Showing posts with label Sighting. Show all posts
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Monday, July 11, 2022

An Amazing UFO Sighting Over Mount Paul Kamloops British Columbia

 

Above Photo: Mount Paul and the North Thompson River where the sighting took place. 

Just a quick note, been slowly getting a bunch of reports ready to post sometime soon, I hope. LOL. Family health issues has put UFOs on hold for a while.

Anyway, there was a recent UFO sighting which I missed, but others ended up watching an amazing sight of something really weird over Mount Paul here in Kamloops. Mount Paul sits pretty much around the junction of two major rivers, the North and South Thompson Rivers. 

Matter of fact, I look over Mount Paul from my patio. There really has been some unusual things that has taken place around the mountain, why, haven’t a clue, but have been looking into the sighting, talking to witnesses, etc.

I take a ton of photos from around Kamloops and here is a photo of Mount Paul and the North Thompson River I just recently took to give you an idea of what the area looks like. So working on reports, slowly !

Take care.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

New UFO Sighting Reports Will Be Posted Later In 2022

 Posted: January 19, 2022

Just a quick note, I have a lot of new sighting reports that came in over 2020, 2021 and now in 2022. I will get these posted sometime later in 2022. Family health issues has kept me pretty busy.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Sunday, June 27, 2021

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/

Friday, April 2, 2021

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

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

UFO Sighting In Fort St. James

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

Rebecca Watson - March 23, 2015.

Vanderhoof Omineca Express.

More than one person saw the unidentified flying object.

The day started out normal for Fort St. James bus driver Frances Honeywell, 47, who began her route down Tache Road. It was just before 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 18 and she had already picked up a number of kids when she noticed an eerily strange looking object in the sky.

“It looked like a jet stream but very short and there where three symmetrical tails with a light blinking at the top. The thing that puzzled me the most was it wasn’t moving across the sky, it stayed in one spot,” Honeywell said, who included she watched the object for nearly 15-20 minutes. “It was so odd and very unnatural looking.”

At first she thought it might be a cloud but kept her eye on it for a few kilometres. She described the top of the object as an eye with an upper and lower lid, similar to what most might call a flying saucer.

“I’ve gone to many air shows since my dads a pilot but I’ve never seen anything like this from the ground or from in a plane. It definitely was not a plane or a jet. I thought about a helicopter which can hover but I’ve never seen a helicopter with jets underneath it and three jet streams at that.”

Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald said it may have been a lenticular cloud. A lens shaped cloud that is seen at sun rise or sun down often confused as a UFO since clouds at that time of day will take on optical affects from the sun.

“After looking at the archived weather observations from that morning I see there were a few alto-cumulus clouds (mid level puffy clouds) but couldn’t pick anything out in the sky,” he said.

There are a number of automated weather stations that read wind, humidity and temperature but, the closest human weather observer is in Prince George.

“It would be almost impossible to know for sure,” MacDonald said.

Many kids on Honeywell’s bus saw the object and talks about aliens made one little girl cry.

“I didn’t want anyone to be scared but it was bizarre,” Honeywell said. “It definitely wasn’t a cloud.”

Craig Houghton, the principal of Fort St. James Secondary also claims to have seen the un-earthly object.

“I did see something in the air from the window at the high school. It looked like when you see a plane but it had three prongs coming off of it and certainly didn’t look like your standard jet,” he said.

Brian Vike, 63, is a world-renowned UFOologist from Houston, BC. Since he started recording sightings of crop circles and mysterious flying objects in 2000, Vike’s received more than 1,100 reports from all over the world.

“I would say maybe it was a jet but not in that position and not for that length of time. Cloud formations dissipate… it could be something military or something coming back from space but it wouldn’t stand still for that length of time. I don’t know what it was,” Vike said in a phone interview, noticeably boggled by Honeywell’s drawing and description.

The northern lights have been visible for the past few days and were visible the night before the sighting. They are however ruled out as a culprit considering the sun had already come up by the time the object had been spotted.

“You could clearly see a blinking light at the top of it and at one point I could actually see the movement of the plumes. I later googled what I saw and the only similar thing was a plane that had gone through a cloud mixing the plane’s exhaust with the cloud’s vapour water but it didn’t explain the blinking, twinkling light on top. You have to take everything with a grain of salt but I’m not one to say there’s not something out there. Hey, it would sure be a good time to come with all those [beautiful] northern lights,” Honeywell joked.

