1-Jan-2003,
Fairfield: (1:00 am)
"Me and 5 other
friends saw some weird lights on New Years. We
were walking from Fairfield (which is a suburb
in Victoria) and heading into town. The time was
probably around 1:00am because the New Year had
already come and gone. Anyways, I noticed a very
bright orange light flying from the west. It
seemed to be fairly low and over another suburb
called James Bay, moving in sort of
Northeasterly direction. It was moving at speed
that was kind of fast but not overly so. It did
slow down even more so, and kind of disappeared
from view. Just before it disappeared I did
notice that it had gotten bright again and
seemed to be even lower than it was before.
Anyways we all agreed that it was very unusual.
There was no sound at all from these lights. We
kept walking on, and not a minute later one of
the other people that was in our group spotted
another one (or the same one?) coming from
exactly the same direction as the first one.
This one displayed something even weirder than
the first one. This one actually stopped for a
brief second and got bright enough to light up
the sky. It then dimmed quite low and continued
on in the basic direction as the first. It just
looked like a small dim red light after that as
it moved to the Northeast. The sky that night
had a cloud cover so it wasn't stars or
anything. We stopped some people on the street
that walked by to get as many people to see
these weird thing(s). Hopefully one of those
people will make a report as well. We could
still see one of these lights in the North sky
before we lost sight of it for good. It was a
eerie experience for all of us."
7-Jan-2003,
Prince George: (6:30 am)
"I was wondering
if you could tell me if anyone has reported a
UFO sighting on Jan 7, 2003 in the Prince George
area. I saw something around 6:30am. It was
travelling in West. It was very high and almost
looked liked a shooting star except there was no
trail and it did not flicker. It wasn't a plane
or a helicopter because it was way too high and
travelling too fast. I thought it could have
been some kind of missile. Then it stopped and
shone brightly and I thought I was out of my
mind. THEN it started up again and kept going."
"What was that? It's driving me crazy."
18-Jan-2003,
Burnaby: (9:30 pm)
At approximately
9:30 - 9:40 pm three witnesses, all members of
the same family, were out for an evening walk on
Pauls Crescent, in the Montecito area of
north-east Burnaby. It was a crisp, clear night,
with some streets enshrouded in fog while others
were clear. We all admired the beautiful halo
around the full moon. All of a sudden a bright
comet-like object went sharply from Position 11
to Position 5 in the south-eastern sky. It was
intensely green in colour, with red in its tail.
We were all stunned. It was incredibly
beautiful. It appeared at approximately 45
degrees above the horizon and disappeared close
to the city skyline (between the Cariboo Hill
and Edmonds areas). It sort of 'burned off' on
the approach. By a lucky chance, all the three
witnesses at that moment were looking in the
same direction, towards New Westminster /
Surrey. No sound was heard. I listened to the
radio that night but no reports were mentioned.
31-Jan-2003,
Ladysmith: (11:27 pm)
I witnessed a red
and white orb that appeared to be about 2000
feet above Tent or Kuper islands. It was not
stationary but it also was not covering much
ground, it was kind of undulating or swaying
like a pendulum but erratically from side to
side. It did this for about thirty seconds and
then seemed to bounce or skip thru the air in a
northwesterly direction. It traveled for
probably three kilometres at the most. I was
walking my dogs at the time and I had to gather
them up so I could follow the object as it went
behind a stand of trees. When I had reached my
new location, I could not find it in the sky.
The whole thing took maybe 90 seconds.
I am not a
crackpot! I have seen many military exercises
with helicopters and jets flying at night. I
have seen the American air force warthogs flying
slow and low at night, Black Hawk helicopters,
Chinooks and many other aircraft. What I saw did
not act like any aircraft I have ever seen in my
life.
3-Feb-2003,
Houston: (8:10 pm) HBCC UFO
Reported by
Brian Vike, Houston
"Today, Friday, February 7, 2003 I
was contacted about a sighting which took
place here in Houston, B.C. A Canfor employee
who runs a track mobile at the saw mill was
moving around chip cars on company property.
He said he climbed down off the machine he was
operating to switch over to another track,
when an extremely fast object, or more
specifically, three bright, hazy blue/white
lights came out of the north and disappeared
to the south. The witness said everything
happened so fast that he could not make out
any type of outline to what he was viewing.
The forestry worker said the three lights were
in a triangular shape, and held the same shape
until he lost sight of it. I asked the witness
if he might be able to give me a rough idea of
the altitude the lights were at. (I gave him a
few examples). In the end he mentioned the
lights were not that high above him, but had
to be high enough to clear the mountains to
the south. (approximately 2500 to 3000 feet)."
4-Feb-2003,
Victoria: (1:35 pm) NUFORC
"Before I went
shopping on this shiny day I dropped some
garbage in the litter box outside of our
apartment building. I met the neighbour and she
said she saw some objects in the sky moving very
fast and then stand still and then moving again.
I looked up the sky and saw nothing. She said
that they went behind a cloud. I thought she was
crazy because the clouds I saw were like a thin
veil.... I joked that we were probably invaded
by aliens. She repeated that they were moving
very fast. I walked back into the apartment
building and went out the other side to walk to
the grocery store with my fiancee. I talked
about it with her and on Fort street we looked
up the sky and there was one of them... a shiny,
smoothly moving object, no wings, no bird.... it
was really strange. My fiancee saw it as well
and couldn't really figure out what the shape
was (we saw it for approx 15 secs). I didn't
meet my neighbour again today, but I will
definitely ask her some questions because she
must have seen it for a longer period of time. I
also called the police short of the spotting,
but they didn't have other callers yet that
spotted this event. On the radio there were no
reports. On our way back from the grocery store
we saw some people (3) with a video camera
taping the sky, but if they were taping a
telephone pole or the sky wasn't clear to us and
we didn't ask because they were on the other
side of the busy street. In the direction they
were pointing their camera was nothing to see.
My fiancee was joking that the Americans were
keeping an eye on us. I kept looking on our way
back, but didn't see it again, nor did I see my
neighbour. (As soon as I have more info I will
add that here)."
((NUFORC Note: We will request a report from the
fiancee, as well. NUFORC has received a number
of reports like this one, in recent months. PD))
9-Feb-2003,
New Hazelton: (6:50 pm)
Report by Brian
Vike, Director of HBCC UFO
The witness
reports that she was out on her sundeck. It was
a beautiful night, and she commented on how nice
the Moon looked that evening, which was to her
north. She said she turned toward the north and
saw a "large" bright light which was moving in
her direction at a low altitude. The witness
said the light was round in shape, and it seemed
to be pulsing white, with a bluish color added
to it. There was no sound at all coming from it.
She said if it had of been an airplane, she
would have heard sound from it due to it being
so low. The sighting lasted approx: 10 seconds
before it disappeared.
10-Feb-2003,
Duncan: (6:00 pm)
Report by Brian
Vike, Director of HBCC UFO
A witness called
this evening using the new Toll Free Hotline
from Duncan, B.C. to report he was walking his
dog in the park when he observed a circular
object with what he described as a ring of fire
around it. He reported his dog was going
completely nuts as this event was going on. I
asked the witness approx: how far away was the
object to his location, he said maybe 4 to 6
blocks away up in the sky. He also said the ring
which surrounded the object would twirl around
the main body of it.
The fellow also mentioned there were a number of
colors coming from it, such as blue, green,
etc..
He also told me it would move up and down, when
it got close to the cloud cover it would change
to all the different colors, but when it dropped
back down at a lower level the color changed to
an orange. The chap also said the object seemed
to take it's time moving up and down, watching
the ring still circling the main body of
whatever this was.
The witnesses dog at this time actually took a
bite at his owner's foot, as it was frightened
of what was going on. The witness was phoning
from a friend's home and the dog was still
acting up. There was no sound heard from the
object. I also asked if he could give me a rough
idea of how big this thing was, he replied that
it was approx: the size of a dinner plate from
the distance of 4 to 6 blocks from his location.
The sighting lasted for about 5 minutes, before
it disappeared. But while I was still chatting
to the fellow on the phone he gave out a loud
cry and said there was a bright white streak of
light from where the object has been observed.
He also said a short trail of some of the colors
I mentioned above was coming off it as it
disappeared. (If this had anything to do with
the object or not, hard to say).
11-Feb-2003,
Victoria: (7:58 pm) NUFORC
"I was taking the
dog out for an evening walk...I looked up in the
clear night sky to see two very bright yellow
lights( approx 3 to 4 times brighter than an
airplane light) about .5 to 3/4 of a Km away.
Both lights were travelling side by side moving
SW from my position at a slow rate of speed
(Much slower than a airplane). At approx 19:59
both lights moved in opposite directions (on a
parallel plane), one to the South the other to
the North, at a high rate of speed. The items
moved approx .5 Km apart, stopped for about
15-20 seconds, then returned to their side by
side position, slower than the separation, about
1/4 the speed. I then ran inside to get my wife.
Upon returning 15-20 seconds later we observed
them continue moving slowly in a SW direction
for 2 min when they vanished, almost like
someone turned off a switch."
12-Feb-2003,
Vancouver: (9:02 pm) NUFORC
"First of all let
me say that I am a harsh skeptic of aliens and
all that stuff. This experience changed all
that."
"I live in downtown vancouver in a highrise on
the 16th floor. I was just about to tune on to
the simpsons (that's how I know the exact time)
when i saw this flying object over the the
buildings in front of us. At first I thought
that it was just the light of one of the cranes
on the construction areas. I knew it couldn't be
a plane because first of all planes aren't
supposed to be that close to the city and after
watching the planes that go around here everyday
I've almost memorized their paths. second of all
the lights in this craft weren't flickering or
blinking or anything they were just constantly
beaming a hazy sort of weird whitish/yellowish
light. I kept looking at it for a while and
thought what the hell could that be could it be
a blimp? At first I didn't see the 3 lights on
the corners of this triangular craft until it
very very slowly and I stress SILENTLY without
the smallest sound just hovered towards my
building. I mean anything made by man that flys
only 500 meters away has to make a sound. by now
I had called my brother cause I thought my eyes
were fooling me. As the craft got closer we
realized that it was no plane but some sort of
triangular craft because it passed exactly a
couple stories over my building and we were
looking at the bottom of the craft and saw it's
structure and there was a red light in the
middle of it (the stereotypical red light, I
know) I was just astonished and ran for my
camera I kept searching for the damn thing in my
messy house and eventually found it and took one
lousy picture which I have no idea on how it
will turn out. My brother is my witness and all
those who know me know how much of a skeptic and
disbeliever I am."
"I then ran downstairs yelling that there's a
UFO outside and nobody believed me i ran and saw
the craft. suddenly instead of going on it's
horizontal path it went vertically straight to
the skies and turned into a star and stayed
their for a while and then left. Some other
people saw this downstairs and they didn't care
they said it's no big deal probably some
governmental plane. But what would a
governmental plane be doing in downtown
vancouver?"
12-Feb-2003,
South Selkirk: (10:30 pm) HBCC UFO
Report by Brian
Vike, Director of HBCC UFO
A witness
contacted me through the Hotline, telling me she
was at her son's home in East South Selkirk. She
took the dog outside for a walk and while
looking up at the stars the witness noticed a
orange colored ball with a short tail. The
sighting lasted for approx: 5 to 6 seconds. She
went on to say after watching it for about 4
seconds, the one ball broke into two. It was
only a second or two after seeing it break up
both objects disappeared. The witness was
wondering if there may have been any other
sightings reported that matched her report. I
told her I had not received any at this time,
but it was possible that another investigator
did receive some data on it.
20-Feb-2003,
Smithers: (2:40 am) HBCC UFO
Report by Brian
Vike, Director of HBCC UFO
I had a witness
call from Smithers, B.C. this morning. She
mentioned to me that her husband thought she was
seeing things, but it sounds like she was
certainly witnessing something rather strange.
The woman was up with her baby at 2:40 a.m. and
has a great view of Hudson Bay Mountain and the
ski runs, (which are located in Smithers).
Actually the witness sits at the base of the
mountain. Her blinds were semi open and allowed
her to see a very bright light crossing the
mountain, and then coming to a complete stop
over one of the largest runs, which is called
"Cold Smoke". She went on to say the light was
dead center of the run, and wondered if it was
just hovering, or "maybe" it had landed. She
also reported hearing a clicking sound from the
direction of the object. (HBCC UFO Note: My son
lived a while back in the very same area as the
witness lives now, and I know many sounds bounce
off the mountain which allows everyone to hear
different noises much clearer). The object moved
from east to west before coming to a complete
stop over the run. Approx: 5 minutes went by and
a train could be heard coming in the distance
and the object disappeared. Her words, "turned
off". After the train had come and passed, and
approx: one hour later, the object once again
showed up. She knew the times for certain as she
was up with their baby.
After the second time the light showed up, she
said "I got frightened and closed the blinds." I
asked if she could describe the color of the
light to me, she went on to say it was an
extremely bright white, with an orangy light
coming from the center. The light moved quicker
than a helicopter, or any small plane that she
knew of. (keep in mind that this light was
spotted travelling some distance just below the
peaks of the mountain and came to a sudden stop
above the ski runs).
When the witness observed the light the second
time, or after the train had long passed, she
did not notice the light moving, but it just
showed up in exactly the same position it was
observed before. The second sighting only lasted
a couple of minutes. She reported that her cat,
which was also sitting on her bed, perked it's
ears up looking in the direction of the window.
I asked her an approximate size to the light.
