UFO
SIGHTING REPORTS FROM 2014
UPDATED
- March 10th, 2024
January
2014, Terrace, BC: (daytime)
1 single large disc shape
sat still in the blue sky beside a hill as if it
was peering around it with I think 3-4 witnesses
..... moved left slow then
right then left and as it moved left it had lit
up fully and disappeared
6-Jan-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (5:45 pm)
Monday
evening (last night) I was going to the garbage
and happened to notice the crescent moon as it
was a clear and starry night. To the right of
the moon was a red-orange circle which I thought
was a star, maybe Jupiter. This red-orange
circle was a bit big for a star though. This
circle of orange-red had on either side of it
these strands that fanned out, they were also
roughly the same colour. I thought it might be a
helicopter because it didn't move as I watched
it. As I was in a hurry to go somewhere so I
stopped watching for a few seconds and when I
looked up again the circle of red-orange was now
without the tendrils/strands that were
previously coming off the left and right side of
the red-orange circle, and, the circle had moved
over further to the right of the Moon or
further west, it had also gotten
smaller in diameter. I began walking towards the
garage and I noticed the circle was constricting
and within a matter of seconds was gone.
When
I returned home later that evening I went
online to see if any local news had
reported a weird sighting. I live roughly in the
vicinity of South Cambie and this past
summer some model aviation club had staged a
"ufo" over the field at Nat Bailey Stadium
during a baseball game. Anyways, there was no
news of a ufo sighting over Vancouver that night
at all. I'd be interested to hear your response.
15-Jan-2014,
Victoria, BC: (9:45 am)
Standing
on the front driveway of the BC Legislature, we
observed a yellow light towards the north over
the city. The light was traveling south towards
us. As it approached, it appeared to slow its
speed. It went over the inner harbor and over
us. It appeared to be a ball of fire about the
size of a small airplane, and there was no
sound. The object continued south over the
parliament building and climbed higher in the
sky. At that point, it accelerated its speed as
it climbed and very quickly became a small dot
and disappeared. It was about 1000 feet above
us.
Unfortunately, we did not
get a picture.
15-Jan-2014,
Pitt Lake, BC: (10 pm to 12 pm)
Was
returning to a friend's house after a dinner
party around 10 pm and I noticed a large flash
off in the distance. Now when I say off in the
distance I mean probably close to 20/30 kms
away. I was in Surrey and could tell that it was
coming from behind the mountains near Coquitlam
(as it illuminated the outline of said
mountain). It looked as though it was just a
huge flash (think lightning) that lit up
everything in the night sky around it. Now that
would be all fine and dandy if it was just the
single flash. But I continued to watch the area
and within 30 seconds or so we saw another
flash, then another, and another. It continued
like this at varying intervals.. sometimes as
quick as 5 seconds other times within two
minutes. My friends all went inside the house as
it didn't interest them like it did me (but they
did see it.) I convinced my girlfriend to track
the source down with me, so we start driving.
Tracking it in the sky was easy, just watch the
general direction and the entire sky was
lighting up. We headed down all the roads we
could until we came to an end at Pitt Lake where
we couldn't take roads any farther as they had
the parking area gated off. It was closer to
11:30 pm now. There were alot of people parked
inside so I'm assuming at least some other
people must of seen it. Anyways as we got closer
the sky was still being illuminated but we could
see less of the flash as we were now pretty
close to the base of the mountain which it was
behind. The intensity of this was like nothing I
have seen besides lightning and there was no
sound so fireworks were not likely. Also lasting
over 2 hours before we finally gave up and
headed home, watching the inside of the car
light up with each flash coming from behind us.
I have some pretty crude video of it happening
taken from Surrey so you can see the distance at
which I was viewing it from. If anyone knows
about what this might of been it would really
put my mind at rest.
Some other info. It never moved or changed
location, It was always behind the mountain just
north of the parking lot at Pitt Lake. The
flashes also sort of varied from a white
lightning style to a redish/orange fire hue.
Intensity varied as well, from just enough to
outline the mountain to the whole sky being lit
up in that area. If this is not the correct site
to post this too as it doesn't exactly pertain
to an UFO sighting I will understand. I am
really interested to find a solution.
16-Jan-2014,
Roosville, BC: (9:00 pm)
We
work for the Highways (mainroad east kootenay),
while patrolling southbound last night on Hwy
#93 near the U.S.A. Border at Roosville, "Marty"
who was driving says "WTF is THAT" ? I looked up
and saw it as well. It was a very large upside
down triangular shaped thing from the lights
sort of defining it's shape.
We
were a couple of hundred yards (300) away I
guess? It was BIG... I think maybe 60-80-100
feet across the top and tapered down to 30-40-50
at the bottom, but again tough on the EXACT
distance? It was very low, maybe 100 ft off the
ground ahead of us, just above the treeline,
stationary, or moving towards us? I couldn't
tell by no side to side movement for 7-8
seconds, then just tilted on it's side and moved
behind an outcrop of trees on a berm out from an
escarpment. We continued down the highway
towards it expecting to see it again because it
was only 30-45 seconds to get there.... nada,
GONE, nothing there.
Marty
and I dunno WTF it was? I mean this wasn't a
"twinkle" in the distant sky here. It was BIG
with defined lights. Nor it seems, can the 2 of
us now later, agree on a few things. I remember
yellowish lights at bottom moving up to greenish
and red/blue at top. Marty says no they were
more clear, he doesn't think colored, if at all.
I was washing trucks earlier, got grease on my
glasses which I cleaned, but maybe I had some
residue on them which made the light "prism" ??
No
matter, we both saw it. It was big, it was
hovering (or moving towards us), it was not an
airplane (no airplane THAT low, or slow, in
pitch black darkness). Helicopter of some kind?
Maybe if it had huge infrastructure to mount
light rows? No noise, again THAT low in complete
darkness, and the lights didn't have "beams" per
se, more just "luminescent" if I am spelling it
right. And if it was some kind of tricked up
Heli.... where in the heck did it go THAT fast?
I mean it would have had to have risen above 200
ft to go over an escarpment behind those
trees... which we should have see as we
travelled towards it. We almost don't believe
what we saw. But we both know we saw it.
We
got up the nerve to go into the CBSA Border
office at the Roosville crossing around 9:30 pm
just after, the field behind the trees where it
disappeared is right across the #93 from
them.... to ask if they saw anything. I guess we
sounded like babbling Idiots. They saw nothing,
but weren't looking outside from their lit up
building either. They have no surveillance
cameras either... so nothing there either.
I am 56 years old, Marty is
37. For my part... being as set in my ways, and
"comfortable" with the way things are in the
World, and what I accept as "real".... pretty
disturbing, and I don't wanna discuss it in
future. I'll go with whatever Marty wants to say
about this. My name is Bob.
18-Jan-2014,
Tsawwassen, BC: (9:17 pm)
My
friend and I were driving in my car, coming home
to my townhouse and her condo from having dinner
up the street in Tsawwassen. I turned into an
apartment complex as a short cut to drive my
friend home (she lives in our condo complex
attached to the town houses, just down the road
from this intersection) and as we were driving
down the side road, in front of us and up in the
sky we saw two amber coloured, floating,
seemingly round objects. They were rising
gradually and several seconds later, faded in
and out slightly, and at different rates as they
rose. I got out of the car to take an iphone
photo and got one or two shots. Then a
neighbour's car drove past us and I pointed up.
After the car passed us and went into their
underground parkade, the two orbs simply faded
out and disappeared. Then about 10 seconds after
they disappeared, two MORE came rising up from
the left of the horizon (tree tops) at a faster
rate shooting to the right, upward on a
approximately 60 degree angle! They slowed down
their acceleration, then hovered slowly, still
slightly accelerating, then eventually also
faded away and disappeared! One was always
higher than the other. In one photo, if you
magnify it, you can see a white glowing disc,
with some sort of amber/pink energy coming out
of the back of it and just below it at the back
another small object separate from. Small, like
a smaller ship, cloaked in the pink/amber
colour! Beautiful!
23-Jan-2014,
Burnaby, BC: (7:10 am)
It
was 7:10 am in the morning, it was slightly
foggy out and I had just turned down Wayburne
drive in Burnaby when I noticed 5 lights in a V
formation under the moon. The lower light on the
right side was blinking. I did a double take,
because I know there are no buildings or
mountains over there. I drive this route nearly
every day and have never seen any lights there
before. At first I thought it was the stars, but
when I looked around I realized it was too
bright for stars, and these lights were as big,
if not bigger than the brightest star in the
sky. Then I thought maybe it was planes doing a
formation, but none of them were moving.
Keep
in mind I was only able to see them for maybe 10
seconds before I had to turn behind trees and
park my vehicle. Maybe 15 seconds passed while I
parked. I ran back to the road to see if I could
figure out what the lights were, but I couldn’t
see them anymore. I thought maybe they were just
blocked by the trees, so I walked down the road,
but I still couldn’t see anything anywhere in
the sky. There were no stars out, as the sun was
rising. And there was no way they could have
just disappeared that quickly from sight.
Especially being that large and not moving to
begin with.
I’m
not sure what those lights were, but I can’t
seem to come up with a logical explanation. If
anyone else saw these lights, or has any
information on what they could be, I’d be very
interested in knowing more.
23-Jan-2014,
Surrey, BC:
My
upstairs neighbour and I went to the gas station
as a late night walk one night and on the way
back we noticed a super bright, what we thought
was a star. But after looking a little
harder to try and figure out if it was just the
space station or not we both saw it with various
colors of flashing lights coming from it. We
kept our eyes on it the entire walk home and
once we were home we stood in the back yard were
it was darker and watched this thing for a
really long time.
We
both were amazed as it seemed to get closer and
we were asking each other every time it moved,
"did you see that?". Then we started to see
there were three more. They were at the south,
north, and east points of a compass and they
were all blinking brightly. We couldn't take our
eyes off them. Then as it got even closer we
could see the outline of something that was
incredibly huge. The lights that were changing
all the time were showing the underside of this
thing and we couldn't believe our eyes. It
looked like this thing was rolling in every
direction as it was looking for something. The
lights would change from red to blue to white
sometimes purple but we saw a lot of green.
After some time it started to move further away,
what looked like higher up and I had to follow
it so I took off across the street and into the
park that was pitch black and when I got into
the dark I turned around and my upstairs
neighbour had turned around and gone home, but I
continued into the dark. I watched it till it
got to high for me to see anymore. But I
could see the other three had moved right along
with it till I could hardly see them too.
We
were so glad that we were together cause we
didn't think anyone would believe this story.
But the two of us really did see what we were
telling people and people were looking up things
on the internet to try and explain it but both
of us just kept saying, "nope, not like that" or
"it was way bigger than that!".
So
the next night we went out again but it was too
cold for my neighbour to stay outside with me so
I put on a big coat and sat on the outside
stairs and looked up. It was there again but up
really high. I ran in and grabbed my iPad but it
couldn't pick it up, it was too far away in the
dark. I sat outside with iPad in hand and waited
for a really long time to try to catch this
thing but after it got really too cold for me I
had to come in. But let me tell you, it sure has
me watching the skies now. While we were walking
back from the gas station we even stopped people
on the sidewalk and asked them if they knew what
that "thing" might be and because it was
flashing blue and red people were suggesting it
was the police helicopter. But it was just
hovering and there was no noise coming from it.
It's something I will never forget. It was
incredible.
Keep your eyes to the skies.
You never know what you will see
25-Jan-2014,
North Vancouver, BC: (about 9:30 - 9:37
pm)
I was leaving my boyfriend's
house at approximately 9:30 p.m. on January 25th
2014. His house is located at the top of Fromme
mountain in North Vancouver British Columbia.
From his house there is amazing view of the city
of Vancouver, and Burnaby. As I was leaving I
noticed a bright light over the City of
Vancouver. It is not uncommon to see planes
coming to and from YVR airport, but I knew this
was different. The night before we were looking
at stars, and noticed a very bright one in the
sky. At first I thought that this light might be
the same star, but I quickly realized it was
not. Normally, planes that are going into the
airport are moving quite quickly, but this light
was not moving at all. It seemed as though it
was flashing every once and awhile. I watched
this light for approximately 5 minutes and it
did not move at all. I know it was not the same
star as the previous night, as it was lower in
the sky and much brighter. At 9:35 p.m., I took
a picture of this bright light over the city.
Soon after, its flashed one more time and then
disappeared. I am certain it is not a plane as
it did not move for approximately 7 minutes. I
know that it was not a star, as it disappeared
while I was looking on at it. My pictures are
not extremely clear, they are quite dark, but
they easily show a very bright light over the
city. If you would like, I would be happy to
send them to you, along with a comparison of the
skyline without it. I was wondering if you got
any other reports similar to mine. Thank you.
26-Jan-2014, Roberts Creek, BC:
(6:00 am)
Around
six am (it was dark) I let my dog out to pee and I
saw a bright large object traveling from north to
east. It was traveling very fast, faster than the
jet I also saw with blinking lights, and jet
sounds, going south east to north. The
bright object had no noise and it was closer to
me, and lower, than the flight of the plane. The
object had no plane lights, it was just incredibly
bright. Perhaps the crew of the plane saw it. Also
the plane would have left Vancouver vga airport. I
live in Roberts Creek, BC, Canada.
29 or 30 or 31-Jan-2014,
Halfmoon Bay, BC: (11:00 pm)
I live in Halfmoon Bay, BC
area just up from Sargeants Bay Provincial Park.
Our house is about 1/2 km from and faces SE to
the Malaspina Straight to Nanaimo. We do not
have an ocean view but do have a view of the
horizon through our trees from about 1/6th the
way up the horizon from the ocean through the
equatorial to polar north. The Malaspina has
been the location of many strange sightings over
the decades and I keep an eye out for activities
over the straight. Most often it is just low and
high level air traffic and sea level marine
traffic. You can sometimes see through the trees
the mast lights of passing ships. However this
night around 11PM I was on the back deck
considering some night sky photography when I
saw a pulsing orange, yellow and red light
directly over the straight and clear to my line
of sight through a break in the trees. I assumed
it was a helicopter or perhaps an SAR aircraft
so I dismissed it in my mind and went back in. I
knew it could not be float plane traffic from
Nanaimo as they are VFR. I came out again in
about 5 minutes and to my surprise the light was
still there holding steady. I am a former Air
Traffic Controller from the RCAF way, way back
so I understand the mechanics of aircraft
movement in the sky and this light in no way
corresponded to that. It had no characteristics
of a flare nor any moving aircraft and it was
too high to be a boat mast light (too bright and
wrong colours). I watched it for another two or
three minutes and then it just popped out of
existence. It did not move vertically or
laterally. It was there one moment then not. I'm
curious if anyone else saw this especially those
who live on the waterfront with unimpeded
sight lines.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for the sighting
report.
I must say, given your
credentials, as a witness you are an
investigator's dream!
Under
normal circumstances and given the date, I would
first think of a Chinese Lantern, celebrating
the New Year (on the 31st Jan) similar to this:
However, although the
stationary appearance of the object may fit, the
colour/illumination change does not quite fit.
Was there any discernable
pattern in the colour of the object? What
intensity was the light?
