Posted: June 29, 2008
Date: June 2008
Time: N/A.
Hi Brian, I was watching the news hour on Global TV and during their traffic report the chopper was over the N. end of the Lions Gate Bridge facing south. I noticed a fast moving white object come into the picture traveling east to west. At first I thought it was a Seagull but when it flew under the bridge I realized it was much further away then I first thought and much bigger. It happened so fast it barely registered before it was gone but I believe it was several times the size of a car, possibly round or disk shaped and a pale white in color. Possibly you or someone else was watching and got a better look. I think it was Leigh Holive? doing the traffic report from the chopper.
Thank you to the person for the information.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
UFO Sighting Defy Explanation
Posted: May 29, 2008
By Mark Pavilons
Caledon Perspectives News: *Caledon Perspectives News Website*
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. Long before humankind read the Scriptures, we glanced skyward, wondering if we were alone in the cosmos. Unexplained sightings for literally thousands of years have culminated in a modern pastime and, for some, a lifelong search for extraterrestrials. Google “UFOs” on the Internet and you’ll find more than eight million references.
To read Part 1 of the full article entitled "UFO Sighting Defy Explanation", please visit the Caledon Perspectives news website:*UFO Sighting Defy Explanation - Part 1*
To read Part 2 of the full article entitled "UFO Sighting Defy Explanation", please visit the Caledon Perspectives news website:*UFO Sighting Defy Explanation - Part 2*
By Mark Pavilons
Caledon Perspectives News: *Caledon Perspectives News Website*
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. Long before humankind read the Scriptures, we glanced skyward, wondering if we were alone in the cosmos. Unexplained sightings for literally thousands of years have culminated in a modern pastime and, for some, a lifelong search for extraterrestrials. Google “UFOs” on the Internet and you’ll find more than eight million references.
To read Part 1 of the full article entitled "UFO Sighting Defy Explanation", please visit the Caledon Perspectives news website:*UFO Sighting Defy Explanation - Part 1*
To read Part 2 of the full article entitled "UFO Sighting Defy Explanation", please visit the Caledon Perspectives news website:*UFO Sighting Defy Explanation - Part 2*
Monday, February 11, 2008
Peterborough, Ontario Unusual Object And Media Reported On It
Posted: February 11, 2008
Date: September 30, 2007 Time: 3:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: South East About A 65 Degree Angle. Number of witnesses: 3 Number of objects: 3 Shape of objects: A Triangle Shape.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was about to go to bed when I happened to glimpse out the window and I noticed a bright white light in the sky, at first I thought it was a star but then I noticed it was turning red and green and it seemed to be moving. So then I thought a plane, but then it just sat there in the same spot for an hour. At this time I called my roommate and friend to see it and they both were not believing what they were seeing. We all noticed another light off to the right, it was a plane with it's flashing lights, the plane flew under the object and was quite a ways below it.
Then we noticed the object started to emit a brighter light, it was glowing red and green and white, we thought for sure it had to be a plane or something, but it continued to change colors and shape.
It was like a triangle with a light in each corner and the center light was the brightest part that kept getting brighter, then darker, the object moved over the next hour to the right and then back to the left, we used a stationary object to make sure it was moving. I tried using my camera phone to take pictures of it, but it did not pick it up. It then seemed to becoming closer then started to move away. It stayed there until it started to get light and then we could not see it anymore. I tried looking for it since, but nothing. I have always kept a close eye on the sky but this has me wondering what it was. I heard on the local news that we were not the only witnesses to this, there were several others that called it in to the local news. But I am just glad I seen it.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Would you like to be a guest on my radio show ? (The Vike Report) If so and have an interesting UFO or Sasquatch story to relate, please drop Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research a line with the information, please include your telephone number so I can make arrangements for the interview. Please note that HBCC UFO Research does not ever give out anyone's private information to anyone.
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Date: September 30, 2007 Time: 3:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: South East About A 65 Degree Angle. Number of witnesses: 3 Number of objects: 3 Shape of objects: A Triangle Shape.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was about to go to bed when I happened to glimpse out the window and I noticed a bright white light in the sky, at first I thought it was a star but then I noticed it was turning red and green and it seemed to be moving. So then I thought a plane, but then it just sat there in the same spot for an hour. At this time I called my roommate and friend to see it and they both were not believing what they were seeing. We all noticed another light off to the right, it was a plane with it's flashing lights, the plane flew under the object and was quite a ways below it.
Then we noticed the object started to emit a brighter light, it was glowing red and green and white, we thought for sure it had to be a plane or something, but it continued to change colors and shape.
It was like a triangle with a light in each corner and the center light was the brightest part that kept getting brighter, then darker, the object moved over the next hour to the right and then back to the left, we used a stationary object to make sure it was moving. I tried using my camera phone to take pictures of it, but it did not pick it up. It then seemed to becoming closer then started to move away. It stayed there until it started to get light and then we could not see it anymore. I tried looking for it since, but nothing. I have always kept a close eye on the sky but this has me wondering what it was. I heard on the local news that we were not the only witnesses to this, there were several others that called it in to the local news. But I am just glad I seen it.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Would you like to be a guest on my radio show ? (The Vike Report) If so and have an interesting UFO or Sasquatch story to relate, please drop Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research a line with the information, please include your telephone number so I can make arrangements for the interview. Please note that HBCC UFO Research does not ever give out anyone's private information to anyone.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
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Friday, February 8, 2008
Researcher Intrigued After Rash Of UFO Sightings On Lake
Posted: February 8, 2008
http://www.kelownacapnews.com/
By Jennifer Smith Staff reporter
Jul 06 2007
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 close 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 hbccufo@telus.net.
jsmith@kelownacapnews.com
http://www.kelownacapnews.com/
By Jennifer Smith Staff reporter
Jul 06 2007
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 close 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 hbccufo@telus.net.
jsmith@kelownacapnews.com
Monday, January 28, 2008
Trail, B.C. UFO Sighting Report Comes In From The Trail Daily Times News
Posted: January 28, 2008
Date: June 24, 2007 Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m. (?)