She said it may have been half of her thumb nail
(held at arm's length) and round in shape.
HBCC UFO Note:
After I received the telephone call I called the
Smithers Ski Hill in Smithers to ask if any
equipment was working on the runs around the
time of the witnessed sighting. I was told work
was being done on four runs throughout the early
morning, and would be continuing throughout this
week and over the weekend in the wee hours. This
sighting may be the result of grooming equipment
working on the ski hill, "but", what puzzles me
is that the object was spotted travelling about
3 kilometers along the mountain before it came
to a stop. I also just called the witness back
to clear up one point about this sighting, and
that was, did she see the object before it got
close to the ski runs?? She said yes, I observed
the light as it traveled over rough terrain,
then got to the runs and stopped. So still
puzzled at what was seen.
22-Feb-2003,
Mill Bay: (10:15 pm) NUFORC
I was driving home
from Victoria on route to Nanaimo that night,
when I noticed what I thought was a low flying
plane. When looked at it closer, I realized it
wasn't an airplane - it was far too big and low
to be a plane. It was a lit up flying disk with
symmetrical light formations on the bottom of
it; the lights seemed to blink upwards as
bubbles do in a fish tank or something. The was
a bit of farm land to my right as I driving, and
the ocean was visible and not far from the
highway I was on. The night was incredibly
clear, I could see almost every star perfectly.
I became so shocked while I was driving that I
had to pull over to make sure my eyes weren't
playing tricks on me. I noticed about 2 other
cars pull over behind me and we all got out and
just stared at this huge disk hovering over the
bay. I was in complete shock and all the hair on
my arm went straight up. The disk made an eerie
whirring noise that was almost ghostly. The
exact location was just after the McDonalds and
Tim Hortons Drive through in Mill Bay (just
after the malahat drive). I also noticed it was
quite windy out. Once I pulled over I realized
that it was indeed some sort of UFO. I am quite
a skeptical person; therefore, I am still having
problems rationalizing this in my head. Thus, I
am writing down what happened here.
22-Feb-2003,
Kitimat: (10:20 pm) HBCC UFO
Report by Brian
Vike, HBCC UFO Investigator
Two Alcan aluminum
smelter employees, while at work, noticed a
"large" disk shaped object travelling very
slowly over the Douglas Channel. The object was
reported being very low off the Channel and rose
up to clear the mountains to the north. One of
the witnesses I have talked with said the both
of them stood completely still with their mouths
wide open watching this thing! They said if
there had of been any change in direction,
meaning towards them, they don't think either of
them would have been able to move. Large, very
bright white lights were noticed shining on the
water, and this is what caught their attention
to the craft. Since the object was so low, and
casting a bright light onto the water, it lit up
a good sized area which made a portion of the
object visible to them. No other lights were
reported being seen, other than what they saw
hitting the water's surface. It made no sudden
movements until it gradually gained altitude to
climb up over the mountain. The men witnessed
this event for approx: 2 minutes. One witness
said they both knew for certain that what they
were looking at was no normal aircraft that they
new of, mainly due to it's size and speed. Plus
they never have seen anything shaped like that
before. No noise was reported coming from the
object.
22-Feb-2003,
Terrace/Prince Rupert: (10:30 pm)
HBCC UFO
Report by Brian
Vike, HBCC UFO Investigator
A couple driving home from Prince Rupert to
Terrace, B.C. and were about 85 kilometers west
out of Terrace when they witnessed a huge object
travelling north across the Skeena River. (HBCC
UFO Note: The Skeena River widens out a lot at
this point and can be up to two miles or more
across the valley as it heads to the ocean). The
object itself was dark in color, or black.
Again what caught the attention of the motorists
was the bright lights which were seen on the
bottom of the object. Two large, almost
rectangular lights could be seen glowing from
the bottom of the object. Also they said it
moved so very slowly which they found really
strange. When I talked with the husband, he said
he wanted to pull over to get a better look as
he was driving, but his wife was frightened,
crying and "insisted" that he keep going and
quickly. No noise again was reported coming from
the object, but the couple were in their car
travelling around Highway #16. It was certainly
a disk shaped craft. He also mentioned that
there were other vehicles on the road at the
time, (not many) and someone else must have seen
it. The sighting lasted for approx: a minute and
a half at the most from what he told me. I asked
the husband roughly how high the object was off
the ground as it travelled. He said it was high
enough to clear all the mountains in the area.
(HBCC UFO Note: On this route from Prince Rupert
to Terrace you travel straight through the West
Coast Mountain range which is very rugged. I am
not sure as to the elevation where this event
took place, but it would have to be around 2500
to 3000 feet. I will be checking this out as
well. I plan to meet with all of the witnesses
just as soon as the weather cooperates.
Anyway, this gives everyone an idea of what just
took place, three reports, one coming from
Vancouver Island, Kitimat and in between Terrace
& Prince Rupert all on the same night. Plus
there is not a lot of time difference between
each of the sightings. When I meet with these
folks I will see if they can draw a rough sketch
of what they saw, and of course try to get a lot
more detail on these sightings. From Houston,
B.C. where I am it is another 3 hour drive to
Terrace, B.C., then you head east for approx"
another half hour to get to Kitimat, B.C. So a
long drive there and back again.
25-Feb-2003,
Burnaby: (6:00 pm)
The witness was on
the street in Burnaby when he heard a woman up
ahead of him say to her husband, "Look at that!
Look at that! He also looked up and was
astonished to see a long slim-pointed (at each
end) cylindrical-shaped object cruising slowly
across the
evening sky at he estimates, 20,OOO feet. It was
silver in colour, had no apparent wings, engines
or tail attachment. Nor did it seem to be
emitting any sound. The sky was free from any
cloud obstruction and he had it in sight for at
the most ten seconds before it was lost to view
behind a distant building. The object was
heading on a course that would have presumably
taken it in the direction of west Vancouver.
27-Feb-2003,
Houston: (4:05 am) HBCC UFO
Report by Brian
Vike, HBCC UFO Investigator
I was over at
Country Wide Stationary today (March 4, 2003)
and a fellow had read the logo on my winter
coat. ( HBCC UFO Research) He asked what it was
all about, in which I explained what it was I
was up to. This man, a logging truck operator
left the town of Houston driving up the Morice
River Road heading approx: 100 kilometers out
across the Reach to pick up a load of logs. He
went on to say when he reached the 30 kilometers
mark on the Morice River Road, he witnessed
"one" bright white light high in the sky heading
in his direction. As the light got closer to
him, he watched the light split up into two
parts, with both pieces flying in different
directions. He said one part went west and the
other east. What was so amazing was that the two
lights shot back up into the sky and
disappeared. The sighting lasted approx: 6 to 7
seconds at the most.
He was so surprised and excited at what he just
saw, he got on the trucks radio and asked other
drivers on the road if anyone had witnessed what
he just did. Two other drivers who were in the
same area reported back to him that they also
witnessed the same thing.
HBCC UFO Note: I have the name of one of the
other drivers and will be speaking to him
tomorrow to take his report. I was told that a
number of logging truck drivers on their early
morning hauls have seen a number of strange
things in the sky, so I am also looking into
these as well.
3-Mar-2003,
Houston: (7:55 am) HBCC UFO
Reported by
investigator Brian Vike.
Tonight on Friday,
March 7, 2003 at approx: 8:30 p.m. I received a
telephone call from two local Houston, B.C.
residents who wanted to report something very
strange they had saw on March 3, 2003 at approx:
7:55 a.m. The two witnesses were at the same
location here in town when they made the call to
me here at HBCC UFO Research.
The reason why the witnesses decided to tell
their story was due to the newspaper articles
which ran on the UFO Survey, and myself in our
local newspaper this past Wednesday. They also
told me they both spent some time trying to make
up their minds if they should actually call me
over what they saw.
The first thing one of the fellows said to me
was, "my buddy and I saw something very weird
the other day, and are still questioning
ourselves over what we saw". He went on to say
there was himself and his friend in his truck
travelling along highway #16 just east from
Houston, B.C. Since it is getting lighter
earlier these days, the fellows witnessed this
object in the daylight.
Just before they got to Perow, there is a large
farmer's field which runs for a long way, and
also runs alongside the highway with a buffer of
trees between the field and the highway. His
friend was the passenger in the truck and first
noticed a large object paralleling them along
the highway. The driver looked at the speed they
were travelling and said he was doing approx: 50
kilometers an hour. The distance between the
witnesses and the object would have been approx:
300 to 400 feet. So they both had a very close
up look at it. (keep in mind there were the
trees in between the truck and object which did
hinder the view at times). Also the field drops
down somewhat below the highway, so the forestry
workers did not get a good look at the bottom of
this craft.
They both described the object as looking like
an "Air Stream Trailer", and the size was close
to a Greyhound Bus. It was metallic in color,
and no other features could be seen on it. No
lights, windows, nothing !! The object stayed
straight across from their truck as they drove
along, as I mentioned above. It paced their
vehicle !! The passenger had rolled down the
window to see if he was able to hear any sound
coming from this object, but none was heard, it
was silent. After approx: 3/4 of a kilometer the
craft turned slowly away from the highway,
wobbled slightly, sped up, wobbled once again
and then shot off out of sight very quickly.
HBCC UFO Note: Since the object was so
low, and on the other side of the standing
trees, I asked if they had observed any movement
in the trees. Such as any disturbance which
would have moved the trees in anyway. None was
noticed. Something else I should add. When the
witnesses mentioned that it wobbled, one of the
fellows said it was like looking through a heat
wave, which gave it a look as if it was slightly
wobbling. Also both of the men made comments to
one another, saying it was so strange and not a
normal aircraft as it had no wings on its body.
He also mentioned due to the type of work he is
involved with he had made many trips on
different aircraft, and what he and his friend
saw was "no" aircraft they know of. I am also
going out tomorrow to grab some pictures of the
area where the sighting took place. I hope to
have some drawings and more information after I
sit down and chat with the two witnesses over
the weekend. There is more to this story to
come.
5-Mar-2003,
Delta: (12:30 pm)
A young girl was
near Pinewood Elementary School in Delta when
she saw a black disc-shaped object travelling
from North to South. After about 10 seconds, it
wobbled slightly, then quickly accelerated out
of sight southwards.
5/6-Mar-2003,
Vancouver:
"I live next to
Clark Park on East Broadway + Clark and for the
past two nights have witnessed something which
led me to your site in hopes of an explanation."
"My bed is placed under a window which faces
west. I am able to view the south western sky
when I lay in bed. Two nights ago I was star
gazing from bed when I noticed a dime sized
point of light moving north through the sky. I
pointed it out to my girlfriend/room mate that
it could possibly be the ISS or a low orbit
satellite. As we continued to watch we noticed
the light stop and hover for a few minutes. It
then began a bizarre dance of tight spirals and
other erratic behavior. It was then after some
clouds had moved that we saw a second point of
light to the south of the first. It too was
moving erratically in very tight circles and
other strange paths. When the objects were
standing still, I could make out an illumination
that was color shifting through the colors of
the lower light spectrum ( Yellow, Orange, Red,
etc )"
"What I found even stranger was that I noticed a
white plane flying by very slowly with no marker
lights turned on. I really didn't pay that much
attention to it but I began to notice it passing
over head multiple times and always on the same
path."
"This went on for a few hours and eventually I
fell asleep watching. This happened the
following night too ( March 6th ) but this time
there was no plane. I will watch again tonight
pending a clear evening."
7-Mar-2003,
Prince Rupert: (7:30 pm) HBCC UFO
"On Friday March
7/03 @ 7:30 PM me and my daughter (name deleted)
were outside ready to leave in the truck when we
both looked up and saw this bright white light
shoot over towards Mount Hays. Traveling South
East for two to three seconds, it just blinks
out when it was over Mount Hays, it was the
brightest white light that we have ever seen. My
daughter told me that she had seen almost the
same thing just two weeks ago while with her
friend Patricia at 4:30 am, the object they saw
wasn't as bright as this one was, it was
traveling East, and it too blinked out before it
went over out Hays."
7-Mar-2003,
Terrace: (10:00 pm) HBCC UFO
"A yellow-golden ball flew close
to the ground over my trailer from South to the
North. Very fast and very low (15-20 m) and I
could not get (name deleted by HBCC UFO)
attention in time. Size is hard to tell but most
likely " Basketball"-size."
19-Mar-2003, McKenzie:
(4:15 am) HBCC UFO
A logging truck
operator was coming back from picking up a load
of logs, near the south end of Williston Lake,
when he saw a bright flash of white light
directly in front of him at a fairly high
altitude. The light appeared to be heading in a
northwesterly direction. He thought that the
object was probably a meteor as he sees a number
of them while working in so many darkened hours.
What the witness found strange about the
sighting was before the light disappeared it
changed direction slightly. After this change in
its flight path, he said it was gone. Just
vanished. The sighting lasted no more than 3 to
4 seconds. At arm's length he said the light may
have been the size of a pea. No sound was heard
coming from the light, but this would be no
surprise anyway due to him being in the cab of
his truck, and they can be rather noisy.
23-Mar-2003, Terrace:
(7:40 pm) HBCC UFO
"It went
immediately 2 times very bright before speeding
up again and continuing towards the NW. The
light was greyish-white in color, round and
extremely bright. The object moved from the
Southwest ( Kitimat ) to Northeast. It also
moved very quickly. Before losing track of the
object it has slowed significantly down over
Thornhill. There were two witnesses to this
sighting."
