“Don’t shoot, there might be white men in there”
UFO sighting by Billy Blair and cousin Jimmy, near Snag, Yukon
September 17-18, 1958
documented by Martin Jasek
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Billy
Blair was born and raised in the Beaver Creek area of the Yukon and has
seen many changes as white man’s technology quickly placed its foothold
even in this very remote part of the north. As a young boy he recalls
the first airplanes flying over and eventually landing. He had no idea
what they were at first as he peered from within the bushes at the
first one that landed near his village. To him it was an Unidentified
Flying Object and it brought similar emotions to someone seeing a disk
hovering close by today.
He
also recalls traveling to Dawson City and seeing his first automobile
when he arrived. It too frightened him. He was chased into the bush by
some youngsters who shot at him with cap guns. Thinking that they were
real, he never came out of the forest for two days. During the second
world war the Alaska Highway was built and this brought steady traffic
through the area.
On
September 17 or 18, 1958 (he recalls the date because it was close to
his birthday) he was out hunting for Moose about 8.5km NNW of Snag.
Incidentally Snag holds the record for the coldest temperature ever
officially measured in North America at -81.4 oF/-63 oC on February 3, 1947.
He
was out with his cousin Jimmy and they were using a whistle made of
birch bark to call for Moose as they overlooked a large marshy expense
from the edge of a bluff. It was daylight and the sky was clear with no
wind.
