Did Close Encounter Light Up Our Skies?

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Newspaper Article.

Forget Roswell - it seems Strines maybe the new Area 51 after claims a UFO was spotted in the sky on Sunday night. Pub-goers at the Royal Oak on Strines Road were mystified by three red lights in a triangular formation slowly moving across the sky at around 9pm.

The lights were also spotted by residents in Romiley and Marple, who wondered whether they were having a close encounter of the third kind.

Jameson Moon, 39, landlord of the Royal Oak and an aviation enthusiast, immediately consulted his radar and discovered the ‘object’ was not registering.

He said: "One of the customers was outside having a cigarette when he saw the lights and we all went outside to have a look.

"The lights were moving very slowly across the sky and they were some distance apart it eventually moved behind a cloud. There is no way it was a plane and it didn’t show up on my radar.

"I was amazed. I have never seen anything like this before and may never seen anything like it again. I am usually a sceptic but after seeing this I am not sure."

Jameson’s mum Grace added: "Everybody in the pub saw it. I think the whole village saw it and we hadn’t had too much to drink."

Christine Smith, 56, from Romiley, added: "My husband and I saw the lights hovering above Marple. They were there for about 15 minutes then disappeared.

"We live under the flight path and it is normally very busy but I have never seen anything like this before."

Brian Vike director of HBCC UFO Research, based in Canada, explained that recent sightings of lights either on their own or in a group have turned out to be Chinese lanterns.

Mr. Vike said: "The lanterns people release are for some kind of festival, weddings or some other event. Or people just playing around maybe hoping to get some type of excitement over something strange happening, when indeed it is nothing to get excited over."

However, UFO expert Nick Pope, who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project, is not convinced that the explanation lies with lanterns and believes the object could have been a large UFO.

He said: "It’s an intriguing image - something extremely interesting has been captured here. While many recent UFO sightings in the UK have been attributable to Chinese lanterns, I’m not convinced this is the explanation here.

"While it’s possible that three Chinese lanterns might briefly end up in a triangular formation, it’s inconceivable that they’d hold such a pattern constantly.

"It seems a very strange coincidence that three lanterns would be snapped in the shape of a perfect triangle. This raises the intriguing possibility that what we’re looking at here is the underside of a triangular-shaped UFO, with lights at each corner. If this is the case, the object is massive.

"The fact that the three lights held the pattern makes it highly likely that we’re dealing with lights on the underside of a single object, as opposed to three separate objects.

"That the object disappeared behing cloud suggests it was vast, as one would expect the cloud base to be at a height of several thousand feet.

"When working at the Ministry of Defence I investigated many sightings of such triangular-shaped craft."

Manchester Evening News - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/did-close-encounter-light-up-our-skies-965881

UFO Flew Over Our Heads Bala Ontario

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Date:  June 9, 2007

Time:  1:30 a.m. - 2:30 a.m.

Location of Sighting: Bala Ontario Canada.

Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 4
Shape of objects: Cliche Saucer.

Full Description of event/sighting: Me and two good friends of mine were enjoying a cloud-free night on my dock. As we sat with our heads tilted back looking at the perfectly clear vision of the heavens. We all found our eyes on a single twinkling star. We looked at it for some time, trying to guess if it was a far off star or a planet within our solar system.

Over a period of time we noticed that it was no longer twinkling, in fact it was flashing two distinct colors, red and blue. As time wore on we then discovered that it was moving down the sky ever so slowly. Over the next five minutes it changed direction and moved across the sky and quickly became so low that we could easily see that it was round and had red white and blue lights flashing around it.

Plane's lights flash two at a time and do so symmetrically. This was red, blue, white, white, red, blue, white, white. Each light going around in a circle, spinning. It came over our heads, so close that we could clearly see spaces between the lights. It was about the size of a poker chip, if you were to hold one up over your head and close one eye. Now for something to begin as a star in the sky and then to be so close you can clearly make it out, means something strange is happening. I must add that during the entire process, not a single sound could be heard.

At this point in the night, I ran up to my cottage to tell my father while my two courageous friends stayed to see if anything else would develop. When I returned I was informed that a second had done much of the same thing. While they were telling me about it, we saw a third. It began as a star and eventually came so close we could, again, see these lights going around in a circle as it spun over our heads. Again, not making a single sound.

At this point we felt very uncomfortable and were trying to rationalize what we had just seen, when in my direct line of sight, in the middle of the night sky, just below where we first noticed these stars appearing, I saw a bright flash of light radiate out from a central point and then collapse back in onto itself. It was the size of a dinner plate. Brilliant white light, perfectly symmetrical in its clean circular shape, expanding outwards and then collapsing in onto itself. While I saw it directly, my two friends saw it within their peripheral vision, I am glad of that.