25-Mar-2003,
Coquitlam: (8:55 pm) HBCC UFO
The witness had
stepped outside to have a cigarette when he
noticed this "thing" out of the corner of his
eye. Through a clearing in the clouds he saw a
very large, black, triangular-shaped object with
a point of light on each of the object's tips.
It was flying roughly east to west; very fast
and totally silent.
The witness believes that the object was just
higher in elevation than the surrounding clouds.
Checking with the weather channel, he was told
that the cloud ceiling was about 11,000 feet.
The witness lives in Coquitlam near Burnaby
Mountain and believes that the object could have
been directly above the 401 Freeway. It was in
view for about 3 to 4 seconds.
Investigator Brian
Vike of HBCC UFO states that the witness was
shocked at the shape and apparent size of the
object. He estimates that one could have placed
three jumbo jets into the object easily. The
gentleman's parting words to Brian were: "It
freaked me right out !!"
27-Mar-2003,
Langley: (9:10 pm)
Hi guys, I was at
my in-laws on Thurs March 27th. They live near
264th and the Fraser River. After having dinner
my wife and I went into the hot tub to unwind.
The time was between 9-10 pm. The sky was high
broken cloud, plenty of stars were easily seen.
There is very little ambient light around as the
house is located in the country.
While sitting in the tub, I usually search the
sky for satellites traveling around. I try to
find one and follow it as far as I can. I found
one in about 5 minutes. It was traveling south
to north, then faded from view.
Then at about 9:10-9:20pm, I noticed 3 lights
traveling in a scalene (no sides are equal in
length) triangle formation. They appeared as the
same brightness satellites are. I brought them
to the attention of my wife and she saw them
too. I held up my index finger at arm's length
to gauge the distance apart and size of the
triangle. One light appeared at the top of my
finger, and the other two were easily found on
the sides of my finger. They were traveling a
bit slower than satellites and held their
formation. They were traveling south from just
west of north. They were headed directly into
the spoon of the Little Dipper. After passing
through the bottom of the "scoop" part, they
turned about 70-90 degrees and went due east.
They held their formation. I lost view as they
faded. If they had not faded, I might have been
able to observe another 3 minutes. A
telescope/binoculars would have helped.
I have never seen anything like this in a
satellite before, and I'm sure this is not
usual.
Thoughts??
11-Apr-2003,
Houston: (8:00 pm) HBCC UFO
Report by Brian
Vike, HBCC UFO Investigator
A fellow stopped
me while I was heading out the door of our local
grocery store here in Houston, B.C. today (April
14, 2003). He said to me that he had his first
UFO sighting the other night. There were four
witnesses to this sighting. On April 11, 2003 at
8:00 p.m., which was a Friday evening 4
witnesses were just west of Houston in an area
called the Houston Estates. There are a number
of homes in the area. One of the witnesses saw
something funny and told everyone else to look.
Looking south towards the Morice River, from the
Houston Estates they noticed the strangest set
of lights. It was very low in altitude, and
sitting above the Morice Valley Road. I was told
the only thing which could be seen on it were
the three colored lights. The witness said it
was as if the object was rotating, as the lights
kept changing position. The color of the lights
were, yellow, blue and red. The strange thing
about this sighting is that I was told that the
object was witnessed for approx: 10 minutes.
Also if one would picture someone making a
drawing of a Christmas Tree, (just a simple
sketch) this would have been how this object
moved. So starting say from the top of a tree,
it zipped down and out to it's left, then moved
quickly straight back in. ( say towards the
trunk of the tree). Then dropped a bit and
continued doing this until in was noted to have
dropped a good distance in height. He told me
whatever it was moved extremely fast, then would
come to a complete stop. Then once again
continuing to move at a high rate of speed
making the same maneuvers over and over again.
The object would have been approx: 2 miles away
from the peoples location. Binoculars were
brought out so they could get a better look at
it, I was told all that could be seen was the
lights, no shape or body to the object. The
object/lights vanished instantly after the 10
minutes of viewing.
11-Apr-2003,
Terrace: (10:30 pm) HBCC UFO
A man and a woman
were burning off the grass from around their
garden when she looked up and saw two very
bright silvery-white lights. One of the lights
was heading to the northeast, towards Kitwanga,
and the other in the opposite direction. The
"lights" were at a very high level and lasted
for only a second or two. She called her
boyfriend to look up, but everything happened so
quickly he missed seeing the lights.
Mid-April-2003,
Houston: (3:15 am) HBCC UFO
A man was about 70
kilometers south of Houston, on his way to work
at the Huckleberry Mine, when he saw a
multi-coloured object stationary in the sky. At
first he thought it was a bright, twinkling star
but then he noticed that it was overcast and no
other stars were visible. He watched the light
for about five minutes before it "dropped
straight down" behind the mountain. He did not
hear any sound.
16-Apr-2003,
Victoria: (2:40 am)
I've never seen a
UFO before.
This morning (at 2:40am, April 16, 2003) I was
on the roof deck of my downtown Victoria, B.C.
apartment building talking on the phone with a
friend in Japan. I was gazing up at the sky to
the west, which was partially cloudy; I'd say 80
percent cloud cover, but the clouds were thin
enough that the moon shone quite clearly through
the clouds. It was a fairly bright night.
As I watched, two lights appeared out of the
south and flew north overhead, perhaps a
kilometer or so down field to the west. I'd say
they were flying over the Navy base in
Esquimalt. As they moved northward they appeared
to spiral around each other in a corkscrew or
double helix-like pattern. The distance between
the objects was variable, perhaps 1 degree to 3
degrees, but that's a guess. The pattern was not
consistent either, seeming to vary constantly
while maintaining a loose double helix. This
leads me to believe the objects were separate,
not two lights emanating from the same object.
Once they were in my northwest field of vision
they peeled off to the west and gained altitude.
Then they were gone.
The lights made no sound I could hear, which
makes me skeptical that they were conventional
aircraft (military or otherwise). They traveled
very fast. Last year the snowbirds flew over the
same area. These objects were moving at least
twice as fast if not more. I've also seen F-18
fighter jets go over head fast. These were
faster. If they were simply really fast
aircraft, I would have heard something as they
would have been under serious power. Also,
aircraft traveling that fast would likely break
up if they tried the pattern these objects were
following.
The lights were orangey-red. Because they were
above the clouds, I can't say if they had a
shape. They appeared very much like the lights
in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of a
Third Kind (imagine that), but that could simply
be an effect of shining through the clouds.
That's all I can think of to tell you. If you
have questions I'd be happy to answer them.
20/24-Apr-2003,
Houston: (10:30 pm) HBCC UFO
A woman was just
about to close the bedroom curtains, getting
ready to retire for the evening, when she saw a
tight cluster of lights just sitting stationary,
low in the sky. She called her husband over and
he too was shocked at what he saw. Grabbing
binoculars, they took turns viewing the lights.
They believe that the lights were attached to a
dark object shaped like the letter “C”. They
believed that the object was low to the ground
and fairly close to their farm, possibly
hovering over Highway #16.
Although they
opened the window to check, they could not hear
any sound. They watched the stationary object
for 20 to 30 minutes before closing the curtains
and going to bed. Shortly afterward, the wife
did get up and look out the window, but the
lights were gone. See image below:
NOTE: Although the
couple was not sure of the exact date,
researcher Brian Vike believes it may be the
same night as the following similar sighting.
21-Apr-2003,
Houston: (11:45 pm) HBCC UFO
The witness was
walking home from his brother’s place, along
Highway #16. He was gazing up at the stars in
the clear night sky when he noticed a large part
of the sky in which no stars were visible, only
the outline of something huge and dark in
colour. This dark object was flying very low
over top the tree line, heading east. As he
watched it, several rows of lights suddenly came
on! This frightened him and he ran the short
distance to his home and yelled for his mother
to come out and view the craft. Both of them
watched the “massive” object slowly fly by. The
rows of lights then suddenly went off again. Due
to the number of trees around, they soon lost
sight of it altogether. Their total viewing time
together was only 10 to 12 seconds. No sound was
heard. See image below:
24-Apr-2003,
Victoria: (10:30 pm)
"Getting ready to
go to sleep, my friend's mom comes running
upstairs telling us to come outside. We look up
and up in the sky, 3 (dots) in the form of a
perfect right triangle heading south-east over
our house. The top two were about a thumb's
length apart and the other one just hung down a
little farther, moving in perfect unison. I want
to say they were stars because if you look at
them for too long it began to get harder to see.
But stars don't move in unison and in the shape
of a right triangle. Marguerite, Chris, Amelia
and myself all saw the same thing. A photo was
taken, we're not sure if it will work out, it's
an automatic camera, and what we saw was soooo
far away, most likely wouldn't show up."
"We're not
positive of how long it lasted, we lost vision
after about 5 mins because of the speed, about
the same speed as a satellite."
26-Apr-2003,
North Delta:
“I saw a large
missile cruising at about 500 meters above North
Delta, BC on Saturday, April 26. I had to pull
my car over and turn on news radio to see if we
were under attack. It was fast! It went from 500
meters at about 96th Avenue and 112th Street in
Delta to several kilometers high and above the
pacific in about two minutes. It also had an
extremely large blue beam coming from the nose
of the object to out in front of it about a
quarter mile. I didn’t think laser beams could
stop in mid-air like that did (quarter mile).”
27-Apr-2003,
Surrey: (10:15 pm)
"Looking out of my
bedroom window on a clear night while laying on
the bed with curtains drawn, I saw three hazy or
blurry, almost faded white lights streak
southward. They made no noise and left no trail.
They were not common satellites and definitely
not ordinary planes. The lights flew in unison
but were not in geometric order. Two were in
close proximity to each other while one flew
slightly southwest of the other two. They seemed
to be increasing velocity."
30-Apr-2003,
Vancouver: (2:30 am) NUFORC
"This morning
(April 30/03) at approx 2:30am I observed a very
peculiar light in the sky. It was to the south
and at first was about 40 degrees up. At first
glance it looked like a star but it looked to be
changing colours from a green/blue to red
(similar to a jetliner's lights). At this point
I assumed it was a planet. Then I noticed that
it was moving in a sporadic fashion (dipping and
moving right and left) something I've never
seen. I thought I was hallucinating so I woke up
my girlfriend who also observed its bizarre
movements in the sky. The speed it was moving
was tremendous as it dipped and moved left to
right. We watched it for about 40 minutes and
then it started dimming until it was gone. Oddly
enough this is the 2nd time in 3 months that
I've seen the exact same thing. The first time I
thought my eyes were playing tricks on me so the
2nd time I awoke my girlfriend so that I knew I
wasn't going crazy."
9-May-2003,
Terrace: (10:35 pm) HBCC UFO
A man was walking
on his property when he viewed a small,
out-of-place object in the cloudless
northeastern sky. As the witness watched the
light, it began to grow in size, and grew in
brightness by the second. Within 5 to 6 seconds
the light went from being the approximate size
and brightness of a star to about double the
size of the moon. The light, or object, was
traveling at a very high altitude heading toward
the southwest and at this point straight over
top of him, still at a high altitude. After the
light/object had disappeared from the fellow’s
sight, another strange light showed up some 5
minutes later.
10-May-2003,
Burnaby: (9:50 pm)
I looked out the
window facing north to see a brilliant pink/red
glow which I assumed to be a flare or fireworks.
It appeared about 30 degrees in the sky and then
looked like it was descending. It faded out to a
coin size in the sky and then went to the north
till it was out of sight. The colour was
beige/white in the night sky as it faded away.
Could have been a flare. Impossible that others
could not have seen this as there was a lot of
activity in the area as the evening was warm.
13-May-2003,
Terrace: (11:35 pm) HBCC UFO
Three witnesses on Ferry Island watched a
number of funny coloured lights
(blue/red/yellow/white) traveling in their
direction from the north. They could see that
the white lights were pulsating very brightly,
but the coloured lights were remaining constant.
As the object drew closer to their location it
seemed as if the lights, in a ring, surrounded a
dark solid object which was in the center. From
the glow off the lights they noted the dark
object in the center was completely round in
shape, with this ring of colored lights running
around it. The object moved very quickly across
the sky heading south. The length of the
sighting lasted about 10 seconds before they
lost sight of it due to the trees. It traveled
in a straight line and up rather high in the
sky, but low enough to catch a good look at it.
No sound was heard coming from it and no tail
was observed.
17-May-2003,
Houston: (3:15 am) HBCC UFO
A man was about 70
kilometers south of Houston, on his way to work
at the Huckleberry Mine, when he saw a
multi-coloured object stationary in the sky. At
first he thought it was a bright, twinkling star
but then he noticed that it was overcast and no
other stars were visible. He watched the light
for about five minutes before it "dropped
straight down" behind the mountain. He did not
hear any sound.
31-May-2003,
Houston: (11:00 pm) HBCC UFO
Two witnesses
watched a steady bright white light fly rather
quickly over the edge of the town of Houston, BC
at a low altitude (about 6 thousand feet - one
of the witnesses is a pilot himself). The light
was heading in an easterly direction. There was
no tail seen trailing the object. They also
added that the light would have been twice as
bright as the planet Venus. The sighting lasted
for about 5 to 6 seconds.
2-June-2003, Knox Mountain
(Kelowna), BC: (12:30 am) HBCC UFO
Hello, my name is (name removed).
