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Sunday, June 27, 2021

Wave Of UFO Sightings In Victoria B.C.

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

COMOX VALLEY – A B.C. UFO investigator says 2013 is already shaping up to be a busier-than-normal year for sightings of unusual lights and strange flying objects.

Brian Vike authors a blog entitled The Vike Factor and has investigated more than 11,000 reports from across Canada and around the world. Vike says there was a spike in activities on the morning of January 11th when triangular shaped objects and unusual lights were seen over Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. The sightings followed an asteroid, which streaked over the skies of B.C. and Washington State.

One report indicates a mother witnessed a large school bus sized triangular object in the sky just after she dropped her children off for school. The witness reported seeing the solid object moving along until it started to hover and had three balls of orange light on each point. The witness reported to Vike that the balls of light went into the centre of the object before it disappeared.

Vike estimates around 90% of what is reported to him can be easily explained, whether it’s by people seeing the International Space Station flying overhead, or Chinese lanterns taking to the sky or flares being dropped from aircrafts. Others he is still struggling to explain.

Vike’s blog can be found at https://canadaufo.blogspot.com/

Strange Sighting In Dashwood

 Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

NEIL HORNER  Parksville Qualicum Beach News

Feb. 14, 2013 6:00 a.m.

'It was very odd' says resident of rural community near Qualicum Beach, but it wasn't a monkey.

Dashwood residents are abuzz about the latest odd sighting in the area — but this time it wasn’t a monkey.

Brian Vike, a UFO researcher in Houston, B.C. said he received a report of a strange light from a resident on Feb. 6.

“I woke suddenly because my bedroom was lit up fluorescent greenish,” the report said. “I went to the bathroom then to the window as the light faded away to nothing. I can’t explain if it was coming from the ground or sky. It was very odd it was approximately over the highway in Dashwood right at Larkdown road.”

Vike said the light could have come from a flare, but suggested it could have come from a meteor. If that’s the case, it won’t be unusual — at least, not this year. “I have received so many reports of meteors and fireballs this year it isn’t funny,” Vike said. “There has been just a stack of them from across Canada and the United States.”

Anyone who has information about this sighting or others can report it at http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com.

Newspaper Article - https://www.pqbnews.com/news/strange-sighting-in-dashwood/

Newspaper Website - https://www.pqbnews.com/

Saturday, June 26, 2021

Flying Object Could Have Been A Helicopter

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

By Neil Horner – Parksville Qualicum Beach News.

Published – March 30, 2012 8:00 a.m.

Mysterious object seen by several more people in Oceanside area.

The report of strange lights in the sky over Parksville last weekend could well have been a helicopter, says UFO researcher Brian Vike, except for one important detail.

The object, seen by two witnesses between 9:30 and 10:10 p.m. on Saturday, March 24 night, made no sound.

“When I originally posted this, a fellow in the area wrote and suggested it might possibly be a helicopter,” Vike said in an interview Tuesday. “He said there is a clearing near there where they take off and land — and the lights sound like normal navigation lights on some sort of aircraft — but what bothers me is them being right beneath it and not hearing anything at all. Helicopters have a very distinctive sound. You can’t miss it. It’s loud.”

The sighting was witnessed by three others in Qualicum Beach, who read about it in The News and subsequently contacted Vike.

“I was surprised to hear that others saw a similar object that my son, husband and I witnessed from our back patio,” said one witness. “It was really large, triangular-shaped, with bright coloured flashing lights and very high up to the right.”

The woman said the object appeared to be just over a mile away and there was no sound of a helicopter audible.

“It was definitely not a helicopter, since the flashing lights were far brighter than the market lights of any helicopter I have ever seen,” she said.

Another witness from Qualicum Beach said the object first appeared at around 7 p.m. over Mount Arrowsmith.

“We too saw strange lights on Saturday night,” the witness said. “We were looking at Mount Arrowsmith and saw lights moving up and down the mountain. They were at different altitudes, separated by what looked like, several hundred feet. We saw white and red lights moving and thought it was very strange.”

Vike said he has no explanation for the Parksville sighting, but he’s hopeful that either other witnesses or someone who knows the origin of the  lights will contact him at houstonbri7@gmail.com

Newspaper Article - https://www.pqbnews.com/news/flying-object-could-have-been-chopper/

Parksville Qualicum Beach News - https://www.pqbnews.com/

UFOs Reported Over Sarnia

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

Shawn Jeffords. sjeffords@theobserver.ca

The Observer  https://www.theobserver.ca/

It may not be Mars Attacks, but two recent UFO sightings over the city has a paranormal investigator interested.

Brian Vike, an investigator at https://canadaufo.blogspot.com/, said two separate witnesses reported coloured lights hovering over Sarnia earlier this month.

“It’s weird stuff,” Vike said from his home in Houston, British Columbia. “When have these lights come to a screeching halt in the sky, I don’t know what that is.”