What we saw was too low for a satellite and much, much, much too silent for any conventional aircraft. Also I could only describe the 3 formations of light as the clichéd saucer which I am not happy about, because although I know what I saw was what I saw... a cliché is still a cliché. I find myself looking at the sky every night now, and constantly researching on the internet to see if anyone else saw this.

Thank you to the witness for the excellent report.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: brian_vike@telus.net

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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Fluorescent Ball Of Light Crossed Our Path 30 Feet Away Western Maine

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Greetings Brian, Thanks for your reply and valued opinions. I am a retired scientist and during my long camping trips in a remote area of western Maine, I like to read about natural science and try to put the pieces together.

My son and I were on a trip about 25 years ago at that location during the winter. On a cold still night, we went for a walk after supper and as we walked down the road, a ball of fluorescent light, maybe 2 feet in diameter crossed our path about 30 feet away.

We were both quite surprised and watched it move off into the forest. We immediately looked for any signs in the fresh snow but found nothing. We proceeded down the road for a while, then turned to return.

When we approached the same area, the light appeared again, crossed our path and disappeared into the forest. At that point, my young son  became scared since we were over 5 miles away from anyone else.

I have never seen anything like it again and I often walk after dark. Actually, I am leaving tomorrow morning for a week of XC skiing and snowshoeing in that area. I don't think this experience qualifies as a UFO sighting, but it was certainly unusual and unexplainable.

Maybe if we keep reading, observing and analyzing we can put the pieces together. Life sure is interesting. Sincerely. 

Thank you to the witness for their report.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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UFO Shook Our Home/Alien Abduction Wabasca Alberta

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Date:  October 7, 1979

Time:  After dark.

Hi, My name is (name removed) and I live in Edmonton, Alberta. I am a member of the FTTOUFO research group and I have been looking for 'local' research groups.  I haven't found any in Alberta, so I had to look elsewhere.

I've been to Houston, B.C. a few times as my husband use to work for CN and I traveled with him, however, I didn't know that you were there which is really too bad, because I would like the opportunity to talk to someone face to face.

Anyway, In 1979 I lived in Wabasca, Alberta, which is 4 hours north of Edmonton. In this town, we lived on my grandmothers lake front property and there were hundreds of unreported UFO sightings. The RCMP were called out to a couple of them, but I never did get confirmation on those reports as the RCMP won't disclose that information to me.

I was 7 years old and I have 2 brothers, the oldest who was 6, and my baby brother who was 9 months old.  On the night of October 7, 1979, my 14 year old cousin was babysitting us. I remember sitting on the couch and my brother on the loveseat and my baby brother was sitting in his walker.

All of a sudden, I heard a strange humming noise, it got louder and louder and it was a high/low frequency, then lights hit the trailer walls and I looked out the window.

I saw a huge UFO (at the time I didn't know what it was). It was very close to the ground, it hovered over my trailer and my grandmothers house who was about 30 feet away from us.  I don't know if it landed there, but it did hover right above us. 

I recall the humming noise getting louder and we all screamed. I tried to cover my ears with my pillow, but it didn't work. I was scared and so was everyone else. The entire trailer was in panic and we all cried because the trailer began to shake violently and we all tried to hide.

Then my older brother was gone, the trailer door was open and we all cried for him to get back here. We didn't know if he ran out or what happened but he wasn't there. The next thing I remember is looking out the window at the craft which was now hovering over the lake. That's when I got a good look at it.

It was saucer shaped with a belt of colors lights/rays in the mid section which circled the hovering craft. I also recall lights underneath which at the time I thought it was going to land. I don't know how much time passed.

When my mother got home we told her what happened, but she didn't believe us, instead she was angry that my brother was hyperventilating. She picked up the youngest to try to console him and then within moments she was yelling his name. I looked over at him and he was grasping for breath and he was shaking, his eyes were white from them rolling into his head and he stopped breathing.

Everyone screamed again and my mother tried to revive him, but she was too scared. My grandmother tried and she too couldn't do anything. We all went over to my grandmothers house and my aunt tried. She layed him on the table and started CPR and mouth to mouth.

Within the time span of about 5 minutes, he was finally revived, but my aunt said there was a thick white foam in his mouth that she had to scoop out to help him to breathe. He was then rushed to the Slave Lake Hospital. 

It was the hospital record that gave me the exact date of the admission that night of Oct. 7.  However, they could not discuss the contents of the file without my brother request.  He suffers Dyslexia due to the lack of oxygen to his brain that night.