I just read the news paper article about the
ball of fire that was seen heading into the lake
a few Mondays ago, and happened to read the part
about the 2 Okanagan women who saw those
floating orange balls 4 years ago. I was
reminded of that event from a TV show I was
watching called Canada's Creepiest on Halloween,
2006. They said that 2 women had seen 3 orange
balls in the sky that were dancing, and later
on, saw an orange ball shoot towards their car.
I was on Knox Mountain camping
with a girl friend of mine that same night, and
we saw it too. We didn't see the 3 orange balls,
but we saw the one that was stationary and then
shot off. We had noticed it at around 12:30 ish
(?). And we were talking about it to each other
for about 7 minutes trying to figure out what it
was. It was lower than the horizon (if my memory
serves me) and we had no clue what it could have
been. So there we are, up on Knox looking at
this thing that's hovering over towards the
Crawford area, hasn't moved an inch since we
spotted it, then all of a sudden bolts to the
left and disappears behind the Mt. (we ran back
home)
I like to believe in un-identified
flying objects, but my friend is very skeptical.
That night, I think, has changed her
perspective, and has made it crystal clear for
me that there is something out there.
I haven't told many people about
this out of fear of looking crazy. But when I
saw that TV special, then read the article in
the paper, I had to tell someone, and now I
think I'm telling the right person.
I'm not sure if this helps with
anything. or is relevant, but I wanted to let
someone know who deals with these types of
experiences. Thank you for your time, Brian. If
there's anything I can do to help out with
figuring out what happened over the lake a few
weeks back, please let me know. Sincerely.
Additional Information:
Hi Brian, I know the date was in
early June 2003 b/c I was graduating that year.
We saw the orange ball about 2 weeks before grad
b/c my friend, I remember, got bit by a mosquito
and her eye was swollen still for grad. Our grad
was in the middle of June and we still had exams
to go back too. I'd place the incident around
June 2nd, 2003. Hope this helps. Is there much
UFO activity in the Okanagan? I never get to
hear about it if there is. I find this topic
fascinating and would be very interested on
learning more about it. Thanks for getting back
so quick.
2-Jun-2003, Port Moody: (10:13 pm)
“I saw a bright
light in the woods with my son as we were going
for a walk, then it made a weird noise and shot
up into the sky and disappeared. It was scary!”
5-Jun-2003, Houston: (1:30 am) HBCC
UFO
A few minutes
drive west of Houston, five witnesses watched a
huge object move silently and low over the tree
line.
Just before 1:30
a.m. the witness woke up as she heard her
youngest child get up. As the Mom made her way
through their home, she walked by one of the
windows and saw a very bright light/object. As
she stared at it, she noticed that it was moving
very slowly and was of an enormous size. She
screamed for her husband to get out of bed,
which he did. Because of all the commotion the
parents were making, their other two children
got up to see what was going on. One of the
youngster said, "What is that big flashlight
doing in the sky"? The folks who were watching
the object said, there had to have been others
who saw it, due to its size, brightness and rate
of speed. Also they noted they could hear
freight liners traveling on the highway at the
time of their sighting.
The witnesses
described the object as being boomerang in shape
with a massive white/yellow glow around it.
There were large bright light white lights in
the center of the object. They heard not a sound
from it, also the dogs took no notice of it. The
sighting lasted about 3 minutes and disappeared
behind the treeline and towards the southwest.
16-Jun-2003, Vancouver: (11:00 pm)
On June 16th at
11:05 pm I was closing my blinds on my window
that faces north. I saw a small single blue
light coming from the west going towards the
east moving slowly. Just thought it was plane
because the altitude was about the same as a
small plane. Then it started to move slower and
slower almost came to a complete stop. This is
when I thought that's strange and took better
notice. Then it flashed brightly and changed to
the color white, yellowish and turned abruptly
going towards the north at a faster speed. The
light faded as I lost sight of it over the high
buildings.
17-Jun-2003,
Langley: (4:00 pm) NUFORC
Looking to the
west from my yard this object was like a
floating "garbage can" standing vertically it
floated slowly but against the prevailing wind.
It was not an overly large object. I would
estimate it was about at about 500' and it
progressed slowly until out of my sight. It was
a dark metallic color made no noise and left no
vapor trail.
23-Jun-2003,
Burnaby: (1:30 am)
Me and my daughter
were camping in the woods not too far from our
home and while we were sleeping I was awakened
by a light which startled me. I thought it was
someone with a flashlight, so, half dazed, I got
up out of the tent and realized that there was
something around 3-4 hundred feet from us that
appeared to be a fire. I went and woke my
daughter and brought her with me to investigate.
Let me just say that it was not a fire or a
flashlight because it rose up above the trees
and streaked into the air and disappeared within
5 seconds. It was an orange in color.
We have never told
anyone about this until now. We now believe
there is something else out there!
24-Jun-2003,
Terrace: (10:20 am) HBCC UFO
A man and his wife
were just leaving Terrace on their way to Prince
Rupert. They were travelling west on Highway
#16, along the Skeena River, when the woman
yelled for her husband to look up towards the
south. He pulled the vehicle off to the side of
the road and they both watched an egg-shaped
object hovering over the south side of the
river. It appeared to be about the size of a
pickup truck, about 1000 feet off the ground and
and shiny silver in colour, with no visible
seams. One witness commented that, "It looked
like an egg!". They watched it for 10 to 15
seconds before it sped off to the south at an
incredible rate of speed. They did not hear any
sound from it.
30-Jun-2003,
Victoria: (11:30 pm)
I was telling a
friend about what happened on Monday and he
suggested that I report it to a UFO reporting
thing. So I did some searching and found
you! I've never seen or experienced anything
like this before...
On Monday
night I was with my boyfriend parked down at
Cattle Point here in Victoria, BC. It was about
11:30 pm - 12 am. We were enjoying the evening
chatting and looking at the darkened view
of the ocean and sky.
There were dark
clouds lingering but there were clear patches in
the sky. I was looking up at the sky and I
noticed a bright light coming through the clouds
and at first I thought it was the moon peeking
through. But it quickly got brighter and came
right through the clouds and that's when we
thought oh "it's an airplane", "maybe a
helicopter". It came down through the clouds and
then dropped down below the low clouds and
it was shinning a bright light onto the
water, ah "it's a helicopter" but no! It made
absolutely NO sound.
We had the car
windows open and you could hear the waves gently
lapping on the shore but you couldn't hear a
peep coming from this thing in the sky. It had 2
lights both of them were white. No coloured
lights were seen. We kept waiting to hear it
make some kind of sound...nothing.
I wouldn't say
that it was going particularly fast but it
did seem to make some sudden dips and surges. We
couldn't believe how "it" was able to shine that
light down on the water from so high. Is
there any inaudible aircraft in
existence? Do all aircraft have coloured
lights? We were, and still are, scratching
our heads. It was weird. No sound.
Thanks,
Sane minded individual.
Summer 2003, Sidney BC:
(3-3:30 pm to dusk)
This incident
occurred back in the summer of 2003; I can’t
remember the exact date but it was on a Sunday,
late in the afternoon. My friend, Jason, came
back to Vancouver Island for the weekend so I
went out to Sidney to hang out and visit. We,
Jason, his brother Darren and I, were all
cruising around Sidney that day, with Jason
driving. Darren was in front passenger seat and
I was in the back seat on the passenger side. We
were driving by Parklands School where we all
went years back and we rounded the corner just
by the tennis courts in front of the school when
all of a sudden … it looked like a flash of
metallic wire is how I can best describe it. It
appeared to me as if the power line on the power
pole above us had just snapped. It was the
weirdest thing I have ever experienced; it was
like something just flashed and it appeared it
was going to break the windshield. All three of
us in the car kind of flinched and we braced
ourselves because we thought it was going to hit
us. This is where the story gets really freaky
and unexplainable. Right after the flash and our
bracing ourselves, it was around 3 p.m. and
still daylight and then the next thing that I
remember, and what Jason and Darren remember, is
that we were on the overpass by the ferry
terminal approximately half a kilometer down the
road and it was dark out. The car’s engine was
stalling and we were rolling down the overpass
in the same direction of travel that we had been
travelling earlier. At this point, it was very
strange because it was like none of us could
speak; it was the strangest feeling I have ever
felt in my life. It was like we were all frozen
and speechless and we were trying to figure out
and make sense of what had just happened. We saw
the flash and the next thing we know, we are
about half a km down the road, it is dark and
the car is acting all screwed up. Finally, we
come to a halt on the overpass and stalled and
then Jason just reacted and said, “What the hell
just happened?!”
Jul-2003,
Denman Island, BC: (11:00 pm)
My friend and I had just set-up camp on the
beach at the south eastern tip of Denman
Island in what we thought was a secluded area,
one kilometre from the campground were we had
parked the van. It was a warm evening and
overcast. I had just lit a small campfire with
driftwood and we were sitting on a log on the
beach, (Note: There was a fire ban in effect
at the time) when a very bright light appeared
in the sky out of nowhere just ahead of us
over the water.
The
best description is that of a miniature sun,
round in shape, orange in colour and very
bright. The light was below the cloud cover
reflecting on it and shining on the water like
the full moon would, its light beaming
straight at us. It's size was that of my
thumbnail held at arms length. It was
stationary. I instantly knew it was not a
natural phenomenon nor manmade. Only a
supernovae could light up the night sky like
that, not even the most powerful man made
search light could equal its brilliance.
Jul-2003,
Surrey, BC: (9:30 pm)
My two friends and I went to Dogwood Park in
South Surrey with my two dogs. We arrived
around 7:00 pm and were there for a few hours.
As it got dark out, everyone left the park and
we stayed behind not realizing that the park
closed at 10:00 pm. Around 9:30 pm my friend's
husband spotted a bright, solid, oval-shaped
yellowish-white light in the southern sky. It
was just sitting still in one place with no
noise or movement. He said, "If that light
suddenly floats away, I'm out of here!" We
couldn't figure out what it was.
About
10 minutes later we were sitting on the picnic
table and we heard a noise from the west side
of the park. At first it sounded like a person
screaming, but the sound turned into a very
gutteral animal-like howl, and then there was
dead silence. For some reason, neither of my
dogs responded to the noise, when normally
they probably would. We didn't know if there
was any relation between the light in the sky
and the noise we heard, but we weren't going
to stick around and find out.
8-Jul-2003, Nanaimo: (11:50 pm)
NUFORC
I was out with a
friend and we decided to go to Brannen Lake
(Nanaimo). We had arrived there at about 11:40pm
after just hanging out in the graveyard
downtown. across the lake and about 11:50pm I
saw an orangey hazy sphere. Im not a UFO expert
but I knew this was one for sure. And so I
pointed it out to my friend and we both watched
this thing and then it slowly shrunk into
nothing at all. After that we left and each went
home.
10-Jul-2003,
Winfield: (11:00 pm) HBCC UFO
A man was looking
up at the sky when he saw what he thought was a
"satellite" moving quickly towards the Big
Dipper and across it. After passing the
constellation, it suddenly changed directions
and shot back and up. It then abruptly stopped!
The witness was able to capture some of the
movements on video. For updates on this case,
please visit the HBCC UFO website at:
http://www3.telus.net/public/wilbur8/hbcc_ufo_research.htm
17-Jul-2003, New Westminster:
(12:50 pm)
It was a warm
afternoon (26 degrees) with a clear blue sky. I
saw a bright white light. It was pinpoint in
shape. Similar to looking at a star in the sky
at night. Almost the same length as seeing a
star at night. It looked like an 'Orb'. No
sound.
The Orb traveled
very slowly to my left (about 6seconds). Looked
like it was going on a angle to the left. Then
it seemed to stop for 2 seconds and went right
for 3 seconds and then hovered for about 6-8
seconds. Traveled to the right for about 4-5
seconds, then went left again in a straight
line. Continued that way until I could not see
it anymore, due to my view. Altogether, I had it
in my sight for about 5-6 minutes.
I phoned New
Westminster police and made a report.
17-Jul-2003,
Terrace: (8:00 pm) HBCC UFO
In a clear evening
sky (daylight), the witness saw a silver,
round-shaped object traveling at an extremely
high rate of speed coming from the west heading
east. The sighting took about 4 seconds before
it disappeared from his line of sight. He said
that it happened so fast he could not get a
proper look at it, but because of the speed at
which it was travelling, that it was no "darn"
aircraft we have. No sound was heard.
17-Jul-2003,
Trail: (10:55 pm) HBCC UFO
Two witnesses
watched as two low flying objects passed over
top the Trail Smelter. The men reported that the
objects slowed at one point, (or looked like
they had) then sped back up heading in a
southerly direction. The described the objects
as being very bright orange in color, with a
halo, or haze around each of them. The objects
made no sound as they flew by. Both men believed
the objects were about the size of a compact
car. This sighting lasted for about 4 seconds.
18-Jul-2003,
Thornhill: (11:15 pm)
High altitude
object, white light, moving from southwest to
northeast.
Was talking to my neighbour, Roger, when I
spotted the object. Made him aware of the same
and used my lighter and asked it to blink.
The object spotted did not respond but another
invisible object flashed in white light right
after I had finished my request.
First objected continued in northeasterly
direction and every time I asked for a blink, 3
times, the invisible object, following the first
one, blinked bright for 2-3 seconds.
My neighbour watched all this and referred to
his own UFO sighting.
Both objects were followed by a third object 2
minutes later which did not respond to anything!
20-Jul-2003,
Castlegar/Pass Creek: (11:00 pm)
My wife and I were
sitting on our front porch as we do every night.