HBCC UFO Research contacted the Trail Daily Times in search of any information the newspaper might have received over the June 17, 2007 "jet" aircraft sound that was heard over Trail, B.C. From what HBCC understands, KBS FM Radio and the Trail Daily News received numerous calls from Trail residents seeking information over the they heard that night. The residents thought a jet aircraft was either landing in their back yards, or possibly hitting the river, know one knew what was happening. The sound was so very aloud and frightening it scared some residents out of their beds and they ran outside to see if they were able to witness anything, although nothing was seen.
Anyway, I spoke to a nice lady from the Trail Daily Times over the incident, then a few days later the lady called me up and left a message on my answering machine. I called her back and we spoke at length about the jet aircraft sound, and a sighting report she heard about which just took place recently.
A resident from Trail said her and others were coming back into town (Trail, B.C.) from a barbeque which they had at a campsite, it had just turned dusk, probably around 9:00 p.m. when the witness saw a light traveling over the mountain and pointed it out to the other passengers in the vehicle. The witness asked if the driver might stop the car so they could have a better look at the object. But due to them driving on the Highway, the driver didn't think it would be a good place to pullover. From what HBCC gathers, the witness said she has never seen anything like it in her life, meaning the object. The other passengers of the car told her it was the ISS (International Space Station). The witness went on to describe what she saw, the object was bigger than the Moon, looked like it had slats of some sort on it and a green like chain hanging down from the center of the object. Also the object had lights that shone up into the heavens.
HBCC's side note: I am glad to see a safe round trip for the Shuttle Astronauts, Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on June 22, 2007. Atlantis landed at Edwards concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station with Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot Lee Archambault at the controls.
Thank you to the Trail Daily News for the information about the sighting report, and their help in general.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
Radio show host for the Vike Report, eyewitness relating their experiences. *The Vike Report Eyewitness UFO Radio Show*
Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do. *Vike Report Radio Show Blog*
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: June 24, 2007 Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m. (?)
HBCC UFO Research contacted the Trail Daily Times in search of any information the newspaper might have received over the June 17, 2007 "jet" aircraft sound that was heard over Trail, B.C. From what HBCC understands, KBS FM Radio and the Trail Daily News received numerous calls from Trail residents seeking information over the they heard that night. The residents thought a jet aircraft was either landing in their back yards, or possibly hitting the river, know one knew what was happening. The sound was so very aloud and frightening it scared some residents out of their beds and they ran outside to see if they were able to witness anything, although nothing was seen.
Anyway, I spoke to a nice lady from the Trail Daily Times over the incident, then a few days later the lady called me up and left a message on my answering machine. I called her back and we spoke at length about the jet aircraft sound, and a sighting report she heard about which just took place recently.
A resident from Trail said her and others were coming back into town (Trail, B.C.) from a barbeque which they had at a campsite, it had just turned dusk, probably around 9:00 p.m. when the witness saw a light traveling over the mountain and pointed it out to the other passengers in the vehicle. The witness asked if the driver might stop the car so they could have a better look at the object. But due to them driving on the Highway, the driver didn't think it would be a good place to pullover. From what HBCC gathers, the witness said she has never seen anything like it in her life, meaning the object. The other passengers of the car told her it was the ISS (International Space Station). The witness went on to describe what she saw, the object was bigger than the Moon, looked like it had slats of some sort on it and a green like chain hanging down from the center of the object. Also the object had lights that shone up into the heavens.
HBCC's side note: I am glad to see a safe round trip for the Shuttle Astronauts, Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on June 22, 2007. Atlantis landed at Edwards concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station with Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot Lee Archambault at the controls.
Thank you to the Trail Daily News for the information about the sighting report, and their help in general.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
Radio show host for the Vike Report, eyewitness relating their experiences. *The Vike Report Eyewitness UFO Radio Show*
Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do. *Vike Report Radio Show Blog*
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Keefer Lake, British Columbia Tubular Shaped UFO (News Footage)
Posted: January 23, 2008
HBCC UFO Research Note: The message below is in regards to Keefer Lake, British Columbia sighting and footage taken of the object. CHBC television went out and interviewed the man. News clip below.
Hi Brian, Rob from Keefer Lake here again. I have not been on your site for well over a year so have been out of the “loop” so to speak. I notice that there has been some interest in our sighting here. I would like to correct a misconception that has popped up. That being the second sighting by the CHBC news crew.
During the interview an object appeared similar to my original sighting. This object though similar was not the same as the first. I also taped this sighting and examined it on my computer after the reporter had left and after I had contacted you. On examination the differences are obvious. The CHBC sighting that day was obviously an aircraft. What has not been seen by you or anyone else are the close up shots that I have extracted frame by frame of the first sighting.
I have shown these shots to anyone interested including my brother-in –law, who owns and operates an aircraft maintenance facility, and the overwhelming conclusions have been ones of “…what the hell is that?...”. If it is an aircraft, not one of these persons, including pilots and air traffic controllers have been able to identify what type of aircraft it could be.
What was not shown on the CHBC broadcast is:
1. The first objects upon close examination reveal anything but a known aircraft. The gap between the 2 pods is distinct and not wing shadow. Blue sky is visible between them. I have changed hues, background colours etc. and the results all show a space between these pods.
2. These pods have flat faces front and rear with no tail, wings rotor or any other configuration common to known aircraft.
3. There are distinctly globular black dots appearing and disappearing from front to back of these objects in a rhythmic pattern. On some frames it can be that these dots are cut in half as they pass from front to back through the gap. On some frames there is only one dot and on other frames there are as many as seven distinct dots.
4. There is an obvious corona surrounding the entire craft that is visible no matter how you adjust the controls.
5. These objects were too close to the ground for commercial aircraft, a fact that is obvious to anyone who has been to our camp.
I have been staying incognito on this subject for the last year but I can say that these are not the only sightings of strange craft in the sky and I am not the only one in this area who has seen UFO’s here previous or since.
I will send you a complete copy of the tape ( the original stays with me) if you are interested as my equipment to properly analyze this tape is insufficient. Sincerely.
Thank you to Bob for the update.
Below are 4 clips from the TV news.