The Sarnia incidents took place on October 8 and 9. The first occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m.

“I saw a bright orange object moving fast, then slowed down. It was weird, I thought I was the only one who seen it,” wrote the witness, who’s name Vike keeps confidential.

The second sighting occurred at 12:19 a.m. the next day.

“I live in Port Huron, Michigan and am looking east towards Sarnia,’ the witness said. “There is a small, bright light flashing between red and white. It hasn’t moved for over 5 minutes now and appears to be too close to be any type of star.”

Vike said the sightings don’t sound like aircraft or balloons and are properly classified as UFOs. But just because it’s an unidentified flying object doesn’t mean E.T. or Yoda is behind the wheel, he said.

“When people tell me that they’ve seen extraterrestrials I tell them to slow down. But just because there isn’t a conventional answer doesn’t mean you throw it away.”

This wasn’t Vike’s first UFO in Sarnia. In July 2008, an unidentified flying object was reported by three people who saw a white square-shaped craft fly over an east Street apartment building. It was reportedly 30 feet wide,10 feet high and made no sound as it moved east overhead.

The three witnesses said the object had a black strip down the middle and was flying 300 to 400 feet off the ground.

Vike wades through hundreds of reports annually and only posts those “with a little meat.” The subject amazes some and encourages skepticism and debate from others.

“A good portion of the people these days believe that there is a possibility of life out there,” he said. “It’s the big question, is there alien life in the universe?”

The Observer - https://www.theobserver.ca/

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

UFO's Over Nairn - The Story Continues

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

Regular readers will remember the Valentine's Day UFO story that featured in the Gurn last month. The story continues yet again in the Highland News. A Culloden man has come forward to say that he has seen the UFO four times now:

'But Mr. Jackson has now come forward to dismiss this theory and even has his mum as an eye witness to strange goings on in the night skies along the Moray Firth coast.

"I know what I saw but it was definitely not a love lantern or a Chinese lantern. It was far too big and it did not flicker from the centre. It was shaped liked a helicopter or truck cab and it travelled at between 150-200mph, so it could never have been a lantern," Mr. Jackson told the HN.

"I am just an ordinary guy and am not a crank. I felt after reading these silly stories about the love lantern all I want is verification. I can't believe this was seen by myself and nobody else."

He said the love lantern was set off in the Cairngorms at 6pm and the light he saw was at 8pm.

Mr. Jackson, a self-employed bathroom fitter, said he has now had FOUR sightings of the UFO. And the second was witnessed by his mother Anne.

Last month we described how the Valentine's Day sighting was reported on the website of Canadian paranormal researcher Brian Vike.

Mr. Jackson had sent an anonymous blog to the website describing how he spotted the UFO approaching Nairn from the east on February 14.

He turned up the Grantown Road to get a closer look to see the fireball-like object travel in a north north-easterly direction.

He was so amazed he phoned his girlfriend and mother before reporting it to the local police station. '

Newspaper Article - http://www.gurnnurn.com/2010/03/ufos-over-nairn-story-continues.html?m=1

Newspaper - http://www.gurnnurn.com/2010/03/

Monday, June 14, 2021

Strange Lights Seen In Sky Over Dundas

 Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

(January 13, 2010)

Did you see something strange Friday night?

A British Columbia UFO chronicler and paranormal expert is reporting eyewitness accounts of strange vertical lights in the sky over Dundas and Waterdown.

Brian Vike, who heads his own HBCC Centre for UFO Research, says on his blog The Vike Factor the lights were seen around 8 o'clock.

One witness told Vike he and five friends were out for a walk and watched vertical lights in the sky for 30 minutes, a throbbing orange one which faded in and out and a second red vertical one.

The witness says one light had a circle opening in it which looked like an eye. Then the red lights faded after five more minutes, he said.

"As we looked down the escarpment, we could see a curved line of vertical white lights in the sky above us leading down," he said.

"Also around the same time there was white flashing light in the sky.

"It was a flash of bright white light (which) looked as if it was in mid air but because it was dark, we couldn't tell if there was an actual source or not, (because) if there was it'd have to be in the harbour."

Hamilton police were not aware of any calls reporting strange lights in the sky over Dundas Friday night.

Another witness tells Vike he was driving between Waterdown and his Dundas home when he saw three orange vertical lights that seemed to originate from a source close to the ground, go up through a clouded area and on up into the sky.

The witness thought they could be "light pillars," a visual atmospheric phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals from a light source such as the sun or moon, but they are not usually seen from several viewpoints.

Newspaper - https://www.thespec.com/

Newspaper Article - https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2010/01/13/strange-lights-seen-in-sky-over-dundas.html

That’s No UFO . . . It’s A Space Station

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

Advocate Staff.

July 7, 2010 1:25 p.m. News.