We were facing west towards the lower Arrow Lake
at around 11 pm when we saw a bright light about
the size and altitude of a small plane
travelling from the west, heading east. It was
shaped like an upright cylinder and was far too
low to be a satellite but it seemed to travel in
a fairly straight line. The brightness of the
light never dimmed or blinked. There was no
sound like a jet either. We see many planes and
satellites each night but have never seen
anything like this.
22-Jul-2003,
North Vancouver: (2:00 am)
I have seen twice
now, late at night around 2 am in the morning,
this strange phenomenon that I can not explain.
I see an object that I don't recognize as a star
from my back garden, that is a
white/red/possibly blue coloured shape that
moves. I would like to believe it is a star, but
it is too bright. Also, I see this star like
object only once and awhile, but for sure
tonight. There is something strange in the sky
over the east side of the mountain that moves
irregularly, that can't be a star. And I realize
it is not a satellite or space station. It
reacts with the sky's atmosphere (glows). It
moves and does not stay always stationary. Just
thought I would report this for I have reported
this to the Police as well on another occasion.
Is it possible I am seeing a stationary
Helicopter that patrols at odd hours of the
night? Has anyone else in the North Vancouver
area, seen anything like this lately???
22-Jul-2003,
Tsawassen: (3:45 am)
Disc-shaped,
flashing red, blue, green and yellow lights over
the northeast of Tsawassen ferry terminal. Yes,
this is "Joe Mulder". Graham, you know who I am.
I am updating my video equipment to zoom out
farther. The Tsawassen sighting should have been
reported at about 3:45/4:00 am. The object
hovered and moved around at a great speed. Yes,
I have witnesses as usual. It then took off at
great speed to the west towards Vancouver
Island. I am going through the 14 hrs of footage
to see if they communicate with Morse Code.
23-Jul-2003,
Masset: (3:00 pm)
Generally a clear
blue sky with the very scattered clouds, noticed
object near a cloud it appeared to be stationary
and very high, I got a set of binoculars and saw
a cigar tube shape, it was white with a red
marking at one end. I watched the object for
about 10 seconds and then it moved off to the
west and out of sight at an amazing speed.
24-Jul-2003,
Fort St James: (10:45 pm) NUFORC
The sighting
occurred on the Teardrop logging road north-east
of the community. I had stopped to watch a black
bear at a rail crossing and after sitting for
while I noticed a silver object over the tree
tops about 2km down the rail line. At first I
passed it off as a star and continued to look
for any more wildlife that may come out on the
tracks in a different direction. I looked back
in the direction where I saw the object but this
time it was in a different place so I decided to
pay attention to it. As I watched it, it was
moving back and forth across the sky and
zig-zagging up and down while changing from
white to red. It appeared to be getting closer
to where I was sitting at the rail crossing. At
this point I got a real uneasy feeling and got
out of the area as fast as I could. One other
thing about the night prior to the sighting was
there was a lot of wildlife thrashing around in
the bush. I have stopped to watch moose and
bears there before but that night it was
unusually noisy.
24-Jul-2003,
Terrace: (11:45 pm) HBCC UFO
A man and his wife
were watching the traffic travelling along
Highway #16 (from the vantage point of their
hillside home) when they noticed a large glowing
oblong-shaped object moving slowly alongside the
highway, heading north. At first they thought
that it may have been an aircraft, as it
appeared to "pace" some of the vehicles on the
road, but realized that it was far too low for
an aircraft to be flying at night. Eventually
the object made a sudden move, or "jerked"
across the highway to the opposite side and came
to a stop. As they watched it sitting stationary
it seemed to gain in elevation, then shot off
towards the west at an incredible speed and was
lost to sight. Total viewing time was about 1
minute.
25-Jul-2003,
Enderby: (8:30 pm) NUFORC
"Bright clear blue
sky about 8:30 pm, six of us were on the beach
at a small lake (Gardom Lake). When I looked up
in the sky I commented "what the heck is that?"
as a very shiny, bright cylinder shape was
stationary high in the sky and then "broke
apart", split into two exact same size and
cylinder shape and slowly moved apart in the
sky. There was no sound, no jet stream, couldn't
make out any wings and both pieces now moved at
about the exact same speed apart in the sky. All
six of us watched these cylinder shapes
disappear out of sight in a north/south
direction."
"We have watched hundreds of shows on television
on different types of airplanes & ufo's etc
and can't explain what this could have been.
This was shinier & brighter than any jet
almost chrome shiny."
26-July-2003,
Wasa: (1:20 am) HBCC UFO
Two men were
outside enjoying the night and a cold drink. An
object that they earlier thought was just a
bright star, started to quickly get bigger and
brighter. It appeared to be moving directly
towards them when it suddenly veered to the
south and flew off at an incredible speed. No
sound was heard.
31-Jul-2003,
Langley: (1:00 am)
I went outside on
at about 1am on July 31st, 2003 to see if I
could see some shooting stars etc. There were
absolutely no clouds in the sky as it has been
so warm and clear lately. Out of the corner of
my eye I saw a pulse of light in the SE corner
of the sky. When I turned my head in the
direction of the light I thought that it was the
bright light of a low flying jet plane (but not
a sound). Then it pulsed again and the light
went from extremely bright and large to
something that looked more like the size of a
satellite and I realized how high it was and
therefore not a jet plane. It moved forward,
moving from south to north and slightly toward
the west, and it got a bit brighter , but not as
bright as the first and second pulse( the first
and second pulses were so bright someone had to
have seen them - very intense light). I still
thought it could be a satellite reflecting off
the sun or something...but then it looked like
it zigzagged and moved forward with this action
for about 2-3 seconds and then it looked like it
made a 90 degree turn and then just
disappeared...Definitely not something a
satellite does( to my knowledge). But it doesn't
end there...Being a believer in UFO's but with a
hint of...(I need more proof) I thought that I
would look again the next night to see if there
was a satellite that came back in the same part
of the sky. So, Aug. 1st at 1am I did some more
star gazing and saw nothing like the night
before. I was just about to go into the house
and saw something just over my head. I was
facing south in my chair and directly above my
head I saw a slightly white-orangish light and
for a split second thought...oh yes, another
satellite as I had seen a few that evening. Then
I saw another one beside it, both travelling in
tandem, moving from north to south, but not too
close together. I watched them for several
seconds in awe...then the one on the left veered
to the left (out of formation) and then back in
line travelling parallel to one another. They
were about as intense as a satellite and about
the same speed. I heard cars and activity all
around me and wondered, "Did anyone else see
this amazing sight?". I am just so amazed and
excited. This is a great sight, and I am glad I
could share my sighting and see that I am not
alone in my experience. Two sightings in two
nights...I just feel so lucky...as I haven't had
a sighting since I was a kid. I would love to
know if anyone else saw what I saw as I know it
is the time of year for good stargazing and the
meteor shower peek is coming up in a week or
two.
31-July-2003,
Kelowna: (01:30 am) HBCC UFO
Two women viewed
strange green lights in the sky. They had
electrical problems with their vehicle and may
have had some missing time. For the complete
story, click HERE.
31-Jul-2003,
Houston: (11:30 pm) HBCC UFO
The witness had
just gotten into bed when, looking out of the
bedroom window, she saw an extremely bright
white light in the northeastern sky. It was at a
low altitude and about the size of her finger
nail held at arm's length. It seemed to have a
number of white lights running around the
outside of it. At first it was travelling in a
straight line, but it starting zig-zagging
before it disappeared. Total viewing time was
about 4 seconds. No sound was heard, even though
the window was wide open.
31-Jul-2003,
Houston: (11:35 pm) HBCC UFO
A husband and wife
were just finishing up their farm chores when
they noticed a bright white light zig-zagging
low over the town of Houston. It was heading
northeast and was only in view for a few
seconds.
Mid-Summer-2003, Oakridge -
Vancouver, BC:
I lived in an apartment that was west
facing - 2 story walk up. Mid summer - overcast
sky. Round metallic ball hovering at 100 feet
directly over the apartment complex. No noise -
no light. It was dark grey, completely silent.
Id estimated it to be approximately 5’ in
diameter. Clearly visible to the naked eye, well
defined against the lighter grey high overcast
sky. I was the only witness. I was on my balcony
alone. This was before drones. It was not a
balloon. There was a 10km per hour breeze
blowing with some guts, because the tops of the
cedar trees were moving around. The object
stayed perfectly still in the wind. It was
low. I trained my eyes on it for 5
minutes. It felt like it was there for me, I had
a strange feeling about it. I wanted to get a
better look at it, so I ran from my apartment -
down 1 set of stairs into the court yard area.
It took me less that 10 seconds to bolt down and
out, but by the time I got down to where it was
- it was gone.
Aug-2003, Bridge Lake,
BC: (11:30 pm)
I grew up spending summers at our family's
secluded cabins on Bridge Lake (located in
the "Interlakes" area of the South Cariboo.)
All of the kids often spread our sleeping
bags out in the field to watch the numerous
falling stars/meteor showers that are so
common during the end of the summer months.
This practice has continued as we became
adults and we still sky-watch with our own
children. In August of 2003, we were joined
by a friend and her 3 boys. The 4 kids were
between the ages of 8 and 12. Us parents are
in our 40's. We had spent a few lazy days on
the water, fishing, boating and relaxing in
the warm sun. At approx. 11:30pm on a
beautifully clear night we took some
sleeping bags and lawn chairs up into he
field to watch for satellites, shooting
stars and to show the visiting boys what the
Milky Way looks like when there are no city
lights around. After about a half an hour of
enjoying a summertime meteor shower, we all
noticed a grouping of 3 lights, bigger than
the stars which eventually disappeared.
3-Aug-2003, Kelowna:
(7:30 pm) HBCC UFO
A woman watched a perfectly
round silver object slowly cross the daylight
sky in an easterly direction. She did not
witness a trail or tail or hear any sound from
the object. She guessed that it may have been as
large as a nickel held at arm's length. After
about 2 minutes she lost sight of the object
behind some hills.
4-Aug-2003, South Slocan:
(11:37 pm)
I was watching my sister on the
computer and in the corner of my eye I noticed
something. I glanced at the white object in the
night sky and since the window was open there
was no sound at all, just the hum of the
computer. It looked almost as if it were a
firework but it couldn't have been for it was
around 7,000 ft in the air and traveling at
7,000 kph (really fast). I lost it when it went
behind a big birch tree that was in our yard. It
looked as if it was traveling Northwest, and if
continued in a straight line it would head in
between Portland, Oregon, and Olympia,
Washington.
To give you an idea where South
Slocan, BC is, it is dead center between Nelson
BC and Castlegar BC. This is 3 hours north of
Spokane Washington.
7-Aug-2003, Sakinaw Lake:
(10:15 pm) HBCC UFO
"My husband and I have a summer
home at Sakinaw Lake which is on the Sunshine
Coast in BC. One of my favorite things to do at
night is to star gaze from the middle of the
lake. The sky is so clear there compared to the
city. Anyways, on August 7th, I took my star
gazing gear (blanket, pillow and flashlight)
with me on my peddle boat and, like usual,
snuggled down once I got to the middle of the
lake. I usually stay out for a couple of hours
and watch the shooting stars before peddling
back to our home. On this night approximately
10:15 p.m. or so, I spotted what I thought was
another shooting star. It streaked across the
sky heading southward then stopped. I thought
the shooting star might burn out, but it didn't.
Instead, the light split into 4 lights which
formed a square (1 light in each corner). One of
the lights was brighter than the other 3; made
me think it might be bigger than the others. It
stayed in the square formation for 2 to 5
seconds before it changed forms again. 2 lights
stayed in place while the other 2 lights moved
slightly away, then stopped."
"The 4 lights together looked like a rectangle
and stayed this way for 1 to 2 seconds. Then all
of a sudden the 2 lights that moved to form the
rectangle shot off northward, like parallel
shooting stars, while the other 2 lights only
separated slightly and remained stationary. One
of the 2 lights that remained was the bright
one. I was shocked and couldn't believe what I
saw. I stayed there until 1:30 a.m. to see if
the other 2 would come back. Then I tried to
memorize the location of the 2 remaining lights
before heading in, but they looked like stars
amongst so many other stars. It was useless, so
I peddled back home."
11-Aug-2003, New
Westminster: (6:30 pm)
Witness #1: "On
August 11, 2003 around 18:30 I was sitting at
the kitchen table talking to my daughter. At one
point she was looking through the window saying
"what's that above the trees?" Next moment she
ran outside and I followed her. Looking in the
direction she was looking at I could see above
the trees a black disk spinning. From where I
was I could say its size was of a round big
platter. It flipped over and I realized it was
flat. The other side was bright red with a
silver bright ring around it. I was in shock. I
have never seen anything like this before."
Witness #2: "It
was the evening of August 11, 2003, around 6:30
pm when I was sitting at the kitchen table
talking to my mom. On my right hand side beside
my chair I had the big window facing the patio
and the back alley of the house. At one moment I
had spotted in the corner of my eye something
black above the trees on the alley. I ran
outside and I saw a black disk about 3 feet in
diameter spinning above the trees, hovering
towards the East."
"As soon as it cleared the trees, it flipped
over and I noticed it was flat. The other side
was bright blood red. It had a "staggered"
movement while gaining distance away. For a few
seconds I was speechless. Finally I called my
husband who came on to the patio and after a
quick look at the sky, he ran inside to grab the
camcorder. He came back and caught it on tape as
it was hovering in the sky, still flying in the
distance."
