1996
Richmond, BC
I was working
a summer job fixing roofs. One day while in a
neighborhood in Richmond with clear sky’s with the
exception of some cumulus clouds situated towards
the north shore mountains I noticed a silver flash
in the sky while looking towards Grouse Mountain-
that occurred every few seconds. From memory it was
every 2 seconds. I trained my eye on the flash and
noticed it was being made by a silver disc shaped
object that was traveling at tremendous speed, as it
was flying a circulating pattern around a cloud. I
have been to many air shows and knew that any jet
would make a loud noise pulling those loops and had
never seen an aerobatic air craft or military
aircraft travel at that speed. I could clear see the
disc shape as it appeared visible to the naked eye.
I watched it for several minutes. Eventually two
girls came walking along the side walk in front of
the house that I was standing on. I called down to
them, to ask them if they could see the flash
and the craft ?(at a certain angle the sun reflected
off the disc, like a cars windshield reflective of
the sun at the right angle) - which they confirmed
they could both see. All three of us watched it for
at least 10 minutes. After that they went on their
way and I had to go back to my work.
9-Jan-96 Burnaby
J. P. was looking
out the window of her Burnaby home about 8 PM on
9-Jan-96. In the Southeastern sky she saw a very,
very bright light, stationary in the sky. The
object remained in the same location for about 1/2
an hour, then the next time she looked it was
gone. Shortly afterwards she saw a bright flash in
the southeast that seemed to come from the ground
up. Later in the evening she saw two disc shaped
objects, again in the southeastern sky above the
area where she had seen the bright flash. The next
day she heard on the news that 3 yachts had burned
in Point Roberts - no confirmation of boats
burning could be obtained.
11-Feb-96
Burnaby
As he was entering
the library on Willingdon, near Kingsway, G. J.
noticed a black sphere against the puffy white
clouds. It seemed about the size of a helicopter,
but round and made no noise. At first it was
stationary, then it moved slowly up and down. The
object was very black, then changed to dark gray,
then back to black. When it was black it had a
sharp outline, but when it was gray it seemed to
be fuzzy. The object got smaller as it receded to
the west. At one point a dark gray torpedo-shaped
projectile shot out of it horizontally, heading
northward. The main object continued to recede
westward, moving slowly up and down, until it was
lost in the distance. Total viewing time of about
30 minutes.
11-Feb-96
Annacis Island
While patrolling a
trucking lot on Annacis Island as a security
guard, Mr. C. noticed a flock of seagulls
spiraling in the thermals from steam emitted at a
nearby plant. The time was about 12:10 PM on a
clear Sunday afternoon. One white object seemed to
be far above the circling seagulls. Using his
binoculars, Mr. C. noticed this object was square,
reflective and had a motion like "a rippling sheet
of aluminum". It moved slowly to the north with no
vapor trail, no lights and no sound. The object
was lost from view after about 5 minutes.
25-Feb-96
Vancouver
"Myself and two
friends were in an apartment building on Davie
Street when we noticed a metallic, reflective
object approaching from the west, over English
Bay. We then observed it through binoculars from
the roof of the apartment building - the weather
was sunny and clear. We then headed into the city
for better viewing purposes, periodically stopping
to take photographs. We noticed that once or twice
it appeared to emit a red light(?) from the side,
plus project spikes(?). We followed the object as
it moved slowly westward, until we ended up in
Stanley Park. As it was moving back in a
north/westerly direction, towards Grouse Mountain,
one of our party noticed a brown, tubular object
to the east, over the Sears Tower. We turned to
look and try to identify this second object,
without success. When we turned our gaze back to
the first, disc-shaped object, we found that it
had disappeared from sight. We had watched the
object as it floated, hovered, and apparently
moved in an intelligent manner for a period, in
total, of two hours.
Altogether we took
eleven photos. Strangely, the last two evening
snaps were intended to simply finish the roll,
however, to our later surprise, all of our
pictures show what we think are anomalous objects,
including the two sunset, ocean pictures."
14-Mar-96 East
Burnaby (gmc)
I was driving my van
along 20th Ave in New Westminster in a westerly
direction. After stopping at light on 10th
proceeded west. Noticed reflective object in
12:00 clock position approx. 30 degrees above
horizon. Object was approx. one degree in
length and approx. .2 degrees in height. Object
was traveling from my right to my left (approx.
south).Weather was sunny with some scattered cloud
at mid height (approx. 3000 ft). I checked time ,
was 4:44 P.M. Object was traveling at
approximately 7 degrees per second. Object
was meniscus shaped with positive curve on top and
negative curve on bottom with rounded ends. There
was no sign of wing or tail structure . I could
not see any lights or color other than frosted
aluminum appearance of entire structure.
