Brian
Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date: Late 1975
Time: Approximately 4:00 p.m.
Number
of witnesses: 6
Number
of objects: 1
Shape
of objects: Thick saucer shaped.
Full
Description of event/sighting: This is mostly in regards of the 1975
sighting/screams in Thousand Oaks, Ca. La Crescenta is about forty miles south,
and only about five or six miles from Jet Propulsion Laboratories, which is in
Pasadena California.
I
do not if these experiences have any bearing on the family from Thousand Oaks,
but here it is:
I
had a friend over the house late in 1975. I was sixteen years old at the time,
and we were outside talking, and looking at a baseball game in progress across
the street at the park. The weather was clear, plenty of daylight left. Although
honestly I did not see this saucer shape appear, It was suddenly there,
hovering over the sky to the North of us. It is difficult for me to tell
exactly how high, or far away it was, but the UFO appeared huge.
Excuse
me, I mean HUGE! It stayed in the air for some time, as we had time to observe
it, I had time to run into the house and get my mother, brother, and father to
come out and look at it. It was hovering
over the park, between us and JPL.
I
remember that it had some lights on the side, rotating around the surface of
the craft. It hung in the air, but was not totally motionless, as though it
kept trying to stabilize itself, kind of like it was on a gyro that wasn't
functioning properly. It stayed around for about two or three minutes, than
tilted and then left the area at a high rate of speed. Aside from the
aforementioned witnesses, I am not sure that anyone else had seen the object.
Now,
concerning the screaming that the folks in Thousand Oaks that happened around
the same time:
We
had some incidences of screaming around here about that time, also. If memory
serves correctly, it was just before the above mentioned sighting. Crescenta
valley is in a bowl shaped area, created by the mountains to the north of
Burbank, California and the Angeles crest forest north of that.
We
lived pretty much at the base of the Burbank mountain. There is an aqueduct
that was cut out in the early seventies, for flood control. Across the flood
control (which was fenced off) lies the Crescenta Valley Park, which is
directly across the street from my parents house. There are night baseball
games (little league) and lights in the park.
It
was dark, not too late at night, and some friends and I were sneaking a
cigarette in the park, next to the flood control trench when we heard a
god-awful scream which reverberated off of the hill, neither animal nor human,
but it would be more to the animal side of noise. The three of us about jumped
out of our skins, and were trying to see across the trench as to what could
have made that particular noise.
It
may be important to note that the lights of the baseball field had a hard time
penetrating this far towards the trench to the hills, and we could not see
where it had emanated from. We were in the midst of discussing what had caused
the ruckus, and noticed some spectators from the game wandering over towards
the trench, kind of angling away from us, so I knew we were not the only ones
to hear it. After awhile, these folks left back to the game.
Some
time later, as we were still standing around, discussing the incident, we heard
another scream across the trench. This time, we witnessed the strangest sight.
What it appeared to be was some kind of kangaroo/Chupacabra looking animal
about fifty yards away, towards the base of the hill. It had to have been at
least seven or eight feet tall, we could see its legs and tail fine, but it was
kind of hard to see a face, as it fell within some shadows of light off the
baseball field.
We
looked at it, it looked at us, and I really thought some guy rented a Halloween
suit and was playing tricks on people. Our minds were changed however, when it
ran away. It took off going from zero to
about forty miles an hour in an instant.
And it went straight into the hills. Straight up the hill. We couldn't
follow it for long, but were able to kind of keep track of it by all of the noise
it created beating through the brush. I still think of this from time to time,
and a kangaroo keeps coming to mind.
As
a side note, when I was stationed in the army in Germany, we were on patrol one
night in the Black Forest region, late at night, on a small game trail when the
whole squad heard a scream which echoed all over the place. No kidding, the hair on my arms stood
up. As we only had blanks for our
rifles, we turned around and hightailed it out of there. Here's the extra weird thing.
Across
the animal trail that we had passed not five minutes before, there was a huge
tree covering the trail. Needless to
say, nobody ran around it, we had so much adrenalin flowing we pretty much
climbed/jumped the fallen tree, and pretty much ran all of the way back to the
area of operation.
Thank
you to the witness for the fascinating report.
Brian
Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email:
brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
