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Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date: October 31st around the year 2002
Time: Around midnight.
Brian Vike's Note: Were members of the family effected by this UFO event ?
Also, I read that you take old reports as well as new ones. I have an amazing sighting I would like to share that was in the same vicinity of the last one. There is a reason that I am always looking to the skies and why I know what a normal manmade aircraft is like, it is because of my first sighting.
I do not have the exact date, since I was young, but I know for a fact it was on October 31st.
Location: San Marin Drive Novato, CA "Near San Marin High School"
Description: It was Halloween night. My mother, father, sister and I were coming home from a party and trick or treating in Mill Valley. We were in our Chevy '95 Suburban. On our way home, around midnight, I saw a bright intense light. It was flying slowly towards our direction.
I was a bit mesmerized by it and knew it was different. Then some trees blocked my view and I lost visual contact. Suddenly my mom slams on the breaks and excitedly asks us, "Hey, what’s that in the sky?" We all got out of the car and looked up to see a triangle UFO hovering less than a hundred feet above us.
It had 3 lights, one at each corner that were white and I believe a red one in the middle. We watched it hover for about 10 - 20 seconds. There was no noise! No one said a word. Then, faster than the blink of an eye, it took off! We all got in the car to go home.
My sister started complaining that she felt ill. As I recall, we didn't speak much after we saw it, we just seemed to be in awe.
It was the single craziest moment in my life that I think about almost everyday.
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.
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Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
On January 1, 2004 about noon, the weather was clear and cold with a blanket of snow covering the whole area. I was living in a 17th. fl. apt. in N. Surrey. I am partially disabled, so don't go out much. To amuse myself if the weather was clear, I would watch the skiers over on the North shore mountains through high powered binoculars.
I was doing this January 1, but got bored and decided to see if I could see any animals on the mountain sides. On the mountain across from Port Moody, near the Hydro substation I noticed about half a dozen people apparently snowboarding in a large clearing, found out later it was the west end of the Westwood Plateau Golf Course.
To their left, almost directly under the high voltage power lines, is a small clump of trees next to a hill. On the north side of the trees I saw what appeared to be a large black stump. As I watched the people finished one run and started back up the hill, they apparently decided to go higher and started to veer over towards the clump of trees.
Suddenly the black stump separated into two huge humanoids, they appeared to stare momentarily at the people, then turned and moved off to the NNW into the trees on the north side of the clearing. They appeared to be about four times the size of the people, estimated 8 to 10 feet in height.
I observed the people find the tracks and stand there for a few minutes apparently discussing the situation, the people then left back down the hill. The next day I was watching the clearing from daybreak in hopes of seeing something else. At approximately 10:00 a.m., I observed a very tall shaggy humanoid walk across the south side of the course and go into the small clump of trees. This individual appeared to be twice the height of the black creatures, perhaps 14 to 16 feet tall.
About half the height of the deciduous trees growing in the area. It had auburn, coloured hair approximately six inches long covering it’s body, looked very slender compared to the black guys. Like looking at the Wookie from Star Wars only far taller. Fog rolled in and for about a hour I couldn't see. The fog lifted just in time for me to see it leave the clump and head NNE across the clearing.
I reported every thing I was seeing to the late Graham Conway, I was hoping he might get it checked out as I could plainly see the trails they were making, snow was two or three feet deep when I first saw them. Graham told me later he hadn’t believed me, as he figured they were to close to the houses. I finally managed to get film for my camera and he was quite surprised to see the course was right up against the forest.
By then the snow had all melted. I continued to monitor the area until the first week in February. Last sighting was one of the black creatures walking east beside a sand trap on the south side of the course. During the five or so weeks I observed the area I saw a number of Deer, several Bears, the bears went into the clump of trees and within minutes came running back out.
Same thing, a number of dogs did, ran in apparently playing, ran out with tails between their legs. Towards the end of January I saw one of the black creatures walk across another section of the course and go into the trees, that afternoon I saw about half a dozen golfers show up with their carts. I watched them drive to where the black creature had been earlier, they stopped and got out and appeared to be looking at tracks, they left their carts and followed the same path across the course and into the trees.