What angular degree from the
horizon was the object and if you had to
estimate at what altitude/distance from you?
I look forward to hearing
from you, and again, thanks for contact us.
Richard
UFO*BC
Witness
Responds:
Thanks
for the reply. Given the distance to object from
my vantage point, the size perspective and the
lack of drift or wobble on any axis, in my
opinion, it's hard to accept it was anything
drifting in the air. I cannot give a size
reference as I have no terrain reference to do
this. However the object was about the size of a
weather balloon viewed from about 2-3 km
distant. There was a moderate breeze but the
object was absolutely stationary. There was no
flicker. Its dominant colour was red to
orange/yellow diffused across the object. From
my perspective it seemed to hover closer inshore
to the Sunshine Coast side of the Straight. This
means that the object had to be at least 30-40
m+ in the air given the angular mechanics
of my location to the Straight. Other sightings
of lights I have seen that were boat masts would
place them mid channel on the Straight perhaps
5-8kms from the Sunshine Coast side and those
mast lights were very small, red and green. I
would not be able to see them otherwise. I look
down slope at a moderate angle and the focal
point of my view is mid-channel. In any event
this object acted in a manner inconsistent with
any object I have seen in the air. Perhaps its
mechanics were more a matter of perspective from
my vantage point than actuality.
30-Jan-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (7:00 pm)
My
parents have a friend who has seen many
sightings and he called us today Jan 30 2014
around 7:00 pm that there was something in the
sky that was not a star because of the size and
the light it was giving off. My dad came home
from work and said he too saw it and brought out
his binoculars. From what I saw at 12:20 ish it
was a bright light that was shooting out light
in a perfect star formation. But brighter than
any other in the sky. When I looked through the
binoculars I saw a structure that was showing
light off the side that went red, yellow then
green on the outside. It's been in the sky for
hours and hasn't moved. I can't get any picture
to focus on what the human eye can see. There
were also three symmetrical green lights a bit
away from it.
Would love to hear any
information about this.
4-Feb-2014, Pritchard, BC:
(10:38 pm)
At
or around 10:38 pm, I was outside looking at the
night sky when an object caught my eye. At first I
dismissed it as a satellite, but I soon realised
it did not seem to be one. I was looking to the
South and the object was flying from the East to
the West, about 1/4 of the way up off the horizon.
The object was brighter than most of the stars in
the sky, but not the brightest. (very bright
though). It's speed was amazing. It crossed the
whole sky from East to West in roughly 20-25
seconds.
I do spend quite
a lot of time outside, at night, when the sky is
clear looking and learning the constellations; so
the night sky is not unfamiliar to me. If this had
been a plane, I would of noticed the blinking
lights that are associated with planes. As well,
regarding the speed at which the object crossed
the sky, if it had been a plane the plane would of
had to of been relatively close to my position and
I would of heard the engine noise.
I have watched
and spotted many satellites over the years, but
the position and brightness of the object did not
correspond to any I have ever seen prior. The path
of the object was more of a straight line than a
"curve" that would be associated with a satellite
traveling at the height above the horizon as
stated. It was not the ISS, because of the
direction of travel. The ISS travels in the
opposite direction.
Thanks for the opportunity to pass this
information on. If at all possible could you reply
to me with any other sightings in the area or time
frame. Thank-You.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thanks for the report.
At
the speed in question, it is certainly not a
celestial object, nor a meteor. So it would need
to be some type of object (plane, satellite or
other). Was there anything that completely removed
all possibility that it was a common satellite?
Unfortunately there isn't going to be an easy way
to identify what it could have been.
I'll keep digging and try to track down
what was in the night sky in your
area during that time. Try poking your head out
again tonight (if it isn't too cold) and see if
you can see it again (give or take some time).
Cheers,
Richard.
Witness
Responds:
Thank - you Richard for the response to
my e-mail.
As
for your question regarding it being a
satellite... 100% positive.; unfortunately the
answer would have to be no. (with a BUT...) From
time to time I have been witness to very bright
satellites that pass over head; I believe them to
be labelled as "Near Earth Orbits". As I
recall during these sightings, the satellites
start out dim then as the continue their pass
across the night sky they increase in brightness,
then as their path continues, they again fade. The
sightings of this type of satellite, that I have
witnessed usually occur closer to sun set and or
sunrise; when they catch the suns rays. As well,
these satellites do travel quit fast across the
sky; as I am to understand because of their
relative low orbit path. The object I witnessed
had a constant intensity to it for it's entire
journey. All in all, it may have been an
satellite, as new ones are added constantly.
Be assured, I will be looking again, and
not just because of this incident. There is much
to see and witness in the night sky.
Thank-you very much for your time. Keep
up the Good work that you are doing. It will pay
off in a big way someday.
6-Feb-2014, West Vancouver,
BC: (5:15 - 5:30 am)
I live at one of
the highest points in the British Properties, West
Vancouver. My bedroom window faces south with a
grand view of Lions Gate Bridge, Stanley Park,
Vancouver city and the lower mainland. I sleep on
my bed facing west. I was asleep on my body's left
side, facing the window.
Between 5:15 and 5:30 am, I had woken up to my
cat's claws on my back, as he was trembling with
fright, hiding next to my back under the blanket.
Just half a second after I had woken up, a very
bright white light shone outside through my
bedroom window. It lit the whole room so bright,
that the light was coming through my blanket. I
was paralyzed in fear; so was my cat. I kept my
eyes closed, but the bright lights went through my
eyelids as if they had been open or made
transparent.
The object emitting the light was hovering
silently outside my window. And it was hovering
slowly upwards. The light felt intelligent as if
searching or scanning the room. I had this
terrible sensation that it was reading me. I laid
still in paralysis. After 60 seconds or so, the
light turned off, and it was gone in a flash. I
felt a strange sensation that the light was
emitted from a huge flying object. The object had
vague appearances about it.
As soon as whatever it was went away, the cat and
I were suddenly 'released' from our paralysis. The
cat took off and hid under my bed, and I
immediately got out of bed and looked outside the
window. I had been awake since then. Couldn't go
back to sleep.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you
for the report. Very interesting that your cat
seemed affected by it as well. Was there any
accompanying sound that preceded the light? You
mention the light itself was silent, just
wondering if there was something beforehand that
may have awoken you out of your sleep?
Just a few thoughts:
As
you mention your bedroom faces south, that is
directly in-line with YVR - could it possibly be
an airplane's landing lights that you caught in a
holding pattern?
Perhaps a plane circling around to land
in Vancouver Harbor (Seaplane)?
Another possible explanation was that of
a police helicopter with a searchlight on it.
It would help if we could get a picture
from your bedroom window to see exactly what you
would see on a 'regular day'
Thanks for the report!
Richard
7-Feb-2014, South Surrey, BC:
(7:30 pm)
I was outside
having a smoke when I saw a strange object
hovering well over our pond. At first I thought it
was a plane but it was far too close and it was
not moving. It had blue and red lights on each
side of the strange U shaped cylinder with white
lights in the middle. It slowly shifted to the
left and got even closer to me. I felt something
very strange so I ran inside of my house. As I
looked out the window from inside it quickly
jolted right and went out of my sight. I have
never seen anything like it.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you
for the report! How large was this object, and how
far from you? Was there any associated sound with
the object? Any chance you can draw us a picture
for us (and include what you think the relative
dimensions were) and send it to us?
Thank-you!
Richard
10-Feb-2014
and 13-Feb2014, Kelowna, BC:
At
5:45 PM on Feb 10th my wife and I were heading
out of the house for dinner and the moon that
night was massive and bright; illuminating the
snow covered ground in white light. My wife
looked up and asked me if that was a plane.
Moving ever so slowly towards the moon at an
incredible height was a large "round" object
projecting an incredibly intense pure white
light from its underside. We stood in the
freezing cold and watched it move south west
across the sky until it stopped and just
hovered. I cannot impress enough how high,
bright and large this object was. I ran and got
our binoculars and there it was, a massive flat
rotating disc; colored lights on the underside
and brilliant white lights surrounding the disc.
We watched as it hovered, moved from side to
side and in a split second; lit up with bright
intense multicolored lights and
disappeared up and west at a very high rate of
speed. On our way to dinner we discussed at
length what we had seen; not too sure how to
explain it or whether or not we should discuss
our sightings with others.
This morning; Feb 13th at about 6 AM my wife
once again asked me if what she was looking at
was an airplane. I went to our dining room
window and just like last Monday; an extremely
large white light was moving ever so slowly
across the sky in the exact same location as we
had seen it before. Judy grabbed our camera,
changed to the telephoto lens while I went for
the binoculars. This time our sighting lasted
for a full hour and (we live in a
cul-de-sac) one at a time our neighbors
came out, binoculars in hand as perplexed as we
were. A massive structure, surrounded with
(alternating) 4 to 8 bright white lights around
its circumference with the underside showing
hundreds of symmetrical smaller white lights in
a balanced and equal pattern. The object went
from being a giant white orb to a flat disc;
hovering and moving on what would be considered
a fixed pivot point. We shot some amazing
pictures (still in the camera but I will load
them into my PC later tonight). We watched in
amazement as a smaller white orb "appeared" out
of nowhere and hovered beside the larger object
for about 20 minutes. It was now getting late
for me as I needed to get ready for work but my
wife continued to observe and call out to me the
(now 2) objects activity. Over the course of
another 1/2 hour; the smaller object seemed to
disappear either inside or attached itself to
the larger object at which time it slowly
started to rise and then with a more rapid rate
of ascent, simply disappeared. The added
"mystery" to this sighting was its apparent
desire to be seen and noticed. This morning the
sky was very clear with the exception of a small
gathering of gray semi transparent clouds. The
object went out of its way to move slowly
between the spaces of the aforementioned clouds
each and every time it was about to be covered
by the clouds. I am still digesting what we saw
but am extremely anxious to get the pictures
into my PC and see more closely what we have
captured.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for your report.
I would certainly love to see any photos
you have of the object! How big was it in contrast
to the full moon? In the meantime if you cannot
get a photo to us right away, could you kindly
draw what you saw on both dates?
We
would love to speak with your neighbors as well -
if you wouldn't mind passing on our contact
details to them (website or email) that would be
great!.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Talk to you soon,
Richard.
PS - When
emailing the photos, please try to send the
original unedited uncompressed files as directly
from the camera - that was we can do some work on
the images themselves, whereas the data would be
lost as soon as it was altered in any way.
PPS - I understand if you do not
wish to divulge your address to us, however if
you could give us an approximation (for Google
maps) as well as the direction you were facing
at the time, we can start our analysis.
13-Feb-2014, Kelowna, BC: (5
am)
I was reading
the sighting that happened in Kelowna and I too
saw that light. I woke up at 5 and went on the
deck for a smoke when I saw the bright light. It
stayed stationary for over an hour then slowly
moved further across the sky. I saw it above east
Kelowna. I got my binoculars out it was oval with
red. I took some videos on my IPhone and they
didn't work out, I phoned my sister and she too
saw it. I watched It through my binoculars the
whole time. I took still photos with my camera I
need to check them. It was so bright I could see
the stars around it clearly. As the sun came up
the light stayed there I have pictures with no
stars in sky and daylight with this light on my
phone, hovering by the few grey clouds in th sky.
It was so weird I'm glad it wasn't just me who saw
it. I watched the sky the next night and it wasn't
there. I have never seen a light that bright stay
in one spot. I knew if I didn't take pictures no
one woud believe me.
13-Feb-2013, West Kelowna, BC:
(5:30 to 7 am)
I too saw the exact same
description as a previous slighter commented on.
I was on my way to the gym early in the morning
and up in the sky I saw what I assumed was an
airplane. After my 1 hr work out the light was
in the same place. I received a text from
my sister that moment and she was asking me if I
was seeing what she was. I pulled over and
took a really good look and I swear I saw a
large circular disk surrounded by mini white
lights. The little white lights were not
as big or bright as the "orb" that seemed to be
just below the massive disk. The brilliant
light seemed to be moving a little around the
larger disk. The disk was still there at
7:00 am. It was definitely closer to earth thank
star and I also noticed the grey clouds around
the disk as the sky was completely clear and I
thought it odd. Didn't report it as it was
so huge and no one else seemed to notice it.
Then I noticed the report here, thanks I am not
imagining things!
14-Feb-2014,
Duncan, BC: (11:28 am)
Two
very small metallic objects. 1 flew in
front of the other. The object in front flew
side to side and up one time slowed down almost
to a complete stop and then disappeared within
seconds the secound object disappeared. I
only observe them for about 20 or 30 seconds.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank you for the report.
A few questions:
When you say small objects -
how big were they? Small relative to what?
You also mentioned flew -
where were they flying - direction, speed
height?
Any sound associated with
them?
Thank-you,
Richard.
15-Feb-2014, Victoria, BC:
(about 1:45 am)
2 guys went
outside for a smoke after a night of poker. They
called us out and we saw 3 orange lights moving
slowly through the ski, faded into the clouds
after about about 2 minutes. One of the guys got
some video on his phone I can get that if needed.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for sending us the report.
Were
the lights in any particular formation/pattern?
Also which direction were they travelling and how
fast (compare it to an airplane, hot air balloon
etc). Also how big were the lights? I'd very much
like to see the video!
Thank-you,
Richard
Witness
Responds:
Hi Richard,
They formed a triangle pattern moving west mostly,
slower then a plane, moved slow at first then sped
up. Size would be a guess, had nothing to
reference for altitude and distance. Probably a
foot or 2 in diameter lights with the triangle
maybe 40 feet from point to point. Was lower when
we went out, went up into the clouds.
I will forward a copy of the video once
I get it from Alex. He is a friend of the guy who
was hosting the poker party. I don't know him
directly.
19-Feb-2014, South Vancouver, BC:
(6:30 pm)
Saw
a strange bright reddish/purple light while I was
driving home after work tonight. Got home
and onto my balcony as quickly as possible to get
a better look. Took some pictures with my
iphone and ipad. I also got a look at it
with binoculars and I just don't know how to even
describe it. All I can say is that it was a
huge object, with lights of many colours, but
mostly red and sort of purple, blinking and
pulsating. What I saw through my binoculars
were lights shooting out from this object in an
upward/outward motion, almost like wings, but they
were definitely lights. This isn't a good
description, but I really don't know how to
describe it. Did anyone else see it?
It was huge, well under the clouds, very slow
moving (I followed it the whole time I drove home,
once I got to South Vancouver from downtown) and
when I got to my balcony, there was absolutely no
sound. Please tell me someone else saw this.
It was amazing! It was moving east to west
in South Vancouver. It was right above my
house! Somebody else had to have seen this
thing.
25-Feb-2014, Surrey, BC:
(6:55 pm)
I saw 2 purple
reddish blinking lights parallel to each other
going north/ northwest similar to what was
described by the feb. 20/14 sighting. Luckily I
had my glasses on, I saw what looked like a force
field that was surrounding the blinking light and
it also was going in an upward motion but was
constantly around the light. I thought it was a
satellite or a plane but it was super high and it
kinda did a zig zag and then just disappeared.
27-Feb-2014, Victoria, BC:
Hello.