After a few seconds the object seemed to
considerably increase in speed, diminishing from
the one degree length to zero in approx. three
seconds.
23-Mar-96
Burnaby
Witness was on top
of his brother's apartment watching comet.
He looked up to see three bright white
lights moving from North to South. The
objects stayed three abreast, the light on the
right was on a steady course while the other two
shifted about. Witness estimated the speed
of objects as " six times faster than a jet".
He lost sight as objects went over horizon.
It is interesting to note that just prior to
sighting his brother's video camera went dead.
Total time of sighting about 15 seconds.
21-April-96
Coquitlam
On an overcast
Sunday morning a member of the BC Mountaineering
Club was hiking up Eagle Mt. in Coquitlam, a
suburb of Vancouver. He was alerted to a loud
humming sound which he likened to the drone of
bees. At this time steady flashes of bright light
were visible through the overcast sky. He had
hiked this spot many times previously and never
seen or heard anything like the above. Total time
of experience was about one hour.
15-May-96?
Surrey
A woman and her
companion were traveling west on 88th Avenue in
Surrey about 12:30 AM when they saw an object with
coloured lights cross the sky at high speed. They
immediately thought it was a meteor until it
executed a 90 degree turn and sped off. The total
time for this sighting was possibly 7 to 8
seconds.
15-June-96
White Rock
Stan was sitting in
his garden watching a passenger plane pass
overhead on its way to the Vancouver airport. He
suddenly saw a dark pointed object cross at a very
rapid rate from east to southwest, high above the
plane. The object made no discernible noise,
seemed to leave a smoke trail, and was gone within
30 seconds.
20-June-96
Prince Rupert
At about 12:12 in
the afternoon "Fritz Romer" heard his dog barking,
went to his window and saw an object in the sky
that he thought was a "sky diver". He realized
that it was not a sky diver, but a disc shaped
object that was descending. He took 4 (or 5)
pictures on his 35 mm camera, then used his
camcorder. Apparently a flash (reflection?) of
light can be seen on the 1 1/2 minutes of the best
filming. The object was estimated to be about 5
kilometers away and about the size of a q-tip held
at arm's length. At one point it was seen behind
Hydro lines. The "Prince Rupert This Week"
published a photo in the 7-July-96 issue.
21-June-96
Black Creek (Vancouver Island)
A couple with two
small children were out for a walk. Watching two
eagles circling in the sunny sky, they noticed two
other objects above them. The other objects were
white diamonds, on edge, spinning in a counter
clockwise manner. The party observed the UFOs for
approximately 15 seconds before they vanished from
sight.
24-June-96
Surrey
On June 24 Darren
and his girlfriend Vannessa were out for a drive
enjoying the warm evening. They were travelling
west on 64th at 148st when Vannessa who was in the
passenger seat noticed a blue light to the north.
She thought nothing of it until it projected
an intense "laser like funnel" to the ground.At
that second she yelled "what's that" to Darren who
turned to have a look. By this time the object had
vanished from sight.The total time of the sighting
was about 15 seconds.
NOTE:
It is interesting that another report has come
to us from within blocks of the sighting above.
In that report a man and a woman reported a
delta like craft hovering over the trees on
their property two nights in a row.
25-June-96 New
Westminster
At 6.00 p.m. a man
and woman were sitting along side the Fraser River
relaxing and watching the boats go by. As the man
leaned back he noticed a bright metallic object
overhead which he first mistook as a seagull. The
two witnesses observed several more objects
hanging overhead and moving about in a somewhat
confined area (1 mile).The objects, much to the
man and woman's surprise would at times
"completely vanish" in the clear blue sky. They
viewed the objects about 15 minutes before they
disappeared for the final time.