They had no sooner gone from sight when I saw a large animal ran from the trees on the north side of the course. It appeared to be an Elk or antlerless Moose and it appeared to be fleeing from something and ran east down one of the cart paths. I glanced back at the trees just in time to see the large auburn haired creature standing there looking across the course to where I'd last seen the golfers.
It stared for about 30 seconds, walked about 20 feet then went back under the trees, I could still see him hiding there, seconds later what appeared to be his wife and son copied his movements, the female? appeared about a foot shorter than the male and what I presumed to be their son was about a foot shorter than her.
I was watching through my spotting scope when I saw them and could clearly see their ling shaggy hair. The black ones looked just like the creature from the Roger Patterson film. The beginning of March 2004, I drove to the area with my wife, she waited at the car while I attempted to walk in. I wanted to go into the clump of trees and see if there was any evidence, turned out it was farther than I thought maybe several hundred yards, ground was very uneven and sloped, I got about a hundred feet and chickened out, I took a photo and it turned out to have about the same perspective as I was getting through my binoculars only much clearer.
Their appears to be a large stump within that clump of trees so maybe the animals are hiding there. One thing that kind of creeped me out was that it was a dead zone, no noise, no birds, no wind and the feeling I was being watched. Had the same feeling up in the mountains near Port Alberni years ago and found Cougar tracks and when I retraced my foot steps.
Anyway I didn't care for the sensation and since I could barely walk retreated as quick as possible, that feeling lifted as soon as I got back on the road and safely in my car. I was keeping a running diary as to what, when and were I was seeing things but sent it all to Graham, also reported to BFRO bigfoot reports, they sent me a file number and that was that.
One thing I noticed when the tall Auburn haired guys were watching the people, they looked like they would be as tall as four golf carts piled on each other.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com or please use the online Sighting Report Form.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date: 1991 and onward.
Time:
Evenings.
Hi Vike. About the pulsating vibrating noise Kathy and her husband felt and heard over their home. My husband and I had a similar encounter back in 1991. We were living in Westlake, Louisiana at the time. With our school age children we were helping with their Astronomy classes by studying the moon with a telescope on just about every clear night we had.
We started noticing odd things like from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. We would see little balls of light leaving away from Venus or the Moon. Eventually one of these lights came close and flashed over us like a wave. Then started coming closer and closer until you could tell it was in our atmosphere.
Thank goodness the kids were already in bed. Getting scared we went inside and closed the curtains. The next night my husband and I woke about 2 am feeling and hearing this pulsating vibrating noise right over the house. Then nothing for about 13 years. Now during the last 3 years out here in the country where we live now things are happening again.
I think what we did had a lot to do with this activity returning. About 7 years ago we bought some land deep in the country of Iowa La. I mean we are in the sticks beyond the sticks. Anyway we were camping while clearing some of the property to put a home on it about 5 years ago.
While laying in the long grass with our three youngest children star gazing. We all started seeing these lights moving about among the stars. One night we seen one in our atmosphere fairly close. We were like wow, a UFO.
My youngest took his flash light and started flashing triangles, squares, and etc. at it as we started to go inside a huge tent we had set-up to stay in while we camped and worked. Right as we started to enter, this light suddenly got huge and flashed on us all standing there holding us in it's beam for about 2 to 3 minutes.
Needless to say it scared the kids half to death. We quickly went into the tent and settled down for the night. We went home the next day. We have been living in our home here now for 4 years and are visited regularly every summer. It starts with a bright light that penetrates the house. It will travel from one end to the other.
This usually happens when we are all in bed. A few of us have been awake to see it. I don't know if anything is ever done to us because I don't remember, but 2 of my children and myself will get nose bleeds, and have had weird marks on our legs, arms, and the back of our necks at different times over the last few years. Come July I will know if it will start again. Sincerely.
Thank you to the witness for sending in this fascinating but frightening experience these folks are going through.
File your UFO sighting to Brian at: brian_vike@telus.net or please use the online Sighting Report Form.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Hi Brian, I will send you a separate email so you know who this story is coming from.
I noticed your category for ghost stories and thought I'd add a bit to your
collection. However please be forewarned, it is not dramatic. No chains
or moaning! More like just an unusual family member.