For more information, visit:
UFO*BC Report: http://www.ufobc.ca/History/2000/newwest11aug03.htm
HBCC UFO Report and video: http://www3.telus.net/public/wilbur8/reports/bc/new_westminster.html
11-Aug-2003, Surrey:
(10:15 pm)
Hi, my name is Richard. I live
in Surrey BC, around Scott Road & 92nd
Avenue. It was around 10:15 on August 11 when I
went out into the back yard to take a look at
the sky, which I do on a regular basis, (and in
all my years of doing this have never seen
anything truly anomalous) when I observed a very
bright white light at the very edge of the
Eastern sky. At first I thought it was Mars
rising but then realised it was too early for
that to be happening. I assumed it must be an
aircraft coming towards the airport. I live
under a fairly heavily used air route, and many
aircraft pass almost directly over me on their
way to Vancouver International Airport. I also
heard the roar of regular aircraft engines. But
the light I had been observing was so much
brighter than a regular aircraft light.
As it came a little closer I
observed there were actually three very bright
white lights, two were on either end and one was
below to the left of me or the right side of the
ship. At this very moment I saw what was a
regular aircraft go over to my right side. This
was the aircraft that was making the engine
noise. It was going at a regular clip (I see
many every day and night) however the three very
bright lights were attached to a different craft
moving noiselessly and much more slowly behind
the aircraft. I know this other craft had no
audible engine because the regular aircraft had
passed over and was now gone from my sight and
the engine noise was also gone. What was slowly
travelling by me, and I had a bird's eye view,
was a very large craft with these three intense
white lights (much brighter than any aircraft
lights I have ever seen before) gliding across
the sky. It had one small red pulsing light on
the top and a row of clearly lit amber windows.
I still was not sure what I was looking at so I
checked to see if it had a regular aircraft
tail. It did not. It seemed to just round out
the end. I waited a day to tell my roommate,
whose computer I am on thusly giving her email
address, and she informed me that there had been
an airshow the weekend before. So there are two
possibilities. One is that I saw a very large
dirigible that might have been from the airshow
the previous weekend or it was a was a UFO. Now
if it is just a balloon I will feel a little
silly for even wasting your time. But I was
curious as to whether you had received any other
reports at about this time and in this vicinity.
UFO*BC Responds:
Hi Richard: Thank you for the
report. We have not received any confirming
reports but that is not unusual as most people
are looking everywhere else but up.
Based on your description I would say that the
object is anomalous. The lighting does not
correspond to regulations covering aircraft
operating at night. A sketch would be a valuable
addition to the report. An exact address would
also be useful so I can plot a more accurate
track of the object. I would like to post it on
our site in the hope of encouraging others to
report if they have seen the same object. If
possible please compare the object to the size
of the full Moon. The Moon has an angular
diameter of ½ degree. It is usually impossible
to do an accurate estimation of distance and
size of an unfamiliar object except for angular
estimates. Please estimate angle above the
horizon remembering that directly above you
would be 90 degrees. If I get your permission to
post the sighting I can assure you that you will
remain anonymous unless you request otherwise.
Thanks again.
Gavin McLeod
President
UFO British Columbia
14-Aug-2003, Nelson/Salmo:
(11:20 pm) HBCC UFO
A husband and wife were
traveling back home from Salmo to Nelson,
driving on Highway #6 alongside the Salmo River.
To their right they noticed a round red ball of
brilliant light flying at the top of the
mountain. The witnesses said it moved very
quickly, too fast to be an airplane and hugged
the contour of the mountain. No sound was heard,
although there was a considerable distance
between them and the mountain top. The total
time they watched the light was about 6 to 7
seconds.
17-Aug-2003, Vancouver:
(11:45 pm) HBCC UFO
"Last night was spectacular.
Looking out from Coal Harbour over Lions Gate
Bridge, my wife (who is a skeptic) and I were
treated to a fantastic dance by numerous
"objects". It was not that the binoculars were
unsteady, one object would race in all
directions in front of another object which
remained steady, so there could be no question
about what it was doing. The motions, in all
directions, including criss-crossing, were
incredibly fast - about as fast as the eye could
follow. Total time viewing objects was about 2
minutes."
"We are using 10x50 WA binoculars - it would not
be readily seen with the naked eye."
27-Aug-2003, Terrace:
(9:20 pm) HBCC UFO
A man saw an unusual craft
followed by a bright white ball of light heading
from the southwest to the northeast. Total
viewing time was about 4 seconds.
30-Aug-2003, Penticton:
(11:30 pm) HBCC UFO
Two people witnessed a massive
bluish coloured ball of light travelling from
north to south over Okanagan Lake. In the centre
of the ball of light they noticed something dark
in colour. The object left a glowing trail
behind it that lasted for 10 to 15 minutes.
30-Aug-2003, Vernon:
(11:30 pm) NUFORC
A spectacular flash appeared to
the northeast, about 23:30 on 30th August 2003,
illuminating East Vernon Hill, lasting several
seconds. The light was lemony with a bluish
tinge in colour. There was no sound. We (2
middle-aged women) were part of a 'Citizens on
Patrol' group formed in the rural area, just
north of Vernon to patrol our area for possible
fires. Shifts last 2 hours. We had signed up for
the 10-12 midnight shift. We live 45 minutes
north of Kelowna in the interface between the
city of Vernon and crown land. We were near the
north end of Hartnell Road, coming down the road
when we saw a brilliant flash to the northeast,
illuminating the mountain behind. As suddenly as
the flash appeared, it disappeared. The energy
required to illuminate the mountain (East Vernon
Hill) must have been enormous. Neither of us had
seen anything like this before. As you can
imagine, given the fire danger, we were anxious
to find out if this event had fire potential.
The sky was clear and cloudless so we discounted
lightning...did not see another flash
thereafter. Also, there was no sound
accompanying the flash. We wondered if it was
part of a meteor shower but have no explanation
for what we saw.
30-Aug-2003, North Delta:
(11:50 pm)
On the way home from a night
out with a few friends, I had to make a detour
and drop off another friend that we had met at
the concert we had been attending. There was no
drug or alcohol use throughout the night by
anyone and this was witnessed by 3 out of 5 in
the car so I do not believe this could be some
sort of hallucination. Around 11:50 or 11:55
(I'm sorry I cannot pinpoint the time exactly)
p.m. as we were travelling south through North
Delta to the West we saw a single bluish-green
flash that lit up a great portion of the sky.
There was no bad weather to indicate lightning
and there was no sound before or after the flash
as there generally would be during a thunder and
lightning storm. I read a similar sighting on
this site that occurred on the same day and much
like the witness of that event, at first I
thought it could be a meteor shower. However,
this flash looked as though it had happened from
the ground upwards towards the sky, as though it
were a craft taking off from the ground.
I was quite shaken by the event and to this day
I still wish to know what it was.
31-Aug-2003, Terrace:
(7:00 pm) HBCC UFO
A man and a woman saw a
disc-shaped object sitting stationary just below
the clouds. It was dark grey in colour and had 5
or 6 white lights on it. After about 1 minute,
the object disappeared. They estimated that the
object was about as wide as 1 1/2 thumb widths
(held at arm's length.
Sep/Oct-2003,
100 Mile House, BC: (about 10:30 pm)
I was
only 15 at the time, I had just recently moved
to 100 mile house and
was staying home alone one night while my
Grandmother and her boyfriend
were having a dinner night with some family
friends just down the
street. It was probably around 10 pm, I cannot
quite remember, but my
dog had wanted to go outside, he was sitting at
the door rather
anxiously clawing away to get my attention. I
let him out side and he
bolted across the yard. It's a large property
and he was pretty
unfamiliar with the area, I didn't like letting
him out at night, so I
chased after him. I got about 60 feet down the
driveway, just at the
crook in road and he had stopped dead in his
tracks. I quickly grabbed
him and turned to leave, but something had
caught my eye to the north
west and I paused once I had a good clear view
of it. Not 40 feet away
was a egg shaped... Thing... It was lit up, but
it wasn't emitting any
light, nothing but it was lit up. It was
yellowish, but swirling with
reds and greens inside it. I probably watched it
for about 30
seconds. It was floating about 3 feet off
the ground, just in
front of the neighbors hay tractor barn. I had
at first dismissed it at
the tractor light, but the lack of bloom, as it
were, made my hair
stand on end. I had a strange sense come over
me, I wanted to head
towards it, but something inside told me to run
and next thing I knew I
was quickly running into the house. I didn't
turn on any lights so I
could see clearly out the windows without glare,
nothing was there when
I looked around. No one believed me when I
explained what had happened.
I don't blame them haha but I know what I had
saw, what I had
experienced.
On a
separate night, a few family members and I were
looking out the window
at the glorious night sky, the stars were really
out that night and it
was awesome, but one "star" had caught my
uncle's attention. It had
strange lights blinking on it, we thought it
could have been a
satellite, but quickly realized it hadn't moved
an inch and we were
watching it for a good 30 mins or so. We tried
to report it as a UFO,
but failed miserably.
Additonal
information supplied by witness on 5-Nov-2010:
The object was
oval-shaped and about 3 feet in diameter. From
the distance I was
standing it would take a small saucer held at
arm's length to cover it.
The object, or orb, was primarily a dull yellow,
but contained inside
were swirls of reds and greens. I don't know if
this matters at all,
but when thinking about that night, without
fail, my eyes tear up. I
don't know why. I was more excited and curious
than scared. Nothing
else has that effect on me and I don't
understand what it means.
2-Sep-2003, Kelowna:
(1:00 am) HBCC UFO
A man and a woman watched an
extremely bright green light alongside one of
the local mountains. After a period of time it
disappeared. Later that night the woman awoke
and looked outside and again saw a bright green
light. It was in a different part of the sky and
stationary.
2-Sep-2003, Houston:
(11:05 pm) HBCC UFO
An elderly couple living on
Bold Road, just off Buck Flats Road reported
that they watched a very strange object hovering
over top of Pea Cock mountain. They believe that
it was round in shape and had lights running
around outside the object. They observed it
moving along the top of the mountain for about a
kilometer before it stopped, then quickly
dropped behind the mountain. No sound was heard.
The next night, at about 11:45 p.m., the same
object showed up over the mountain, but more
towards the south. This time the object did not
move in any direction and was observed for about
6 to 8 seconds before it dropped out of sight.
Again no sound was heard, and the object, or
light coming from it, was extremely bright.
HBCC UFO Note: This was certainly not a
star, or Mars. The second date of the sighting
the object was a good height off the top ridge
of the mountain, and if a star it would have
taken sometime to drop down and out of sight.
Also I asked the local helicopter businesses to
see if they had any flying in the area at the
time of this sighting. There was none flying at
that time. Everything was shut down before dark.
3-Sep-2003, Barriere:
(11:10 pm) HBCC UFO
Just before entering her home,
a lady saw a huge cylinder-shaped craft flying
very quickly and low to the ground. It had a
large number of bright white lights running down
the full length of the object, possibly windows
she thought. There were no wings noticed on the
craft. No sound was heard and the sighting
lasted for about 5 seconds.
Upon entering her home she discovered, from her
boyfriend, that their cat had been going "nuts"
during the time that the object was passing by.
10-Sep-2003, Barriere:
(8:50 pm) HBCC UFO
A couple were outside tending
to their farm animals when they heard a sound
coming from the north. They looked up to see a
bright white light travelling directly towards
them. It passed soundlessly over top over their
farm, heading south. The sound that they had
heard was still coming from the north, and
getting louder. Shortly, two very large military
type helicopters appeared, flying low and
following the same direction as the light had
taken.
26-Sep-2003, Victoria:
(3:00 pm) NUFORC
My wife and I were at Albert
Head Lagoon, near Victoria enjoying a day on the
beach, when my wife pointed out an object in the
sky. I saw what appeared to be a grayish blue
disk-shaped flying vehicle that rapidly
approached us from the ocean and passed over our
heads.
I was unable to estimate the
size or height of the object due to its fuzzy
appearance (it seemed to be indistinct along its
edges). There was another aircraft in the sky
nearby the flight path of the object; a biplane
which was doing some stunt practice at about
4000'. The other aircraft did not seem to change
course when the object flew across its flight
path, but I'm not sure if that is because it was
above or below the biplane.
The object flew over our heads
to the left side of us (at about 11:00 high) and
looked to me like a grayish fuzzy object that
got darker in the middle. My wife said that it
had a pattern or markings on it, but I couldn't
see anything like that.
There was no sound from the
object, and that surprised me as there was
little to no noise from the ocean (no wind).
Its flight path was a straight
line from the south to the north without any
course changes. My wife said that she'd noticed
a similar object a few moments before but hadn't
mentioned it.
26-Sep-2003, Point
Roberts/Tsawassen: (8:45 pm)
A man had taken his dog outside
so that it could do its business. While he was
waiting he was looking up at the stars. He saw a
strange light crossing the sky from west to
east, slightly smaller than Mars, but a very
bright bluish-white colour. At first he thought
it was a satellite, until it started to move
from side to side. No sound was heard and no
trail behind it. As it moved towards the east it
just faded out.
The sighting lasted between 30
and 40 seconds.
26-Sep-2003, Fort Langley:
(9:30 pm)
I was sitting alone in the hot
tub searching for satellites (again). All house
lights were off, and a good clear sky. I was
facing north and located the big dipper. I saw a
brilliant white flash of light repeated twice.
It was just south of the edge of the handle
closest to the spoon. It was brighter than any
other lights. Kind of like a strobe from a plane
but it was erratic in its pulses.