A UFO investigator says there is a perfectly logical explanation for a set of strange lights being reported in the night sky in Central Alberta.

A handful of people from the area, including one person from Blackfalds, have contacted him after seeing a bright light moving across the southern sky. Adding to the intrigue, a dimmer light was seen following it for awhile, as if attached, and then suddenly darting away.

No worries, says Brian Vike, a self-taught UFO researcher from Houston, B.C., and creator of the web blog, The Vike Factor, Into the Paranormal.

Conditions have been perfect for watching the International Space Station and, from time to time, the space flights that deliver its supplies. That is most likely the dimmer light that was seen following the space station and then seeming to dart away, Vike said on Tuesday.

People living close to Red Deer can see the space station for themselves on Thursday.

The station will appear lightly over the west-southwest horizon at 10:35 p.m. But make sure you’ve got a good angle on the horizon and don’t blink or you’ll miss it.

Information posted on the NASA’s Skywatch website has it up for only three minutes, reaching a maximum height of 27 degrees.

Depending on where you’re watching from in relation to the space station’s orbit, it can be directly overhead on some nights, said Vike.

Internet users interested in finding out when the space station will be visible can go online to spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html for an interactive menu based on the country and city in which they are located.

Vike also noted a separate investigation recently after receiving numerous reports, dating back to New Year’s Eve, of bright orange lights in the sky.

“Think about it. They’re on days like July 1,” says Vike.

He has determined that the lights are actually Thai or Chinese lanterns, alternately called UFO balloons.

Commonly lit during the same special occasions that call for fireworks, the devices work much like a hot-air balloon, with a candle lit inside a globe.

The unit rises as the air in the globe warms up. From a distance, it’s quite bright and could be difficult to identify, said Vike.

For up-to-date sightings and links to Vike’s blog, please visit http://www.kbccuforesearch.ca/

Newspaper Article - https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/thats-no-ufo-its-a-space-station/

Newspaper - https://www.reddeeradvocate.com

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Circles Mysterious Return

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

Crop Watch 2001

They're baack. Three years after a set of mysterious, circular patterns appeared in an oat field next to the Vanderhoof airport runway, observers have spotted six more "crop circles" formed in the flattened grain. Crop circle experts promptly descended upon the town, located about 100 km east of Prince George, soon after the new patterns were discovered September 6, 2001

Canadian Crop Circle Research network field research assistant Brian Vike quickly headed out to collect soil and grain samples. The CCCRN had already expanded its research project into the mysterious shapes that are found more frequently I August and September than any other time of the year in Canada. The new circles aren't as intricate as the ones discovered in 1998

Vike noted Vanderhoof's six new circles weren't as intricate as those discovered back on September 1, 1998 by a local pilot, Brent Miskuski. Those circles ranged in size from 10 to 100 feet (30 meters). The CCCRN says a half dozen crop circle reports had come out of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba so far this year.

The network adds that nine other countries in the world have reported crop circle formations this year. It's not known what causes the curious formations. Some of them appear to be manmade; however others continue to baffle scientists because lab results of soil and plant samples show anomalies that can't be explained. The circles usually appear overnight and in all kinds of weather.

Courtesy The Terrace Standard Newspaper - https://www.terracestandard.com/

Saturday, April 3, 2021

UFO "Sightings" In Elderslie

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

The Daily Record.

By Alison Rennie.

Eagle-Eyed believers have told of spooky sightings of UFOs flying high in the sky above Renfrewshire.

Two residents in Elderslie contacted a leading UFO website to tell how they spotted glowing orange-coloured objects moving around as they tailed planes coming in and out of Glasgow Airport.

Now UFO experts are urging Buddies to be on the alert amid suggestions that aliens could be keeping an eye on Paisley.

Brian Vike, director of the HBCC UFO Research organization, told the Paisley Daily Express that sightings of unidentified flying objects are becoming more common in Renfrewshire.

He said: “This year, there appears to have been an increase in sighting reports coming in and many of these are of orange-coloured objects or lights.

“In Renfrewshire, there are sightings being reported but, for each case, there may be many more UFO sightings not being reported for many reasons.

“People are afraid that their personal information will be made public and then the ridicule starts and, at times, it can become frustrating and down right annoying for the person who is just reporting what they saw.”

One of the Elderslie residents who contacted Brian’s website told how they were fascinated by what they saw.

“We saw the orange moving objects quite far apart outside the front of my home and went to the back of the house to watch them,” said the eyewitness. “They were about a mile from Glasgow Airport and were able to observe planes arriving and taking off from the airport at the same time but these two objects were much higher and moving quite slow.

“These did not have landing lights on them, just an orange glow.”

Brian believes the truth is out there – and he has advice for anyone who does see something unusual in the sky above Renfrewshire.