Clip 1 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Keefer_lake1.mpg
Clip 2 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff2.mpg
Clip 3 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff3.mpg
Clip 4 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Nav_Canada5.mpg
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
HBCC UFO Research Note: The message below is in regards to Keefer Lake, British Columbia sighting and footage taken of the object. CHBC television went out and interviewed the man. News clip below.
Hi Brian, Rob from Keefer Lake here again. I have not been on your site for well over a year so have been out of the “loop” so to speak. I notice that there has been some interest in our sighting here. I would like to correct a misconception that has popped up. That being the second sighting by the CHBC news crew.
During the interview an object appeared similar to my original sighting. This object though similar was not the same as the first. I also taped this sighting and examined it on my computer after the reporter had left and after I had contacted you. On examination the differences are obvious. The CHBC sighting that day was obviously an aircraft. What has not been seen by you or anyone else are the close up shots that I have extracted frame by frame of the first sighting.
I have shown these shots to anyone interested including my brother-in –law, who owns and operates an aircraft maintenance facility, and the overwhelming conclusions have been ones of “…what the hell is that?...”. If it is an aircraft, not one of these persons, including pilots and air traffic controllers have been able to identify what type of aircraft it could be.
What was not shown on the CHBC broadcast is:
1. The first objects upon close examination reveal anything but a known aircraft. The gap between the 2 pods is distinct and not wing shadow. Blue sky is visible between them. I have changed hues, background colours etc. and the results all show a space between these pods.
2. These pods have flat faces front and rear with no tail, wings rotor or any other configuration common to known aircraft.
3. There are distinctly globular black dots appearing and disappearing from front to back of these objects in a rhythmic pattern. On some frames it can be that these dots are cut in half as they pass from front to back through the gap. On some frames there is only one dot and on other frames there are as many as seven distinct dots.
4. There is an obvious corona surrounding the entire craft that is visible no matter how you adjust the controls.
5. These objects were too close to the ground for commercial aircraft, a fact that is obvious to anyone who has been to our camp.
I have been staying incognito on this subject for the last year but I can say that these are not the only sightings of strange craft in the sky and I am not the only one in this area who has seen UFO’s here previous or since.
I will send you a complete copy of the tape ( the original stays with me) if you are interested as my equipment to properly analyze this tape is insufficient. Sincerely.
Thank you to Bob for the update.
Below are 4 clips from the TV news.
Clip 1 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Keefer_lake1.mpg
Clip 2 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff2.mpg
Clip 3 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff3.mpg
Clip 4 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Nav_Canada5.mpg
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Monday, January 21, 2008
The Sky's The Limit
Posted: January 21, 2008
By JENNIFER LANG
TERRACE’S reputation as B.C.’s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region. Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
“You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas,” says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says. The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they’re more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city’s official symbol.
Vike says he’s often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region’s tourist attractions and accommodations.
“Many have never been up this way,” Vike says. “So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have.”
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
“As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have.”
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way. “Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year’s total count for sightings,” he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that’s home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn’t the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world’s first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
“All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul,” reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel’s tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of “UFO tourists”.
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the “Extraterrestrial Highway” to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too. Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That’s the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region’s latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada’s Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A do*****entary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
“All of this is great for tourism,” he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen. The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Vike’s got a website: http://www.hbccufo.org
Terrace Standard Newspaper http://www.terracestandard.com/
By JENNIFER LANG
TERRACE’S reputation as B.C.’s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region. Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
“You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas,” says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says. The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they’re more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city’s official symbol.
Vike says he’s often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region’s tourist attractions and accommodations.
“Many have never been up this way,” Vike says. “So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have.”
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
“As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have.”
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way. “Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year’s total count for sightings,” he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that’s home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn’t the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world’s first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
“All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul,” reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel’s tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of “UFO tourists”.
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the “Extraterrestrial Highway” to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too. Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That’s the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region’s latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada’s Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A do*****entary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
“All of this is great for tourism,” he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen. The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Vike’s got a website: http://www.hbccufo.org
Terrace Standard Newspaper http://www.terracestandard.com/
UFO Sighting In Telkwa & Houston, B.C.
Posted: January 21, 2008
by Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News Smithers, B.C. Wednesday, August 7, 2002 www.interior-news.com
By Nicole Fitzgerald 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."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
by Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News Smithers, B.C. Wednesday, August 7, 2002 www.interior-news.com
By Nicole Fitzgerald 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."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
UFOs Create Tourism Boom In Terrace, British Columbia
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Jennifer Lang - Terrace Standard
Terrace's reputation as B.C.'s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region.
Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
"You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas," says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says.
The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they're more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city's official symbol.
Vike says he's often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region's tourist attractions and accommodations.
"Many have never been up this way," Vike says. "So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have."
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
"As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have."
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way.
"Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year's total count for sightings," he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that's home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn't the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world's first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
"All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul," reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel's tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of "UFO tourists".
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the "Extraterrestrial Highway" to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too.
Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That's the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region's latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada's Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A documentary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
"All of this is great for tourism," he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen.
The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Brian Vike's website can be viewed at: http://www.hbccufo.org
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Jennifer Lang - Terrace Standard
Terrace's reputation as B.C.'s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region.
Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
"You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas," says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says.
The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they're more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city's official symbol.
Vike says he's often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region's tourist attractions and accommodations.
"Many have never been up this way," Vike says. "So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have."
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
"As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have."
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way.
"Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year's total count for sightings," he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that's home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn't the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world's first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
"All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul," reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel's tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of "UFO tourists".
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the "Extraterrestrial Highway" to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too.
Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That's the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region's latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada's Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A documentary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
"All of this is great for tourism," he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen.
The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Brian Vike's website can be viewed at: http://www.hbccufo.org
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Coming In The Air Tonight
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Carolyn Grant Townsman Bulletin Newspaper Kimberly, British Columbia Tuesday, July 29, 2003 (Page 3)
KIMBERLY -- Did anyone in the Wycliffe - St. Mary Lake area see something strange in the sky late Saturday night, early Sunday morning? Rhonda Brass of Cranbrook would like to know, because she saw something she can only describe as an unidentified flying object.