If anyone has seen a UFO they can contact Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com

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

The Newspaper Article - https://www.ominecaexpress.com/news/ufo-sighting-in-fort-st-james/

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Major Triangle UFO Sighting Over Jacksonville Florida

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date: December 17, 2008

Time: 7:15 p.m.

Location of Sighting: I-295 and I 95 intersection.

Number of witnesses: 3

Number of objects: 1

Shape of objects: Triangle.

Full Description of event/sighting: We were traveling N on I-95 in Jacksonville, Fl., getting ready to get onto the ramp to take us up on I-295 to go home, and my 11 year old daughter told me she seen something in the sky that looked funny. Being that we live near JAX international airport, I told her it was probably an air plane.

As I got on the on the on-ramp to go up on I-295 and turned the curve, I could not believe my eyes.

There, above the tees was a huge triangular shaped craft, way to big to be an airplane, moving south at an extremely slow speed. There was no noise from this thing, as you would think from the size it would have been very loud.

As we rounded the on-ramp, this craft completely turned around in the air and began heading back in the opposite direction that it had been going. Then, it almost seemed to stop, hovered for a second and then disappeared in front of our eyes. It had a light on each tip of the triangle and a light on the bottom center.

Before it disappeared, the front nose of the craft tilted downward. The weird thing is, when it disappeared, suddenly in the background far off I could seen an airplane coming in to the airport as if this thing was so big that it blocked the sight of the in coming airplane, then the airplane was visible when the mysterious craft disappeared.

My daughter told me that when she first seen it she thought there was two. Remember that she was in the back seat and seen it before us all. She said that the first one she seen was in an oval shape and seemed to be in an upright position.

Can you tell me what in the world this was and if there were other reports on this night?

Thank you to the witness for their report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Another UFO Sighting

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

Paul Wells

Echo Editor

City man reports strange object during daylight hours.

Airdrie Echo — There’s something up there in them there skies.

But whether it’s a bird, plane – or perhaps something not of this earth – remains unknown.

British Columbia-based UFO researcher Brian Vike, who operates HBCC UFO Research, said sighting reports from Airdrie and area keep coming into his UFO hotline and e-mail.

"Since (last week’s article in the Airdrie Echo), things started to happen pretty quickly," Vike said, adding recent articles seemed to have encouraged others to step forward with their experiences, both recent and in the past.

"The latest report was once again very interesting."

According to Vike, the latest report was e-mailed to him. The following is a copy of the witness’s account.

Airdrie (Sept. 6, 2003 – 4 p.m.): "I have been reading the paper about recent UFO??? sightings seen around Airdrie. I would like to tell you about what I saw back on Sept. 6, 2003.

"I had just arrived home after attending the Fall Classic Show and Shine at Nose Creek Park. It was 4 p.m in the afternoon (and) I was looking out my livingroom window, which faces east.

"My home is situated (near the railway tracks). I noticed a white, completely perfect round sphere going in a northerly direction.

"It was definitely not a balloon. There was no string attached and it was perfectly round, as balloons are not.

"It stayed at a constant speed and was completely unaffected by wind currents. It may have been going about 30-50 kilometres/hour and it stayed at the exact same height. I watched it until it disappeared out of sight. I felt like it may have been following along Main Street, however, it may not have been.

"It was also difficult to tell the size at that distance, but it may have been larger than a beach ball. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Has anyone else mentioned this to you? I would be curious to know if I was the only one who saw it."

Vike said that anyone else who might have witnessed the strange object that day is asked to contact him.

"It helps with our research of such sightings," Vike said, adding the aforementioned report brings the recent count in Airdrie and area to at least nine sightings.

 Airdrie Echo Newspaper - https://www.airdrieecho.com/

UFO Sighting At Nanoose Bay

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

By Neil Horner 

Parksville Qualicum Beach News.

Researcher Brian Vike says a record number of sightings have come from Vancouver Island this year.

Vancouver Island continues to be a hot spot for sightings of unidentified flying objects, says a Houston, B.C.-based researcher.

“There were a lot of sighting reports from Vancouver Island,” said Brian Vike, who runs the UFO research website The Vike Factor. “I don’t think it would take a lot more reports to have that area in the top 10 at year’s end.”

Last year, he said, there were 1,000 reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in all of Canada, but this year he has posted 799 himself — and he has more than 200 more reports sitting in his mail in-box after being away for a month.