I live in Victoria on Vancouver Island and my
house has a fair view of the night sky, from south
to north facing west. A few nights now, not in a
row, I have seen what appears to be a star at
first glance however, after closer observation,
this star does apperar to have blinking red and
blue or green lights. It stays in the same general
area but moves in rather a sudden and awkward,
slight left to right movements that make u think
"is it me. Or is that thing moving?" It is
hovering and has no obvious engine noise. It looks
to me that whatever it is, it's either trying very
hard as a ET ufo to blend in as a star in our
night sky, or someone who is operating it as a
drone had a very shakey hand. I cant seem to find
what im looking at when searching drones so I was
hoping u could help decipher the difference.
Thank you.
UFO*BC
Responds:
If
it is relatively stationary in the sky, it is
probably a star. The flashing colors is quite
common and is caused by atmospheric
scintillation - which is caused by fluctuations
in the density of air in the atmosphere. The
movement is probably just the apparent perceived
motion that sometimes happens when looking at a
star or other stationary object in the night
sky.
We get many, many similar
reports and the first time I noticed one in the
evening sky I also wondered if it was maybe a
"hovering craft".
Gord
UFO*BC
28-Feb-2014, Lone Butte, BC:
(00:10 am)
While
looking out our kitchen window which faces south I
noticed something very bright in the sky which at
first I thought was a star. I turned off the light
over the dining table to eliminate glare or
reflection. My husband had just gone to bed so I
asked him if we had any binoculars in the house,
he said no, followed by why? I said oh nothing I
just wanted to look at something. I went back to
the kitchen window and it was still there. We live
in a rural area, without street lamps and at this
time the sky was cloud free. There are tall spruce
trees on the property across the road, about forty
feet tall and they are situated about 150 feet
from the kitchen window I was looking through.
This object was about 6 - 8 inches above these
trees, but in the distance. I could tell
that it was rotating, as there were both yellowish
gold lights and green lights, and as it spun it
was as if the light was thrown to the side of the
object which seemed to form rings similiar to the
rings of Saturn [ which is the only way I can
describe it]. It would throw these rings first
with gold to the right, then green to the left,
then the colors would reverse.
The
object remained in one spot. I do have a small
digital camera, but night pictures don't turn out
very well, so I didn't bother getting it. I
watched it for about 7 minutes, then I decided to
go out on the porch and see if I could get a
better view. It was still there, so I watched it
as it rotated with the two colors for another 5
minutes. Being that it is minus 8 C. tonight and I
had hurried out without a coat, I came back inside
to continue my watch from the kitchen window.
Unfortunately when I got back to the window, it
was gone!
I just wondered
if anyone else had seen it. The shape? I don't
really know, but I would assume it was circular by
the half circle rings of light that were thrown as
it spun.
28-Feb-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (11:30 pm)
I have a video link that I
shot with my iPhone. It was really strange. At
first, before I started filming, there were 6
lights, moving through the sky in a V formation.
Then, one by one, they seemed to move farther
away - and disappeared. I kept filming and more
joined. Did anyone else see this? Here's
the link: http://youtu.be/y8nd9g2FGnQ
28-Feb-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (about 11:30 pm)
A friend and I were walking
West along King Edward Avenue, on the North Side
heading back to said friend's house we both saw
what looked like 3 orange/red orbs above Queen
Elizabeth Park.
Initially
it seemed two of the orbs were moving and one
was stationary above the other two. I would
estimate the altitude was no more than 500
meters above Queen Elizabeth Park. As well, I
would estimate the position of these objects to
be slightly West and North of the Bloedel Floral
Conservatory in QE Park when viewed from a map
above.
At
first we were intrigued and my Friend suggested
that they could be lights on a construction
crane. However, there are no construction cranes
in the park. As well, I did not see any outline
of any crane or other structure around or in
between the orbs.
We
went south along a street to get a closer look
at the orbs and we were startled by a dog in
somebody's yard that seemed very aggressive
towards us. Perhaps it was aware of the orbs
too, perhaps not. After walking closer to Nat
Bailey Stadium overlooking the northern face of
the park, we got a better look at the orbs.
Now
only two were left, and they were orange/red or
amber orbs of light, with the light being
uniformly distributed along the body of the orb.
I did not suspect that they were Chinese
lanterns, as the light they emitted was uniform
and unflickering, and one orb was stationary
while the other was moving around it. As well,
they made no noise as they hovered above the
park.
After
viewing the orbs for maybe 6 more minutes, the
two orbs gradually shrunk into pinpoints and
then disappeared altogether. Very strange
indeed.
2-Mar-2014,
Mission, BC: (7 pm)
My
landlord was driving me home tonight and as we
were talking a HUGE flash of amber light appeared
over the Fraser River, only a couple hundred feet
up. The entire sky lit up but a very clear orb was
the source. It must have been at least the width
of the river. There was no fore-warning, or any
sign of anything after the fact. The weather is
rainy, foggy and generally miserable, but when
this flashed it was bright as day. This is the
second ufo I have seen/reported since December
(the first was Dec 11th, scroll up to see). Both
were basically along the Fraser River. This was
nothing like the first sighting I had - many times
bigger. If I were to hold my arm out the object
would have been 2x the size of my fist, at a 20-30
degree angle from the ground. There are no air
traffic buoyies over that part of the river or any
warning lights that could have burnt out. There
should have been nothing there at all.
2-Mar-2014, Mission, BC: (7
pm)
I was sitting in
my livingroom talking with my husband when I saw
the night sky light up like it was daylight. From
where my home is up high in the mountain I saw a
HUGE STRIP along the horizon (could have been
anywhere from the Fraser river as far as
Abbotsford) but it was so bright and flashed for
only a few seconds and then went back to being the
night sky. My husband had his back to the window
and the view was just over his shoulder or I would
have missed it. I was in amazement and shock
trying to describe what I had seen. It wasn't
anything small - it looked like a strip of the
entire horizon had lit up. I didn't see anything
hovering or a UFO but I read that someone else had
seen something over the fraser river. It was
so crazy to see the black sky go bright blue for
that second. I'm wondering if anyone else saw
anything that night.
8-Mar-2014, Sooke, BC: (00:28
am)
This
object is in the sky in relatively the same spot
on several occasions. Very large bright multi
coloured "star" like object which continuously
moves slowly up and down or side to side. It emits
a greenish light that changes colours quite
frequently. I've tried to capture the image on my
phone but wasn't really successful. Have to see it
to fully understand. I've showed my room mate who
was too afraid to be outside after I pointed it
out. Not like any star or planet I have ever seen
before. Am located by the 17 mile house in Sooke
bc and can see the object directly in front of me
when I am looking towards Sooke direction in the
horizon. Creepy as hell.
18-Mar-2014, Mission, BC:
(10:55 pm)
I would like to
report a strange orange/amber light in the sky to
the north. The light was very bright and appeared
to be about 100 feet above the roof tops of 7th
Avenue in Mission, BC. I saw it from my back yard
on 5th Avenue. The light got brighter and dimmed
out until it just vanished without a trace. At
first I thought it was a meteor or something and
then noticed it didn't appear to be moving. I have
reported the same light a few years ago. It was
very strange the whole observation lasted about 2
minutes and it went from being very light to gone
in the time. I heard no noise or anything that
would indicate a plane or helicopter. I would
suggest it was not flare as I didn't seem to drop
down in an arc or move at all.
I would like to
hear some explanation if you have one.
Thank you.
18-Mar-2014, Mission, BC:
(10:55 pm)
Hello,
I would like to report a strange orange/amber
light in the sky to the north. The light was very
bright and appeared to be about 100 feet above the
roof tops of 7th Avenue in Mission, BC. I saw it
from my back yard on 5th Avenue. The light got
brighter and dimmed out until it just vanished
without a trace. At first I thought it was a
meteor or something and then noticed it didn't
appear to be moving. I have reported the same
light a few years ago. It was very strange the
whole observation lasted about 2 minutes and it
went from being very light to gone in the time. I
heard no noise or anything that would indicate a
plane or helicopter. I would suggest it was not
flare as I didn't seem to drop down in an arc or
move at all.
I would like to
hear some explanation if you have one.
Thank you.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Your observation sounds like
a Chinese lantern. Are you not aware of them?
They are paper lanterns that
use a candle to heat the internal air making the
lantern rise.
The candle also provides
illumination. The lanterns will sometimes
flicker before they burn out.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/7/1/1372693693818/A-Chinese-lantern-being-l-010.jpg
These sorts of sightings are
quite numerous and we frequently receive similar
sightings from areas all over the lower
mainland.
Cheers,
Gord
21-Mar-2014,
Abbotsford, BC: (8:15 pm)
My
husband and I were driving home tonight and I
noticed some blinking lights up towards the low
hills in East Abbotsford. I thought it was
strange because of the position as it was just
to the left of the red beacon lights for the
airplanes. As we continued driving, the object
got closer and I got really excited. I could
make out a triangular shape with a red, green
and white light at each tip.
It
was flying low and was about 4" inches
across in diameter. I knew for sure
it was a UFO, when I saw a plane in the
background heading towards the airport
travelling at a much faster speed. It put
everything into perspective as to how slowly the
object was travelling and how close it was to
the ground. We were home in under a minute and i
jumped out of the car to try to get a picture,
but it was gone. Darn!!
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for the report!
Can you provide a bit more
details for us, so that we can mentally have a picture of the event?
How high off the ground
would you say the object was when you saw it?
Also how far part were the
lights? You mention 4 inches in diameter - I am
having difficulty in understanding
the meaning of that size. Do you mean the lights themselves were 4" across,
or that there were 4" apart (and thus the object was the size of a bagel)?
The colours you describe are
the colour requirements for lights on aircraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_light
So, the obvious question:
What made you think it couldn't be an aircraft given that you were near an
international airport, and around the flight path of known aircraft?
I am of course playing the
devil's advocate, but this type of information
is essential to paint a clear
picture.
Looking forward to hearing
from you!
Richard
UFO*BC
22-Mar-2014, Steveston, BC:
(10:40 pm)
My
husband was outside of our townhouse walking our
dog. My daughter summoned me from upstairs and I
could hear my husband calling for me to come
quickly. My daughter told me as I was throwing on
shoes that they saw 3 red/orange objects coming
down from the sky.
When
I got on scene these 3 objects had vanished. As my
husband was explaining to me what he saw (3
red/orange round objects hovering in a triangle
over about a 2 minute period) another red orange
object appeared from west to east.
It
looked like it was staying in one position for
about 1 minute then started to have bright bursts
like pulsating pattern. I caught this one on video
on my phone and it was 2mins 37 seconds long
before it disappeared.
We
had never seen flares before but we called it into
the police because we were concerned that a vessel
might be in distress on the Fraser given our
location.
We were patched
through to the coast guard I believe (jrcc
victoria) whom we spoke with and I also emailed
the video along to.
It
was a very clear night last night, planes overhead
passed us and this object I witnessed was
completely different. The operator told us that
flares generally only last 45 seconds to 1 minute.
Also suggested that it could be Japanese lanterns?
I was emailed
back that the sightings were established not to be
of a marine emergency but no confirmation if any
one else had reported this either.
We
later took the dog out to Garry Point and saw
nothing further. Went on Google and my husband
said that a sighting in 2011 in Colorado that was
photographed beared an uncanny resemblance to the
3 reddish orange hovering objects> sent chills
right up my spine! They also looked like the one I
witnessed!
Stumbled across
this site and wanted to post to see if anyone else
in Richmond/Ladner area had also seen this last
night.
Regards.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you very much for the
report.
I know it may be very
difficult to answer, but how far apart were the objects to one another, and
how high up were they and what sort of speed were they moving (snail's
pace or jet liner fast)?
At first glance, as the
coast guard seems to have ruled out the use of emergency flares (from a
real emergency) it may be something as mundane
as a group of Chinese lanterns.
As they loose lift (due to the candle burning out) they will start of
descend and in their final death throe, give
bursts of light as the candle
flickers and dies.
Now of course, if the speed
and altitude were known, then this could rule out this (rather simple)
explanation, but given the large number of such sightings we have from the
Richmond/Vancouver area it does lean in that direction. Looking forward
to hearing back from you!
Richard
UFO*BC
Witness
Responds:
Hello,
When
my husband was on the phone with "jrcc victoria"
the operator asked how many fists from the
ground if stacked on top of another. I used my
fist and counted 5 because there was still one
left when he was on the phone.
Not
as high as the airplanes that passed overhead
but much higher than surrounding buildings and
trees, as well as lamp posts. Bright orange red
distinctive colour not of any boat masts/ ships/
lampposts, etc.
Moved
slower than a plane. When it came into view it
seemed to stop and hover in front of us at a
distance. We initially thought it must be right
above the Fraser.
We are 2 blocks away from
the river.
Then
started to move further East, appeared to have a
steady glow with a slight pulse. Disappeared
after 2 mins 40 seconds. 4 in total.
The first 3 were in a
triangle and one slightly moved around according
to my husband. No noise at all emitting from
them.
At
the time I felt no fear but I did feel like it
hovered within our view almost intentionally. (I
feel very weird admitting that but it's the
honest truth). When it appeared to the both of
us it was moving at a steady pace from West to
East but then stopped. Restarted at a snail's
pace before it vanished Eastwardly. We were
looking at the object South of us.
The
post on your site from Vancouver that has a link
on YouTube looked very similar to what we saw if
that helps. Height about the same.
Yes it's entirely possible
that they are lanterns of some kind, but my
husband disagrees.
Thanks for your reply.
31-Mar-2014,
Kelowna, BC: (1:30 am)
I VERY saw a bright amber colored,
twinkling, star, March 31, 2014 at 1:30
AM. The colors brightened around the edges, so
I figured it may be an ember from a fire,
though I saw no fires, nor did I smell smoke.
We live on a flight path and can tell which
direction planes are coming from or going to.
This light appeared to be a very bright star,
not the same altitude as a plane, higher. It
did emit a very small red light every 30 or so
seconds. There was no sound, and no other
planes in view to compare it to. The light
originally stayed put, as if floating in the
air when I first I saw it. Thought it was the
prettiest star I had ever seen. It passed by
slower than a large gliding bird - in no
particular hurry, heading up the lake towards
Vernon - it did not appear to be going towards
the Kelowna airport. Just curious enough
to ask if anyone saw this. Thank you.
2-Apr-2014,
Richmond, BC: (1:19 am)
Driving
into my townhouse complex at 1:19 am I saw a
bright white light cross in from from right to
left. I was facing north so that would make the
light moving from east to west in the northern
sky. Though lacking clear perspective, I would
estimate it's position as being over the
airport, vancouver or over the northshore
mountains though could have been further away
depending upon size.
The light was a solid blue white, probably
around 5000 kelvin. It was very distinct against
the black cloudless area of sky. While moving
east to west, it decended at an angle of about
20 to 30 degrees. The decent was not smooth and
appeared to incorporate one or two dips while
changing from oval to flat to oval and possibly
flat again. IF it were saucer shaped, the best
explanation would be that it was banked, then
flattened out, then banked again, then possibly
flattened again before it left my line of sight.