Rhonda and her family were camping at St. Mary Lake over the weekend. At about 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, she and her husband took a walk on the road near the old cabin.
"The kids were sleeping and we wanted to take a few minutes to admire the stars," Rhonda said. "We saw a bright, white light coming from over top of Bootleg Mountain, about 4,000 to 5,000 feet. But then we realized that there was no noise and the light was really bright and much bigger than the light on an airplane." Rhonda says the light travelled across the lake and seemed to vary speed."
"It would go fast, then slow and it was zigzagging a bit, almost like a wobble. I know it wasn't a satellite, it was far lower down and it definitely wasn't a shooting star.
"All you could see was the light. It was like when you see Venus at night, just as bright, only 10 times bigger."
Rather than being unnerved by the sight, Rhonda said that she used her big flashlight to try and signal whatever it was.
"It was really neat. It didn't scare me.I was quite impressed. I would have loved to meet whoever it was. After it was out of sight I said to my husband, 'I think we've just seem our first UFO'".
Rhonda called the Cranbrook airport to see if any planes were in the area at that time. There were none. Cpl. Rod Caronneau of the Kimberly RCMP said the Detachment received no calls. "Usually that type of thing draws a lot of attention," he said.
Rhonda Brass would be very interested to know if anyone else saw it. "Both my husband and I saw it. We weren't drinking. I would really like to know what it was."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Carolyn Grant Townsman Bulletin Newspaper Kimberly, British Columbia Tuesday, July 29, 2003 (Page 3)
KIMBERLY -- Did anyone in the Wycliffe - St. Mary Lake area see something strange in the sky late Saturday night, early Sunday morning? Rhonda Brass of Cranbrook would like to know, because she saw something she can only describe as an unidentified flying object.
Rhonda and her family were camping at St. Mary Lake over the weekend. At about 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, she and her husband took a walk on the road near the old cabin.
"The kids were sleeping and we wanted to take a few minutes to admire the stars," Rhonda said. "We saw a bright, white light coming from over top of Bootleg Mountain, about 4,000 to 5,000 feet. But then we realized that there was no noise and the light was really bright and much bigger than the light on an airplane." Rhonda says the light travelled across the lake and seemed to vary speed."
"It would go fast, then slow and it was zigzagging a bit, almost like a wobble. I know it wasn't a satellite, it was far lower down and it definitely wasn't a shooting star.
"All you could see was the light. It was like when you see Venus at night, just as bright, only 10 times bigger."
Rather than being unnerved by the sight, Rhonda said that she used her big flashlight to try and signal whatever it was.
"It was really neat. It didn't scare me.I was quite impressed. I would have loved to meet whoever it was. After it was out of sight I said to my husband, 'I think we've just seem our first UFO'".
Rhonda called the Cranbrook airport to see if any planes were in the area at that time. There were none. Cpl. Rod Caronneau of the Kimberly RCMP said the Detachment received no calls. "Usually that type of thing draws a lot of attention," he said.
Rhonda Brass would be very interested to know if anyone else saw it. "Both my husband and I saw it. We weren't drinking. I would really like to know what it was."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Cariboo Airspace A-Buzz With UFOs
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Neil Horner © 2003 Quesnel Cariboo Observer
The skies above Quesnel and the rest of the Cariboo area have been relatively crowded lately, and not just with airplanes and helicopters.
In fact, says UFO researcher Brian Vike, nobody is exactly sure what they are.
In an interview from his home in Houston, B.C., Vike said he's amazed at the number of sightings in the Cariboo over the past summer and fall.
I've been getting stuff like crazy from your area, he said. All kinds of things are happening. It's been very busy ever since mid-July.
One incident, he said, involved some Quesnel women who said they saw an object that looked like a giant plasma ball moving slowly across the sky one night.
"It took about eight seconds, which is a very long time, Vike said. They watched it from their kitchen."
In another incident, he said, a Wal-Mart employee working a late shift, saw a great big red object shoot across the heavens.
Vike said he received reports of a fireball coming down in the Quesnel area recently, which was seen from Vanderhoof to 100 Mile House.
It was very bright, very low, he said.
These are just a few of the local sightings that Vike has had reported to his web site at www.hbcufo.com.
I've had reports coming in about just about every shape and form of unidentified craft you can think of, from triangles to crescent shapes and cylinders, he said. I had reports of a really dark object, really low over Okanagan Lake. According to witnesses, two jets flew over just after this object went through, although that's hard to verify.
One of the most disturbing elements of any UFO report is the possibility of missing time - where witnesses find they can't account for several hours just after seeing something. This, too, he said, has happened in B.C. this year.
In Kelowna on July 31, two women were out star gazing and they pulled over, and got out of their vehicle. When they did, they saw three white lights come together to form a triangle and then drop out of the sky, Vike said. They tried to run, but they said it was like running through quicksand. One of them said she felt like she had been zapped with electricity, and the other agreed. They managed to get to a house, with the lights still following, and that was it.
Or was it? The women reported between 25 and 35 minutes of missing time.
Interestingly, Vike said, the womenâs tale was bolstered by a report from someone else living in the area who said they could see where the ladies were and could see the lights over the highway.
In the morning, one of the two women was sitting at a table and all of a sudden said, she felt awful and then blood started trickling from her right nostril. As well, she found she had a burn mark on her tailbone that she couldn't explain. The doctor, Vike said, suggested it looked like a radiation burn.
Those ladies went through hell with this, he said.
In another local incident, a Quesnel area resident was looking up at the stars when a number of them all of a sudden moved and fanned out in different directions.
In all, there were 150 reports of unidentified flying objects in British Columbia over the past year. That, Vike noted makes up about 50 per cent of the entire crop of UFO sightings in the entire country.
Vike has been working as a UFOlogist since mid-2000, following up a lifelong passion for astronomy. When he moved to Houston, he set up his web site and started posting some old UFO pictures, and people started calling in their reports.
