon. In the distant north sky one star
was moving. I figured it to be an airplane on approach to the
Kelowna airport. When the light was slowly getting closer and
bigger, I noticed that it was [of] the normal approach lane,
which would have been to my right. Earlier planes that evening
landed from the north. Maybe the wind had shifted and airplanes
were instructed to land from the south. The light kept coming
slightly to my left, and was getting very bright, almost like a
single car light. I noticed no blinking white, green or red
navigational lights. That was unusual. Also by now I should have
heard engine noise. But it was very quiet. Airplanes usually turn
on two headlights for landing. But this single light was getting
very white and very big. Suddenly, when it was about 20 degrees
from being overhead but still to my left it went straight upward.
Unlike anything that flies, there was no curvage to the
directional change. It was more like a ball bouncing of a wall in
a 90 degree angle. The speed changed very rapidly and the light
got smaller and smaller until it vanished into nothing. It only
took about two seconds from the time it changed direction until
it disappeared in the vicinity of the little dipper. Unlike a
meteorite there was no trailing fiery debris. I never seen
anything like it and I have no clue to what I really saw that
night.
Sincerely,
Werner Philipp -
Kelowna, BC
Dear UFO*BC,
My experience took place in the late
1970s, sometime near the end of October. It was a dark evening
with light rain falling. My son's girl friend, Pat, and I had
driven him from Penticton to Kelowna to catch a ride back to
Regina where he attended college. Pat and I were returning to
Penticton at about 1:00 A.M. and were ascending up to Summerland
along the lakeside. Across the lake was the Red Rock area and a
slight dip in the mountains above it.
Suddenly the car was filled with a
very bright light. I quickly checked my speedometer and rear view
mirror thinking it was a police flasher. Then I realized the
light was beaming in from my left side. My next thought was a
plane crash or explosion of some sort. The light was intensely
bright, at first steady, and then pulsating, bright to dim. In
the dip in the mountains across the lake was the form of a huge
circle with spokes, in pink and orange colors
I kept driving, feeling a compulsion
to do so, and also a sense of resistance to something alien. We
appeared to be alone on the road. We passed behind a bluff, and
on the other side the pulsating flashed continued, but weaker. As
we entered Summerland the view across the lake was obscured. When
we once again were at the lake level, all we could see was a glow
in the sky where the light had been. This was unusual because it
was very dark and cloudy and still raining.
Pat was terrified and slept in her
parents' room that night. I told it to no one except my husband.
In a restaurant next day I was looking at a bookstand that
displayed a UFO paperback. Someone beside me asked me if I was
interested in UFOs and I briefly described my experience. He said
that a number of blue-green flying objects had been seen in that
area. I don't remember seeing the person I was talking to. He
disappeared quickly.
Near this area also, a small airplane
dropped suddenly into the lake. I don't think the two occupants,
college students, were ever found. The plane was recovered,
apparently with seat belts still in place.
I am curious as to whether you have
had any other reports of strange activity between Rattlesnake
Island and the Penticton shoreline.
Yours sincerely,
Joyce Heam - Salmon
Arm, BC
Dear UFO*BC,
Saturday, Sept. 2, 1995 I spotted a
strange object in the sky. I went and got my binoculars, time
10:10AM. It was very high in the sky traveling very slowly it
appeared - since it was within our limited view for 12 minutes
(10:22AM) before we lost sight of it. There was no after noise,
none at all. It was traveling in a south east direction from the
north west. We live 2 blocks from the Georgia Strait in
Parksville, BC on Vancouver Island. Since we know the line the
Canadian National Air command jets use as they travel down the
Georgia Strait, and we can see the planes along with their vapor
trail. Not rounded as shown in diagram and we can sometimes hear
their noise after they pass, we know this was something
different. The object's trajectory was in a more easterly
direction than the Comox base jets take. Unlike the Comox jets -
no vapor trail was left behind - the vapor trail passed intact
with the object at all times - no current drift.
The sky was clear, no clouds, morning
sun shining brightly which probably caused the glow on the nose
cone? Binoculars clearly showed 3 fire streams in white vapor
trail.
Mrs. Merriam Schoenfeld
- Parksville, BC
Note - shortly after receiving the
above letter UFO*BC received the following addendum:
Dear UFO*BC,
I have waited for four days to see if
National Air Command or Colorado Air Command would request a copy
of my diagrams and statements there-in. They have NOT called
although they were both very excited about the information I
relayed onto them.
I do know that the "COLORADO
BASE" is a SECRET BASE because when Comox transferred the
call from me to them DIRECTLY, I said I would like to send them
the diagrams and info. but they would NOT give me the address,
telephone no. or tell me who I was talking to. They said they
would contact me if necessary.
As I told you over the phone I took a
map of the United States which fortunately for me included
Vancouver Island & the lower part of the B.C. mainland, i.e.
Vancouver, Delta, Surrey, etc. . . I put a ruler from Parksville
and extended it into the US from the trajectory of the objects
course and came up with a line that extended to the Black Canyon
area of Colorado. Through the State of Washington, through the
middle of Idaho, to the extreme southwest corner of Wyoming, to
the southwest corner of Colorado at the Black Canyon of the
Gunnison area, to the northeast corner of New Mexico etc. . . if
the object continued it's trajectory course which I saw it take
the 12 minutes I viewed it with binoculars..
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