28-June-96
Kamloops
At approximately
7PM, I was driving east from Kamloops towards
Pinantan Lake. I was accompanied by my son, aged
12, and my nephew, 16 years of age. The sun was
going down behind a mountain. At the approximate
height a plane would be approaching Kamloops
Airport we saw what appeared to be a very bright
golden-coloured flying saucer. It was not moving
quickly. Realizing that it was not a plane, I
stopped the car. We opened the windows, there was
no sound. My son and nephew put their heads out of
the windows for a better look. We decided that the
object only could be a UFO and were all somewhat
shaken and, at the same time, fascinated by the
experience. As we watched, the object continued
travelling west out of sight over the mountain.
What more can I say?
05-July-96
Burnaby
Two girls aged 16
& 17 observed a bright light in the sky at
around 12:30am. The girls at first thought the
light was a star but were surprised to see it
approach them and begin to glow very brightly. The
object became quite large and yet still no sound
was to be heard. It suddenly darted off at a 90
degree angle. The girls then became frightened and
hid behind some bushes near their home. At this
time they observed the object one more time
directly behind them hovering over the trees. The
girls then ran to their house telling their mother
of their experience. When they came out to look
again the object had vanished.
11-July-96
Vancouver/Burnaby
About 11:10 PM,
"Cindy" felt compelled to go onto her apartment
balcony. From there she saw a yellow glowing
light, with a slight tail, traveling fast from
south to north towards Grouse Mountain. Its'
manner of motion was "similar to jerking an object
on a string". She watched the object/light for
about one minute in a clear cloudless night sky.
12-July-96 New
Westminster
A man and his wife
were sitting on their balcony looking south
towards the Fraser River. About 11:20 PM they
suddenly saw a yellow light cross the sky from
northwest to the southeast. The light had a
twinkling appearance, seemed to be at a high
altitude and was only in view about 5 seconds.
Shortly afterwards they saw two other steady
brighter lights approach high and fast from the
same direction. They were spaced several minutes
apart. Fifteen minutes later there was another
similar light on a similar path, high, fast and
brief.
They don't believe
the objects they viewed were meteors as the angle
of flight remained horizontal rather than curved
towards the earth. Also the objects' colour
remained a constant yellow.
23-July-96
Surrey
About 10:30 AM, G.
C. was sitting in the backyard baby-sitting his
two grandchildren. He glanced up into the clear
blue sky and saw an opaque object drifting from
west to east at a high altitude. Although not
clearly defined, it seemed to be squarish. It
traveled westerly in a straight line for 4 to 5
minutes. As it moved behind some trees on the edge
of the property it became highly reflective, as if
metallic.
26-July-96
Vancouver
"Cindy" and a friend
were sitting on an apartment balcony, looking
south into the night sky (about 11 PM) and noticed
a wide triangle of yellow/whitish "stars". As they
watched, one dropped suddenly, a second went
south, and the third left zig-zagging. The total
viewing time was between 5 and 10 minutes.
26-July-96 New
Westminster
A couple were
sitting on their balcony, looking south, when they
saw 3 unusual looking bright objects in a vertical
formation. After a couple of minutes the objects
were gone. Approximate time was 10:45 PM.
8-Aug-96 White
Rock
At about 11 PM, a
man walking along the beach happened to look up
and saw a light moving in the sky. He thought it
was a satellite at first, but then noticed there
were three small lights in a triangle, about one
inch apart if he held his fingers at arm's length.
He watched the lights travel from south to
northwest over a one minute period.
09-Aug-96
White Rock
At 9pm on the
evening of August 9th "Deiter" observed what was
at first thought to be a satellite moving from the
south to the north. On further observation three
lights in a triangular formation could be seen.
The lighted object moved at a steady pace and
vanished from view after about a minute.
12-Aug-96
Surrey
At about 5 PM, two
people were driving east on 64th Avenue in Surrey,
near 128th Street. They noticed a silver/metallic
barrel shaped object high in the clear blue sky.
It was traveling horizontally towards the
northeast. They tried to pull out of traffic so
they could park and observe it, but it was quickly
lost to sight in the haze. It was in view for
approximately 30 - 40 seconds.
Mid-August-1996,
Keremeos, BC: (mid-day)
To whom it may concern, Hello my name is XXX (name
withheld) and I want to report a sighting I had
back in August of 1996. It was in the middle of
August in Keremeos, BC. It was mid month on a
weekend.
I was 9 years old. I had just spent the summer at
my grandparent's house in Abbotsford, BC with my
two brothers. We were driving back to our home
town of Oliver with my grandparents. We always
stopped in Keremeos, BC to buy fruit on our way
home, so we did just that. We stopped at the
Mariposa Fruit Stand. My brothers and I were
stoked as we were hoping to get one of the fancy
new toonies that just rolled out in our change.