He said: “When folks witness something strange in the day or night sky, they should make note of the time and the day it was observed.

“Also, it is good to know if the sighting took place around a military base or test area or an airport.

“I guess it boils down to common sense. Record as much detail about what a person observes and certainly file a report to someone who works in the UFO field.”

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said they had no reports of suspicious activity above Glasgow Airport.

He added: “The MoD examines reports solely to establish whether UK airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorized military activity.

“Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, there is no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported.”

The Daily Record - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/ufo-sightings-in-elderslie-2622513

Vike To Be Part Of Documentary

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

By Neil Horner  Mar. 30, 2012 5:00 a.m. NEWS

UFO researcher to do a shoot for the Discovery Channel

Houston B.C.-based UFO researcher Brian Vike is no neophyte to the field, having been a fixture in B.C. with his website, The Vike Factor, for many years.

Because of this, he is a sought-after commodity for those interested in the phenomenon and he is currently scheduled to travel to Vancouver to do a taping for the Discovery Channel as part of a documentary about an incident in Kelowna in 2003.

In that incident, he said, two women driving near the city saw a series of green lights in the sky that hovered over top of them before dropping down to follow them as they raced back to town.

“The next morning they woke up and one of them had blood coming out of her nose and their was a big burn on one of their backs,” Vike said. “They were a real mess.”

Vike said the women later appeared on the Montel Williams Show to tell their story.

“The interesting thing is, there were numerous witnesses who saw a green light drop out of the sky that night,” Vike said. “Something happened that night, but I don’t know what. It’s a big case.”

Newspaper - https://www.bclocalnews.com/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/vike-to-be-part-of-documentary/

Friday, April 2, 2021

Little Green Valley Men

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

By Todd Hamilton

The Interior News.

There must be something in Northwestern B.C.’s water.

Seldom does a week go by without the phone ringing and some anonymous person on the other end asking|: Has anyone called you this week about seeing something?”

A year ago, we ran a full page story on the Houston-Smithers-Terrace UFO triangle.

According to Brian Vike, a ufologist based out of Houston , this area is alien-sighting central.

So much so, Vike was named one of the 100 most influential people in ufology today by Fate magazine.

Fate, which is subtitled True reports of the Strange and Unknown is a full colour monthly that has been published since 1948.

“I guess it’s quite an honour,” Vike said. “I don’t know exactly how many researchers there are around the world, but it must be thousands.”

As explained sightings in the Bulkley valley go, thousands may also be the number.

Back to the phone call, “Mr. Fox” I’ll call him, wanted to know about strange light he saw above Hudson Bay mountain in late August.

The sheepishness of his voice suggested he was genuinely perplexed and not a potential wing-nut who just finished last call at the neighbourhood pub.

“Have you seen anything,” he asked. “Well,” I replied. “Back in early August ….

I then recounted my own little Bulkley Valley-little green men story.

Briefly, myself and a couple of other people were standing on Broadway Avenue amazed at a bright, orange light crossing the sky.

As a skeptic, it looked like a jet contrail illuminated by the setting sun, but there was no jet and the contrail didn’t extend back much of a distance. To top it off, there wasn’t that tell-tale trail of white smoke as a jet passes overhead.

I hurried into the newspaper office and grabbed a camera… and snapped off a bunch of shots.

For 20 years I’ve been pain to take photos, and even won an award or two, but now I understand why all those “photographic proofs” are so bad – photographing aliens is tough work. We stood there for at least five minutes in the middle of the street gawking and collectively wondered what the hell it was.

Then it was gone.

So when Mr. Fox asked me if I saw something, I had to tell him yes, then I gave him Vike’s phone number and told him, that was the guy to talk to – either to join the legion of growing Valley believers or at least as a catharsis.

Are we alone ?

For myself, I’ve seen an object flying overhead and I was unable to identify it. Does that mean little green men are landing out near New Hazelton and playing in the hay fields? I doubt it.

But if we’re not alone, and you have proof--- phone Vike, not me. Not unless the photos are clear and publishable. And by the way, get the alien’s name, hometown and keep your submission to under 250 words in length.

Live long and prosper.

The Interior News - https://www.interior-news.com/

UFO Man Looks For Ghost Stories

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

By Jennifer Lang.

Terrace Standard News.

October 30, 2002.

ALL HALLOW'S EVE Legend has it that the souls of the dead are closest to the living at this time of year. Oct. 31 is the date of the Celtic New Year, Samhain, when the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is the thinnest and the souls of those who have died during the year bid farewell. Maybe that's why our thoughts turn to ghouls and ghosts and things that go bump in the night.

Or maybe it's the longer nights. Whatever the reason, ghost stories - especially "true" ghost stories - hold an irresistible fascination for many readers. Surprisingly few published reports of hauntings originate from northern B.C., however.