“That is phenomenal. The most I’ve ever got was 400 for a whole year,” he said. “This is a huge, huge spike.”

One of the most recent sightings, he said, came from Nanoose Bay.

The report described the passing of a strange, brightly lit object near the Schooner Cove Marina.

“I was standing out on my upper deck in the dark to cool off at about 9:45 p.m. on Aug. 18, when an extremely large, low-flying object appeared just over the tree line from the west,” the report said. “It moved eastward at a very slow rate of speed. It was square in shape flying on a diagonal with brilliant bright white, red, green and blue lights underneath. It had white strobing lights running from the middle to the back end which clearly outlined it’s square shape — as opposed to an airplane with wings.”

The object moved in complete silence until it disappeared from view behind the trees to the east.

“I quickly ran down the road to where there is an unobstructed view eastward across the open ocean towards Vancouver where I expected to still see it flying, but it was nowhere in sight and had disappeared.”

As a policy, Vike does not release the names of the people who report to him. The sighting, Vike said, was an odd one.

“The weird thing is the shape,” he said. “It is pretty strange. The lights sound like navigation lights, but he couldn’t see any wings on that thing and I don’t know of too many square airplanes. It’s a really weird kind of beast.”

Another strange sighting was reported the following morning over south Nanaimo. “I got a call from my boyfriend at 9:45 a.m. to say he had just seen a UFO by the Country Club,” the report said. “It was as bright as a street light. So I went outside of my house and looked up and saw one light that was much farther away than what he saw, six zagging back and forth towards the ocean.”

The light faded and disappeared, only to be followed by another that looked exactly the same, zig-zagging towards Port Place Mall, before disappearing.

Skywatchers got an eyeful on Aug. 12 as well, when a Courtenay resident reported seeing something odd in the night sky. “I noticed the light on Monday … around 10 p.m. It was moving slowly, in an eastern trajectory. It was much brighter and larger than any other star in the sky. I only noticed when I noticed my neighbours outside, pointing up at it. The object went straight over my house and towards the local airforce base.”

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

The Newspaper Article - https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/ufo-sighting-at-nanoose-bay/

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Was There A Mass UFO Sighting?

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

Terrace Standard newspaper - April 2, 2003

http://www.terracestandard.com/

By Jennifer Lang.

Terrace is living up to its reputation as a UFO hot spot.

As many as 30 people may have recently witnessed two black, triangular-shaped flying objects in the Lakelse Lake area, the northwest’s resident UFO researcher has been told.

Brian Vike, field researcher and president of HBCC-UFO, is now hoping to talk to eyewitnesses to verify the report.

He also wants to find out more details like the exact time, date and description of the sighting – thought to have taken place several weeks ago.

That would help him determine what witnesses saw. A variety of known objects such as stars, planets, meteors, or aircraft can be mistaken for UFOs.

Vike learned about the sighting after someone sent him an email telling him that more than 30 people had witnessed two triangular objects in the sky.

“I’m kind of chomping at the bit – all I need is a couple of names and number to get on this,” he said from his home base in Houston, B.C. “From what I’m gathering, they’re professional people – not just kids.”

Vike is intrigued by the possibility that the sighting involves triangular-shaped objects, which are less commonly reported.

There’s been a flurry of UFO reports along the Highway 16 corridor lately.

“It’s just been non stop for the last little bit,” he said, adding he’s received eight or nine reports in the past week. “There’s something. I don’t know if it’s military. It’s a possibility.”

Another recent report from the Terrace area involved a yellow ball of light the size of a basketball spotted over a trailer in Thornhill. It moved low in the air, travelling quickly before pausing above the mountain. “Then it proceeded like a bang,” Vike says.

The recent activity suggests Terrace’s top ten showing on the 2002 Canada UFO survey may have been no fluke.

The survey counted 25 eyewitness reports from Terrace in 2002, putting us in third place overall, ahead of Houston, B.C., which is in fourth place and even ahead of major metropolitan areas like Toronto and Vancouver.

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

Unexplained Sighting In The Area

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

By C. McGarrigle

LD News.

Wednesday March 5, 2003.

Volume 83 – No. 10.

Have you ever spotted strange lights in the sky? What about a fast moving object that defies the laws of gravity? If you haven’t, your chances of seeing a UFO in Northern B.C. is greater than any other region of Canada.

The communities of Terrace and Houston have just recently been named in the top 10 list of UFO sightings across Canada.