While gathering Fruit to buy there was a scream
from a lady in the parking lot and she was
pointing at the hill side. "THERE'S A UFO!" She
yelled.. needless to say we all dropped everything
and ran to see it. No one said a thing after that
as we stared at this massive (probably a couple
hundred feet in diameter) saucer slowly rising
from the hill top behind the fruit stand. We could
see it rotating. It had a silver body with a black
or dark dome top. We watched it slowly rise to
about 1-200 above the hillside. It hovered there
motionless, other than the rotation. It sat there
for about five to ten seconds before shooting off
into the sky, almost as if it just vanished.
There was at least 8-10 other people there who saw
it, not including myself or my 4 family members.
After it shot off, we all were puzzled and silent.
Even myself and my two brothers (aged 7) were
silent. We went back to buying our stuff. Everyone
was in shock. People were silent. Needless to say,
we never got our toonies either.
Ive been interviewed by the "UFOTalker" podcast a
few months ago (episode not aired yet), he asked a
few good questions that I didn't have answers
for.. like "could you see a haze or field around
the craft?" I cant remember if I did. "Did you see
any distortions, ie like heat waves?" No, well I
may have, but Keremeos is on the edge of the
desert and it can easily get 40+ degrees, seeing
heat waves was a normal occurrence, so I may have
not recognized that it came from the craft.
This incident happened mid-day, on a hot sunny
cloudless day in the middle of August 96. Before
it shut down, I would regularly make posts on the
website abovetopsecret, but never found traction.
Ive searched every site i can. Ive been using
Gemini to do deep research on this almost every
week now and still see nothing. I get
blocked from most ufo groups on Facebook here in
Canada. Mufon is a complete joke. Their ai posts
are garbage. They don't engage, don't answer
questions. They don't allow you to get your story
out.
I dont know what to expect, even if the story just
gets put into the zeitgeist, im ok with that. I
doubt anything will come from this, but I just
wanted to let people know.
Thank you for your time. I will include a screen
shot of the exact spot we all saw it and the
approximate size. The shape was similar to that of
the Bob Lazar "Sports model" but it had a black
top. I used to think I saw body panels because I
could clearly tell it was spinning, if it was
completely smooth you wouldn't be able to tell.
But the Bob Lazar "Sports Model" has depressions
on it, so maybe that's what I saw spinning.
Thank you.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for the report!
I know you provided a great deal of information
already, but was wondering if you could
“fill in” the following form to the best of your
abilities. We can certainly do so on your
behalf, but we prefer to get the witness to do
so, as it often jogs memories of the event.
Witness Responds:
• Date: It was August of '96. One of the
weekends in the middle. And I can't remember if
it was a Saturday or a Sunday.
• Time: mid day between 11am and 1pm.
• Location: Keromeos, British Columbia at
the Mariposa Fruit stand on highway 3.
• Direction Facing: it was a saucer. It rose
from either the top of the mountain or behind
the mountain. It was not tilted. It looked plumb
and level.
• Direction Object(s) moving: it rose up
from behind or on top of the mountain (more of a
large hill) behind the fruit stand. When i
got to the parking lot I could see that the
craft was just slightly above the hill and I
watched it rise for approximately 3 seconds
• Speed of Object(s): before it hovered
it was lifting at a slow pace. I saw it rising
for about three seconds before it stopped. I
remember it stopping almost as soon as I got to
the parking lot. It had to be moving less than
50 kph. As it hovered only like 100-200 feet
above the hillside.
• Duration of Sighting: 15-20 seconds.
• How the Sighting Ended: It shot straight up
into the air at inhuman speeds. It felt fake.
Like you didn't see it go up, but there was a
brief streak straight up into the sky for a
split second.
• Number of object(s): 1.
• Description of Object(s): it was a
large slim saucer with a black top. Extremely
similar to the Bob Lazar sports model. You could
tell it was spinning as you could see it had
either like body panels or depressions on the
surface. I could not tell what it was, but its
like a yo-yo. If you take one thats smooth, no
sticker or name imprint on it, when you throw it
you can't tell that its spinning. But if there
is a mark, you can see the blur of something
going by.