One thing I would like to stress is that if people make a report, their personal information will not be given out, a Vike said. This is very important.ä To report a UFO sighting, call Vike's toll-free number at (not operating anymore)
Article at http://www.quesnelobserver.com under the Community section.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Neil Horner © 2003 Quesnel Cariboo Observer
The skies above Quesnel and the rest of the Cariboo area have been relatively crowded lately, and not just with airplanes and helicopters.
In fact, says UFO researcher Brian Vike, nobody is exactly sure what they are.
In an interview from his home in Houston, B.C., Vike said he's amazed at the number of sightings in the Cariboo over the past summer and fall.
I've been getting stuff like crazy from your area, he said. All kinds of things are happening. It's been very busy ever since mid-July.
One incident, he said, involved some Quesnel women who said they saw an object that looked like a giant plasma ball moving slowly across the sky one night.
"It took about eight seconds, which is a very long time, Vike said. They watched it from their kitchen."
In another incident, he said, a Wal-Mart employee working a late shift, saw a great big red object shoot across the heavens.
Vike said he received reports of a fireball coming down in the Quesnel area recently, which was seen from Vanderhoof to 100 Mile House.
It was very bright, very low, he said.
These are just a few of the local sightings that Vike has had reported to his web site at www.hbcufo.com.
I've had reports coming in about just about every shape and form of unidentified craft you can think of, from triangles to crescent shapes and cylinders, he said. I had reports of a really dark object, really low over Okanagan Lake. According to witnesses, two jets flew over just after this object went through, although that's hard to verify.
One of the most disturbing elements of any UFO report is the possibility of missing time - where witnesses find they can't account for several hours just after seeing something. This, too, he said, has happened in B.C. this year.
In Kelowna on July 31, two women were out star gazing and they pulled over, and got out of their vehicle. When they did, they saw three white lights come together to form a triangle and then drop out of the sky, Vike said. They tried to run, but they said it was like running through quicksand. One of them said she felt like she had been zapped with electricity, and the other agreed. They managed to get to a house, with the lights still following, and that was it.
Or was it? The women reported between 25 and 35 minutes of missing time.
Interestingly, Vike said, the womenâs tale was bolstered by a report from someone else living in the area who said they could see where the ladies were and could see the lights over the highway.
In the morning, one of the two women was sitting at a table and all of a sudden said, she felt awful and then blood started trickling from her right nostril. As well, she found she had a burn mark on her tailbone that she couldn't explain. The doctor, Vike said, suggested it looked like a radiation burn.
Those ladies went through hell with this, he said.
In another local incident, a Quesnel area resident was looking up at the stars when a number of them all of a sudden moved and fanned out in different directions.
In all, there were 150 reports of unidentified flying objects in British Columbia over the past year. That, Vike noted makes up about 50 per cent of the entire crop of UFO sightings in the entire country.
Vike has been working as a UFOlogist since mid-2000, following up a lifelong passion for astronomy. When he moved to Houston, he set up his web site and started posting some old UFO pictures, and people started calling in their reports.
One thing I would like to stress is that if people make a report, their personal information will not be given out, a Vike said. This is very important.ä To report a UFO sighting, call Vike's toll-free number at (not operating anymore)
Article at http://www.quesnelobserver.com under the Community section.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Houston BC Resident Vike Busy Researching Sightings In Sky
Posted: January 21, 2008
Py Paul Strickland Staff Writer Prince George Citizen © 2004 All Rights Reserved
A Houston man who researches celestial phenomena says a number of unexplained objects have appeared in the night sky over Prince George and the Northern Interior in recent years.
Brian Vike hopes local residents will phone his toll-free line, 1-866-262-1989, to report any unusual sightings.
Vike owns and operates HBCC UFO Research (HBCC stands for Houston, British Columbia, Canada), which he established in 2000. He says the number of reports of unexplained night-sky phenomena has increased dramatically since 2002.
"There is no doubt something is happening in our skies", he said. "Particularly in the last two months there have been a lot of strange things."
Vike said a Prince George resident reported a red ball of light just west of the city Jan.30 around 9.30 p.m.
"The first time it rose from behind trees, and then it moved to the west and hovered above the trees," he said.
"Afterwards it jumped higher quite suddenly, took off for the west, and made a curving motion.
"She said that, being so close, they thought it may be a helicopter but it made no noise." Vike says.
Another resident called around the same time to report exactly the same phenomena, he added.
Other Prince George residents saw a ball of light over the industrial area east of the downtown core, the evening of January 29th. "It flew over and split in two," Vike said. "Each part went in a different direction".
This week a city resident near First and Tabor told The Citizen she and four friends saw two orange objects in the northern sky, January 31st around 10.p.m. After five or 10 minutes they moved lightly apart, one more slowly than the other. The first one disappeared fairly quickly into clouds afterwards, while the other moved out more slowly and faded off.
Above a month and a half ago, Prince George residents phoned about a possible meteor, Vike said. "It was a real good fireball streaking across the sky just west of Prince," he said. "It was blue and left a long bright trail behind it. It lit up quite an area as it travelled through."
Another incident occurred in the city about a month ago. A resident was standing by the Future Shop, looking west just after the sky had turned dark. For two minutes the resident saw a large flame, such as from a jet afterburn, but they didn't see any aircraft anywhere.
Last Fall, a Quesnel resident driving north towards Prince George saw an oval shaped light from highway 97 between the two communities.
"In the last while dozens of people in Prince George have seen unusual phenomena," he said.
Reports of sightings may be faxed to Vike at (old number) or email to hbccufo@telus.net
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Py Paul Strickland Staff Writer Prince George Citizen © 2004 All Rights Reserved
A Houston man who researches celestial phenomena says a number of unexplained objects have appeared in the night sky over Prince George and the Northern Interior in recent years.
Brian Vike hopes local residents will phone his toll-free line, 1-866-262-1989, to report any unusual sightings.
Vike owns and operates HBCC UFO Research (HBCC stands for Houston, British Columbia, Canada), which he established in 2000. He says the number of reports of unexplained night-sky phenomena has increased dramatically since 2002.
"There is no doubt something is happening in our skies", he said. "Particularly in the last two months there have been a lot of strange things."
Vike said a Prince George resident reported a red ball of light just west of the city Jan.30 around 9.30 p.m.