The changes in bank (shape) appeared to
co-incide with the dips. The size of the object
would be about .1 to .15 inch at arm's length.
The
time in view would amount to about 1.5 - 2.0
seconds max. My line of sight was blocked to the
east by other townhouses and the latter part of
the decent was also blocked as the object
disappeared behind the roofs of other townhouses
in the immediate distance.
Did
not appear to be a meteorite although I can not
rule that out. I have seen several but none like
this. It was moving very slow for a meteorite
yet much too fast for a plane. I have been in
aviation for nearing forty years so I know
absolutley it was not an airplane.
2-Apr-2014, Kelowna, BC: (2:30 am)
Two,
what appear to be stars, shaped in the former
of an anniversary ring, three tiered, with
white lights with one, perhaps two red lights
in the middle. The bigger one appears to be
flight height, the smaller has slowly
ascended, and getting harder to see. They
appear to be over hwy 97 in Kelowna, just
before Glenmore Drive, and after Clement.
Never saw shapes like that. They certainly
aren't bright enough to notice. The
smaller of the two is nearly out of eyesight.
5-Apr-2014,
Roberts Creek, BC: (9:15 pm)
Was
a formation of 6-8 lights, appeared above tree
line but below overcast clouds. Silent, no
sound. Drifted to left slightly then we ran in
to tell my husband and they were gone when we
ran back 30 seconds later. We both asked each
other if we had seen it, I'm not afraid of going
out in the dark, I walk my dog each night in it,
but tonight was incredible, it WAS something
unique!!
9-Apr-2014, Vancouver, BC:
(8:45 pm)
I live close to Renfrew sky
train at 15th & Slocan. Last night, I
decided to walk to the store for a tasty
beverage. Upon exiting my back door, I noticed
two bright star-like lights in the eastern sky.
They immediately caught my attention as it was
not dark yet and no other stars were visible, so
I thought to myself; 'What the fuck?' (pardon my
french.) I stared at them for a second and could
not believe my eyes as they started moving in a
manner I've never seen a plane or helicopter
move. One of them started descending and moving
further away, much to my amazement it faded away
and vanished before my eyes...WHAT THE FUCK?! I
called my roommate to come look, he just missed
the vanishing one, but the second one started to
slowly ascend, pulsating in brightness in a
seemingly random pattern. It found a position
and remained stationary. We stared at it for
about 10 mins, the thing just pulsating. He went
in, I walked slowly to the store staring at the
object the whole time. I stopped and stared at
it for about 30 mins, by this time the stars
were out. The object was almost
indistinguishable from the stars, save for the
fact that it was slightly brighter and continued
pulsating. I noticed the second one (barely
visible) was floating around the area, almost
scanning, I would say... it would sometimes
flash faintly and then fade again.... The whole
time I watched these things I had an intense
tingly-cold sensation all throughout my
body....weird!!! That's pretty much it, I
watched the stationary one for over an hour,
waiting for it to do something. It didn't. The
thing is you would probably never be able to
tell the difference between it and a star if you
didn't know.
Thanks for listening.
11-Apr-2014,
Garden Bay, BC: (about 9 pm)
On
the night of April 11 my wife and I decided to
have a little backyard fire and watch the stars,
even though the moon was almost full you can
still see a fair amount. About 9 p.m. I looked
up and saw a bright light travelling from S.W.
to N.E. It traversed the horizon in about 30+
sec. It was by far the brightest object in the
sky other than the moon. It flew directly
overhead and I paid special attention to any
noise such as a plane would make and it was
absolutely quiet. Where we are it is extremely
quiet ( no traffic, nothing ) so to hear a plane
or a motor of some sort would be easy to hear.
Not having something of known size to compare it
with, it is hard to say how big it was, but it
did just nicely fly over Mt. Daniel which is
beside our house and it is about 1500 ft. and if
I held out my hand at arms length my thumb nail
would just block out the light. Just before it
flew over Mt. Daniel we saw another one flying
from south to north on an intersecting course
with the first one. We observed this one for
about 3 sec. before it faded away right before
our eyes. There were no clouds present to
obscure it, it just faded away as it was
traveling. After they were gone I went and got a
camera and binoculars just in case they came
back. We stayed out for a couple more hours but
saw nothing more.
Hope you might have an explanation for this or
know of any others seeing this.
12-Apr-2014,
Vernon, BC: (about 4:30 pm)
We were in Kal park and a
large orange disk shape appeared over the lake.
14-Apr-2014,
Sechelt, BC: (about 10 pm)
I've
seen many similar strange sightings over the
last two years, viewed across the water around
Sechelt, BC. In all instances, the events
included orange lights, sometimes in formation,
travelling over the Strait of Georgia towards
Nanaimo.
This particular sighting on April 14/14 took
place between and slightly behind the Trail
Islands as viewed from West Sechelt (at
approximately a distance of 3km off shore), at
around 10pm.
There were six lights, travelling together in
pairs at different altitudes, with the highest
being approximately 300m off the water, and the
other two pairs just above the water. All
were moving together at the same pace. The
foremost pair of lights was white in colour, and
one blinking light. The second pair was
also white lights of medium brightness, while
the pair at the highest altitude were
orange. While watching the event occur,
one of the top orange lights flared up to an
extremely bright "fireball", and stayed at this
incredible brightness for approximtely 1 minute
before dimming down.
Watched these lights as they headed off across
the Strait, and then they became dim and/or
blinked out and disappeared.
Would love to hear more reports from people in
the Sechelt area, as I am sure others have
witnessed such events. I always watch for
them now, as it seems during certain times of
the year the lights can be seen out on the water
sometimes up to 2 times per week, ususally about
an hour after dusk through to late evening on
clear nights. I have also seen them
originate from behind Davis Bay / Wilson Creek
area, as viewed from West Sechelt beaches.
They usually always show up as orange lights
that 'flare up' as they move across the Strait
or remain stationary at altitudes approximately
the same as regular float plane traffic.
24-Apr-2014,
Invermere, BC: (4:30 am)
I was outside and the sun
wasn't up yet but it's light was beginning to
light up the night sky. The stars were still
fully visible. As I looked up I saw a bright
flash and then a smaller flash. I've seen this
before and thought it was an iridium flare
satellite. I continued to watch it as the now
smaller light travelled across the sky. All of a
sudden it did a 45 degree turn! I watched as
this object then started to dart across the sky
making small deviations in its flight path one
of which was a fairly large circle. By now the
sun was coming up and the night sky was
brightening making it more and more difficult to
see the object. Before it became near impossible
to view it started doing tight, perfect circles.
Now
last night - 3:30am - I went outside again. My
theory is that now I know what these objects
look like, possibly I may see more. I saw two
more small, fast lights making "not" straight
line trajectories around the night sky.
I'm
wondering if anyone else has seen these objects
because last night it seemed there were lots of
them? I've found that you have to look at a
piece of sky clear of any other stars or bright
objects and look for tiny specks of light that
are moving very quickly. They're hard to see but
once you know what to look for there are lots.
29-Apr-2014,
Powell River, BC: (9:40 pm)
Large
bright light, turquoise in colour, in the
northwest sky over the straight adjacent to
Powell River. Light hovered, moved from side to
side, up and down in speed that was not
indicative of civilian aircraft. Lasted about 1
min then descended out of view and not seen
again.
Seen by myself and my
boyfriend Steve
May 2014,
Kelowna, BC:
I was walking the
neighborhood around the high school area here in
Kelowna I was about to head home when two
individuals let me know that they had seen a ufo
in the sky and I could still see it if I went
into the school field. They stated that there
were still other people watching. When I arrived
I did not see anything until two minutes later
when five large circular white/yellow lights
appeared overhead in the east. The lights did
not move or anything but stayed stationary and
burned a hole in the clouds making a large gap
appear. The lights began to move away from me
growing brighter and begining to blink and
pulsate. They then blinked out and disappeared.
May 2014,
Surrey, BC:
A few tears ago I reported
what I thought were strange lights, but after a little more
investigating, I was satisfied
what I saw was simply jets coming into YVR. My point in saying this, is
it is easy to be fooled; clouds moving against the
dark sky make bright planets appear like they
are moving.
Anyhow my curiosity remains. Since then I have seen a
lot of stuff I can't explain. One in particular was around the
end of may 2014, about 2 am. 2
nights in a row I saw a bright orange light
similar to a jet at a distance, but this was closer,
guessing 2-3 miles away. A solid light,very bright, no beacons, moving steady from west to east, about
1000-1500 feet in elevation, maybe moving about 150 mph.
Rough guessing, as my dad
and brother were both pilots, and I flew a lot with them
when I was younger. What struck me about these
lights is they were stone quiet eerily silent,
and they seemed to just float through the sky. I
am in the flight path to YVR,
and I take note in detail when a plane passes
over as to the size, the speed, the noise, the lights, altitude,and
there is no mistaking, maybe a china lantern? I somehow doubt it. The frustrating part is all I
could see was the light, no structure, although I am sure that
there was some. I saw it come towards me from
the west, I watched it head east
towards Cloverdale, north of 64th, south of Fraser hwy and west of 152 Street. It was high enough to dart
in and out of low cloud. I dont take this stuff too
lightly and I'm not going to report every thing
I see.
That was the 3rd and 4th
time I haveseen these things, a single object each time.
I know others have seen
similar stuff in my neighborhood. That's all for now as this is
getting too long.
Thank you for your time.
2-May-2014,
Abbotsford, BC: (3:00 am)
I live in the lower fraser
valley where on clear nights you can see every
star in vivid detail, so I often star gaze in my
backyard. I am nessled right in between the two
mountains with the abbottsford airport on one
side and the flight path comes right overhead
over the valley. On may 2 at about 3:00 am
(I checked my clock an hour later) I was
standing on my back porch having a smoke,
looking toward the ground when I saw a flicker
in my peripheral high up in the sky
(iphone compass says 150deg/SE) It was a
'blinking white light' that appeared to be a
light from a plane. I watched it and noticed it
wasn't blinking in a pattern, it was like blink
2x, pause pause, blink 3x pause 4x, blink 1x
pause 8x... Not like a plane that has a set
pattern. ALSO it was stationary and moving in
what seemed to be a shape.. It blinked the first
time, then the second time it appeared to the
left, then the 3rd down, 4th right kind like a
small circle or square, not tremendously
noticable but enough to get me excited as to
what i was seeing. I have a very tall tree in my
yard that blocks some sky from my view. The
light appeared directly on the left side of the
tree. My smoke went out, I looked downward as I
reached for my lighter when suddenly a 'pure
white fireball' appeared from the right side of
the tree (165deg SE) and shot right over the
mountain and vanished (SW). the fire ball was
about 1/3 the size of the moon (HUGE)!!! I
described it to my mom as a giant
METEOR!!! I'm not sure if the fireball
came from the first object or not, I was looking
down for about 6 seconds when the fireball
appeared from the same general spot in the sky.
I wasnt going to post this
but I thought I would look on this site to see
if anyone else saw this and was surprised to see
that somebody from OLIVER had seen something
Very similar!!! On the same date but at 9:30 pm,
where as my sighting was at 3:00 am!!!!! 2 GIANT
METEORS in 1 day? The sighting in OLIVER said
they heard sound which I didnt hear, and my
sighting had 2 anomalies. WIERD RIGHT!?
2-May-2014,
Oliver, BC: (9:30 pm)
I really don't know what it
was... at first I thought it was a meteor
hitting the atmosphere since that's exactly what
it looked like - a streak of light moving
incredibly fast through the night sky. I was on
my deck star gazing. I live just north of town,
and the night sky is filled with stars on a
clear night, so I enjoy just looking up at the
beautiful view. I have seen "shooting stars"
before, and I always get a thrill when I see
them, and I had heard that there was some meteor
activity lately. This one, though, made a sound.
The best I can describe it is like a low
vocalization of the letter V (not "veeee" but
"vvvvv") for a few seconds. It seemed to be
coming from the object, but it was not the sound
of something motorized. It was not an insect,
bat or bird as it was lit up, and not from
reflected light. It was obviously not something
hitting the atmosphere as the sound did not come
after the sighting, but just behind it,
indicating it was fairly close. I would not have
deemed it strange except for that sound. It was
moving very rapidly from north to south, and was
only visible (and audible) for approximately 2
or 3 seconds and was gone. To be honest, it kind
of stunned me! I am not adverse to the
possibility of "visitors," but I am pretty
skeptical of many "sightings" of said
extra-terrestrial vehicles. I'm just very
curious as to what this was.
8-May-2014,
Victoria, BC: (10:30 pm)
In
the month of May 2014 I was standing outside of
my apartment in Victoria, BC waiting for a cab
at approximately 10:30 PM. During my wait on
this clear night I was looking up at the various
star clusters. My eyes were drawn to one
particular group of stars which were bright
enough to see quite well even though they were
surrounding the area of the sky where the moon
was. After staring at this cluster for about a
full minute, one of these ‘Stars’ started to
move. This object went from being stationary to
moving vertically at a consistent rate of speed
and a consistent trajectory for about 3 seconds.
After which the object started to weave in a
narrow slalom (or snake like) pattern. This went
on for about another 3 seconds. During this time
the object was dimming and re-illuminating with
each swerve but at the same time each
re-illumination was getting weaker and weaker
until the object disappeared all together.
I have been an aviation
enthusiast all my life and my brother was an
airline pilot for 40 years so I have a better
than the ‘average Joe’ understanding of flight
characteristics. What I witnessed does not fit
the parameters of any aircraft I am familiar
with therefore I deem this sighting to be
phenomenal in nature.
10-May-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (9:45 pm)
I was outside playing
volleyball when this big bright light hit the
sky it had two front lights and i thought it was
a plane until it hovered upwards in a vertical
motion i swear it was a ufo
12-May-2014,
Armstrong, BC: (8 - 9 pm)
A white star-like light just
south of zenith. I thought it was Saturn
or Jupiter but it seemed too bright because it
was visible shortly after sunset and the sky was
still quite blue. We looked at it at 60x with a
good 80mm refractor until some very light cloud
cover obscured it. Later it disappeared
completely. It looked oval so we thought it was
Saturn at first but it looked more like a
translucent balloon. It was very close to the
ecliptic, probably midway between Mars and
Jupiter. It was stationary. Was it some kind of
weather balloon?
15-May-2014
Campbell River, BC: (12 pm)
Looking
north from deck of house, estimating 20 kms away
at an elevation of 7000 feet, possibly over
Browns Bay, I observed a bright yellow and white
light for 3 minutes, not moving but pulsating.
Then the object made a very rapid ascent
straight up, leaving a cone trail of yellow
light. The end of the tail had yellow sparks
which faded out in 4 seconds. Saw no object only
light - half the size of a dime. Very weird??
15-May-2014,
Terrace, BC: (2:30 pm)
At
2:30 PM, with mostly clear skies, myself and my
co-worker spotted a stationary white object,
which at the angle of observation resembled the
shape of a long house-style propane tank, of
about 15-25 m. length and 3-5 m. in height,
estimating a sight distance of about 1 km and a
height of about 300 m. above the Skeena River.
