Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Newspaper Article.
By
Jennifer Smith
Staff
Reporter
Kelownacapnews.com
7-6-7
Did
you see an unidentified flying object touch down on Okanagan Lake Monday
evening? Well, apparently at least three
of your neighbours did and they all managed to track down preeminent B.C. UFO
researcher Brian Vike to report the phenomenon.
Late
Monday evening Vike started receiving reports of an unidentifiable fireball
hovering over the lake. "Everything
seemed to look good and usually you can tell if it's a hoax or not," said
Vike, who was furiously contacting local media for help by Tuesday morning.
Kelowna
has been a hot spot for Vike who operates a UFO research organization, HBCC UFO
Research, out of his home in Houston, B.C.
Back in 2003 two women reported an incredible alien encounter on a
Kelowna street and it wound up among Vike's biggest cases.
The
sighting was featured in a CTV special and even wound up on the Montel Williams
show as fodder for a famous psychic. So,
when three sightings were reported on the same night this week out of Kelowna,
Vike figured it was worth some attention.
The
first sighting was by a woman walking her dog in Westbank who noticed a
fireball that appeared to dive into the lake and then return to the air. "This thing ended up coming back out of
the water and started to hurl toward a different looking object very high in
the sky, which is totally bizarre," said Vike.
An
excerpt from the email she sent the UFO researcher shows just how upsetting the
episode was for the pet owner.
"OK,
I don't know what happened last night but it was the most frightening,
incredible, and down right terrifying thing I have ever seen," she wrote.
"I ducked for cover thinking of a meteor or asteroid or something. I
started to freak out and yell and as I was standing up, something came
literally shooting back out of the water and I saw it start to hurtle towards a
different looking object very high in the sky."
The
sighting reportedly occurred at 11 p.m. Vike does not give out the names of
those who make reports to protect their privacy but he does go to great lengths
to verify their claims.
Earlier
this months he was featured on Castanet and is still going through the material
he received after the story hit their web site and he is working on several
reports he received on Father's Day from Trail, B.C.
Apparently
an airborne craft shook residents from their beds in the Kootenay town,
prompting a hunt for UFOs on local radio and even in the newspapers, he
said. But this week's incident in
Kelowna has him unusually excited.
"They
saw what appeared to be a Star Wars movie full of bullets and blasters, kind of
thing and I've had reports from other areas similar to what they're talking
about," he said.
A
second report from the Mission area noted the image was accompanied by a sonic
boom and yet another report has come in since then.
Local
RCMP did not receive any unusual calls Monday night, to the best of the media
spokesperson's knowledge. And nothing usual appeared on Navigation Canada's
radar. The air traffic control tower at
Kelowna International Airport closed just shortly before the sightings
occurred.
"I
checked with the area control centre. Now they only have radar for planes'
transponders and so if it was a UFO it didn't have a transponder on. So no, we
have no reports of any unusual aircraft in the area," said Ron Singer,
Navigation Canada communications.
From
this point forward, Vike will be combing his sources, checking with military
contacts, police and beyond to see what he can dig out. If anyone can tell him what was going on in
Kelowna's skies Monday night, he can be reached at houstonbri7@gmail.com.
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