Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Newspaper Article.
By Bernice Trick
Citizen Staff
©Prince George Citizen
Newspaper
2-11-4
The mystery of the orange lights in the sky above Prince George about a week ago has been solved.
"The lights turned out to be parachutists jumping at night," said Brian Vike, a UFO expert from Houston.
"The jumpers were doing acrobatics -- almost doing somersaults at times -- and the orange lights attached to their feet or ankle areas would appear to rise upwards during the acrobatics," Vike said. The mystery was solved by a retired military man who viewed the action with a pair of binoculars, he said.
"One landed close to his home, and he said just before landing, the jumper turned the lights off."
On Friday the Citizen ran a story of the unusual sightings reported by Andrea Lanoue who, with four friends, observed bright orange objects.
She described the lights as hovering for a time before moving slightly apart at different speeds, and some of them "fading off".
Vike said he's not sure if the skydivers used the lights to keep track of each other during formation jumping or if they were "playing some kind of hoax".
A UFO survey released Monday by Ufology Research of Manitoba shows the top 10 communities in Canada for reported UFO sightings, Vike said. In 2003, there were 673 reported sightings across Canada, with Vancouver leading with 41. Toronto ranked second with 34 sightings, followed by Houston at 33, Terrace at 30, and Airdrie, Alberta at 17. Prince George is not among the top ten.
"Most reported unfamiliar
lights in the sky are identified as meteors, planets or stars," Vike said,
who became heavily involved in UFO sightings in 2000 after moving to Houston.
Since then he's participated in radio shows in Canada and the U.S. and was one
of the main characters featured in a 2002 TV documentary called "The
Magnificent Obsession".
Among cases still unsolved is one involving two women travelling away from Kelowna last July. "They reported seeing three white lights which turned green and dropped down in front of them on the highway. They both reported a loss of 45 minutes, and a tingly throughout their bodies," Vike said.
"They turned around and headed back to Kelowna with the light following them for a short distance before disappearing," said Vike, noting eight other people also reported seeing green lights. The next day, both women felt ill with a passenger having a nose bleed and finding a burn mark on her tail bone which the doctor said appeared to be a radiation burn. Since then, both have experienced weight loss, hair loss, nausea, salt cravings, dehydration and pressure to the back of their neck. But doctors cannot figure out the problem, Vike said.
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