Terrace is the B.C. capital for sightings and third across the country, while Houston placed second in B.C. and fourth across the country.

The list compiled 483 eyewitness reports from around the country in 2002. One-third of all the sightings were reported in B.C.

Brian Vike is a leading Ufologist based out of Houston, B.C. who is the founder of the HBCC UFO website and investigator of strange phenomenon in the region since 2000. Since the survey was released, Vike says his phone has been ringing off the hook.

“People are aware now that there is actually someone who investigates  and talks to people and tries to figure out what people are seeing,“ says Vike.

Even in the last week there have been many sightings reported in the northwest region.

One “large disk shaped object” was spotted on February 22 over a one hour period by observers in three different areas of B.C.

The object was described as very large, slow moving, with bright lights on the underside and completely silent.

The first witness spotted the object in Mill Bay, Vancouver Island at 9:15 p.m. followed by two Alcan employees in Kitimat, B.C. at 10:20 p.m. Shortly after, a husband and wife stopped their vehicle between Terrace and Prince Rupert to watch the object.

On February 3, 2003 a Canfor employee out of Houston noticed three bright, hazy blue/white lights in the shape of a rectangle fly past them quickly at a very low altitude.

Other witnesses have come forward in Houston since the sighting was released to inform Vike that they had witnessed the same object 12 hours before the Canfor employee.

The Lakes District has also had it’s fair share of unexplained that have been investigated by Vike, who said he gets many calls from the area.

On February 14, 2002 two residents of Francois Lake noticed a bright fast moving object come towards, when all of a sudden it came to a complete stop and went totally dark.

The witness said that a bright flash of light was suddenly emitted from the object. They said a ray of light began to sweep the ground, which lit up a very large area. The object continued to scan the ground for a few minutes until it suddenly left the area at unprecedented speeds.

Vike also investigates the phenomenon of ‘crop circles’ that have been reported in the Vanderhoof area over the past few years.

While there have been hundreds of sightings in the northwest, many have been explained by military exercises or cosmic activity, such as planets or shooting stars.

“There is still so many of them that remain unexplained , but people are seeing things all the time ,” says Vike.

A film crew from the Canadian Life Network arrived in the area recently to start shooting a new series called “The Magnificent Obsession.”

Because of the surge of sightings in the northwest in the past two years, Vike was asked to take part in the documentary, which will include other Ufologists from the U.S. and England.

Vike is hoping that other people will come forward to report any strange occurrences, phenomenon, or generally, things that go bump in the night.

Lakes District News - https://www.burnslakelakesdistrictnews.com/

Saturday, March 13, 2021

UFO Sighting Over Thompson ?

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

By John Barker editor@thompsoncitizen.net/ Thompson Citizen

January 5, 2011 03:00 a.m.

A Thompson woman says she saw three unexplained reddish orange lights in a triangle" Christmas Eve at 7:47 p.m. in the night sky over Thompson.

The strange lights were apparently visible for close to an hour between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Christmas Eve.

"My boyfriend came running into the house yelling at us to come look at the sky, says Kimberly Wavey. "When me and my mom got outside we saw three reddish orange lights in a triangle. They looked the same size as the stars. Then after about a minute the middle light fell and faded then the first light faded. I ran inside to grab some binoculars and when I got outside the last light wasn't there.

Wavey said before she got outside her boyfriend saw "five lights in the distance that could've been confused with something else then with great speed was almost right above me, and I could see the lights in the front that formed a triangle while the lights in the back seem to fade and it seemed like it was cloaked, like there was something I wasn't fully seeing."

It's at least the second reported UFO sighting in Northern Manitoba this month. On Dec. 10, near Bird, two hours north of Fox Lake, between Gillam and Avery on the Bayline, there were reports of red, blue and green lights hovering over, or off to the side of the tracks, and illuminating a train.

The two recent Manitoba reports, "UFO Interferes With Railway Trains Controls 2 Hours North Of Fox Lake Manitoba?" and "4 Orange Red Balls Of Light Over Thompson Manitoba" appear on Brian Vike's The Vike Factor into the Paranormal blog at: http://canadaufo.blogspot.com/2010/12/4-orange-red-balls-of-light-over.html and http://canadaufo.blogspot.com/2010/12/ufo-interferes-with-railway-trains.html

Vike reports multiple unexplained sightings from across the country monthly from readers who send in their sightings to the blog.

