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."
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