"There's lots of stories around - it's getting people to talk," says Brian Vike, the northwest's resident researcher on the paranormal. Vike, who lives in Houston, B.C., is collecting true ghost tales for his new journal, The Canadian Communicator, a publication devoted to topics like UFO sightings, lake monsters and sasquatches, hauntings and crop circles.

His first issue explored one ghost story in detail, but it came from Ontario, says Vike, who's better known as a UFO investigator who's tracked down an impressive number of first-hand accounts of UFO sightings from northwestern B.C. residents. But so far, he's investigated few local ghost stories.

"I know they're around," he says. "I've been trying to gather some from around here." Vike has now collected more than 100 UFO reports from people in Terrace, Smithers, and even Seward, B.C. The majority stem from a string of sightings across Highway 16 earlier this year. He's also a frequent guest on radio shows - local, regional, national and even international [one Mexican interviewer provides a simultaneous translation for his listening audience when Vike appears on his show]. Vike can be reached at houstonbri7@gmail.com

Terrace Standard News - http://www.terracestandard.com/

UFO Sighting In Telkwa And Houston, B.C.

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

By Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News Smithers, B.C.

The Interior News.

On July 29, winding down from a day on his Telkwa farm, Gordon Stewart settled into his chair facing two bay windows, overlooking the valley for a late-night movie. At 10:45 p.m., a bright light flashed by his field of vision, raising him from his chair, astonished at the peculiarity and speed of the sight.

After walking onto the front porch for a clearer view, only silence filled the valley sky smudged with light cloud cover. He called the RCMP. There was no air force activity in the area. He woke his wife Joanna, who had already turned in for the night without hearing or seeing anything. On sharing his description of the round, white light with a yellowish hue, he learned his wife had seen the same light in the same location a couple of months earlier.

"I didn't want to tell him because he'd think I was crazy," Joanne recounted. Earlier that evening at 10.20 p.m. in Houston, a Canfor employee stepped from a forklift to examine a phosphorescent like white ball of light with yellow undertones, which appeared to hover, before slowly crawling across the sky line.

The worker called out to two fellow co-workers who caught sight of the glowing light, which grew a tail as it gained momentum. The phenomenon gained speed towards Tweedsmuir Park and shot out of view over the horizon.

"I called them over because I wanted proof that I saw something and that I wasn't crazy," the Canfor employee explained. Despite having two witnesses, the Canfor employee wished to remain anonymous.

Despite his wife having seen the same phenomenon's, Stewart was relieved a similar sighting was reported the same day. Stewart caught the tail end of a movie when he was startled from his chair by an unidentifiable round light streaking across the valley. Combined with his house being stationed at 3,000 feet - Smithers sits at approximately 1,750 feet - and large bay windows, Stewart has an ideal birds eye view of air traffic.

Crazy and UFO are often terms that go hand in hand when trying to determine an experience that appears to be out of this world. Already this year, over 70 unidentifiable sightings have been reported in northern B.C. Only two days before the Telkwa/Houston sighting, an erratically moving, bright light was spotted in Prince George.

Sightings in Prince Rupert and Port Simpson were reported the same day of Stewart's experience. The two days that followed it reports from Terrace were filed on a glowing, cigar-shaped craft and four multiple sightings of an unidentifiable light.

"There is so much going on here it's nuts", Houston B.C. Canada UFO researcher Brian Vike remarked. Vike suspects action in space is growing with the number of hits he receives on his UFO website.

"Recently, I have been getting numerous hits," he said, "Everything from the National Defense Department to Federal Aviation". He also noted that open information transitions between himself and the National Department of Defense has since clammed up with the publishing of the recent sighting in Telkwa - where three women attested to seeing an unidentified object with bright lights.

"No one wants to say anything and I am kind of wondering why", He questioned. "Is the military running a project we are not aware of? Something has happened I just don't know what ... yet".

Many of these speculated extraterrestrial occurrences have been explained away as meteorites, flying exercises, space debris and the result of power towers. A recent space ship sighting in Smithers turned out to be the planets Jupiter and Venus. Stewart dismisses many of these suspicions in his case. He began by explaining that the object flew in a flat line unlike meteorite or space debris's falling arc pattern.

Planes might be a credible explanation, but because no sound was detected and the size of the light - the size of a pick up truck from the distance he sat at - flew so low, a plane wasn't a logical solution in Stewart's mind.

According to Central Mountain Air, there were no late night flights except for a training run July 29. Northern Thunderbird training was up between 10:07 - 11:04, however, a Central Mountain Air spokesperson saw no connection between the occurrences. She speculated that the tiny Cessna 185 would not emit a bright light of that magnitude and its engines would be heard at a close proximity.

Although a comet spotted the same evening would solve Stewart's mystery, its glowing green light, arc-shaped flight and Hudson Bay Mountain location did not pair up with what he saw - leaving Stewart questioning, "What the heck was it?"