My family has always had ghosts. As a young boy living in Vancouver
and Alert Bay my father sometimes saw people who were not there and my mother
once watched a group of people disappear right in front of her. She was 15
years old and walking down a street near her home in Vancouver. Coming
towards her on the sidewalk but on the next block, was a group of about a dozen
people.
The first thing she noticed was their odd clothing, very old fashioned. She then realized that although they appeared to be talking and laughing there was no sound of voices or of feet on the sidewalk. They reached the corner of their block and turned down the side street just before my mother reached the end of her block. She looked around the corner and although they should have been just a short distance away there was no sign of them. For people who live in Vancouver this was in the Kits area around 4th and happened about 1930.
When my parents married in Prince George in 1942 they built a house near the south side of Connought Hill. In those days that was quite far out of town and very quiet, particularly at night. During the winter of 1943 the ghost arrived.
It announced its arrival by walking up the steps to the front door shortly
after my parents went to bed. They could hear the footsteps squeaking in the
dry snow as it came up the stairs right outside the bedroom window. No
matter how quickly they jumped out of bed and looked out the window they saw
nothing unusual. However within 10 minutes of going back to bed a hazy
white light about four feet tall would drift past the bedroom door. It
never seemed to do any harm and they eventually got used to it.
In the summer they never heard it arrive but one of them would notice it go by and calmly comment that the ghost was back. Mom used to wish there was some way of getting it to do housework if it was going to be wandering around all night! Three years later we moved to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and dad built another house that we lived in for 12 years.
Sure enough, before long the ghost was again drifting through the hallways. Then for several years it was gone until one night I awoke to see it float past my bedroom door. The next morning my mom was a bit excited. Before I could say anything about the ghost she said "Guess what? The ghost is back and this time I saw it take a shape!" She had woken up to see a white hand and arm reaching towards the bedside lamp. Thinking it was my dad she reached out and turned on the light. Of course there was no one there and my dad was deep asleep.
We then moved to Victoria and this time we rented a house instead of building one. It took the ghost about six months to join us. Over the years my parents rented four more houses before buying the one I live in now. Yes, the ghost went with us to every one of them. It was never more than just a white haze until the late 1960's. Then it took on a very familiar shape.
One afternoon my parents were sitting in the living room when Timmy, our Border Collie, walked through the room and down a hallway toward the bedrooms. As he went by he gave them a rather unusual look. A few minutes later they heard him barking. He was outside and wanted in. He never had been in the house and walking through the room. No, there were no open windows or doors. My parents checked!
The ghost was changing and not always for the better! A few months later my parents were again in the living room when they heard a loud crash in the kitchen. They found that a big bottle of wood stain that was normally at the back of one of the upper kitchen cabinets had somehow come out of the cupboard (the door was still closed) the lid removed and placed on the counter and the bottle thrown against the opposite wall. However, as that was the worst damage that it ever did, we all just accepted that it was there and pretty well ignored it.
Just as an aside, around this time my parents saw two people disappear on the
sidewalk outside the house. One afternoon they happened to notice four
people walking along the sidewalk, two women in front and two men very close
behind them. They were dressed in oddly old fashioned clothes and were
bunched so close together that mom and dad thought the men would be stepping on
the ladies dresses.
For a very brief moment they were out of sight as a tree blocked part of the view from the house. All four went behind the tree and only the two women came out. The tree was near the house, nowhere near the people. The women did not appear to notice the men were gone. There was nowhere the men could have gone and dad even went outside to look. Nothing.
Many years later my younger brother was visiting our house with his wife
and baby. I was married no longer living there. They were
staying in the bedroom across the hall from my parents. During the night
my mother suddenly awoke. A few minutes later the baby started to
scream. Just as my brother got up in the dark to see to the baby, a
basketball sized ball of light shot down the hallway.
Immediately the baby stopped crying. Everyone was so startled they all got up and went into the living room. There, even with the lights on, they saw a couple of smaller balls of light bouncing near the ceiling in the corner of the room. It was very brief and then they were gone.
As the years went by the appearance changed. My mom died and dad still
lives with us in the house. He and I have both seen a new shape.