• Apparent altitude of Object(s): it was
about 100-200 feet above the hillside. Using a
topographical map of the hill, it shows that the
hill is roughly 560m to 570m tall. So the height
of that craft was roughly 1,840' - 1,870'
• Sounds (if any): absolutely nothing.
Not even a sound when it shot off in the sky.
• Any other details?: The things from my
sighting that I didn't notice was that there
were were no lights, no visible windows, no
haze, no magical flowing or glowing stuff around
it. It was literally as described, a metal
saucer with a black top. I wish I saw all that
stuff though. I'm jealous of those who have.
HaHa.
17-Aug-96
Malcolm Island
A brilliant glowing
white object was observed moving from the south to
the north in the Johnstone Strait. The light
seemed to be below the tree line on neighbouring
Broughton Island. It was viewed for about 30
seconds before it vanished in the direction of the
Queen Charlotte Islands. The witness had fished
and lived in the area for over 50 years and had
never seen anything like it.
24-Aug-96
Savary Island
Joni, 10 years old,
watched a light move erratically across the
northwestern night sky. She watched the light move
across the sky, zigzag back, then zigzag across
again. It finally zigzagged "upwards" and
disappeared like a "light going off". Two other
adult witnesses were present.
25-Aug-96
Whistler
A couple were in
their car traveling from Vancouver to Whistler,
about 4 AM, when they noticed a very bright light
in the sky. They at first assumed it was Venus,
but soon decided it could not be. It was orangey
in colour and moving in small circles. At times
the light would go off, and then come on again.
25-Aug-96 Whistler
Four people,
returning from a party about 5:30 AM, saw a bright
light in the southeastern sky. The light was 6 to
8 times bigger and brighter than Venus, which
could be seen also. It would "hover" for 20
minutes, then zoom to one side and at times seemed
to spiral closer. One witness said she saw a black
dot to one side of the object. Total viewing time
was about ninety minutes.
26-Aug-96
Whistler
Rob and a friend
were riding their bikes to a party early Monday
morning (2 AM). The moon was almost full and the
sky was slightly hazy, probably due to forest
fires. To the east they noticed a black shape,
like a ball of smoke, but more solid looking. It
was oval shaped and roughly the size of the moon.
They stopped their bikes and watched the object
for several minutes - it did not move or
dissipate. Later, at the party, they talked to
another person who had also seen the black object,
but who had also seen a row of lights around the
middle.
Late August 1995 or 1996, Lakelse
Lake, BC:
So we 5 guys
were in my small Izuzu car travelling from Lakelse
Lake back to Terrace a bit after dark. It was a
dark and gloomy night after a very hot summer,
drizzly and nasty. We (I) decided to take the old
road back to Terrace because we had beer in the
car and the drinking age was then 21, an age that
we had not attained. We were traveling at a
probably sedate speed of 50MPH on the old road
that had originally bypassed a slide that went
into the lake a few years before. Basically a
straight stretch with a rise to the right
with a power line above it and a bit of a chasm on
the left. The power line was a recent addition to
eliminate the diesel electric plant in Terrace
much prior to the Provincial grid. So then the car
lights and all electronics went dead. We were
blind. It was pitch black. My buddy in the front
passenger seat prospected for Canada by opening
his door and we knew we were on the road when we
heard the door hitting the side of the road. We
were lucky to stop the car an 'runaway lane' just
after the road turned to the left and went
down and around. So there we were kinda suprised
to be alive but not to be scared shitless. So we
got out of the car and may have had a beer (surely
a leak) and started to talk about how in the name
of God could a brand new battery and a nalternator
get trashed in the same instant. Well we knew it
had but didn't understand. I had a Zippo lighter
and we found enough metal and tools to first short
out the battery and second disconnet it and short
it out again in the case that the first short
faulted because of some other short. No spark.
Bugger all. Dead chemical battery. So we put it
all together and tried again. No go. What the F?
So like all lads before and after us we started to
walk down the road we had just come up. After a
little bit I (we) noticed red orange lights that
appeared to flutter up and down the power pylons.