The site was about 8 km west of Terrace, BC. We
observed it while driving, but lost sight
through the trees. Once we were in a position to
have another look and take a photo, it was gone
(of course...) There were other vehicles
traveling just behind us. I would be surprised
if none of them saw it.
I was quick to note: 1) the location was too low
and too far west to be a scheduled Dash-8 plane
out of Terrace. 2) there were no wings (fixed or
rotating). 3) There was no tail fin. 4) We
observed it for about 15 seconds independently
out of two different windows in the vehicle, so
it can't be a reflection in the window.
17-May-2014,
Parksville, BC: (5:10 pm)
The
wife and I seen something unusual this
afternoon as we where sitting in our back yard
watching 2 eagles in the sky above our area of
housing . We seen this round white cloud looking
object moving rapidly across the clear blue area
of sky. It looked like a round white cloud, the
same color as the patches of white clouds which
where scattered across the sky. I told the
wife that it seemed to be a UFO -- as we had
seen UFO's before in the Yukon where we lived
before. That round cloud object was heading for
a large white cloud formation, so I ran
into the house to get my 10 x 50 binoculars
before the object went into that cloud
formation. When I came back out of the
house the object had already disappeared into
that larger white cloud formation. I then
watched the sky for the round object to reappear
somewhere on the other side of the larger white
cloud formation. At the speed that round object
was travelling it should have appeared in a
short time, but it did not seem to leave that
larger white cloud formation. I was
watching around that cloud formation for that
object maybe between 5 to 10 minutes when a
large coal black object appeared out of my side
of the middle of that white cloud formation for
a flash of a second only and then disappeared
back into that white cloud formation. I
thought for a second that it might have been one
of the 2 eagles we had been watching before, but
they where still flying in circles a long way
lower than that cloud formation which was high
in the sky. I was definately a big black
object which I mistook as a large black
eagle with it's wings stretched out in a gliding
flight. That round cloud looking object or the
coal black object that came out of the cloud
formation for a flash of a secong did not seem
to reappear. BUT, then all of a sudden, maybe 10
minutes later this big white jet plane came from
a Southern direction and turned to go through
that white cloud formation I had been
watching and then continued to fly through the
next 2 white cloud formations in a Northern
direction, like it was looking for something.
The sky all around those white cloud formations
was blue, clear sky and that white plane seemed
to pick those white cloud formations to fly
through. Looking it up on the internet it
appears that the white plane was a US Air Force
E-4B jet plane of high importance [look it up].
The round cloud like speedin object was a UFO as
many people have also seen, I found out on
the internet. I THINK --- that the E-4B
military jet was looking for that round cloud
like speeding object [the UFO] and was chasing
it. YOU CAN PHONE ME FOR MORE INFO IF
NEEDED.----- -Very interesting to me!
31-May-2014,
Terrace, BC: (12:30 am)
Observing
easterly from Highway 16 near the intersection
of Hwy 16 and Hwy 37S by Terrace, BC, myself and
my girlfriend both observed an object sporting 3
very bright lights descending into the local
golf course vicinity, the lights passing through
trees on the intervening hill indicating descent
on the east side of the hill.
The event took place at
12:30 am (pitch black night).
This makes two sighting in
two weeks.... what the heck is going on?
31-May-2014,
Abbotsford, BC: (5:00 am)
This sighting was around May
31, 2014 around 5:00am. I live around McCallum
Road not far from the 7/11 store.
I had slept through most of
the day so that night I was having trouble
sleeping. Around 5am I went out back onto my
patio to have a cigarette. In the sky I saw a
bright blue light approach from the west. It was
gliding through the sky at a medium-fast speed
and would zigzag some of the time. It being 5am
it was completely silent out and considering it
wasn't very high up one would expect a sound if
it was a plane, but no there was not. My phone
was upstairs in my bedroom so I knew that if I
were to get it I would miss it. I followed it
down my driveway and as far as I could until it
was too far.
It was creepy how silent it
was, not to mention the zigzagging maneuvers.
This could not have been a plane in my opinion.
31-May-2014, Coquitlam, BC:
(about 10:30 pm)
Here’s
my story. I apologize for the length, but I
figured the more detail the better chance of
figuring out what this sighting might be.
I was driving
home to Port Coquitlam from North Burnaby, the
Capitol hill area on Saturday evening May 31,
2014; it was about 10:15 when I left Burnaby. I
was leaving a friend’s house, like I’d done a
gazillion times before. This time as I went to my
car, parked on the street, I noticed what an
exceptionally clear evening it was, absolutely
crystal clear. I don’t remember a night as
clear, and it made an impression on me. Later,
when I mentioned the strange clarity of the
evening to my friend, she mentioned that her
husband had noticed the same thing and had
commented on the clearness of the evening, as
well.
I drove East on
Hastings Street over Burnaby mountain (SFU) and
down to Broadway, left on Broadway, which turns
into Como Lake Road. I took this route because I
thought I’d have a nice view of the city as I
drove down Burnaby mountain. I drove a few blocks
along Como Lake and noticed how light the traffic
was. In fact, there was no traffic. I thought that
was odd. No traffic on Saturday night 10:30ish on
Como Lake Road?
For
a few blocks I had the green wave of traffic
lights, and then I hit a red light. I was all
alone on Como Lake Road, no other traffic, waiting
at a red light. While I was sitting at the traffic
light I happened to notice a pulsating red light
out of the corner of my eye, to my right, which is
toward the south. It was sitting on the tree line,
at the top.
I work in the
area, and I thought it a little odd because I
didn’t remember any radio towers in that area
(there is one, but it has a blinking white light
on it). I paid the pulsing red light no more
attention than that.
The
traffic light changed and off I went. A moment or
two later I noticed that the pulsating red light
was moving along the tree line in the same
direction I was travelling. I thought it was a
helicopter. I assumed it was looking for something
because it was so low. At some point I noticed
that the pulsating single red light had become
three pulsating red lights and that’s when the
object really caught my attention.
At
some point the object came out from the tree line
(from Mundy Park, approximately) and hovered at
the end of Como Lake Road and Mariner Way. It
seemed to be directly over the fire station on
Mariner Way. It had 5ish pulsating red lights in a
horizontal position and below the red lights, in a
vertical position, were about 6 green lights.
Together the red lights and green lights made a
half cross formation. Red horizontal and green
beneath in a vertical position. At this point I
had driven about halfway down Como Lake Road and
didn’t understand what I was looking at, and I got
a little nervous. I even wondered if I should pull
over, but I didn’t. By then there was one other
car right beside me, pacing me. I really wanted to
look over at the other car and see if they were
seeing what I was seeing, but I knew if I took my
eyes off that object I might not see it again.
At
this point I still can’t make out the shape of the
object that is supporting the red and green
lights, but it is moving up, slowly floating up
above the fire station. I rolled my window down to
hear it, thinking I might be able to tell what it
was by its sound. I heard no sound. As I drove,
somehow the form of the object became discernible.
I couldn’t see it very well because the body of
the object was flat black or dark grey in colour,
like a gun metal black. I really don’t know how I
was able to see that and the object was gigantic.
When I saw the size of the object, I freaked out.
I started searching in my purse for my phone.
(never stopped driving)
Then
without warning the gigantic object zipped
sideways, like a slider switch on a stereo
system. It zipped North toward Coquitlam
Center Mall. When I looked over to where it had
zipped, I saw a second object in the sky, exactly
like the first one that had just zipped over there
- Yes, another gigantic object hovering in the
area near or over the mall airspace, with lights.
The first object zipped back to its original
position over the fire hall, zip, zip. Once it was
back hovering over the fire hall, the second
object, the one over the mall, made exactly the
same maneuver, zip, zip (travelling south and then
back to its position over the airspace over or
near Coquitlam center mall.
I had convinced
myself that I was seeing some kind of movie
special effects. I actually wondered if a movie
was being shot in the area. If that is the case
then I’d really like to know. I thought I would
see this in the news and newspaper, it was so
spectacular, but I haven’t heard any reports.
By
now I had reached the end of Como Lake Road and
turned right onto Mariner Way headed for Chilko
Drive. I decided I would try to follow the object
that now appeared to be following the power lines;
it stayed low in amongst the treetops. By now I
had found my phone and realized that the flying
object’s trajectory would make it visible from my
house which looks out across Colony Farm. I phoned
my husband and said, “Stop whatever you’re doing
and look out the bedroom right now. Tell me what
you see.” He said, “Red and Green lights?” I
screamed, “Yes!” He hung up.
When
I got home all I said to my husband was, “I’m not
going to say anything. All I want you to do is
tell me what your impression of that object
was.” He said, “It was massive.” I
asked him how long he watched it and what it had
done. He said that he ran onto the balcony to
watch it, described its trajectory then he told me
he’d run back in to grab his phone to take a
picture and when he came back about 30 seconds
later it was gone.
3-Jun-2014,
Kelowna, BC: (9:00 pm)
I was sitting out on my
front veranda watching the wind, rain, and
lightning storm when over the mountains to the
west slightly to the north, I noticed a very
bright object with a sparkling trail starting
from like a funnel shape, but going vertically,
and reflecting in the sun that was visible under
the storm clouds. It sat stationary for a couple
of minutes, then started gradually heading to
the northwest. It would have been over but very
close to the top of the mountains just past
Okanagan lake to the west. I went and got
binoculars and watched it, and then thought to
get my video camera. As it gradually moved
away, I have over 2 minutes of video, but every
time I tried to zoom in, it went out of focus,
but to the naked eye was very sharp and visible
in the sky. It was clearly a roundish
shape, and glowed as bright as the sun. I had
two other people from the house come out and
tell me that I was not seeing things, both of
them non-believers, but now they were unsure
about that. I will try to view the video on my
smart tv to see if enlarged, it is any
clearer. The object was probably around
20-25 km's away when first viewed, so may have
been quite a large object.
11-Jun-2014,
Garden Bay, BC: (11:35 pm)
I recently reported a
sighting in the sky above Garden Bay B.C. on
April 11 of this year. Last night June 11 my
wife and I were outside in the backyard enjoying
the fireplace when we saw a light in the sky
just like the one we saw exactly two months ago
to the day. This time it was travelling from due
West to East. The object was about one tenth of
the size of the moon and again there was
absolutely no noise. As before there was a full
moon, but this time there were some clouds in
the sky. The object was at the same level as the
clouds, as sometimes it would be behind the
clouds and then it was in front of them. For
comparison, earlier in the night a helicopter
few over, the unmistakable sound and the nav.
lights made it obvious as to what it was. About
20 min. after the object went out of sight we
saw a satellite go by and the appearance was
totally different from the object that we saw
earlier. Garden Bay is across the Straight of
Georgia and just south of CFB Comox and just
north Nanoose Bay and the Whiskey Golf Maritime
testing range, perhaps that could explain the
strange objects in the sky at night, I don't
know? As before if anyone has an explanation as
to what this could be I would be thank full. In
the mean time I will be watching the skies more
than ever.
Summer
2014, Abbotsford, BC:
Every
clear night in the summer, there is a light in
the sky above Abbotsford, BC that shows up after
midnight near downtown. It looks like a very
large bright star through the naked eye, but if
you look at it hard, you can tell there are
flickers of green and red, as well as the white
light. Through binoculars, you can see a cluster
of coloured lights, and an orb that seems to be
zig-zagging slightly, but stays in the same
location. It is not always in the same spot, but
it is always in the same area. It is at a level
that is lower than the airplanes fly. It looks
like some of the coloured lights detach and fall
away from the orb, and others seem to be
re-attaching to the orb.
You can see it if you are driving east along
South Fraser Way, once you cross Gladwin or
Ware, and also from McCallum Road, facing north.
Otherwise, you can locate the tree line that
runs east and west, slightly north of South
Fraser Way, between Ware Street and Five
Corners. Look in the general area over the tree
line (which is in the direction of the Transfer
Station and the Skydiving Landing). It usually
stays there until daylight.
Binoculars or a telescope would be best.
UFO*BC
Responds:
It
most likely IS a star. This is a common
phenomena - scintillation - disturbances in the
atmosphere cause the colors. I have seen this
many times and the effect is even more dramatic
when looking through binoculars.
Gord Heath
22-Jun-2014, Castlegar, BC:
(afternoon)
My
partner was laying on the grass and called me, he
directed my attention overhead. We watched an
elongated, spherical, 'silver' object pass over
us, quite high up. Later I went on Youtube and
found that someone in Russia had captured a video
of it from an airplane. https://youtu.be/VIwgmg6L4Wo
25-Jun-2014, Squamish, BC:
(11 pm)
Can't
believe I'm posting this but I know what I saw
and I'm wondering if there was anyone else in
the Squamish area that saw the same in the
northern sky?
At around 11pm, June 25/14 N/E Squamish I looked
out my kitchen window to see this object in the
sky. I knew immediately it was not a star/comet
or a plane…..as the lights were red/green/white
and hovering in one location. It would stay at
one spot then would jut up and down, then would
quickly flutter from side to side. I have a
stabilizing set of binoculars - so it wasn't me
shaking or moving around! I watched it with my
binoculars for 20 min till it moved north over
the mountain top. I really wanted to try and
find some explanation of what this object was?
Did anyone out there see the same???
29-Jun-2014,
Vancouver, BC:
Yesterday,
(June 29th 2014) I was sitting in my car looking
into the sky and I noticed 6 small white dots
moving in the sky, they were in a kite shape
moving very slowly and then after about 5
minutes slowly moved in a V shape. They
were moving extremely slow and were slightly
smaller than stars. I saw this around 4:00
and the sky was completely clear where I was. I
know they weren't stars because they were too
small and they were moving. I lost sight
of them after I watched them for a few minutes
and then they were gone. I would like an
explanation of what I saw if possible, as it is
the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
7/8/9-July-2014,
Kootenay Lake, BC: (10:30 - 11:30 pm)
Multiple
events over three nights East shore Kootenay
Lake directly across from Kokanee Glacier.
All three nights were warm and dry with either
no clouds or a couple small ones. There was no
haze, the air is dry so clarity is good.
There was an approximate half moon and it was
bright.
First
night all three of us were on the lake shore
star gazing and looking for satellites to
watch. We started to see satellites pretty
frequently almost right away. Soon my
daughter mentioned that she was seeing bright
flashes in the sky to the south. Turning
our attention to the south we all started to see
them. This was not lightening, planes, or
any satellite (tumbling or geosynchronous)...no
flight path pattern was evident. The lights
seemed too random, but uniformly bright white
and would flash for the same duration. In
each case they would go on and off like a
flashbulb. In all we saw approximately
twelve before calling it a night.
The last two were a little more
significant. I had seen three in the same
place over about five minutes and the fourth I
saw in the same place. At the same time my
wife and daughter saw another one directly west
of us high in the sky. I used the
binoculars to look at the same point in the sky
to the south I had been seeing them and asked my
wife and daughter to do the same in case I had
to adjust the view. I had been looking in
the spot for about a minute when one of what I
thought was a star (since it was stationary and
about as bright as a medium bright star)
suddenly zipped of at immense speed away and out
of view...faster than any satellite I have
observed.
We saw one more flash the next night and then
three more in quick succession the night after
that. These sightings were more in the
west and directly west of us high in the
sky.