After catching my attention, I trained my eyes
on it. It would flash twice and then move about
1 inch at arm's length in the south direction. I
counted a time of 10 seconds the first time and
then 16 seconds between illuminations. It stayed
static for about 1 minute and then I found it
about 6 inches further south. It stayed static,
illuminated 3 more times with a longer break in
between - 40, 76 and 127 seconds. Repeating
twice each time.
I stayed focused on the area
for another 30 minutes, but never saw it again.
27-Sep-2003, Terrace:
(10:25 pm) HBCC UFO
“I was sitting outside facing
west when a huge saucer, 4 times moon size,
materialized out of nowhere right in front of
me. I was not looking in any way just listening
to music and relaxing after a 10 hour day of
splitting firewood. This object of intensive
white color did have a saucer shape and the
outline was in light red. The object must have
been only 35-40 meters away, or even closer, AND
it was not sitting still but moving up and down.
I got very scared and my heart started pumping
like crazy. I am still shaking. The whole
scenario lasted for only 15 seconds before the
saucer became invisible. There was some heat
coming from it and it stank like rotten eggs, a
sulphur-like smell but somehow different!!"
"Everything took place just 10
minutes ago. I am still shaking."
28-Sep-2003, Vancouver, BC:
This event happened when I was living near
41st and Fraser in Vancouver. I was sitting at
my computer, when out of the corner of my eye
I saw bright red light in the sky out of
nowhere out of my patio door. At first I
thought it was some kids playing with
fireworks, but there wasn't any noise, and the
light hung in the air for some time. Then it
started to look like something like an
aircraft. The light got bigger and brighter,
and it started to show a white light
surrounded by bright red, and it seemed like
it was coming towards me. I had about 50
things go through my head; meteor, bomb,
aliens, parachuter, plane crash. I got up and
opened the balcony door so I could get a
better look at it, and then it started to
slowly fall straight down until it went behind
the trees and I couldn't see it anymore.
This
all elapsed over probably 1 or 2 minutes. Now,
I saw planes fly by from east to west all the
time because I faced south towards the YVR
airspace, and this thing appeared. If you have
heard of any similar sightings I would love to
hear back from you with any info you have.
This incident haunts me to this day.
30-Sep-2003,
Terrace: (8:52 pm) HBCC UFO
A very low flying
disk with a very high speed roughly estimated
40-60 meters high. The round object was of a dim
white light and disappeared, I was facing west,
+/- 30 degrees to the north from my position. It
was visible for a count of 4 seconds only.
1-Aug-2003,
Vancouver, BC: (11:00 pm)
I don't know how valid this “sighting” is, but
I thought I would post it anyway to see if you
think it would've been an anomaly or not. I've
described it to other people and they told me
it may have been airplanes travelling at a
very high altitude, but I don't quite feel
that the movement of these objects was
consistent with that explanation; they seemed
to be travelling too fast in relation to the
distance they were from us.
My two friends and I went to the large field
at the high school on the corner of Fraser St.
and 43rd Ave. in Vancouver with my two dogs
around 11:00 pm. I was looking up at the sky,
and I saw two very distinct white, small
pinpoint lights, one behind the other, at an
extremely high altitude travelling at a very
high and consistent speed from west to east.
They just looked like stars, that's how far
away they were, but they were moving at a very
rapid pace. This is a large field so I was
able to keep them within my view for about 5
minutes as they travelled across the sky above
us. They both made a bee-line from the west to
the east, and then got too small to see any
longer as they carried on towards the east.
Both
of my friends just shrugged it off and didn't
think anything of it, but I found the objects
very interesting. Do you have any ideas around
what it could've been that we saw that night?
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
UFOBC
Note: This could have been the US Navy’s NOSS
trio of satellites with the 3rd satellite
possibly too dim to be visible.
1-Oct-2003,
Castlegar: (8:30 pm) HBCC UFO
Greetings, Brian.
It was suggested to me that I e-mail you to let
you know that my family witnessed a strange
event on Wednesday night, October 1st, 2003,
roughly around 8:30 pm. I also understand others
may have seen the same flashing lights. My name
is (deleted by HBCC UFO), I live in Ootischenia,
just outside of Castlegar, next to the Castlegar
Airport.
"It was a clear
night, and I was looking to the north sky at the
Big Dipper. I caught a glimpse of a flashing
red/green and white light moving across the sky
towards the west. I thought it was an jet flying
towards Vancouver, but then I returned my glance
towards the east, above the Kootenay River
valley, where the "jet" seemed to appear from, I
saw another flashing light. A called my husband
to come and see this, and he saw what I saw,
then we saw another appear from the east fly
over Mount Sentinel and move towards the west.
My three children joined us in our observations
of the unidentified objects in the night sky.
These were not jets! Within a few minutes, there
were five of these objects in the sky at one
time flying in various directions. Two in
particular seemed to meet up with one another
and hovered across from one another for about a
minute or two, then one flew directly below it,
and hovered there for less than a minute, then
flew in a north eastern direction towards the
back of Mount Sentinel. It flew out of sight,
then in about another minute or so, reappeared
from the east, (where they all seemed to come
from)."
"We watched these objects for about 15 minutes,
then they all disappeared behind the mountains
in the horizons."
1-Oct-2003,
Quesnel: (10:30 pm) HBCC UFO
A couple of
witnesses who were working the late shift at the
Quesnel Wal-Mart saw something burning across
the sky at a very low altitude. The witnesses
said the object was a brilliant red in color and
traveled across the sky until they lost sight of
it behind the local mountains. The object was
heading to the southeast. Both of the witnesses
discussed the sighting and figured out what they
witnessed was a meteor. One of the men said
there were flames coming off from the back end
of it. Time observed was about 1 and a half
minutes.
1-Oct-2003,
Slocan Park: (10:40 pm) HBCC UFO
"On Wednesday
night, October 1, 2003, I was taking a bath. I
have a large window over the bathtub facing the
Northwest and I like to look at the stars. At
approximately 10:40 pm., a glowing white ball
dropped from the sky. It did not descend at an
angle as meteorites tend to do, nor did it have
a green cast. It was absolutely white and it
came straight down at very high speed with a
white tail of light behind it. It appeared to be
fairly close by in that I could see that the
object was round. Looking at a map the next day,
I determined the exact area my window faces. It
seems likely to me that it came down in the
Southern half of the Little Slocan Valley, near
Valican, unless the object was huge and
therefore, further away."
2-Oct-2003,
Smithers: (7:15 pm) HBCC UFO
A man, his wife
and kids were travelling home, near Lake
Kathlyn, when they saw a huge orange ball with a
very short tail high in the sky, heading north.
Within two minutes it was lost in the horizon.
3-Oct-2003,
Quesnel: (6:45 pm) HBCC UFO
A woman was
washing dishes in the kitchen sink when she
looked out the window and noticed an
oblong-shaped object in the northwestern sky.
The front of it was blunt, with a "tiny" tail
behind it which went to a sharp point. She
described the color as being white with a glow
around it being an off white color. She watched
it for about 8 minutes before it disappeared to
the northeast. The witness did open the window,
but no sound was heard.
3-Oct-2003,
Ootischenia (Castlegar): (8:30 pm)
HBCC UFO
It was a clear
night, and I was looking to the north sky at the
Big Dipper. I caught a glimpse of a flashing
red/green and white light moving across the sky
towards the west. I thought it was a jet flying
towards Vancouver, but then I returned my glance
towards the east, above the Kootenay River
valley, where the "jet" seemed to appear from, I
saw another flashing light. A called my husband
to come and see this, and he saw what I
saw...then we saw another appear from the east
fly over Mount Sentinel and move towards the
west. My three children joined us in our
observations of the unidentified objects in the
night sky. These were not jets! Within a few
minutes, there were five of these objects in the
sky at one time flying in various directions.
Two in particular seemed to meet up with one
another and hovered across from one another for
about a minute or two, then one flew directly
below it, and hovered there for less than a
minute, then flew in a north eastern direction
towards the back of Mount Sentinel. It flew out
of sight, then in about another minute or so,
reappeared from the east, (where they all seemed
to come from).
We watched these objects for about 15 minutes,
then they all disappeared behind the mountains
in the horizons.
19-Oct-2003,
Telkwa: (12:00 noon) HBCC UFO
A man and his son
were out cutting firewood near Paradise Lake,
which is located about 6 kilometers east of
Telkwa. As the fellows were loading the truck up
with the firewood they cut, the son yelled out
to his father to look north and just above the
tree tops. A large glowing white globe of light
flew very quickly, almost skimming the tree
tops. The object was heading toward the Babine
Lake area. There was not a sound heard coming
from the light, even though the light was maybe
300 feet away from the men when they first
witnessed it.
19-Oct-2003,
Vancouver: (11:30 pm) HBCC UFO
Hi, I am reporting
seeing a strange big reddish ball of light which
appeared to fall from the sky. I live downtown
Vancouver on the 25th floor facing North East.
The light seemed to be over the airport. At
first I thought it was a plane but after
watching it, it was much larger than a plane
light and was falling vertically. I was waiting
for some type of explosion but it just
disappeared into the horizon, like it fell off
the edge of the Earth so to speak. Weird I saw
this happen at about 11:30 PM on October
19/2003. As it appeared to be over the airport I
think it must of been much farther as it seemed
to vanish just to the right of where Mount Baker
is on the horizon.
22-Oct-2003,
Houston: (7:00 pm) HBCC UFO
A woman was
driving a number of young girls back from a
dance rehearsal in Smithers (a 45 minute drive
from Houston). As she drove up Hungry Hill she
noticed an extremely bright white object in the
sky. It suddenly dropped from a higher elevation
to just above the tree tops. It was flat like a
dinner plate with a single green light on the
bottom of it. It was generally moving in a
westerly direction, but at one point it made
rapid-paced movements in various directions. No
sound was heard even though she believes they
were within half a mile of it at their closest.
26-Oct-2003,
Telkwa: (2:30 am) HBCC UFO
A woman had arisen
during the night to use the washroom when she
looked outside and saw a ball of light with a
bright ring around it (like the planet Saturn).
It was low in the Bulkley Valley, close to
Highway #16. For the brief time that she
watched, it was making all kinds of strange
maneuvers.
29-Oct-2003,
Vancouver: (00:34 am) NUFORC
Between 12:30am
and 12:45am on Oct 29/03 were out side watching
the northern lights when on object appeared out
of nowhere. First instinct was that it was a
satellite, but never saw one move as fast as
this object was travelling, more than twice the
speed. But what really caught our attention was
the way it travelled, we were looking south
westwardly and the object came in from the north
in an arc like tangent. The object then stops,
does a counter clockwise circle [with arms out
stretched about the size of one's thumb and
index finger would make] then makes a counter
clockwise return, pauses slightly, then takes
right off out of sight. The object appeared to
be white in colour, there was no sound or any
other anomalies. The whole event took a matter
of seconds, we were all shocked at what had just
happened.
31-Oct-2003,
Vancouver: (3:00 am) NUFORC
I just looked out
& up at the clear night sky this morning,
when even to my surprise, there it was plain as
could be, and right out of "Lost in Space - the
original". I mean, that's what it looked like to
me, lights, red, orange, green, blue, yellow and
white. rotating under and around the side, Many
more lights than any conventional, night flying,
airplanes would have on. Not real bright though,
like Christmas tree lights rotating. No sound,
eerily silent, AND moving in more of a hover,
almost a slight wobble from too low a speed. It
had to be enormous in size, I guesstimate, I was
1 - 2 kilometres from it, then it passed behind
a building. This would have been visible to
anyone outside at 3am, near English bay, Stanley
Park area. Its altitude was very low, a few
hundred feet I think, over the water at English
Bay.
November
2003, Aston Creek, BC: (10 pm)
I was living out
in Aston Creek at the time and I remember it was
the night that the Leoniod Meteor Shower was to
take place. It was around 10pm if my memory
serves me correctly and I had went out side to
grab something from our vehicle. I just happened
to look up into the sky at a North West
direction in the sky and saw a large orangey red
ball of light in the sky. At first I stupidly
thought it was Mars until I remember that Mars
doesn't sit in the part of the sky. As I stared
at it, it looked like it was moving towards my
direction. I thought well, I'm not exactly sure
on what I was seeing and decided to go and grab
my boyfriend from inside the house and show him
this. So we both come back outside and I point
out the light in the sky and asked "is it me? or
does that look like its moving?" and he verified
that yes, it was moving towards us. We both
stood there watching this thing slowly get
closer to us. It was quite large, I can't really
give a good scale for comparison other then if
you were to hold a large marble up to the sky,
that's about how big it was. It finally got to
the point were it was pretty much right above us
in the sky when suddenly it released two small
red objects from it, which seem to drop away
from the object then just disappeared. Then, the
object shot upwards into the atmosphere at a
break neck speed and all that remained was a
small pin point of white light high up in the
atmosphere which after a minute, disappeared
itself. Both Josh and I were in total shock and
awe! I couldn't believe what my eyes had seen.
We both proceeded to argue with each other about
the nature of how those small red balls were
released from the UFO. I thought it looked as if
the UFO shot them out in a forward direction. He
swears that the red balls were dropped from the
bottom of the UFO. Either way, we both say what
we say!!
There was
absolutely no noise. It was low enough in the
sky that if it were emitting any engine sound,
we would have heard it. Plus it seemed as if
this thing was aware that we were watching it.