For Stewart, the speed of the light was the most notable. "If you had blinked, you would have missed it, it was that fast," he said. He assessed the light reached faster than the speed of light at over 650 miles per hour. Stewart is well acquainted to gauging speed, he assessed, after driving dragsters that reached up to 200 miles per hour. As to whether he believes in another life force traveling through the universe, Stewart has always believed since reading space comic books as a kid, that people on earth weren't the only ones out here.

"There's too much on earth not to disbelieve," he argued, noting other phenomenon's such as the Pyramids. "I think there was someone before us." Despite Stewart's open mind towards other life forms, he talked himself through other possible explanations, but came to the same conclusion: "I knew I saw something out of the ordinary".

Although highly skeptical, the Canfor employee agreed his sighting was something more than an every day occurrence. "In my mind it looked like a meteorite," he comforted himself, but wavered as he turned the 20 second experience over in his mind. "But, it was like no meteorite I've ever seen. I've seen meteorite showers before, but they never looked anything like this. I really don't know what it was."

The Interior News - http:/www.interior-news.com

Bulkley Valley Hotbed of Interstellar Activity

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

Interior News

Smithers, B.C.

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

95th Year - Week 12

Community Reporter

http:/www.interior-news.com

By Timothy Schafer

The Interior News

A thick cloud cover blanketed the Bulkley Valley on the night of February 1, 2002. Three women drove down Highway 16 on that Friday, chatting casually. After they passed through Telkwa, around 8:45 p.m., a light in the sky ahead of the car slowed their conversation. Even though the woolly sky reflected back moonlight glancing off the snow, this light stood out oddly in the luminescent, northeastern night sky.

When it poked through the cloud cover and descended in their direction as they continued down the highway. The intensity of the light increased as it neared the car. The image of some sort of craft began to take shape, startling the driver.

A boomerang-shaped craft, with seven, bright, white lights and two orange lights at either end, appeared. It took a few seconds for the car to pass from under the craft but soon the silvery glow of a winter night sky in the Bulkley Valley closed in around the three women.

That episode ignited one of the most active months of unidentified flying object sightings in the Bulkley Valley in some time. In fact, with 11 reported sightings from 19 witnesses, the area drew national and international attention from ufologists.

George Filer, the top ufologist in the United States and publisher of the Filer's Files, a weekly newsletter for sightings, has had him as co-guest on National Public Radio's Jeff Rense Show - particularly in the last month since the Bulkley Valley became the crossroads of interstellar traffic.

The February 1, 2002 sighting is on file with the Smithers RCMP but, although they aren't ruling out a craft of some sort, they feel it might be something less glamorous than a UFO. "Whether it was an aircraft or not hasn't been confirmed," said Cpl. Claudette Garcia. Each of the reported cases Vike has investigated is unrelated. No sightings have been recorded in March so far; in the same time last month Vike had four already. "So what happened in February?

There was definitely a flap here," he said, using the ufologist term for a proliferance of objects being sighted. "We've had this big flap going on, it's just went through the roof. What is it they're seeing? " The three Houston women, all thirty something, married adults, were credible witnesses, Vike said. But he could not reveal their names due to his intent to retain the confidentiality of the witnesses.

"With UFO's people have a funny way of looking down on (witnesses). A lot of people get made fun of " said Vike. "People start coming up with some alien idea". Credibility is something which Vike has struggled with since he dedicated himself to investigating UFO sightings 4 years ago. Working in a field which most rational people consider to be populated by dreamers, charlatans, and daft fellows wearing multi colored beanies with a propeller fixed on top, he quickly established a name for himself internationally for the thoroughness and detail of his investigations. And living in a province where people are considered the most likely in the nation to witness a UFO sighting ... according to a survey done by Winnipeg based ufologist, Chris Ruskowski, in February gave the retired Houston forest products worker plenty to do.

"I don't just get a report, write it and post it to my website," Vike explained. "I investigate". "I do whatever I can do, make phone calls to authorities. You've really got to try and track stuff down." In the month since the February first sighting, Vike has been narrowing the possibilities. Some explanations for the lights were: airport lights; helicopters; small, fixed wing planes; ski-doos on mountain sides; stars - all of which he ruled out for different reasons.

"What I'm working on here, I can't come up for an explanation for it," he admitted. "I've talked to guys across Canada and they can't come up with anything. Right now it's unknown, but I've got to try and figure it out for myself or it will go down as unknown."

Seven federal government and five military hits to his website have been recorded since the beginning of February. There was the odd hit to the website by government previously, Vike said, but so many its during a time of inordinate amount of sightings is peculiar.

"So why are they all interested in it if they aren't really interested in UFO's to begin with, as they say?" Vike asked. Vike was certain there had to be other witnesses to the Telkwa sighting and yet, other than the three Houston women, no-one has come forward. A letter he wrote to the Houston Today uncovered unrelated sightings, but nothing further about February 1st. He hoped plain curiosity, the sort which transformed an amateur astronomer into a ufologist, would compel those people to call him.   