I have seen flashes in the night sky on numerous
occasions over the years since I like to watch
the sky. I have even seen two before in
rapid succession in the same area of sky before,
but nothing like this. In those other
instances I was in the Fraser Valley and even
though it was clear the light pollution and air
pollution affects clarity of viewing.
All this makes me wonder why there are not more
reports on this matter. Has anyone tried a
time lapse video to check for anomalies?
Has any Astronomer checked into these?
15-Jul-2014,
Botany Valley, BC:
We
were camping in Botany Valley which is between
Lytton and Lilooet. We were at Pesultko
Lake which is very remote at 4000 feet and
nestled between a number of mountains. It was
morning with no clouds and very clear. Two
adults were sitting at a picnic table in a
clearing, one adult was standing by some trees
and one adult by the camper under an awning.
At
about 8:00-8:30 the silence was interrupted by
the roar of what sounded like a jet engine
coming from the east travelling at very high
speed. We all looked up to see what sounded like
a fighter jet at low altitude (400-700 feet),
but what three adults saw was a very small jet
black object at low altitude with pointy
triangular wings. The trajectory looked like it
was going to crash into the mountain or across
the lake. The part which was so baffling was
that the object and sound disappeared
immediately above us. The most inexplicable part
of the experience is that the sound was so loud
and disappeared completely directly above us all
and did not complete the expected trajectory.
The adults involved a nurse, a doctor, a pilot
and psychologist. The pilot works just outside
of an airport so is familiar with the sounds and
trajectories and flight patterns of
aircraft. He has no ability to explain the
incident.
18-July-2014,
Aldergrove, BC: (between 9:30 and
11:00)
I was laying on
my couch with windows open, lights and tv low. I
noticed bright red neon lights that were
horizontal to my living room window (it faces
east). I didn't even sit up halfway and I said
"Holy S***", because I knew that I couldn't
understand what I was seeing. The red neon beams
were of different lengths. Four to eighty feet
long. They attached to a great ball of
immense light it was fuzzy where they joined. My
17-year-old came out from the washroom thinking I
had stubbed my toe. When she came down the hall
she saw me staring out the window, still not even
sitting upright. She had her iphone in hand and I
remember her saying I gotta take a picture of
this. I then got up and walked to the window to
get a better look. The trees across the street
were glowing red and the red neon beams came out
from all directions. It was hovering out my living
room window less than 100 feet away and lower than
the telephone pole behind it. The pole has three
transformers on it. There was no noise only a
vibration like an "ohm" could be felt in waves. I
was mesmerized and I couldn't take my eyes off of
this light. There seemed to be movement somehow
inside the light. The glow of red dimmed as did
the brightness. The red neon beams that seemed to
be 8inches around had a flat solid end and I
watched them retract into the light ball. The
light ball was the size of a cube van. It was a
windy night with some cloud cover but no rain. It
dimmed and shrank until it flashed a dim yellow
amber than shrunk. I remember seeing a flash of a
silvery metal capusule, then it blinked from the
band around the center, moved 20-30 feet east and
disappeared in front of us.
The
next day it seemed that my memory was showing my
mind things that I do not remember happening, such
as not even looking at the object out the window
but knowing it was there. My daughter never got a
picture as she was also too mesmerized. I did
canvass neighbors on the following day but
couldn't find anyone other than my daughter and I
that witnessed.
Within
a week later I also saw three large orange lights
that were in a triangle formation. They were also
east out my window. The lights were also witnessed
by my daughter. They blinked out one at a time
without moving. They were the size of a dime held
at arm's length.
I was not under the
influence of drugs or alcohol. Has there been
any other sightings around that time? I have
also since found out that Corina Saebels had
reported missing time and a sighting. We live in
the same community and I'm just blocks away from
where the film footage of her story was taken.
Is this a strange coincidence?
19-Jul-2014, Mount
Tzouhalem (near Duncan), BC: (00:15 - 00:25)
Lying
on our backs watching the stars I noticed what I
initially thought was a satellite. A bright
light flared from it fora second, expanding to
about 5mm in diameter. I was slightly
stunned by this but managed to make out the
object move off in a NE direction at what seemed
to be a slow speed but it got smaller and
dissapeared making me realise it must have gone
away from Earth at a great speed. It happened so
fast my girlfriend missed it. I'm not sure what
man has managed to build and test up there but
it was like something from star wars. I see
other similar sightings have been posted from
this area. Anyone know what that might have
been?
Summer 2014, Boston
Bar, BC: (6 pm) (Reported 9-Mar-2024)
Silver disk-shaped object with red, green and
yellow lights. Sighted in the summer of 2014
over the west slope of the Cascade Mountains as
viewed from the Stoyoma Creek Ecological Reserve
in Boston Bar, BC. Stayed still hovering over
the mountain top for a total of about 5 minutes
then sped off and vanished into thin air.
August
2014, Helen Mackenzie Lake, Vancouver Island,
BC: (11:00 pm)
There
was roughly 10 tent pads (all full) at the Helen
Mackenzie Lake. I would say roughly 17+ people
in total that were there witnessing the event.
We were all up there to watch the Meteor Showers
up in the alpine. It was a great show going on,
lots of comets with long tails. Then, after I
would say an hour and a half through the show
(11:00 pm-12:00am),we saw what seemed to be a
giant white/orange frosted light bulb floating
above the tree tops and over the lake. It
was moving oddly slow and seemed unreal that it
was not dropping out of the sky. It was fairly
large, DEAD QUIET, no running lights or strobe
lights and moved in a wobbly, narrow zig zag
pattern in a straight line. This craft, went
right over all our heads and continued out of
site. There were many others who witnessed this,
and I even still have contact info from the
people on the tent pad next to us. It was by far
the closest and craziest encounter of an unknown
object, I have encountered in my life.
On a side note, from the same area, I have a
picture of a CLEAR daylight photo of a craft
moving very fast. My friend who took it said he
did not see it when he took the picture, but
noticed it when he transferred it from his small
camera to his computer. If there is anyway I can
load a photo to this report, I will gladly post
it.
I KNOW THEY ARE OUT THERE, I can not say
otherwise after that incident.
6-Aug-2014,
White Rock, BC: (10:45 pm)
My
boyfriend who lives in surrey about 20km away
from me called me telling me to look outside
cause there was a meteor shower. I went outside
to look for meteors, when all of a sudden he
said "What is THAT!? Look straight up!" I looked
up and saw what looked like a star, moving in
spirals, shooting very faint miniature balls of
light out of it. Then I saw another one. My
boyfriend then got his binoculars and said the
balls of light were actually points on a
triangle, and since we could both see this thing
directly above us from that far away from each
other, this thing must have been huge, and quite
far up. It was there for a good half hour at
least before it took off.
8-Aug-2014,
Maple Ridge, BC: (10:40 pm)
I saw a fiery red object
with a white centre. It moved slowly from north
to west in the sky. I saw a passenger jet at the
same time that looked lower than the light. It
then came to a full stop and then seemed to move
away straight out and fade out. This all took
about 1 minute at about 10:40 pm. This not the
first time I have seen something like this. I
had not been drinking and I don't do drugs. I
was just out locking up my car for the night. I
was hoping that some one else saw the some
thing. I would like to stay anonymous. You can
send me an email if this event is real. I am a
52 year old family man.
11-Aug-2014,
Campbell River, BC: (11:05 pm)
I had a really weird
experience last night that I would like to
share.
Last night around 21:05 I was getting ready for
bed and I decided to look out my bedroom window.
It was almost dusk but still very bright out. A
close to full moon rising which was out of sight
to me but adding to the brightness.
I was looking west. I saw what I first thought
was a plane low in the sky. There is a small
airport in that direction so it wasn't out of
place. The object was below the low cloud cover
but above the tree in my neighbor's yard. I
could see a red and a green light, so ok, yes,
plane. But the object was not moving at all.
Then the outer lights turned so I was looking at
both a brilliant red and green light both on the
same side. There was no tilt or dip like you
would expect from a plane turning. It was a
stationary turn. I was looking at what looked
like a short soup can with large bright red,
green (and white?) lights.
As
I was trying to comprehend, the object moved
straight down, fast and smooth. Picture a spider
dropping down on it's web. I have never seen
anything airborne move with that precision
before. The object was now about halfway down
the neighbor's tree in altitude. It then moved
horizontally both north and south. I would lose
sight of it behind the tree at some points.
It
was so low in the sky. I could clearly see the
features. At this point I was moving from scared
into terrified. I backed away and started to
close all the windows and blinds in my house.
This was too close for comfort. I always
imagined if I had a sighting, it would be from
afar. I texted my husband to come home. I peeked
out the window and saw the object was still
there. My husband came home quickly, he was just
across the street. I made him look out the
window. He saw nothing.
I could hardly sleep last
night. I have a lot of questions. First, other
people had to of seen that. It was so low and
very bright. All my other questions are just my
imagination running wild with fear. Is there
anything that could be an explanation that I'm
not thinking of?
16-Aug-2014,
Shawnigan Lake, BC: (around 10 pm)
We
were sitting on our back deck looking west over
Shawnigan Lake. The sky was quite dark, late
stage of dusk and there was no moon. Coming from
behind the hill on the other side of the lake
were two red orbs - they came up and over the
hill horizontally aligned then one shifted to be
directly beneath the other so that they were
perfectly vertically aligned as they moved
closer. There was no sound and they stayed
stationary in this position for a couple of
minutes. There were four bright lights pulsating
at the top and the bottom of each and we could
tell they were perfect circles. They were both
red and glowing. In terms of size, obviously
really big since they made the hill across the
lake look small. They slowly vanished. Then
about 3 minutes later another appeared, a single
one this time, to the south on our side of the
lake and much closer. It came up over the trees
and hovered in place for a couple of minutes
before vanishing. They weren't Chinese lanterns
as they were much too large and because the
maneuvered in a very precise way that the wind
couldn't do (plus it was a windless night). They
were also able to remain perfectly stationary.
18-Aug-2014, Prince George, BC:
I was looking
outside at the sky one night smoking...when I
looked up when I saw 2 orbs going at the same
speed....and then the 2nd one sped up and and was
at least 5 miles ahead of the 1st one.....I though
maybe a plane, as Prince George does receive
flyovers of cargo jets....but then it shot off..
25-Aug-2014, Campbell River, BC:
I was visiting
my dad and mom in Campbell River and was sitting
out on their back deck having a smoke when I
noticed red and green lights far off in the
distance that I assumed was a plane or helicopter.
The lights were sitting above a known helicopter
launch pad out on the spit across from Quadra
Island so I didn't give it a second thought until
about 10 minutes had past and it hadn't moved at
all, it was hovering in the same place.
My
heart began to race as I knew for sure it was not
a regular plane or helicopter. I called my dad out
and told him to bring the binoculars. We both
began watching the red and green lights and taking
note of where the moon was to better gage if it
was moving at all. An hour later it was clear that
the moon had moved but the lights did not, not
even an inch. Within that time the lights looked
to have burned out several times for about 10-15
seconds at a time only to return again as quickly
as they disappeared. My dad and I concluded there
was no way a known aircraft to earth could have
sustained that position for so long whether for
how it was hovering or the fact it would have
needed to re-fuel. My father has had a couple
sightings in his life the first dating back to the
early 60's in the Kootneys and again a few years
later in Campbell River of which he snapped a
photo of it that time. It's a grey
saucer-like blurb in the photo but was taken in
full daylight with a sky of pure blue. There is no
explanation for that grey blurb having any earthly
business in that clear summer sky.
Both my dad and
I believe without a doubt we had just experienced
and witnessed an object not part of this earth.
28-Aug-2014,
White Rock, BC: (9:20 pm)
Out
from the west about 10 degrees to the left and
about 10 degrees above the horizon I saw a very
bright light in the sky with two smaller
objects, one a few degrees to the north and the
other a few degrees down towards the horizon.
The three objects merged and then within a few
seconds disappeared. I was not high on booze or
drugs and this was the most strange thing I saw.
I do not believe in Ufo's but this was
truly strange.
1-Sep-2014,
Delta, BC: (12:25 - 12:28 pm)
I was on my deck relaxing
when I noticed in the northwest sky at about a
45 degree angle from the horizon a small
stationary white object. I could tell it was
stationary as the clouds were slowly moving in
one direction in that area of sky but it
remained stationary relative to nearby tree tops
and branches. The object had blue sky behind it.
It was too small for me to discern what it was.
I called to my partner and she started watching
it too. Total viewing time at this point was
approximately one minute.
I went into the house to
fetch my camera and tripod. When I came out
after about one minute my partner said that she
had watched it slowly move to the right
(northeast) into an area of cloud making it
impossible to see. We kept watching out for it
for about another minute. Suddenly a white
object appeared from the edge of the white cloud
background travelling very fast along a
horizontal trajectory. At this point it was
about 3 times larger or 3 times closer if it was
the same object. It crossed a 30 degree
horizontal arc of the sky in about 5 seconds
disappearing behind the trees! The direction of
travel was to the southwest. At the time I
uttered to my partner “what the hell is that?”
and managed to snap two photographs. By then it
was only about 30 degrees above the horizon.
Unfortunately, the camera’s autofocus focused on
the tree tips making the object slightly blurry.
Additional
Witness Information:
Hi guys,
I think it may had been one of these that I saw
and photographed:
http://www.gizmag.com/dji-phantom-quadcopter-review/26812/
I also attached an image. I know engineering
companies use these to obtain aerial views of
projects. Maybe they were taking shots of the
new Highway 17 below our place as the object
hovered over it for a while.
6-Sep-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (10:30 PM to 11:45 PM)
We
noticed what looked like a star at first but
noticed alternating, flickering colours of red
and white light. We couldn\'t tell how far the
object was away from us as it hovered in the
same spot for the better part of 30 minutes
before slowly moving to our right and out of
view behind a building. We then walked over to
the bridge near Crab Park to resume our viewing
and watched again for another 20 minutes as it
slowly seemed to move away from us but was still
visible when we left. It was a clear night so we
were able to see other stars for comparison but
I was convinced from the beginning that it was
neither a star, helicopter, plane, or
distortion.
7-Sep-2014,
Vernon, BC:
A bit after eight I notice a
large bright white light over a mountain top by
a cell tower. At first I thought it was a
planet, but then I realized that it was
flickering. This object contained its own light,
not reflecting it off of the clouds. The object
then slowly moved upward, then turned off, then
turned back on and slowly sunk behind the
mountain. It made no sound and didn't have
lights like an airplane or helicopter.
7-Sep-2014,
Nanaimo, BC: (8:30 pm and 8:40 pm)
My
husband and I were sitting on our deck and a
bright star like object very bright in colour
and way bigger than a star caught my eye it was
going across very fast heading towards
parksville way we must of watched it for about
45 seconds or so it was not a plane not a
shooting star it made no sound and was faster
than any plane I've ever seen we were very
puzzled than about 10 minutes after that the
exactly same object came back towards us from
parksville way.like it turned around than made a
crazy maneuver shot up turned a sharp left
blinked out a couple time and completely
vanished after that I was pretty shocked I've
seen things in the sky pretty much since I was
child but this scared me to say the least. About
Two weeks ago we saw a star like object big as
well blinking out three times and vanishing. Im
curious if anyone else saw this phenomenon at
all?? Or has a insight what it could be? Last
night wad also very clear night no clouds
either.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for the report.