This one is shaped like a very narrow black hockey stick (not my idea of a
ghost at all!) and darts around very quickly.
I saw it first on Christmas Eve in 1992 but never mentioned it. A few days later my dad told of an odd black shape he'd seen darting through the house. The description matched exactly what I had seen. Other than changing size from tall to very short it doesn't really do very much except run around.
As I said at the beginning, our ghost is not dramatic, thank goodness! I
would not be surprised if lots of people have similar "beings" but
don't even really notice. However there were some rather strange,
unsettling and dramatic events that took place during this time.
One ghost (or angel?) even saved my life. Right now is not the time to go into it all but if you'd like I'd be happy to give you the details at a later date. Closer to Halloween perhaps!
Now, in spite of the fact that I say the ghost didn't really frighten us, it is getting late, I am home alone and there is no light in the house except from the computer screen. I think I'd best stop for now before I start to hear strange noises ! I'm not quite as brave as I like to think I am.
Thank you to the person for the wonderful Ghost experiences.
File your UFO sighting to Brian at: brian_vike@telus.net or please use the online Sighting Report Form.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date August 16, 2002
Time: Approximately 4:30 p.m.
Our family was gathered in the back yard just sitting around talking before
lighting the BBQ. I wasn't even looking at the sky, but something out of the
corner of my eye caught my attention, a white object, with no visible lights,
was coming towards us slowly from the northeast.
My wife and I along with my two children just sat there in amazement trying to
figure out what it was as it came closer. It was quite high up, but yet not as
high as the few scattered clouds in the sky, but the object was large enough
for us all to see with the naked eye.
We all knew it was no airplane as now it had just stopped, it was motionless, almost like it was trying to be seen. My wife ran into the house and got the binoculars and handed them to me.
What I saw was a white globe, it looked solid, but then started to kind of fade in and out, but moving very slowly to the southeast. Of course by now my two boys, 11 and 13 where going nuts, yelling at me "let me see, let me see." I handed the binoculars to my 13 year old, he was just silent, then almost in a whisper he says "dad, it really is a UFO."
Then suddenly I noticed a dark object moving quite fast to the west underneath
the white object. Again looking through the binoculars I tried to focus in on
it. I still can't quite describe what I saw.
It was dark, it was not round, to me it looked like it was changing shape as it was moving, it was very confusing to me so I handed the binoculars to my wife and asked her to try and describe what she saw. She described it differently from what I thought I saw, but maybe it describes it best. A triangle, rotating, twisting, turning, making it look like its changing shape.
She gave the binoculars back to me, as I began to focus in on it again, yet
another object appeared just below the dark object, so I focused in on that
one. Now this one, I can describe, as strange as it sounds, it reminded me as a
Popsicle stick going end over end, it was even brownish in colour.
This was all happening very quickly and I didn't want to miss anything. I turned back to the part of the sky that the white object was first seen, it was gone, then back to the area of the dark trianglish object was, it was gone. They where all gone as quickly as they appeared.
Then literally out of the blue (sky that is) another or the same white globe appeared, this time larger, it sat motionless just for a moment, as if it was waiting for us to see it, then suddenly it took a very steep and fast decline from the sky to the horizon north of the city.
We were all a bit in shock and trying to figure out what we just saw. When you see things like this, you tend to not want it to end, at least I didn't. Thinking it was all over, I was searching the blue sky with the binoculars while listening to everyone's comments.
Then suddenly, a little light just appeared exactly where I was looking. This was nothing like what we had just witnessed, it was a sphere of light, very tiny, but you could still see it with the naked eye. As soon as I pointed it out to everyone, another would appear, then another right beside it. One would disappear, another one or two would appear, all in the same area, like they were dancing in and out of visual contact.
I would say at one given time, ten would be visible at once. They didn't move much, it was like they were coming in and going out, all at different times. There where a few clouds in the sky at this time, but yet when one sphere went behind the cloud, you could still see the glow.
They were very high up, but what a show. Again it was over as quickly as it begun, this portion of the show was maybe 2 minutes. My family and I saw 4 different types of what people call UFOs in a very short period of time.
We sincerely thank you for the service you are providing.
Thank you to the witness for the interesting report.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