My first thought was fire but retrospectivley I
think the flash may have been 60 cycle
oscillations. So madness probably prevailed. We
ran up the hill to check it out. It worked out
pretty well I think. I think I have memory of
looking down at something under a power pylon and
a line that was humming. To be honest I do not
remember anything cohesively from the time we left
the road to climb until I was, what do you call
it, removed from the scene at about 3 feet above
the windfalls. Myfirst thought, and still with me,
was I'm gonna break a fuckin leg. Anyway for
whatever reason we were all I guess levitated down
to the road from where we all walked to the
highway. Three hitched to Terrace and two of us
walked to the lake. I had not mentioned that the
electrical grid was out. But when we were returned
to the car some time later the grid was up and the
lights and radio were on in the car. The beer was
a bit warm though. Jim
15-Sep-96
Surrey
Up to 9 people at a
time watched a strange aerial display in the
southwestern sky from 9:50 PM to 10:20 PM. A
bright white star-like object (flashing blue,
green and red) was making fast erratic movements,
zigzagging about the sky, between 50 and 80
degrees above the horizon. One witness, Daniel,
claimed the other object kept returning to a
position between two other dimmer objects. These
other objects did not move much, but did seem to
get further apart or closer together at times.
After half an hour, the object(s) could not be
located .
NOTE: A second
call was placed to our Hotline # reporting a
triangular object, twice the size of a 747,
flying around the sky about 9:30 the same
evening. Unfortunately, the caller did not leave
a name, number or further details.
Late Sep/Early
Oct 1996, Clinton/100 Mile House, BC:
My cousin Charles
and myself were driving to Quesnel from Westbridge
about 1 or 2:00 pm. We were a half hour or so
north of Clinton BC when in the distance we
noticed a very low flying plane near the highway.
We both noted saying "Wow that plane can't be more
than 50 feet or so from the ground", but as we
approached closer we saw that it was in fact
hovering in place and as we passed it by it was no
more than 100 feet from the road to our left
facing south, and sure enough it was just hovering
there over a field. I got a chill up my spine and
Charles said the hair in his neck was standing up.
I am no expert on airplanes but at the time it
reminded me of the plane from the cartoon Tale
Spin, it had two propellers one on each wing,
along with floater things for water, it was light
tan brown in colour, and this was the strangest
part, there was no wind pushing the grass around
as you would expect. Both Charles and I were
struck with a strange petrifying fear and about
6-10 seconds after we passed it by, I told Charles
we have to turn around and see WTF that was.
Moments later we pulled a U turn and approached it
and noticed it flying off to the south. To this
day we don't know what type of
airplane-craft-thingy it was.
Oct-1996: Eastern
shore of Lake Okanagan, a few miles north of
Windfield: (around midnight)
It happened near an orchard, at night (around
midnight) during the 3rd or 4th week of October. I
was heading for my cabin to sleep (all other apple
pickers were already in bed). I saw a black/dark
sleek triangle, with light spots along its edges,
slowly and silently heading south in a straight
line. It was maybe 100 m over a ridge of hills at
the edge of the orchard, from a few hundred meters
away. Speed? About that of a Cessna plane, maybe
less, but the speed was even. Reminded me of those
triangular UFO's in the X-Files TV program. As a
kid, I was fond of plastic airplane models and I’m
still familiar with many shapes of planes,
including many present-day civilian and military
planes, drones and prototypes. Although it was
dark outside and probably moonless, what I saw
DIDN'T look (nor sound -- absolutely silent!) like
a plane. What's funny is that it seemed to use the
same air corridor as the one many small planes
used every day as they headed for a small airport
close to Kelowna, a few miles south of where I
was. When I saw it, I thought, "Heck, I don't need
that", and headed straight for bed after a few
seconds. There was no news about it the next days.
Oct-1996,
Langley: (between 8 and 9 pm)
"I have a ufo
sighting I would like to report. It was around
1996 in Campbell Rivery Valley Park, Langley B.C.,
at the entrance closest to the border, like 4th
Avenue or something. I am 24 now so I must have
been about 19 or 20 back then. It was about 8 or 9
at night in early or late october and me and my
friend were both out with flashlights in a
farmer’s field next to the park, looking for
shrooms. *Note we didn't find any - we were
straight."
"Anyway, the sky
that night was clear and I was looking towards
Abbotsford way when I noticed an unusual light
that looked like a very bright star. I pointed it
out to my friend then we went back to shroom
hunting. Abought 10 minutes later I looked back up
at the star and nearly shit myself. There, right
above us, was a huge black triangle. It was so low
it must have been just above tree level. It had
what looked like christmas lights wrapped around
it's perimeter. The weird thing about it was that
it didn't make any sound at all, absolutely none.
It was moving very slow and it passed over us
turning towards Brookswood. We watched it
disappear over the trees at the end of the field.