What
you are describing sounds quite a bit like a
military grade jet performing night time
maneuvers - only the problem is, as you
mentioned, no sound. Could have been at a high
enough altitude that you were unable to hear the
sound from the craft? From what you are
describing, you only saw a light correct? Did
you ever see any structure behind the light?
Another
option is something called ball lightening - I
am not too sure the conditions nor the
observation you made fit, but perhaps...
Thank-you,
Richard
UFO*BC
9-Sep-2014,
Vancouver, BC:
At
1:30am I saw three separate streaks of light
that appeared like they came from the ground
towards the sky getting brighter and brighter
but disappeared before completing the arc across
the horizon.
I was on the phone as it was happening and the
call I was on got scrambled and made weird
noises almost like connecting to the internet
with a dial up modem. Gibberish random noises,
then the call dropped and I lost connection.
That's it.
12-Sep-2014,
Lumby, BC: (1:00 pm)
I was driving to Vernon from
Lumby with my sister to do some shopping right
after we had had lunch. It was around 1 in the
afternoon, broad daylight, clear blue skies and
suddenly we come around a curve and there is a
perfectly round, glowing, white sphere with two
cone like chem trails coming from the bottom of
it. I said to my sister, what is that in the
sky? Is that a jet? WTF is that? She answers
with "Pull the car over!!" We jump out and while
I'm looking at it my sister says "Look, there
are two of them!" She's pointing to the mountain
and sure enough just a little higher than the
mountain is another one but its farther away and
looks kinda like a tiny sun. We grab our cell
phones and try to take a picture. Of course then
it goes a little behind a tree so then we start
jogging down the road to a clearing and take
some photos. We got four pictures but by then it
was smaller and we can't see the same detail as
we did in person.. Its very frustrating!!! I
wish I had taken a picture instantly right
through the windshield!! but it was such a weird
thing, I have never looked for or even thought
of seeing something like that in my life! It's
Hollywood stuff...not going to the grocery store
stuff.
13-Sep-2014,
Sooke, BC: (8:15 pm)
location: Just about
8km before sooke near the beginning of the basin
on the hwy.
date: Sept 13
time: 8:15pm
duration of the sighting: several seconds
behaviour of the object(s): falling from
sky but strangely....not like a firework or
plane
colour of the object(s): bright brilliant
green... almost glowing
shape of the object(s): definitively round like
a ball
any souds heard: none
weather conditions: clear
and how you lost sight of the object(s):
it went behind some trees...
would love to hear if anyone
else saw this things...
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for the report.
Last
night there was a meteor that was visible to the
LowerMainland - and fits your description and
time. It has been on the various media outlets
throughout the day.
Thanks for the keen eye!!
Cheers
Richard
UFO*BC
13-Sep-2014,
White Rock, BC:
I didn't actually see it, but my dad
did. He told me that he saw five orange lights
about 1,000 feet in the air. They were shaped
like a stereotypical UFO, and were apparently
black or dark grey. They were moving at the
pace an airplane would, but moved like a
helicopter. He said that he could see everyone
in their cars looking up at them and almost
crashing, haha. I looked up some keywords of
his sighting, and it actually matches this
person's description:
http://www.thenownewspaper.com/news/ufo-over-white-rock-woman-says-series-of-strange-lights-just-too-weird-1.514375#
13-Sep-2014,
Coquitlam, BC: (9:30 pm)
I was working an afternoon
shift tonight till 9:00 pm at the cities animal
kennel. I have to walk the dogs starting at 8:00
around a short loop just in back until all the
dogs are walked. Around 8:15 I noticed a red and
green flashing light above the east side of
Burke Mountain. (My work has a clear view of
Burke Mountain looking north.) I didn't see any
thing of the light just thought it was an
airplane or something.
After
taking a few dogs out to do their business I
noticed the light again and just kept walking
but as I rounded the kennel facing south I
noticed two larger red and green flashing lights
and they were in a parallel line staying in one
place. This is when the hair on the back of my
neck started to stand. I really thought I was
starting to see things but after looking at it
for a minute I realized it was real. These
lights were much larger and brighter than any
stars and I had not seen those there earlier in
the night. So I rounded back and took another
dog and the lights are still there, so I go take
another dog and now I only see the light that
was on the left and I keep walking south and all
of a sudden I see the light zig-zag horizontally
but going vertically. Very fast it zig-zagged
maybe 7-10 times and then shot to the right of
me (west). This is where I started to "shit
bricks" I really did not know of what to think
of it?
Thats why I posted my story
here so i could possibly get an answer!
Thomas,
PS, I was not high or drunk
since I was working, drugs are illegal, and I'm
not old enough to drink.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Hi Thomas, thanks for your
report.
As
to what it could have been? Without seeing it
ourselves, there is always the looming fact we
just do not know. It could have been the lights
from a small aircraft doing evening flying and
you happened to be seeing it at various angles
(coming towards you, away from you, etc) and
gave the appearance of a more abrupt flight path
than it actually took.
However, I cannot say
anything for sure - if you see it again, let us
know!
Cheers
Richard
UFO*BC
14-Sep-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (10 pm)
I live in east
vacouver - at 10 pm tonight I was walking my dog
and noticed a green and red light in the sky at
airplane altitude heading south. I though "boy
that airplane is going fast!". Then it stopped
dead. It stayed still for about five seconds then
started moving east at a slower speed. Then it
stopped again, hovered for a moment, and then
moved north at a high speed, but at a lower
altitude so that it disappeared over the
mountains. The lights were quite large and bright,
so whatever it was would have had to have had a
substantial size. Another man on the street saw it
too, but shrugged it off as being a drone. This
was far too big and high up to be a drone. And it
was moving FAST.
15-Sep-2014, Golden, BC:
(around 1 am)
I just found
your site through a few other links on Youtube
otherwise I would have reported this much sooner.
I have tried getting information on this and feel
it was something ET rather than a ghost / spirit.
I was on a tour
with a tour company going through the Rockies in
Sep 2014. This was on the night of September 14th
which I verified through checking my tour receipt
which was 4 days and nights.
I was on a bus
tour with all unknown tourists. We were driven to
a newly built set of cabins, truly in the middle
of nowhere, surrounded by old growth forest. No
town, no amenities other than the cabins
themselves and a shared dining cabin and kitchen.
We arrived in the afternoon. I was sharing a cabin
with two other women. They were in one bed and I
was in another (you pay an upgrade to have one bed
to yourself).
I knew the area
was new as the cabin had the "new wood" look and
other cabins were still being constructed. I
can give the name of the tour company if you need
to research exactly where this is.
I add that I had
had one glass of wine that night and have never,
ever done drugs in my life. We played some team
games and had a camp fire going. Around 11pm we
went to bed as we were leaving by 9am or
thereabouts the next morning. I am a light sleeper
anyway and sort of fell asleep before midnight.
There was an outside light for each cabin and the
curtains were thin so the light shone through into
the room, not brightly, but some light.
It
was after midnight, maybe 12.30pm or 1am and I
vaguely became aware of a clicking sound,
like a mechanical sound, clicking in a pattern. I
noticed this more and more, being half-asleep and
opened my eyes. As I looked to my right from the
bed, I saw a series of swirling mists inside the
room. The best way I can describe it is as if
there were 3 objects in water spinning around in
circles and around each other and leaving a water
trail or vapour trail. The mist trail was thick
grey but not smokey like an airplane, much denser.
But it was grey. At first I thought it was a trick
of the light but I could see it redrawing itself
and the shapes moving and changing. As if 3
(or maybe more) high speed objects were leaving a
trail behind but I could see no objects, only the
trail.
The
light shone through the curtain and highlighted
this thing or things. They were redrawing
the trail over and over as the three of them
seemed to form a circle, and were suspended in the
air. The circle formed was maybe 3 feet in
diameter and 3 or 4 feet above the ground. It or
they did not move around the room, just rotated on
the spot, but as I say, I could not see any object
creating this "vapour trail". The sound did
not match the things I saw, as there was nothing
solid I could see.
I have no idea
what it was, but my gut reaction is it felt like
something callibrating, measuring, assessing or
trying something out. This is of course just
my own association.
I wanted to be
sure I was not dreaming and watched it for a
minute or two to confirm I could see the vapour
trail continue to move and be redrawn and
swirling. I then wanted to be sure it was
not some strange shadow from the ceiling fan and
could see too many details in the vapour trail so
it did not at all match a shadow.
It was a fairly
quiet sound so the other two girls did not wake
up.
I got out of bed
to the left of my bed. Behind me was the
bathroom light. The thing did not move when
I moved. However, the instant I turned on the
bathroom light the thing or things were
gone. I rationalised that I was imagining it
all but realised that the sound had stopped
too. I was scared for the rest of the night
and barely slept. I fell asleep maybe at 6am
or thereabouts for an hour, that's all.
I have googled
"swirling mists with clicking sound" and seen
various results. I've had other experiences but
this is the first that feels completely non-human.
Would
be happy to discuss further as this is bothering
me somewhat. I come from a technical
background and embrace both known facts and the
fact that there is much we do not know.
Definitely not a hoax, happy to provide drawings,
details and more.
15-Sep-2014, Vernon, BC: (8
pm)
This
is not a bigfoot or ghost sighting - but a UFO!
Near Kin Beach in Vernon, BC. I took my dog for a
swim on the Okanagan waters. There was four of us,
just playing fetch with the dog until we took
interest in these 2 parallel running bright orange
lights in the sky. We observed them moving
simultaneously in the sky - one on top of the
other. And then one turned into this black
circular, opaque object looking thing and slowly
started to descend. We were all wondering… Is this
a sky diver in the night?! Or what the heck! The
most bizarre part was when the orange light now
slowly started to descend towards the mountain. It
hovered at the tree line, came down the mountain
and back up again, while moving quite fast. Faster
than any human I know!
The
orange light slowly hovered back up into the sky
and then slowly diminished. Sort of like a flame
going out. The other orange light I talked about
initially wasn't far behind. It rose up and sort
of did the same thing. The light just slowly
diminished while in the sky. Weird! I don't know
what else it could have been but a UFO. I have a
strong feeling it was. I always wanted to spot
one! And look at that!
UFO*BC Responds:
Thank-you for the report.
A few mundane questions for
you:
How high would you say the
object was when moving in the sky? At what
speed? I am also trying to figure
out sizes - you mention a skydiver, so would you think about that size or
smaller/bigger? Finally, would
you mind drawing us a quick sketch of what you
saw? It always helps if we can
have a doodle to at least mentally picture the
event.
Thank you.
Richard
UFO*BC
Witness
Responds:
Hi Richard,
I am not good with the specifics ha although
I'll try.
Mmm from the beach, the two orange lights
running parallel with each other were looking a
couple inches off the top the mountain ha! So
fairly close... Maybe a 150 feet the top one.
And the bottom one perhaps like 50 feet?
They were moving slowly... then stopped dead,
and the top one turned into a black opaque
object of oval shape. How big this was I am not
sure... Say the size of a hot tub lol. It was
hard to tell from such a distance. This is what
we were joking that it was a sky diver in the
night. Although it didn't look like that at all
- it was a balloon oval shaped thing above a
light so... Whatever that looks like!
Then
the black object came straight down and we could
no longer see it once it hit the tree line. The
still light up orange light came straight down
moving quite slow and started moving down the
mountain, next to treeline it seemed fast to me
for any object I would know to move through
there. Then came back up after say 30 seconds of
browsing and hovered straight up into sky again.
And only say 50-100 feet up the light slowly
diminished.
Then this other orange light around the same
area came moving straight up then at an angle...
Fairly slow... And went out just like the other
one.
I don't know if that's a
total of two orange lights, or three. But very
cool!
Hope this helps. Thanks!
20-Sep-2014, Keremeos, BC:
Greetings,
Not sure who I'm
talking to nor where to report, but you might want
to check this video:
Description included in video caption. UFO
Keremeos BC 20 sept 2014
A loud humming and buzzing sound woke me up at
night in Keremeos, on September 20, 2014. A bright
shining light pulsating, changing colors, was
flying over the mountain of Columns Park, made of
basalt columns. It moved around a while and then
hovered for a long time, apparently recharging.
I filmed it for 20 minutes and discovered
interesting details when annalyzing the footage
frame by frame and enlarged. It has the general
shape of a pumpkin, the closest thing I can find
to describe it. Some rows of lights can be seen
around it. An aura or magnetic shield surrounding
the ship kept pulsating with the changing buzzing
sound, and could be seen at times as a green grid.
Holographic projections appear in the shielding
energy field and images, like eyes can be seen at
times, as an identification and communication
device for the occupants.
After about one hour, the craft started ascending
slowly and its lights got dimmer, until it
disappeared. More details can be seen in the
video. Images are worth 1,000 words.
Thanks for your interest and feedback...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUnOVtVudN4
UFO*BC
Responds:
At
the beginning of your video you give examples of
video captures of the full moon and a normal star.
Thank you for these. In the "Zoom Out" of the star
you can see it as a small point of light. In the
"Zoom In" image it shows up as a large pixellated
object. With the modest telescope I had in my
younger days I quickly realized that a true
"optical" enlargement of a star still shows it as
a tiny point of light - a little brighter, but
still a point of light. The large pixellated star
and "ufo" are either out of focus, or "digital"
zooms. The "magnetic shield", "rows of lights" and
"holographic projections" are just magnified
atmospheric fluctuations, clouds, ambient lights
and your imagination. You can also see that when
zoomed in, the star and the "ufo" are both
six-sided. This is an artifact of the camera
aperture, and not a true indication of the actual
shape of the objects. I have watched the video
several times, and see no reason to classify that
object as a true ufo.
If
you had filmed the object in "Zoom Out" mode, and
it had showed unusual movements in relationship to
the background stars, trees, mountain, etc, it may
have had some interest. Unfortunately, nocturnal
lights are usually the weakest of sighting reports
at the best of times.
Dave
UFO*BC
21-Sep-2014,
North Vancouver, BC: (9:05 pm)
I was looking out my living
room window at the North Shore mountains at 9:05
pm. There was an orange light moving from north
to south at about 1000 feet. It caught my eye
because of the colour and the fact that there
was no blinking nav lights or strobes as would
be seen on an aircraft. The bottom of the light
looked sharp, the top looked fuzzy (see pic)
There was no flickering of the light like a
japanese lantern, it was totally stable in
intensity. It was moving faster than the planes
and helicopters I usually see, taking no more
than 10 seconds to travel from beside Grouse Mtn
to the point where it suddenly stopped and
hovered for about a minute. I grabbed my camera
and got one pic before it rose straight up at an
amazing speed. As it ascended it got smaller and
dimmer quickly until I couldn't see it any more
(3-4 seconds). As I watched it disappear I could
see a disc shape at what seemed like 10,000 feet
moving from east to west. It became visible at
the exact spot the orange light disappeared. It
was grey and just visible against the night sky.