It was one of the eeriest sights I have ever
seen and I swear on my deceased family graves,
hell, Ill swear on my own future grave! that
this is the truth and this is what I saw. These
things are out there and I have gone over in my
head thousands of times to try and find a
logical explanation for what I say and there is
none.
7-Nov-2003,
Coquihalla Hwy: (3:45 pm)
On the 7th
November, 2003 at 3.45pm, 20 kilometers east of
the Coquihalla toll booth, my wife who was
driving drew my attention to an object in the
visually the size of a pea, sky to her left. It
was a bright, highly reflective ball, and
appeared to be metallic. It was located in the
north eastern part of the sky and positioned
about 45 degrees above the horizon. I continued
to watch it for a period of five minutes during
which time relative to our position ( a moving
car) it appeared to remain stationary. The sky
was completely free of any cloud and viewing
conditions were perfect. At the end of five
minutes the object began to lose its reflective
appearance and gradually seemed to fade away
without becoming more distant. I would guess its
altitude was 10,000 feet. This portion of
highway is located between Hope and Merritt.
12-Nov-2003,
Kelowna: (11:45 pm) HBCC UFO
A witness saw a
bright green light very low in the sky. It was
travelling in a straight line then made a slight
change in direction heading north. Total viewing
time was about 8 seconds.
13-Nov-2003,
Castlegar: (3:00 pm)
I was travelling
west on Arrow Lakes Drive, having come from
downtown Castlegar. I glanced up and saw a
silver object which I thought was a plane. It
was situated over the Pulp Mill, more on the
Robson side. The sun glinted on it and it looked
like a big silver dollar or moon just hovering
there. There was no sound which is why I
realized it was not a plane, nor did it move. I
kept driving slowly and, as I watched, it
disappeared (just vanished), then a second later
it reappeared, in the same place. I turned the
corner onto my road and lost sight of it.
Mid-Nov-2003,
Mission, BC: (6:15pm)
I had just returned from work and got out of
the car. Heading up to the mailbox I looked up
at the stars (it was a perfectly clear night)
and was surprised to see a 747 sized black
triangle heading SW-NE right over Mission. I
wrote it off to the air force, but thinking
about it was puzzled as it was cruising along
at about 5000 ft but showing no lights at all
and making no sound. Having read black
triangle reports, I wonder if this is what I
saw, although the ones I read reported lights.
This was just a large black equilateral
triangle that blotted out the stars as it
passed silently overhead.
15-Nov-2003, Vernon: (9:00 pm)
HBCC UFO
A woman was
sitting in her living room watching television
when something bright caught her attention. She
reports seeing a large bright florescent green
colored round ball of light traveling
horizontally across the sky from the north to
southwest. She reports no tail or trail
following the object. She observed the object
for about 4 to 5 seconds before she lost sight
of it. There was a low cloud ceiling that
evening and the green object was well below it.
No unusual maneuvers or sound were noted. She
believes that the object was quite large. With
her hand held at arm's length it would be the
size of her thumb.
16-Nov-2003,
Burns Lake: (7:30 pm) HBCC UFO
A couple were
driving up a hill on Highway #16 (just before
Babine Forest Products) when they saw a red ball
of light in front of them. It was low in the sky
and travelling at an angle downwards, behind the
hill they were climbing. As they lost sight of
it they noticed that the crest of the hill, the
highway and the tops of the trees were all
bathed in a reddish glow. They could not see the
source of the red glow, but hoped to once they
got to the top of the hill. Unfortunately, the
red glow suddenly went out just before they
reached the top. They slowed down and kept their
eyes open but did not see the red ball again.
23-Nov-2003,
Langley: (2:30 am)
At about 2:30 am,
I awoke and happened to glance at the open
window (I was lying in bed). From my pillow, I
observed what I thought to be a commercial
aircraft light heading downward toward the
ground very fast. As I focused more intently, I
realized it was not an airliner. I then figured
it must be a shooting star. But the "star"
abruptly spiraled upwards toward the sky then
made some unusual maneuvers. I noticed that
there were other stars in the vicinity, but they
were smaller and stationary. This one was blue,
yellow (maybe green) and sparkling brightly. I
kept thinking it was a planet, but it was moving
around so much. It hovered for a time, then
began to move around - up down, around and
poofs/flashes of light appeared to accompany it.
I watched it for about 45 minutes as it appeared
to play around in the night sky. It was very
bright and colourful. At around 3:15, it slowly
moved out of sight and then it was gone.
25-Nov-2003,
Creston: (9:20 pm) HBCC UFO
Two men driving
from Creston, along Highway 3 heading west
towards Fruitvale, saw briefly a number of
bluish lights off in the distance, heading east
towards their direction at a very low altitude.
As they drew closer, the lights seemed to spread
out and then, suddenly, all of the blue lights
blinked out at once. The two men thought it was
rather strange as they had never witnessed
anything like this before. The witnesses did not
make out any type of shape, or structure as
everything took place rather quickly.
The story does not
end here! It was not until a short time later
that the two men realized that they had
travelled about 25 kilometers without any
conscious memory of the distance. The driver had
blood trickling down from his right nostril.
Both men became very cold and thirsty. Later,
the driver broke down and was crying
uncontrollably. Both men experienced vivid
dreams that night. One man remembers being
inside an object, or room. Brian Vike of HBCC
UFO is investigating this case further. We will
provide an update when we can.
Late November 2003, Coquitlam:
(4:00 pm)
My mother and I were driving back after
doing groceries at the local grocery store. My
mother swung onto Westview (in Coquitlam). After
a few more seconds of driving, I looked up to
see what looked like a brightly radiant object,
sort of shaped like a filament. This object was
hanging under the cloud line, and was hovering
between Coquitlam and New West. After a few more
seconds, it vanished. It did not go into the
clouds or dissipate. It was not an airplane, a
weather balloon, or any form of mundane
phenomena. My parent’s eyes were on the road,
but she did see it.
6-Dec-2003,
Esquimalt: (2:05 am)
I had just come
home about 30 minutes ago from dropping my
brother-in-law at his place. When I pulled into
the parking lot about 2:05 am, I noticed how
clear the view to Port Angles was tonight, after
the nasty weather we had earlier this evening. I
looked up and saw a bright light moving from
east to west. I assumed it was the International
Space Station doing its usual orbit. I had seen
the space station while living in Sydney for six
months, and the speed looked about the same. It
was flashing some red and blue lights, but in
bursts, not at regularly timed intervals. The
lights themselves flashed stronger at times. As
I was watching, it stopped mid way over Port
Angeles. The lights started moving around, then
splitting itself like a rubber band. Then it
would separate and dart east then down then join
up again. I kept blinking my eyes to make sure I
wasn't seeing things. I watched for over 5
minutes before coming into the apartment
building. I went up to the 3rd floor, where I
live, and logged onto your website to leave this
report.
I just went back down the hall at 02:37 and have
come back at 02:42. The light is still there. It
is making fast movements upwards. Still very
bright and flashing. But nothing like a
helicopter. Far too high, and making movements a
helicopter couldn't.
8-Dec-2003,
Houston: (8:45 pm) HBCC UFO
A husband and wife
were just returning home and as they pulled into
their long driveway they saw their two kids
standing outside yelling and pointed towards the
mountain behind their home. The husband stopped
the car quickly and both parents jumped out in
fear as they had no idea what was wrong,
thinking the worst. They almost immediately
noticed a white oval shaped object sitting
stationary over the back of their property.
The oval shaped object had a solid ring of blue
lights which seemed to be moving around the
white colored object. A slight and annoying hum
could be heard coming from it. The Mother went
over and grabbed the two children and went into
the house with them, Dad followed close behind.
They thought it would be safer than standing
outside as they had no idea what is was they
were looking at. Once inside the home, they
proceeded to a back bedroom, closed the door
behind them as not to allow any light from
inside the home to give away where they were
(feeling frightened at this time). Through the
window they watched the object, still sitting in
the exact spot from when they first noted it.
The trees which were below it were all lit up in
a white light, and for a good distance around
the area. After a total of about 4 minutes of
watching this unusual craft, it slowly started
to move. As it did so the witnesses claimed they
could see sparks dropping off the bottom side of
it. The sparks were reported to be a white in
color. It rose up rather slowly and as it
reached the top of the mountain they lost sight
of it. The craft did not blink out, they thought
it just crossed over the top and maybe moved
down the other side. They reported that whatever
it was, it was huge.
The husband said it was not a helicopter, no way
!! He said they were very close to this thing,
and what noise it gave off was minimal, except
for the constant humming sound. The husband also
said area residents would have been blind not to
see this as it was so bright and large in size.
15-Dec-2003, Victoria: (6:30
am)
In both cases I witnessed bright orbs
of light, circular in shape. They were
behind a cloud cover early in the morning.
Approximately between 6:30 a.m to 7:00 a.m. (a
time when I am out on my apartment balcony). The
first incident was a single orb of light that
moved at an unusual rapid speed. It
stopped suddenly, and then descended down, out
of sight. Seconds later it ascended
upward, made a tight curve and flew off at a
rapid speed again. Time period was
approximately 10 seconds. My second sighting in
January was similar in nature only there were
three bright orbs of light behind the cloud
cover. Two orbs were aligned one in front
of the other. The other orb was higher and
dropped down near the level of the other two and
all three took off at a speed not known to any
aviation I have ever witnessed. Again, the
time frame was approximately ten seconds.
I can only guess because I was shocked and a
little frightened at the experience.
18-Dec-2003,
Kelowna: (5:30 pm) NUFORC
A large
saucer-shaped object bolted across the sky. It
then hovered in mid air and then dove down to
the earth's surface (a mountain top) and either
hovered or landed (it was impossible to tell
because it was so dark). After sitting or
hovering on the mountain top for about 2.5
seconds, the "Flying Saucer" disappeared except
for an eerie red glow that remained in the same
place that the UFO had been. After about 5
seconds the glow also disappeared. I continued
to watch for 10 minutes in case anything else
unusual happened, But, unfortunately, nothing
did.
25-Dec-2003,
Vancouver: (6:00 pm)
I was in my garage
sitting in my car facing Trout Lake, looking
south or south/west. A single white light
appeared on the horizon, the altitude would
probably be that of a regular plane, I assumed
it to be a helicopter. The light seemed to be
rising. If it wasn't rising, it was either
moving very slowly or it was coming towards me.
The light then seemed to be flying north towards
the area I was situated, the speed was actually
pretty fast, but I'm not an aviation expert so
I'm again assuming. As it approached closer, I
guess above Trout Lake, it started to veer to
the left (the east) and I was able to view the
underside of this object. The lights visible
were blinking reds, there were either 3 lights
arranged in a triangle patter, or there were
multiple lights arranged in a triangular
pattern. this could all have been present on any
regular plane, but the triangular nature was
evident. then as the object came closer, it
veered slightly again, and was going a north
east direction.
26-Dec-2003,
Sicamous: (11:30 pm) HBCC UFO
On Boxing Day the
dispatcher for the Sicamous, British Columbia
RCMP detachment took a call from an excited
woman who requested the RCMP come to her home
and look into the unusual sights that had been
taking place over a period of time. While making
the report the witness felt that she wasn't
being taken seriously, and that maybe they
thought her to be a little crazy. However, about
an hour later, when the RCMP officer arrived in
her yard, it was a different story. As soon as
he saw the object he stood and looked in
amazement. He had no idea what it was. The
officer left the family’s home and drove towards
the mountain where the object was sitting to get
a closer and better look. [Brian Vike of HBCC
UFO is attempting to contact the officer to
confirm this and to get his report.]
As well as watch
the events through their binoculars and with
their naked eyes, the family also video-taped
the object(s). This acorn-shaped, or
diamond-shaped, object was, for the most part,
moving quickly and erratically around the sky;
zig-zagging back and forth. At one point, when
it was stationary, it shot out a large red
fireball, and then six bright orange lights
appeared in the sky around it. Each of the
orange lights had another two white lights on
them. These white lights shot a beam of light
towards the ground. Approximately half an hour
later four more of the large acorn/diamond
shaped objects showed up and sat either
stationary or moved around the sky. The
witnesses said the objects appeared to have
hundreds of lights on each of them.
Prior to December
26, the husband had seen a similar object up in
the mountains near his home. While waiting for
his daughter and her cousin to return with the
snowmobile, he saw an object in the sky covered
in lights. He estimated that it was a mile away
and as big as a house. He was so excited and
frightened at what he saw that he immediately
drove back home, ran into the house and told his
wife. He wanted his wife to go back with him to
pick up the kids, because he didn’t want to wait
alone!
The previous
owners of the family’s home also stated that
they had seen silver disk-shaped objects flying
over and around the mountains behind the house,
on many occasions.
27-Dec-2003, Burnaby: (11:00
pm)
Time around 11pm, was looking outside
my kitchen window (west) it was a cylindrical
object with a light on the bottom, large
object, was not moving quickly, and was hovering
over the downtown area......I stood watching it
for at least 3 minutes, wondering what it could
be?? Travelled from east to west, coming from
Second Narrows Bridge going downtown. I was
surprised that it was not moving fast, but
rather almost at a stand still, and slowly I
watched it drift farther and farther west, until
I could no longer see it. It was quite
fascinating, I was convinced it was not a plane,
for the light that surrounded it on the bottom.
My husband has also witnessed a sighting in
Burnaby as well, near Joyce and Willingdon. He
has also described the same object, with a very
bright blinking light on the bottom, travelling
in the same direction, east to west. This comes
as a big surprise for me since I have always
dismissed my husband’s story, being a pessimist
myself.
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