It was very creepy, there was a low heavy fog in
the field and we thought we were gonna see aliens
start walking through the fog so we took off to
the car parked on the road and took off. We were
both scared and I remember that I had pins and
needles all over. We talk abought this incident
often. It was so surreal. Again the wierdest thing
was that there was absolutely no sound and we
probably wouldn't have even seen it if I hadn't
looked up."
4-Oct 96
Vancouver: (11:04 pm)
"I was looking at
the night sky (11:04 pm) when suddenly the clouds
parted revealing a square shaped metallic object
about 500 feet above my head. In each corner of
the craft was a red and green light. Underneath
were rows of 18 to 20 smaller lights
(yellow/orange) that illuminated the sequence. The
UFO appeared to be flat and ''corrugated'' on the
underside. No noise could be detected from it.
Then just as suddenly as it appeared ,the clouds
closed in and the craft was lost from view.
Altogether I believe I observed it for a period of
two minutes."
Nov 1996,
Mitt Lake, BC:
I thought I'd share this UFO
photo with you, since actual convincing photos
such as this are quite rare.
this photo taken looking West across Mitt Lake ,
maybe 20 miles West of Quesnel BC, shown to me
recently by a long time Quesnel resident who
wishes to remain anonymous.
Witness related to me he had
difficulty gauging how far away he was from the
saucer, it hovered stationary for several
minutes then would suddenly streak to a new
position with unbelievable speed then hover
stationary at that position for several minutes,
all with no sound what so ever. The saucer
hovered and changed position for about 30
minutes after the witness first sighted it, then
finally shot with blinding speed out of sight
over horizon in a Westerly direction from Mitt
Lake. The witness stated his the whole sighting
lasted approx. 30 minutes.
I was shown other photos by
the witness that were taken in area West of
Quesnel previous to this saucer sighting, 1
photo appearing convincingly authentic, showing
a fleet of 3 saucers hovering at low altitude at
various distances from the witness camera, over
a snow covered clearing with trees in
background.
1-Nov -96
Richmond:
At about 5:00 pm,
George and Alex were walking along a road in
Richmond when they saw an oval shaped ,
whitish-yellow light in the southeastern sky;
moving north. At first it was moving in a straight
line, about 900 mph (guess). When it got to the
northeast sky it started ''zipping around", but
did not seem to slow down or bank when making
sharp turns. With binoculars,the object appeared
to be made up of 4 square shaped lights.
Eventually the object moved to the north and was
lost to sight . Total viewing time was about 15 to
twenty minutes.
14-Nov-96,
Vancouver: (4:35 pm)
"As I was approaching the mall
near City Hall, at high altitude above me appeared
a very bright orange flat disc. It was
rotating horizontally like a slowly wobbling
top. It was just after sunset and there was
some dimly pinkish cirro-cumulus clouds (20,000
ft.+) around the disc area. The disc
appeared to be about the size of a pea at arm's
length. It stopped wobbling then I saw a
distinct light grey bubble dome on top of
it. I turned my head to look at a very loud
and large double-propped military helicopter
flying low. When I looked back toward the
ufo, it was gone. This event lasted about 5
minutes. I often wonder if anyone else witnessed
this event."
Roger Franz, Vancouver
14-Nov-96,
Whitehorse, Yukon: (9:15-9:30 pm)
A 21 year old man
and his wife were walking along a driveway just
off the Shallow Bay Road near the south end of
Lake Laberge, about 25 kilometres north of
Whitehorse. It was a clear cool night, ideal for
star gazing. The pair saw a moving point of light
which they initially thought was a satellite. They
looked up again and saw that there were three
white points of light in a triangular pattern
moving at a slow sedate pace towards the
south-southeast. The lights were solid and not
flashing and never changed speed, direction or
orientation. The object looked fairly large, was
blotting out the stars behind it and left quite
the impression on the couple.
Initially, the man
thought the object might be fairly low in
elevation so he shone his flashlight at it to see
if he got a reflection, there was none. At arms
length the object was the size of two Canadian
$2.00 coins. There was no sound emanating from the
object. The triangle was an isosceles triangle
with angles comprising of approximately 80, 80 and
20 degrees with the narrow end facing the
direction of travel.