The very first documented sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in this area came from the journals of 18th century explorers David Thompson and Andrew Davies.

Thompson's journal states that in the autumn of 1792 they were camped at Landing Lake, near Thicket Portage, when they saw a brilliant "meteor of globular form larger than the moon." The object seemed to come directly towards them, lowering as it travelled, and "when within 300 yards of us, it struck the river ice, with a sound like a mass of jelly, was dashed in innumerable luminous pieces and instantly expired."

The next morning when they went to see the hole it should have made in the ice, they were surprised to find no markings whatsoever. UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski, research co-ordinator for UFOlogy Research of Manitoba (URM) told the Thompson Citizen in an April 2008 interview that in some ways the object sounded like a bolide - a brilliant meteor - that through a trick of the eye might appear to be nearby, although in reality it could have been miles away. He also adds that it is interesting that the two heard a sound, something rare for meteors, and furthermore described the object as "globular" and that "it had no tail and no luminous sparks came from it until it dashed to pieces."

The Winnipeg-based UFOlogy Research of Manitoba investigates and researches Canadian UFO sightings, and Rutkowski says the night skies over Manitoba average about three or four sightings a month.

UFOlogy Research is concerned that most of the sightings were not reported to investigators in Manitoba but were instead submitted to websites around the globe.

That makes it difficult for researchers here to speak to witnesses, collect further information and potentially rule out objects as planets or stars instead of UFOs.

"Every year, it's whittled down to about three per cent to five percent that don't have an easy explanation," said Rutkowski.

Among the UFOs sightings reported in September 2007, one came from a witness parked near Headingley about 2 a.m. on Sept. 10.

The man claims he heard a humming sound and then saw a light in the northern sky. He turned and saw a "floating disc" land in a field. Scared, he jumped in his car and drove away. In his rearview mirror, the witness said he saw the object rise from the ground and race across the sky before vanishing.

In an attempt to explain the rise in UFO sightings over time, Rutkowski said it's possible there's something out there or that "people are paying more attention to their surroundings."

You can follow Rutkowski on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/ufologyresearch or his blog at: http://uforum.blogspot.com/

David Thompson goes on in his journals to describe a second such meteor, and this one again "passed close by me striking the trees with the sound of a mass of jelly." He thought the height was no more than eight feet above the ground, although dimensions can be quite deceiving at night, and this estimate could be incorrect. Nevertheless, we are left with an interesting historical account of a strange event in the woods just 30 to 50 kilometres from what is now Thompson.

A more disturbing UFO account comes from 1967. A woman (the family name has been deleted from the case files) was walking through her house around 6 p.m. in Thompson, when she heard an odd beeping sound. It was repeated at regular intervals of about one second, and she wondered what was causing it. She looked out her kitchen window, and saw dirt and loose pieces of paper flying in a large circle around her house. Outside, she found her husband, who had just come home, and five children staring up into the sky. A young boy was holding her eight-year old daughter down on the ground. Up in the sky a rectangular object hung in the air, slowly rotating counter-clockwise and showing alternating silver and black sides. It was black on its lower surface, and made no noise.

The object began moving off on an angle, stopped and hovered, then continued towards the southwest. Until this time the circle of dirt and dust and papers had persisted, but it now died down. The whirlwind was confined to the area immediately around their house and did not affect any other house on the street. When the object moved away, the dirt feel to the ground. Going to the children, the woman found they were calming down except her daughter, who seemed dazed. The boy explained that the five of them had been playing in the yard when the object first appeared overhead.

As they watched, her daughter had been levitated into the air, apparently caused by the UFO in the sky. By the time the other children came to her aid she was about one metre off the ground and her clothes had edged up her body. Her daughter said she did not remember anything from the time she felt the wind until the time she recovered after being dragged back to the ground.

The most famous UFO sighting in Manitoba history also took place in 1967. Known as the Falcon Lake Incident, it occurred on May 20, 1967, when Stephen Michalak claimed that he encountered a unidentified flying object (UFO) near Falcon Lake, while taking a short vacation in Whiteshell Provincial Park, not far west of the Ontario border.

Michalak claimed to have been burned by the craft's exhaust vent, which was covered by an ovular grid, he said.

Michalak, an industrial mechanic born in Poland was a resident of Winnipeg, but had taken a short vacation in the Falcon Lake area, where he had prospected as an amateur geologist before, to search for veins of quartz he had been told could be near the lake.