"The first time it rose from behind trees, and then it moved to the west and hovered above the trees," he said.
"Afterwards it jumped higher quite suddenly, took off for the west, and made a curving motion.
"She said that, being so close, they thought it may be a helicopter but it made no noise." Vike says.
Another resident called around the same time to report exactly the same phenomena, he added.
Other Prince George residents saw a ball of light over the industrial area east of the downtown core, the evening of January 29th. "It flew over and split in two," Vike said. "Each part went in a different direction".
This week a city resident near First and Tabor told The Citizen she and four friends saw two orange objects in the northern sky, January 31st around 10.p.m. After five or 10 minutes they moved lightly apart, one more slowly than the other. The first one disappeared fairly quickly into clouds afterwards, while the other moved out more slowly and faded off.
Above a month and a half ago, Prince George residents phoned about a possible meteor, Vike said. "It was a real good fireball streaking across the sky just west of Prince," he said. "It was blue and left a long bright trail behind it. It lit up quite an area as it travelled through."
Another incident occurred in the city about a month ago. A resident was standing by the Future Shop, looking west just after the sky had turned dark. For two minutes the resident saw a large flame, such as from a jet afterburn, but they didn't see any aircraft anywhere.
Last Fall, a Quesnel resident driving north towards Prince George saw an oval shaped light from highway 97 between the two communities.
"In the last while dozens of people in Prince George have seen unusual phenomena," he said.
Reports of sightings may be faxed to Vike at (old number) or email to hbccufo@telus.net
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Mysterious Lights Over Prince George Explained
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Bernice Trick Citizen Staff ©Prince George Citizen Newspaper
The mystery of the orange lights in the sky above Prince George about a week ago has been solved.
"The lights turned out to be parachutists jumping at night," said Brian Vike, a UFO expert from Houston.
"The jumpers were doing acrobatics -- almost doing somersaults at times -- and the orange lights attached to their feet or ankle areas would appear to rise upwards during the acrobatics," Vike said. The mystery was solved by a retired military man who viewed the action with a pair of binoculars, he said.
"One landed close to his home, and he said just before landing, the jumper turned the lights off."
On Friday the Citizen ran a story of the unusual sightings reported by Andrea Lanoue who, with four friends, observed bright orange objects.
She described the lights as hovering for a time before moving slightly apart at different speeds, and some of them "fading off".
Vike said he's not sure if the skydivers used the lights to keep track of each other during formation jumping or if they were "playing some kind of hoax".
A UFO survey released Monday by Ufology Research of Manitoba shows the top 10 communities in Canada for reported UFO sightings, Vike said. In 2003, there were 673 reported sightings across Canada, with Vancouver leading with 41. Toronto ranked second with 34 sightings, followed by Houston at 33, Terrace at 30, and Airdrie, Alberta at 17. Prince George is not among the top ten.
"Most reported unfamiliar lights in the sky are identified as meteors, planets or stars," Vike said, who became heavily involved in UFO sightings in 2000 after moving to Houston. Since then he's participated in radio shows in Canada and the U.S. and was one of the main characters featured in a 2002 TV documentary called "The Magnificent Obsession".
Among cases still unsolved is one involving two women travelling away from Kelowna last July. "They reported seeing three white lights which turned green and dropped down in front of them on the highway. They both reported a loss of 45 minutes, and a tingly throughout their bodies," Vike said.
"They turned around and headed back to Kelowna with the light following them for a short distance before disappearing," said Vike, noting eight other people also reported seeing green lights. The next day, both women felt ill with a passenger having a nose bleed and finding a burn mark on her tail bone which the doctor said appeared to be a radiation burn. Since then, both have experienced weight loss, hair loss, nausea, salt cravings, dehydration and pressure to the back of their neck. But doctors cannot figure out the problem, Vike said.
Vike's website at www.hbccufo.org or call his toll-free number at (number changed)
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Bernice Trick Citizen Staff ©Prince George Citizen Newspaper
The mystery of the orange lights in the sky above Prince George about a week ago has been solved.
"The lights turned out to be parachutists jumping at night," said Brian Vike, a UFO expert from Houston.
"The jumpers were doing acrobatics -- almost doing somersaults at times -- and the orange lights attached to their feet or ankle areas would appear to rise upwards during the acrobatics," Vike said. The mystery was solved by a retired military man who viewed the action with a pair of binoculars, he said.
"One landed close to his home, and he said just before landing, the jumper turned the lights off."
On Friday the Citizen ran a story of the unusual sightings reported by Andrea Lanoue who, with four friends, observed bright orange objects.
She described the lights as hovering for a time before moving slightly apart at different speeds, and some of them "fading off".
Vike said he's not sure if the skydivers used the lights to keep track of each other during formation jumping or if they were "playing some kind of hoax".
A UFO survey released Monday by Ufology Research of Manitoba shows the top 10 communities in Canada for reported UFO sightings, Vike said. In 2003, there were 673 reported sightings across Canada, with Vancouver leading with 41. Toronto ranked second with 34 sightings, followed by Houston at 33, Terrace at 30, and Airdrie, Alberta at 17. Prince George is not among the top ten.
"Most reported unfamiliar lights in the sky are identified as meteors, planets or stars," Vike said, who became heavily involved in UFO sightings in 2000 after moving to Houston. Since then he's participated in radio shows in Canada and the U.S. and was one of the main characters featured in a 2002 TV documentary called "The Magnificent Obsession".
Among cases still unsolved is one involving two women travelling away from Kelowna last July. "They reported seeing three white lights which turned green and dropped down in front of them on the highway. They both reported a loss of 45 minutes, and a tingly throughout their bodies," Vike said.
"They turned around and headed back to Kelowna with the light following them for a short distance before disappearing," said Vike, noting eight other people also reported seeing green lights. The next day, both women felt ill with a passenger having a nose bleed and finding a burn mark on her tail bone which the doctor said appeared to be a radiation burn. Since then, both have experienced weight loss, hair loss, nausea, salt cravings, dehydration and pressure to the back of their neck. But doctors cannot figure out the problem, Vike said.