"I've always had this belief that we can't be the only ones in this vastness", he surmised. "There has to be life of some sort out there. If I can explain this, I will," he concluded. "If I can't. I'm not going to sit here and pull the wool over anybody's eyes. I want to know too and that's the whole point of doing this."

Interior News - http:/www.interior-news.com

Recent UFO Sightings In The Bulkley Valley

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

Houston Today Newspaper.

It seems the Bulkley Valley has become a crossroad for interstellar traffic.

Last week the Houston Today ran a story by T. Schafer about unidentified flying objects sighted in the Bulkley Valley.

Brian Vike is a ufologist and UFO field investigator based in Houston. He says this area has drawn national and international attention from ufologists because of the high number of sightings here.

February 2002 was one of the most active months of UFO sightings in the Bulkley Valley in some time. It seems the Bulkley Valley has become a crossroad for interstellar traffic.

Space did not allow the inclusion of the following accounts in last week’s paper, so here are some reports of recent sightings:

- Houston (July 2001): A fellow walked into the Houston Food Market telling of an object hovering approximately 500 feet above a transmitting tower on Mount Harry Davis. The object was emitting sparks off it’s bottom side, shooting down toward the tower.

- Houston (January 1999): Several snowmobilers on the Telkwa Mountain range watched a black/silver disc shaped object hover in the distance.

- Houston to Smithers (September 2001): A man driving west to Smithers from Houston saw a white light streak low over the valley below him, near Grouse Mountain.

- Houston to Smithers (August 2001): Husband and wife watch a large white light (object) east of Telkwa. It was reported to be very large and glowed brightly before disappearing rapidly to the north.

Houston Today - https://www.houston-today.com/

Crop Circles Return To Vanderhoof

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

Omineca Express Newspaper.

For the second time, pilot Brent Miskuski has seen something strange as he flew over Vanderhoof.

On his way home to Prince George at about 7:30 last Thursday evening, Miskuski took off from the Vanderhoof airport over Sturgeon Point Road.

Pressed into the grain crop were six circles known as "Crop Circles".

"I didn't have my camera, so I went back out (Friday) morning and took some pictures," be said. "I don't know if anyone knows they're there. I didn't see any tracks of footprints going in there."

As a pilot for Vanderhoof Flying Service, Miskuski has seen this before. The last time this area witnessed this phenomenon was in late August in 1998, when 11 circles appeared in a field leased by Halltray Farms

"Last time, Eric (Spier) and I were the first to see those, too," said Miskuski. "There are fewer now and they're smaller."

Spier, the pilot who spotted them first in 1998 agreed.

"I don't think these ones are as nice as the first ones," he said. "They look rougher."

Rough or not, the circles are already grabbing attention. Crop circle specialists from Vancouver, UFO enthusiasts and documentary makers are already on their way to the small town.

Brian Vike, an Unidentified Flying Object researcher from Houston was out Saturday morning, collecting soil and grain samples from the new circles.

"This is my first time looking at circles like this," he said. "It's really exciting."

Vike, who describes himself as an "open minded skeptic"; usually gathers reports of UFO Sightings in the area. He spent Saturday collecting as much data about the six circles as he could.

One formation of circles now being referred to as "Mickey Mouse's head" consists of three separate circles. The largest one is 30 feet across and is flattened in a clockwise spiral. The smaller two are 16 and 17 feet across the smaller one flattened in a counter clockwise spiral and the other clockwise. About 30 feet away lies another 17-foot circle in a counterclockwise pattern. Forty feet from that is a formation of two circles one is 27' 9" across in a clockwise spiral and the other 19' 10" in a counterclockwise spiral.

"Nobody had touched it before I got out there," said Vike. "There is one set of tracks out to one of the circles, but absolutely none leading from circle to circle and no other disturbances to the grain at all."

"The stalks of grain in the circles are all intact, simply bent over," said Vike.

"Nothings broken, just flattened," be said. "The spirals go in tighter and tighter as you approach the centre of the circle and they start to overlap a bit in the middle."

Vike also Interviewed several people in the area who reported a "smoky" smell on the night the circles were first seen.

"One lady said the smell was so disgusting they had to get up and close the window," he said.

Vike's UFO research has kept him hopping lately. He said Sightings are up almost 55 percent this year alone He's never encountered crop circles before, however.

"I hate to say it, but I suppose it would be fairly easy to fake them. That's why we take all these samples for analysis," he said. The samples will be tested for "just about everything", including magnetic traces, chemicals, and molecular structure.

"Man made or not," said Vike, "they're still cool."

Omineca Express Newspaper - https://www.ominecaexpress.com/

Highway 16 Reports May Be Linked

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

Terrace Standard News.

