In case you collect older stories, I'll tell you about my odd
experience.
I live in the West End of Downtown Vancouver on the fifth
floor of a building facing SSW, overlooking the old Bentall mansion (now the Macaroni
Grill) on Davie Street. A couple of summers ago around noon my wife and I were standing by
the window looking towards the mansion. It was a beautiful bright sunny day with a
perfectly clear blue sky as far as the eye can see in the West End. We both witnessed a
shadow passing slowly from approximately south-east to north-west across the mansion. This
shadow was quite dark. The leading edge of the shadow was travelling not much faster than
a car might travel down Davie Street, maybe 60-80kph. The shadow was large enough that at
one point it covered the whole of the Mansion until the trailing edge passed and the
mansion was lit by sunshine again. Both the leading edge and the trailing edge of the
shadow were quite sharply defined, and I saw both travel over the roof, but because the
shadow was passing over a three dimensional building it was impossible to define any
particular shape. It was too large and too slow for any kind of airplane, and there was no
noise, so I assumed it to be a cloud. There was nothing unusual about this, other than the
fact that it seemed strange that such a dark cloud would exist on such a sunny day, and
that the cloud would be low enough to form quite a sharply defined shadow. We both glanced
at each other as though to ask, what was that? It aroused our curiousity enough to go out
onto the balcony to look up to see what kind of a cloud could form such a shadow. I held
my hand up and in line with the sun. There was no cloud in sight. Nothing but blue sky
from one high rise horizon to the other.
Sincerely, K.L.
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