Vike's website at www.hbccufo.org or call his toll-free number at (number changed)
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Strange Lights In Sky Reported By Resident
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Bernice Trick Citizen Staff ©Prince George Citizen Newspaper
A local resident wants to know if anyone else has seen fast moving balls of fire in the sky above Prince George in recent months.
Lisa Hallam says she's witnessed the sight on three separate occasions -- including Monday night -- as well as August 18, 2003 and January 31, 2004.
"The first time I saw this intensely red ball of fire was last August 18 above Punchaw Park, just off Ness Avenue where I live," said the 35-year old Hallam, describing the object's size as about four times the size of the brightest star in the sky.
"I knew it wasn't Mars because it was located behind me," said Hallam.
She said another strange thing at the time was the electronics in her home "started acting funny. We'd lose the TV signal and the screen would go green, and the VCR and DVD player turned themselves on and off," said Hallam, who's a CNC student.
"I saw the light again January 31. I thought I was losing my mind, so thank goodness my mother saw it, too. "(On Monday) night I was coming home about 6:30 p.m. along Rainbow Drive and there it was again, travelling northwest above Cranbrook Hill acting in the same manner as the others. It moved pretty fast. It's so intensely red."
When Hallam reached home she continued to watch the sky, and said there were two other unique sites.
"Above Cranbrook Hill there was a circular shaped blue green hue that appeared both in front of and behind the clouds, and then I saw a long, rectangular hue of light-green light. It resembled the northern lights, but moved horizontally instead of up and down. My neighbour saw the bar-shaped hue, also."
That same day, Lisa's mother, Cheryll Hallam, said the electronics "went wonky" again. Gil Self, vice president of the Prince George Astronomical Society, said there had been no reports of the lights described by Hallam. "Right now Venus is brilliant due to its location in its orbit high in the western sky. It sparkles like a jewel", said Self, who said he never discredits reports by people, but instead, tries to explain the likely causes.
Self said there are many explanations for lights in the sky - refracted light from aircraft, electrical phenomenon in the sky, fireballs, meteorites, and electrical discharges from time to time.
UFO expert Brian Vike of Houston said: "I have no explanation for the sighting, but I am going to check out a few things regarding it and a few more sightings in the Prince George area."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Bernice Trick Citizen Staff ©Prince George Citizen Newspaper
A local resident wants to know if anyone else has seen fast moving balls of fire in the sky above Prince George in recent months.
Lisa Hallam says she's witnessed the sight on three separate occasions -- including Monday night -- as well as August 18, 2003 and January 31, 2004.
"The first time I saw this intensely red ball of fire was last August 18 above Punchaw Park, just off Ness Avenue where I live," said the 35-year old Hallam, describing the object's size as about four times the size of the brightest star in the sky.
"I knew it wasn't Mars because it was located behind me," said Hallam.
She said another strange thing at the time was the electronics in her home "started acting funny. We'd lose the TV signal and the screen would go green, and the VCR and DVD player turned themselves on and off," said Hallam, who's a CNC student.
"I saw the light again January 31. I thought I was losing my mind, so thank goodness my mother saw it, too. "(On Monday) night I was coming home about 6:30 p.m. along Rainbow Drive and there it was again, travelling northwest above Cranbrook Hill acting in the same manner as the others. It moved pretty fast. It's so intensely red."
When Hallam reached home she continued to watch the sky, and said there were two other unique sites.
"Above Cranbrook Hill there was a circular shaped blue green hue that appeared both in front of and behind the clouds, and then I saw a long, rectangular hue of light-green light. It resembled the northern lights, but moved horizontally instead of up and down. My neighbour saw the bar-shaped hue, also."
That same day, Lisa's mother, Cheryll Hallam, said the electronics "went wonky" again. Gil Self, vice president of the Prince George Astronomical Society, said there had been no reports of the lights described by Hallam. "Right now Venus is brilliant due to its location in its orbit high in the western sky. It sparkles like a jewel", said Self, who said he never discredits reports by people, but instead, tries to explain the likely causes.
Self said there are many explanations for lights in the sky - refracted light from aircraft, electrical phenomenon in the sky, fireballs, meteorites, and electrical discharges from time to time.
UFO expert Brian Vike of Houston said: "I have no explanation for the sighting, but I am going to check out a few things regarding it and a few more sightings in the Prince George area."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Seeing Things
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Jennifer Lang Terrace Standard News
Have you seen anything unusual in the skies over Terrace lately? You're not alone.
From the Horseshoe to Ferry Island, and from Krumm Road to Highway 16 West, residents of the Terrace area are seeing weird things in the sky that no one has been able to explain.
According to the latest annual UFO survey, Terrace remains a hotbed of activity, accounting for about 10 per cent of all the sightings reported in B.C. last year Terrace is ranked in fourth spot in the country for UFO reports, according to the 2003 Canadian UFO Survey.
We're just behind Houston, B.C., Toronto, and Vancouver, which has emerged as the Canadian UFO capital.
"There's something happening, and I don't know what it is," says Brian Vike, a Houston, B.C.-based researcher who operates a 1-800 UFO hot line and sends in data to the UFO survey.
A while back, every time he got a new UFO report from somewhere in B.C., he,d put a pin into a map of the province he,d hung on the wall. An unmistakable pattern has emerged.
To Vike, it sure looks like most of the reports are coming from inside a band that stretches southeast from Terrace to the Cranbrook area in the Kootenays.
"This is where the majority of sightings of unusual craft are being seen," he says, adding a number of the locations along this line are larger lakes, mines and power stations.
"Terrace has a number of natural and manmade things which may attract these objects," he adds, pointing to Alcan, a relatively close source of hydro electric power.
The natural thermal power of the hot springs may also be responsible for local sightings over the years.
"I get lots of reports around there of strange lights," Vike says, pointing out that seismic activity is sometimes associated with UFO reports.
But that certainly doesn't account for other unexplained Terrace area reports Vike's logged over the past year.
In February, 2003 a couple driving home from Prince Rupert spotted a huge, disk-shaped object travelling north across the Skeena River, about 85 km west of Terrace on Highway 16
It was dark, with two large, rectangular glowing lights on the bottom.
