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.
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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