The disc seemed to be travelling at the speed of
an airliner at high altitude (500 mph?) It was
soon too faint to make out against the night
sky. As far as size, it looked to be slightly
bigger than a jumbo jet when flying at 30,000
ft.
Over
the years I have seen many things in the sky
including the ISS being chased by the shuttle,
comet hale-bopp, helicopters with search lights
on and planes of all descriptions. Never have I
seen anything that looked or flew the way the
orange light did.
21-Sep-2014,
Vancouver, BC: (9:30 am)
This
morning I was looking out the window from the
21st floor of my friend's highrise building. I
saw 5 or 6 sparkling objects moving from east to
west in tandem. One was ahead and leading the
way. They were about 1/10th of the size of an
airplane and I know that because 2 or 3
airplanes and/or floatplanes passed by them. As
the planes were passing these objects would hide
in the clouds and then come out again when the
planes would pass. I couldn't believe my eyes. I
picked up a binocular and tried to look at them
- they appeared as moving objects and were
flashing electric rays similar to a thunder
storm - from afar they looked like sparkling
stars. I noticed them with white and orange
flashing lights when they origunally showed up,
but the lights then turned into white only.
29-Sep-2014, Kamloops, BC:
(6:16 pm)
Strange
silver rod shaped object slowly ascending into the
sky over Kamloops, BC. It was not a plane. Was
very shiny silver colour and bright. Was
definitely not an airplane shape. Headed over
Kamloops past the highway towards Barriere, BC. I
was on the phone to my husband and said the
weirdest object in the sky is making a slow pass.
2-Oct-2014, Abbotsford, BC:
(9:30 pm)
FYI
- lots of "low intensity lighted ball" traffic
over Fraser Valley. I'm in Abbotsford and saw the
latest last night 930 pm. Flying northeast
to southeast below aircraft about 200 feet. Might
want to put some cameras up, hey ya never know.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thanks for the
tip!
Can you kindly provide a better description of
what they look like? Were they following the
aircraft, in a similar flightpath?
Richard
UFO*BC
Witness
Responds:
Hi
Richard. They seemed about the size of a truck,
but from that distance tough to gage the diameter.
It was ball-shaped and like a dull lightbulb,
almost translucent dull orange. I have had two
sightings this summer and one yesterday. The
others were exactly the same except lit up like a
spotlight. All were travelling the NE to SE and
vis versa. Oh ya No sound.
Not
like the Helios or local planes using valley
airports. Which I watch avidly from my southern
facing porch. NE of Abbotsford International
Airport.
I'm
not a nut job (although my wife might disagree
lol) but have been familiar with aircraft for most
of my life growing up in a military family. These
were not aircraft in the conventional term. Balls
of energy would almost describe it better. Only
white and the dull orange colors seen.
:-) I have also
seen several light streaks that seem to be
parallel to the border. ?
Hope this helps.
14-Oct-2014,
Saanich, BC:
While
sitting in our hot tub watching for meteorites
my girlfriend and I caught sight of a very dark
coloured cylindrical object. It was moving
quickly and silently at an altitude lower than
passenger aircraft fly in this area. This very
dark grey object appeared to have 3 evenly
spaced sections which were glowing with a very
dim yellowish light. As we watched. it flew
under a small cloud and continued on it's north
south trajectory until it faded from sight in
the darkness. I would estimate it's length to be
about the size of a commercial passenger plane
but the body was larger in diameter. It did not
have regulation lights nor did it have any
visible appendages such as a tail or wings.
14-Oct-2014, Kamloops, BC:
(11:16 pm)
My
house is about one-third the way up the valley’s
south side overlooking the city of Kamloops. Most
summer and fall nights I go out on my balcony for
an hour before I retire. My balcony faces north
and Polaris is directly in front of me about 50°
above the horizon. Because of the city lights I
can only see 52 stars from this view. I know every
one of them by heart. I count the number of
airplanes, satellites, and meteors that I see each
night. On this particular night I went out and
before I even sat in my chaises lounge I noticed a
magnitude -2 to -3 star in the northwest. I
immediately thought it was the ISS going over-head
but after a second or two I realized it wasn’t
moving. There should not be a star of that
magnitude at that location and I wondered what it
might be. It was approximately where the star 21
CVn should be, (however, I can’t see a star that
dim from my balcony) so I thought it might have
gone supernova! But that particular star is too
small and too close to have gone supernova (a star
that close going supernova would be as bright as
the sun). Still it could be a star far beyond 21
CVn that had gone supernova so maybe I should
report it to the IAU.
While I was mulling over these thoughts the star
gave off a faint pulse of light and less than a
second later shot off straight north so fast my
eyes couldn’t follow it. No propulsion system I
know of could accelerate an object so quickly and
no inertia cancellation technology that I am aware
of could have saved the craft or its occupants
from instant destruction. I place this object
clearly in the “unidentified” column.
23-Oct-2014,
Richmond, BC:
Hi,
this is Vivian from Richmond. I think i
accidentally captured a picture of UFO on
October 23, 2014, at 5:55pm. I wanted to capture
a picture of the eclipse. However, when I looked
at the picture 2 hours later , I saw a white dot
that looked like an UFO. I am looking forward to
clarify whether I really captured UFO.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thank-you for the photo, but what you
have caught is known as a ‘Sun Dog’ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog
Not a UFO, but certainly a nice shot!
Cheers
Richard
28-Oct-2014,
Courtenay, BC:
I didn’t know
there was a UFO*BC, or I obviously would have
reported this right away. I just found out about
UFO*BC from reading a report by somebody online,
and that they had contacted this site. This
happened five years ago in 2014. It was
approximately three days before Halloween. The
time was anywhere from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. I was
at my computer, and decided to take a break and go
outside which by then was dark. I walked outside
my door, and right away I noticed this object
about 70 feet above the ground, and a 1/3rd the
distance down the road from my street corner. The
measurement off the ground being roughly close,
because the tallest of the fir trees was fifty
feet high which the object was sitting motionless
and noiselessly in the air twenty feet above the
fifty foot fir tree. In the dark it looked like it
had curved corners. I could see the outline of
cabin looking like an upside down U-shape attached
to the rest of the object, like an appendage
sticking out. On the right side of the object
there was one huge blue light and on the right
side of it a huge red light. There was a bit of
activity in the sky that night. Small planes were
flying in the background, I would estimate 20
miles away. The pilots too, maybe would have seen
it, if there were lights on the other side of the
object.
I stood there, and thought. Oh a UFO. Then it
moved from side to side very quickly, very
smoothly, and then up and down, all done with
great precision and soundlessly. Then it starting
going lower in between the two fir trees and
looked like it went back out over the ocean.
31-Oct-2014,
Williams Lake, BC: (8 pm)
Just
after the fireworks ended about 8 pm my friend and
I saw 2 lights that seemed to move together in one
spot for about 2 minutes then gradually moved
farther away until no longer visible. We were
looking southeast from apartment building on
Donald Road just above Chevron gas station. The
whole event lasted about 3 minutes.
UFO*BC Responds:
Thank-you for the report!
What
made you think it was anything out of the
ordinary? For instance, could it have been 2
airplanes that appeared to be close by, but in
reality were some distance away from one another?
Thanks
Richard
UFO*BC Responds #2:
Given that people were setting off
fireworks, it was probably Chinese lanterns.
Just my opinion.
Gord
Witness Responds:
It was not Chinese lanterns and it was
not airplanes. I haven't seen lights like this
before, it was the movement of them and speed with
which they disappeared. I know how airplanes look
in the sky and how they move. Chinese lanterns
would be moving steadily away not staying in one
place.
31-Oct-2014,
Port Coquitlam, BC: (9:30 pm)
It was Oct 31, 2014 at 9:30
pm. I was looking out my basement window up in
the sky, it was perfectly clear out. I was
looking to the east, my window only faces east,
it's a small window, but looking at a small part
of the sky, I saw what I thought was the space
station, cause sometimes you can, or I thought
was maybe a satellite. Then it became an orange
ball of fire! I thought this is weird!!! I'm
going to keep watching this. A few more minutes
went by then the ball got bigger and brighter
orange, then I started thinking.??? Anything
that enters our atmosphere from space no matter
what it is will burn up or glow an orange hue if
the objects make it. For example, the space
shuttle will glow orange upon re-
entry...etc....so as I watched it. The object
got bigger and closer heading west towards me,
but way above me. It was in a cloud after the
orange went away. I could only turn my head so
much before I ran outside to see where it was
going. Before I did that I was still inside
looking up at this ... It was insane when it
came out of the cloud I could see a round
disc-shaped ship with one blue and red light
under it. I'm like..!!! Holey crap man, what the
hell is it!?! I ran outside to see if I could
see it before it went away. I went out my
basement door, ran into the back yard, stopped
and looked up!!! And there it was, gliding with
no noise between my house and my neighbor's
house. I was thinking how did it do that, and
why would it just glide over my house? Why
didn't it just keep going west up in the sky????
I could see it plain as day. It was round, black
in color, with no lights on. It was about what
seemed to be 40 or 50 feet above me. I freekin
watched this thing fly or glide right over my
head! It was very surreal - right out of the
movies. I saw what it looked like, all I could
say to myself, "This is the coolest thing I've
ever seen!!!" I stood there and watched it for
about 15 minutes as it kept going south towards
the city of White Rock....it stayed at that
lower cruising level, until it went out of
sight. It never sped away or just disappeared
like most sightings. It must of been about 20 to
30 feet in diameter. Please let me know what you
think!
7-Nov-2014, Surrey, BC (Newton
area): (11:30 pm)
Witness
1: Triangle with lights on 2
sides. It was a full moon. There was nonoise.
About 1/10th the size of the moon. Moved along
the cloudline. It was above us for about one
and a half minutes, then it went into
theclouds and was gone. Because of the shape
and that it made no noise, I am sure this was
a UFO.
Witness
2: It was november 10 and we
saw it just down the street from where I live.It
was triangle-shaped and had one line of lights -
no sound and moving really slow. We followed it
then it up and disappeared behind somehouses. It
was not a plane. We have a sunroof and opened it
- there was no sound at all.
Mid-Nov-2014, Parksville, BC:
I witnessed
two strange consecutive phenomena late one evening
(actually, early morning I think).
While sitting on my back patio having a cigarette,
I noticed a very bright white light starting to
travel across the sky from south to north. There
were a number of strange things about this light:
1) as it traveled across the sky, it
maintained a consistent brightness from end to end
2) it became (somewhat) v-shaped as it
traveled. i.e. the back end widened (like a
contrail) as the object moved, without losing
brightness or definition.
3) the edges were (and remained) clean and
well-defined
4) the front was round and of the same
brightness and definition as the rest of the trail
5) continuing the contrail comparison, this
thing was about 100 times wider (at least) than
your standard jet contrail
I didn't notice it fade away, disappear, whatever;
because of the second phenomena that occurred a
few minutes later (5 minutes as a guesstimate).
1) this was a bright, bright yellow light
traveling west to east at treetop level. Some of
it was behind the treetops, some of it above. The
distance of this light from where I was sitting
might have been about a city block.
2) again, consistent brightness and clean,
well-defined edges
3) there was possibly a rumbling noise
associated with this light, but that might have
been street traffic from the main drag a few
blocks away.
4) here's the really weird thing about this
light; it didn't fade.....it dissipated.
Think of the light as being composed a zillion
tiny particles. The particles didn't fade away,
they randomly extinguished. Kind of a sparkle
effect in reverse.
Anyhow, that's what I saw. I've been thinking
about it ever since and still have no idea what is
I saw.
21-Nov-2014,
Vancouver, BC (Yaletown area): (9:45
pm)
From
our 17th floor Yaletown apartment, we saw a very
bright orange light emerge from tree height at
Aquarius Mews and ascended on a steady diagonal
path, towards the West of False Creek until we
lost sight as it went behind other buildings. It
was a rainy and windy night, yet the light was
constantly fiery orange, not flicking like a
lantern nor flashing like a plane. There seemed
to be a white light at the centre, a fuzzy
border at the top, and made no apparent sound.
23-Nov-2014,
Agassiz, BC:
We
live in Agassiz, BC. Looking east out our back
window my wife and I saw what we can only
consider to be a UFO. Flying low over the
foothills of Mount Cheam, just east of Highway
1...a large oval-shaped object with what
appeared like headlights spaced apart in a ring
around the saucer. It kept slowly moving
southward over the Bridal Falls area until it
dropped from our view behind some trees. There
are people living in that vicinty and some
businesses such as the Ranchers' Restaurant and
Bridal Falls golf course. It did not look like a
plane or helicopter.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Thanks for the report.
Very
interesting sighting! Can you estimate the
height of the object along with its size?
Perhaps you could guess speed and direction of
travel? Other than the obvious, what made you
think that this couldn't be something common
such as a blimp?
Do you think you could draw
us a picture and perhaps email it to us?
Thanks!
Richard
UFO*BC
29-Nov-2014,
Victoria, BC: (8:30 to 9:00 pm)
Five
UFOs - blue and red multi that were aligned and
moved in perfect unison in the sky at a 90
degree angle - bouncing up and down like they
were trying to communicate. Entire neighbourhood
watching as they were put there for 30 minutes.
Husband got footage.
UFO*BC
Responds:
Would
it be possible for you to have to the other
members of your neighborhood contact us? Please
just give them our email address.
Would love to see the footage - and will
await your reply before we ask any further
questions.
Richard
UFO*BC
16-Dec-2014, Nanaimo, BC:
(5:53 pm)
Around
5:50pm I saw a triangle-shaped aircraft with two
bright white lights hovering adjacent to the
highway. At first I thought it was a small plane
or helicopter until I moved closer to it and then
saw it was a triangle. My car passed almost under
the craft. There were hundreds of other cars near
me so other people must have seen this. I was
wondering if anyone else in this area has reported
seeing this thing tonight.
24-Dec-2014, Campbell River, BC:
(about 6:45 pm)
Strange
solid red lights in sky ( I saw 4 before running
inside to get husband) moving slowly to the right
and east over the ocean. 3 were in a perfect
triangular formation the 4th had dropped from view
by the time I got my husband outside. Slowly faded
from view as they moved east.
24-Dec-2014,
Kaslo, BC:
Hello.
I was wanting to contact you because I caught a
picture of 4 possible UFO's drifting over Kaslo.
This photo was taken on my smartphone. I put a
filter on the 2nd one to better show you the
lights we saw that night.
So the story is, I was sitting at a stop sign with
my friend in his truck and as I looked out the
passenger window I saw a glare of reddish light. I
thought it might have been a street lamp but when
I looked for the source I realized it was in the
sky. My friend gave out a nervous "woah" as we
jumped out of the truck. Heads looking up in the
sky I counted 5 UFOs that had a red glow like a
lantern yet big and bright. It was easy to pick
out in the clear sky that night. As we observed
the UFOs they seem to move very slowly almost
drifting through the sky. After was seemed like 10
seconds the lights swooped into more of a line to
the right of us over the mountain. We stepped back
into the truck not actually sure what we saw. I
decided it was good old Santa visiting us on
Christmas Eve. In all seriousness though has
anyone seen lights like red Chinese lanterns in
the sky that are definitely UFO?
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