Brian Vike's Favorite
Cases.
Newspaper Article.
Paul Wells
Echo Editor
Airdrie residents
continue to see strange sights in the sky.
Airdrie Echo — Even
the animals seem to be sensing something strange.
Brian Vike, one of
Canada's most experienced UFO sighting investigators, said the most recent
reports of unusual activity in Airdrie and area have come from both humans and,
vicariously, via humans through their canine companions.
"There are many
reports of animals responding funny to an unusual object. Their senses are far
superior ours," Vike said.
"So it is a
possibility that the pets around this one certain area were aware and
frightened of something that was truly an unknown to them."
The following are the
most recent witness sighting reports emanating from Airdrie to Vike's HBCC UFO
Research facility.
Airdrie: Dec. 13,
2003 (approximately 11:10 p.m.)
"I was reading
(the) article about sightings in the Airdrie Echo last week and found it very
interesting. I was driving home from work last Saturday night (Dec. 13) from
Calgary, Alberta. It was about 11:07 p.m. to 11:10 p.m. – not exactly sure of
the time. I'm at the first Airdrie exit. I saw this bright tunnel of light come
down from somewhere in the sky. It lit up all of Airdrie and then it went back
up again. It took seconds. I was stunned at first and still driving, looking
around to see more. I was looking for a vapour trail from a plane. No sight of
any evidence left behind or a plane. So logic set in, I thought maybe a falling
star ... no, it wouldn't go back up again. Maybe a shooting star ... no. The
person in front of me slowed right down and so did I. I'm kicking myself in the
butt right now for not getting him to pull over and talk about what we saw. Or
did I just see it? He wasn't too far ahead of me. I'm sure that he saw what I
had. As I'm taking the third exit to go home, I look down Highway 2 to see if I
see anything else is happening down the highway. I would like to know of anyone
else who had seen this. If you know of anyone, please let me know. Could that
possibly be a UFO?"
Airdrie: Sept. 14
(approximately 5:50 p.m.)
According to Vike, he
received a call from a male Airdrie resident.
"I had a call
from a fellow who resides in Airdrie. From his home he reports using a street
lamp for a reference point and using binoculars and his naked eye he was able
to clearly observe an object which sat stationary in the sky. The object was
reported as having five rows of lights around it. From his location, he figured
the object was approximately one-and-a-half miles away and was larger than a
basketball. The object sat south/southwest of Airdrie for about 45 minutes. As
planes approached, the object would start to move up and then move back down to
it's original position. The gentleman reports that whatever this thing was, it
has been seen a number of times over the last five months and is returning more
frequently. A slight hum was noted coming from the direction where the object
was hovering. Something rather important about this sighting is that in the 45
minutes it was visible before the object was covered over by cloud cover, it
did not move from it's position other than it moving up and down when a normal
aircraft was close by. The witness also said there was light reflecting off it,
which would have been from the setting sun. So it sounds like whatever it was
had a solid body to it, besides the five rows of lights which ran around the
object. The colour of the lights in the ring were from red, blue, white and a
yellow to amber. The lights were also reported moving counter clockwise around the
object.
Airdrie: Sept. 15
(from 11 p.m. until midnight)
HBCC UFO Research
reported on a sighting which took place on Sept. 15. "The witness said, ?I
know what I saw,' and it was a big circle of lights twirling around and
hovering above the (Highway 2) walkway," Vike recounted.
"(Then) on Dec.
19, I received a call from a really nice lady who wanted to tell me a rather
unusual story. This again took place back on Sept. 15, 2003, sometime between
11 p.m. and midnight. Although she admits she and her family did not see
anything unusual, the witness reports their dog was acting very weird. On the
night of Sept. 15 and two days following, the family dog would not sleep with
the owners – it paced back and forth and even jumped up on top of a dresser.
The pet would not settle down, so the lady's husband put the dog out just in
case it needed to do its business and the dog ran to the fence and just stood
there. The family pet is six years old and the family told me the dog has never
acted like this in prior years. This was a first! Something else the lady
mentioned – which again I found of interest – was on the night their dog was
acting up, only in the night did the dog go to the west side of the inside of
their home, get up on the dresser and sit looking out the window. The dog was
very stressed out.
"The next day
the lady's husband went to his work place in Airdrie and happened to mention
how strange their dog was acting that night. To his surprise, his co-workers
all told him that their pets were acting the very same and took a couple of
days before all these animals finally settled down.
"All of the
families who reported their pets acting unusual live in the one area or close
by. Also what is interesting is the night the Airdrie witness reported seeing
the ring of lights hovering over the walkway, she also lives in the area where
all the pets started acting strangely."
Sightings normally
explainable
A recent flurry of
witness reports of strange lights and objects in the skies in and around
Airdrie may be thought provoking and food for extraterrestrial thought.
But one of Canada's
leading UFO researchers and investigators said that when he receives a report,
his first course of duty is to attempt to establish a logical explanation for
what has been witnessed.
And according to
Brian Vike, if that can't be done the sighting is then – and only then –
classified as an unidentified flying object.
"HBCC UFO
Research (Vike's operation) is very grateful to the residents in Airdrie for
taking the time to sit and write up their sighting reports, or calling my
toll-free number to report what it was they witnessed," Vike said.
"Alberta residents have reported many unusual sightings over the many
years – some can be explained away as simple meteors, planets, stars and the
return of space debris."
But that's not always
the case.
"There are also
the sightings that no explanation can be found for what people are
seeing," Vike said. "Actually, in past years, folks have reported
some close up encounters where farmers have seen many objects flying overhead,
some even landing and leaving behind markings on the ground."
So what are these
strange flying crafts? A super secret military project? Normal aircraft which
has been misidentified? Or are we being visited from elsewhere?
"These are the
questions I would like to have answers for," Vike said. "But as it
stands right now, Airdrie seems to be having a good number of sightings taking
place and I wonder just how many more are not being reported."
And the more
information, the better.
"I would like to
request that if any resident living in Airdrie or folks living in surrounding
communities have witnessed something odd, that they please contact me,"
Vike said.
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