Shortly after noon, Michalak said he was disturbed by a noise similar to geese's grunts. When he looked up, he spotted two cigar-shaped objects, which were red and brilliant as fire. They were descending at 45 degrees, he said, adding the more they approached the more oval they became.

One of the objects stopped in the air, he said, while the other landed on a big rock 160 feet away from him.

After some moments, the object floating above Michalak changed its color to grey, and then flew directly west, disappearing through the clouds. The landed object also changed to grey, and then to a color similar to incandescent stainless steel.

From the interior opening of the object, some violet light rays were emitted, he said, but as Michalak was already using special glasses to examine the quartz, the rays didn't affect him, he claimed. The object was said to have a sulfurous smell and made a humming noise.

Half an hour passed, and Michalak still was observing the spaceship. Suddenly, a door opened, he said, and he could see that the interior of the UFO was very illuminated. He approached closer and heard some voices coming from inside the ship.

Believing that the object was an experimental American flying object, he tried to make a contact in English. As no answers were given, he tried other languages in vain. Nervous, he walked to the open door, and saw a panel and some lights inside the ship.

He did not see anybody, he said, so he waited. Suddenly, the door closed. Despite the surprise, he discovered a colourful glass around the UFO. It was very well conserved, with no cracks. He attempted to touch it, but his glove simply melted, the heat hurting his hand through the glove's protection.

A metallic box full of holes came off the UFO in what seemed to be a grid-like exhaust vent. A steamy explosion occurred, he said, and some kind of gas was expelled in his direction. Immediately, his clothes started to burn, Michalak said. As the object flew after the other one, Michalak was left behind desperately trying to extinguish the fire.

Once the fire was extinguished, Michalak said he felt pain and sickness and noticed a metallic odour from the inside of his body, like the smell of something electric that is burning. He initially claimed the burns were caused by airplane exhaust. The RCMP later confirmed that Michalak had been drinking beer the night before the sighting he reported.

The Department of National Defence still identifies the Falcon Lake case as unsolved. Michalak died in 1999 at the age of 83.

A Feb. 23, 1971 UFO sighting at 232 Deerwood Dr. by Gisella and Louis Kovacs is on file in the National Archives of Canada and National Research Council of Canada. From about 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. the Kovacs reported to Thompson RCMP that they saw a "plate shaped object about the size of a full moon. This object was flashing from red to green to yellow to blue also a red flash from the north side of the object was sighted."

RCMP officers G.H. Donovan and E.C. Wesley who investigated noted in their official report "the Kovacs were sober and did not appear to have been drinking when the statements were obtained."

There was also a well-known UFO sighting and possible attempted alien abduction, some witnesses believed, locally years ago on Cypress Crescent, behind the Thompson Professional Building on Selkirk Avenue, in the Juniper area.

And finally in 1992 a group of children were playing in a field when they saw some bright lights floating near some snow banks. When they approached the lights they encountered a tall hairy humanoid with red glowing eyes. They fled in terror and the parents and medical personnel who treated the children said that they were truly terror stricken and believed what they saw.

There were nine reported UFO sightings in the Flin Flon area between 1947 to and November 2008, residents have reported nine UFO sightings, according to the official record-keeper of such data, UFOlogy Research of Manitoba.

While some are quick to equate UFOs to otherworldly crafts piloted by extraterrestrials, Rutkowski stresses a fact-based interpretation.

"UFOs are simply objects that an observer cannot identify," he says. "There is no proof that some are from other planets."

Rutkowski says most of Flin Flon's sightings have been recounted by witnesses as odd lights or fireballs, both of which are common descriptions.

The most unusual, he says, was reported back in 1947 when a platter-shaped object was seen silhouetted against a stormy sky.

"It moved east to west at a high speed, and was towards the north," says Rutkowski.

Until November 2008, the most recent Flin Flon sighting had come in 1979 from a Mountie who claimed to have gazed upon a "fireball" in the sky.

Then on Nov. 20, 2008, at 6:30 p.m., another fireball was said to have illuminated the sky.

No official sightings have ever come from Creighton or Denare Beach, though it is possible some occurred and were reported as being from Flin Flon.

About 60 kilometres northeast, in tiny Sherridon, a lone sighting was reported on Feb. 11, 2001.

"Someone watched an oval object with rotating lights on its bottom and a sphere attached underneath," says Rutkowski.