After observing it
for about a minute, the man ran like mad to a
neighbor’s house. "I had to get somebody else to
see it" he said. By the time he reached the house
the object had disappeared in the distance. The
total time that the object was visible was
estimated to be about 2 to 3 minutes.
The man called the
Control Tower at the Whitehorse International
Airport. They didn’t see anything visually or on
radar and had not received any other reports. Next
the man called the RCMP and made a report with the
dispatcher. The next day an officer called back
for more details and gave the man his Case Number.
After listening to the story, the officer said
that he would check with the nearest Alaskan
airbase but didn’t call back to say if he found
out anything. As is customary, the RCMP release
their reports to the media the following morning
(with witness’s permission) and as a result every
media outlet in town called the witnesses. The man
did an interview with local CKRW and CHON radio
stations and the story also appeared in the Nov
15, 1996 Whitehorse Star newspaper. The story may
have received some international exposure as well
since the Whitehorse Star received a letter to the
editor a couple of weeks later regarding a similar
sighting in California. The witnesses also
reported the sighting to the Alberta UFO Research
Association but due to their stringent reporting
requirements the association did not officially
log their sighting.
The RCMP called the
man back continuously for a one month period
wanting even more details about the sighting but
provided no answers for him in return. They were
especially interested in the report filed with
AUFORA which he eventually reconstructed as best
as he could and passed it on to them.
Overall, the couple
was not impressed with how their report was being
handled.
They did receive a
call from someone from Burma Road, a few
kilometres south, who said that she and her
husband saw the same thing a year earlier while
sitting out in their hot tub. They watched it
until it went out of sight going over the horizon.
17-Nov-96 Vancouver:
At about 5:30 pm a
woman and her son had just disembarked from the
Sky Train (Vancouver's rapid transit) and were
walking in an easterly direction when they were
caught in a power outage. At that moment they saw
a black square object about the size of two cars
glide across the park. The woman and her son then
proceeded to her daughters apartment about three
blocks away. At around 8:00 pm the family sat down
to a candlelight chicken dinner as the power in
the area was still out. They were alerted to a
"whoo-whoo" sound outside; and the power returned.
Going to the window to see if they could see a
source to the peculiar sound they were able to see
a brilliant blue light in the sky, moving about.
The young woman and her brother then went outside
to view the object better and were astounded to
see it come towards them "like it was coming down
a hill" . It then hovered above the trees and at
this time the woman and boy could see a dark rim
around the bright light. It then rose and moved
away to the south-west. Total length of viewing
was about 20 minutes.
24-Nov-96 Burnaby:
About 9pm, the
witness was sitting in his apartment and noticed a
light reflecting off the wall. Going to the window
looking northeast over Burnaby Lake he could see a
very bright stationary white light, at an altitude
of 75 to 100 feet over the south side of the lake.
Taking his monocular onto the balcony he found
that looking at it through the glass provided no
discernible features, but the brightness hurt his
eye. The light was approximately 1/2 mile away and
had no accompanying sound (such as a helicopter
would make). He returned inside, periodically
checking outside. It remained for one hour, then
either left or went out (not observed). The
witness resides on the third (top) floor of an
apartment building. The weather was cold and
cloudy, with light snow.
30-Nov-96 Vancouver:
At around 6:30 PM a
young man and woman witnessed a blue
"anchor-shaped" object moving at a steady pace
from the north moving south. On this particular
evening, Vancouver was experiencing strong
southerly winds with gusts up to 70 km/h. The
object stopped over the pairs heads and proceeded
to turn in a clockwise pattern before moving to
the south. Total time of viewing 5 minutes. (Note:
one of the viewers of this object was the same
young woman who experienced a sighting on
17-Nov-96.)
1-Dec-96 Burnaby:
Sitting in my
apartment, about 9:30 pm, looking northeast I
suddenly saw a brilliant white light located over
(near?) Lougheed Mall, about two miles away.
Moving to my third floor verandah I estimated the
light was 1/8 of an inch at arm's length at an
altitude of 1000 to 1500 feet. The light was
pulsating. After 2 minutes of observation it shot
up vertically to 5000 to 7000 feet, then stopped
for a second before making a right angled turn to
the south, traveling at twice the speed of a
normal aircraft. The total viewing time was 3
minutes. All the while I watched this through my
monocular. The night sky was very clear. Not too
surprisingly (allowing for the distance away) I
heard no accompanying sound. The object displayed
no additional lights. When last seen it looked
like a very bright star.
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