Years later in 95, my brother asked me if I remembered the UFO experience. This was the first time we spoke about it to each other. He remembered almost the same things as I did, but he too doesn't t remember it all. 

In 2000 I spoke to my cousin to see what she remembers, thinking that she was older she might remember more, but she doesn't remember the UFO experience at all! She remembers the events which happened later, which was my brother near death. 

Over the years, I've had different experiences and visitors, sometimes I'm awake and sometimes I'm just about asleep. My brother Steven tells me that he always sees stars, he also wakes up with bruises and he has woken up in different places from where he went to bed. 

My brother recalls our experience as well, however we both don't remember the entire night. We were both going to go through regression hypnosis which I was going to record. 

I am working on documentary-drama where I will recreate my events and others in the area of Wabasca. I've already spoken to about 20 people who all witnessed UFO's, landings and their personal experiences. I'm searching for funding for this project, and approval from the community to conduct more research and to film this in Wabasca. 

The more that I talk to people from Wabasca, the more people come back to me and tell me about their experiences. Word of mouth travels fast.

My grandmother has had experiences most of her life as well, and she has stories that she hasn't told me about, but I know about only 2 of them. For some reason, the UFO's are attracted to Wabasca and I wanted to find out why and why were most sightings of hovering crafts and landings spotted on or around the Wabasca Lake?  I also want to know what happened to us because I know that something happened to us.  

Regression Hypnosis seemed to be the only way that we could find out what happened to us, but with the risk of it backfiring I wasn't sure if we wanted to go ahead.  My brother is all for it though.  I've been looking for others who have had the experiences I had--the other experiences I had that happened after this which continued for most of my life.

In 1980,  I woke up in a stretcher like bed, with a bright white light shining down on me. I couldn't move, but I do recall trying to run away from 2 large shadows that came to me with a huge syringe needle. The needle was injected into my heart and I remember the puncture feeling, the cool liquid that filled my chest. 

I woke up running down my hallway to the living room. For about a week after this, I suffered severe headaches, I had to take short quick breathes as I had severe heart pains and it hurt to breathe. I had nausea and weakness. I couldn't take it anymore and my mom took me to the doctors. After a brief examination, he said 'your too young to have migraines, and too young for heart problems and that was the end of that. I never told anyone about this because if my parents didn't believe me, then who would? 

Well, now I'm 31, and I have 3 children of my own. I was worried for my children because it seems to follow my family, my grandmother, my aunts, my cousins, my immediate family and I even started to think that my kids were being visited. 

In 2001, my middle son was 3 years old and we were having the same dreams about Panthers in our yard and that they wanted him. He woke up crying a few times saying that there were monsters in his room, we would wake up at the same time and he told things about his 'visitor's in his room. 

One particular night I dreamt that there were 10 panthers in my back yard, angry, growling and they were trying to come in. Just as I woke up from that, my son was screaming and he said a big black cat was in his room with big yellow eyes. He has had constant nose bleeds ever since.

Then one night he came to me and asked me why the aliens come to him, and if  I could make it stop. At the age of 3, I wondered how he could know so much about aliens, because he didn't know about my research.

He said they come to his room and hide in his closet. He said 'will they hurt me?'. After the second dream about panthers and the same rude awakening of my son's screams and claims of Aliens in his room. I stopped all my research and I stopped the project. 

After praying for help for my son, everything stopped, all the dreams and the visitors, but he still gets nosebleeds at least 4 a week. The doctors say it’s nothing.   

Now, when it comes to my kids, I was getting paranoid as other strange things were happening.

Shortly before my son's dreams and visitors I was working on this film project and was waiting for contact info from MUFON. During a file transfer of contact names and numbers for MUFON, my computer was hacked and my computer screen turned red and black, then it shut down. At the same moment my phone rang and the number on my call display was 0123456789. The operator couldn't trace the call and it didn't even register.

During this week, I also began to notice a black car parked in front my house, and the two guys inside were always looking at my house. After the 3rd day I went outside and was going to talk to them and they sped away. A couple days later I was coming home and as I walked towards my house I saw that car again. As I approached it, the car took off again.

I went to the surrounding neighbors and asked them if the car that has been around were visitors for them and they said no. I started to get paranoid, and scared.  I felt I needed some time to recollect my thoughts and take a break from all this because it was starting to affect my life.  Then just when I thought the strange things were ending, that's when my son was having his visitors.  That's when I decided to quit everything.

Now I'm starting over again. Wanting to finish what I started, but I'm looking for support from different agency's and organizations.    

Thank you to the witness for the report.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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