Other Northern Manitoba sightings include three in Cranberry Portage and nine in The Pas.

Rutkowski concludes that when population is factored in, the number of sightings in Northern Manitoba is on par with other parts of the province.

"It's a matter of trees falling in the forest," he says. "You need people around to see them and report them, so there are more reported in larger communities."

Rutkowski speculates some sightings go unreported, in part because witnesses fear being labelled oddballs who believe in little green men.

"It could be for many reasons. That's one of them," he says. "It could be simply because people are hesitant to come forward with information, as they are about coming forward if they see a drunk driver, or know someone is lying on a tax return."

URM is a private, not-for-profit organization involved in "rational discourse, investigation and research" of UFOs and related phenomena.

Despite its name, the organization, established in Winnipeg in 1975, is actually a national group that studies cases from coast to coast.

"At this time, we are the only (Canadian) group that is doing so," says Rutkowski, who holds science and education degrees.

Rutkowski encourages anyone who sees a UFO to report it to a research group such as URM.

With files from Len Podbisky and Jonathon Naylor at The Reminder in Flin Flon.

Thompson Citizen Newspaper - https://www.thompsoncitizen.net/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.thompsoncitizen.net/news/thompson/ufo-sighting-over-thompson-1.1375372

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

4 Orange Lights Over Cincinnati Ohio (Second Report For This Sighting)

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  October 22, 2010

Time:  Approxamtlty 7:50 p.m.

Good Evening, about one hour ago about 7:50 pm I witnessed what I believe to be a UFO of some kind. I was driving south on I-71, I saw 4 large bright lights, they would disappear slowly like a fading candle or match. Then would reappear just as bright after a couple of seconds. They did not appear to be moving, just staying stationary.

They were in a line, fading in and out, there would be 4 then 3 then 2 then 1 then none. Then 1 and then I lost it in the tree line. I read up on this and seems to be a reoccurring phenomenon. Some say it's parachutes for the pre game football at UC,

I believe this lights to be way to large for a human. I would love to hear if you have more info on this, it was just awesome to see tonight. Thanks.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

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Sunday, February 28, 2021

UFO Sighting Tottenham London UK (Video Footage)

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  September 29th 2011

Time:  Daytime sighting. (Midday)

Strange 'cigar' shaped object (white with black tips), hovers silently over north London approximately midday. Clear blue sky and no discernible noise, object moved from right to left and then back before a vertical ascent (not recorded).

To view the witnesses video footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0rowCLaV_k

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

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UFO Sighting Over Komoka Provincial Park Area In South Western Ontario

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  September 28, 2011 (Vary)

Time:  Vary

Hi there Brian, there was a long dry spell from any sightings in this area until September 28, 2011, which was a return of the silvery white craft in, or rather over the floodplain at about twice the height of the sighting I had last year on August 27, 2010.

Pretty much the same scenario, no sound, very slow movement in a straight line, no windows, no markings and the identical large projection/ bump on the tail end of the fuselage. The flight path was North West to South East.

On or around the 20 or 21 we saw a meteor fall to earth over the Provincial Park, since then I myself have seen the beginnings of a repeat performance of last summer's sightings of light shows over the Park and weird light/plasma shows further West over Oneida and near the hydro lines. These occur between 11:00 pm and 2 am almost every night.

The plasma light scenario, is pure white/gold in colour, much, much larger than a star, either at tree line height or below, and appears as though it dims and revolves by turn. At one point it looked as if you were peeking at a very bright dazzling light between a slit in a heavy curtain. Always moving up, down left and right across the panes of a window pane, which makes it easy to track.

That's about it Brian, I hope this is of some help to you, with any luck you're sitting or laying down when you read this after such a long gap between correspondence.

All my very best to you and yours, sincerely.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Large Ball That Appeared To Be Fire Seen Over Scarborough Ontario

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  November 7, 2011

Time:  Approxamtlty 8:45 p.m.

Hello Brian, my name is (name removed). I was outside on my parents balcony having a cigarette and noticed a large ball of what looked like the same colors as fire, flying about 2 or 3000 feet above and past our building.

We have a good radius of view here and I was able to have the time to call my dad outside so as that he could have the chance to see it to. 

I just wish I had time to grab my camera, but I didn't want to give up my chance to look at it while as it passed by. Definitely lost for words, reality is way more crazier then I was ever led to believe.

Keep your eyes in the skies!

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.