A Houston, B.C., based investigator is wondering if people here have seen unusual, bright objects in the skies over Terrace.

Brian Vike an independent UFO Field researcher, says residents from Smithers to Prince George have reported a recent rash of UFO sightings.

He’s wondering if people in Terrace saw anything out of the ordinary during the month of February that would be part of a pattern he’s noticed east of here along Highway 16.

Vike says a major sighting took place on February 1 just 3 kms east of Telkwa, outside Smithers. Witnesses there reported seeing bright objects in the sky.

Witnesses in Houston, Burns Lake and Vanderhoof reported seeing something similar.

To date, Vike has received reports stemming from about January 31 to February 3.

Terrace Standard News, Weekend Advertiser - https://www.terracestandard.com/

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Group Seeks Down To Earth Support

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

By Desmond Murray.

Kelowna Capital News.

Kelowna woman eyes venue for help with UFO encounters.

A Kelowna woman is reviving a support group for people with UFO experiences, despite all her own bad experiences surrounding the subject in the past.

She is willing to face up to some possible ridicule to try to provide a venue for people to talk about their experiences among a group of people who will not judge them harshly for their beliefs.

She also hopes to attract a counsellor and a hypnotherapist to help provide some answers for those troubled with experiences like abductions.

“It is not for looky-loos and people who are interested in the subject, it is for people who feel they have been abducted or had UFO sightings and weird things have been happening to them for a long time,” said Cynthia. (not her real name)

She wants to keep her anonymity to avoid the problem caused when a mentally disturbed man joined the last group she coordinated about five years ago. The man stalked her home and forced an abrupt move away from her children and from the club’s meeting place.

Prior to that dissolution, she said the group provided some much needed relief for a group of about 20 members who met regularly for about a year.

“We are normal, regular, average everyday people that are sane. We had all kinds of people – registered nurses, carpenters, homemakers, a councilor, hypnotherapists,” she said.

This time, she plans to meet in a neutral location like a library, where personal danger could be minimized.

Yet this would still allow the potential to discuss unfathomable experiences similar to her own.

“This is happening to everyday people and happening in our own backyard right here in Kelowna,” she said. “In the last three or four months the sightings have been unbelievable in this region.

“UFO*BC in Vancouver and Brian Vike in HBCC UFO Research in Houston, B.C., have had more than150 phone calls of sightings and things that are going on in this area.” An experience she had on July 31 of this year scared her enough to take the bold step to revive a support group.

“It was petty heavy duty stuff,” she said, unwilling to give details of the event over the phone, however, she said it did coincide with six eyewitness reports that night.

“After July 31 I said, That’s it, I have got to make my fear and anger work for me and not let it paralyze me,” she said.

“I have had things happening to me since I was four or five years old and now it is with my children,” she added, describing a triangular shape that showed up on her son’s back one morning with what appeared to be radiation burns.

Outside his bedroom window, one tree had suddenly shown burning signs around it’s leaves.

“There is no help here in Canada like there is in the United States.

“They have all these councilors, psychiatrists, lab technicians that will do these tests that will help these people,” she said.

Here you are supposed to live with all this stuff, all by yourself, all alone and wondering if you are going crazy.

“Their emotions are in chaos. They wake up with marks on their bodies and bleeding noses and they are angry and they don’t know why,” she said.

While taking out problems with other like minded people can provide some relief, it doesn’t address the issues as deeply as many would like.

So the group is looking for a professional with experience in hypnotherapy and counseling to help out.

“It is like someone who had a severe trauma, and they block it out because they can handle it. Like sexual abuse or whatever, it is the same thing for abductees,” she said.

“We need someone with an open mind who is really truly going to help them with these experiences.”

Kelowna Capital News -  https://www.kelownacapnews.com/

Was That A UFO Over Loma Linda And Redlands?

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article

By Gina Tenorio, Patch Staff.

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Posted Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:35 pm PT

 Patch.com Newspaper.

Reports come in to one blogger. But the source of lights may be less than supernatural.

Mr. Vike, a blogger with The Vike Factor Into the Paranormal got reports of strange lights over our area around March 26.

The report was of several orange lights glowing over the sister towns. A reader shed some, ahem, light on the topic.

"Hello Mr. Vike, several night watchmen at my company have seen the orange light a number of times this week," the reader wrote. "We believe that Chinese lanterns are the culprit. They are being launched several times a week now from the Redlands or Loma Linda area."

I'm pretty sure I was out that night, it was a Monday night, and I don't recall seeing lights of any kind.

If any of you saw the lights, send us an email and let us know. Are they lanterns? And who is lighting them?

Patch.com Newspaper - https://patch.com/

The Newspaper Article - https://patch.com/california/redlands/was-that-a-ufo-over-loma-linda-and-redlands