The husband wanted to pull over, but his wife insisted they keep driving, Vike says. Both were disturbed because the object moved so slowly.
In March of last year, a Tuck Ave. resident noticed a bright glowing object in the sky above the Eby St. intersection that looked like a meteor hurtling down to the ground.
The eyewitness said it was moving from side to side, and didn't make any noise.
In July, a couple with a great view of Terrace and the Skeena Valley was enjoying the view, relaxing with cup of coffee.
At around 11:45 p.m., they saw a large, glowing object moving slowly along the side of the highway near the 16/37 intersection. At first they thought it was some sort of aircraft. because it kept pace with some of the cars. But then they realized it was flying too low.
It appeared to stop suddenly before shooting off towards the west.
Other witnesses reported seeing a flying cross -- a huge, dark-coloured object with lights along the bottom panels -- above the Skeena River.
The sighting lasted for just a few seconds, before the object flew behind some trees, blocking their view.
Vike is convinced people are seeing something. He just doesn't know what.
Last year, Canadians reported nearly two UFO sightings a day, adding up to 673 in all.
That's an all-time high for the Canadian UFO Survey, released by Ufology Research of Manitoba, an independent study group based in Winnipeg.
Most UFO reports are eventually identified as planets, meteors, or aircraft.
"Popular opinion to the contrary, there is yet to be any incontrovertible evidence that some UFO cases involve extraterrestrial contact," study author Chris Rutkowski said.
Just seven per cent of sightings in the survey's "unexplained" category are deemed "high quality" unknowns.
Many eyewitnesses are pilots, police and other individuals who are expected to have good observational skills -- and good judgment, Rutkowski said.
Nation-wide, the number of UFO sightings climbed by 39 per cent in 2003.
British Columbia leads the rest of the country in terms of sheer volume of sightings, with 304 reported here last year, compared to 150 in Ontario and 76 in Alberta.
Most sightings have two witnesses and last for 10 minutes.
Mass sightings sometimes stem from a big event -- like a major fireball in 1993 that hundreds across Canada witnessed.
Similarly, last year, a major event in the Okanagan helped boost the number of sightings. "Literally hundreds of people" saw a band of white light arching across the sky" on July 28, the report says. That mass sighting is unexplained, but some think it may be a phenomenon long-time residents call the Okanagan Arch, a whitish band that crosses the sky.
The reports offer no "positive proof that UFOs are either alien spacecraft or a specific natural phenomenon," the report cautions, but notes something people call a UFO is continually being observed.
Various agencies and individuals participate in the survey, including the Houston, B.C., Centre for UFOs, which supplied seven per cent of the reports in this year's survey.
Vike, meanwhile, says the northwest's growing reputation as a UFO magnet, is resulting in a tourism boom. He fields many calls from people who want to visit the region.
That's why he's started to showcase the region's natural and tourist attractions on his website.
"I get lots of letters about the beautiful scenery," he says. "That's what's catching people's attention, too. They're saying, 'Yeah, I'm coming up your way., People are saying, 'This sounds good -- you,ve got fishing and hiking.,"
He can't understand why the towns of Terrace and Houston don't capitalize on their reputations as great places to see UFOs.
Vike is in demand as a guest on talk radio shows in the U.S. He also runs his own website, tracking the reports from northwest B.C. -- and far beyond. "I reach about 13 million people now a month," he says
http://www.terracestandard.org
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Jennifer Lang Terrace Standard News
Have you seen anything unusual in the skies over Terrace lately? You're not alone.
From the Horseshoe to Ferry Island, and from Krumm Road to Highway 16 West, residents of the Terrace area are seeing weird things in the sky that no one has been able to explain.
According to the latest annual UFO survey, Terrace remains a hotbed of activity, accounting for about 10 per cent of all the sightings reported in B.C. last year Terrace is ranked in fourth spot in the country for UFO reports, according to the 2003 Canadian UFO Survey.
We're just behind Houston, B.C., Toronto, and Vancouver, which has emerged as the Canadian UFO capital.
"There's something happening, and I don't know what it is," says Brian Vike, a Houston, B.C.-based researcher who operates a 1-800 UFO hot line and sends in data to the UFO survey.
A while back, every time he got a new UFO report from somewhere in B.C., he,d put a pin into a map of the province he,d hung on the wall. An unmistakable pattern has emerged.
To Vike, it sure looks like most of the reports are coming from inside a band that stretches southeast from Terrace to the Cranbrook area in the Kootenays.
"This is where the majority of sightings of unusual craft are being seen," he says, adding a number of the locations along this line are larger lakes, mines and power stations.
"Terrace has a number of natural and manmade things which may attract these objects," he adds, pointing to Alcan, a relatively close source of hydro electric power.
The natural thermal power of the hot springs may also be responsible for local sightings over the years.
"I get lots of reports around there of strange lights," Vike says, pointing out that seismic activity is sometimes associated with UFO reports.
But that certainly doesn't account for other unexplained Terrace area reports Vike's logged over the past year.
In February, 2003 a couple driving home from Prince Rupert spotted a huge, disk-shaped object travelling north across the Skeena River, about 85 km west of Terrace on Highway 16
It was dark, with two large, rectangular glowing lights on the bottom.
The husband wanted to pull over, but his wife insisted they keep driving, Vike says. Both were disturbed because the object moved so slowly.
In March of last year, a Tuck Ave. resident noticed a bright glowing object in the sky above the Eby St. intersection that looked like a meteor hurtling down to the ground.
The eyewitness said it was moving from side to side, and didn't make any noise.
In July, a couple with a great view of Terrace and the Skeena Valley was enjoying the view, relaxing with cup of coffee.
At around 11:45 p.m., they saw a large, glowing object moving slowly along the side of the highway near the 16/37 intersection. At first they thought it was some sort of aircraft. because it kept pace with some of the cars. But then they realized it was flying too low.
It appeared to stop suddenly before shooting off towards the west.
Other witnesses reported seeing a flying cross -- a huge, dark-coloured object with lights along the bottom panels -- above the Skeena River.
The sighting lasted for just a few seconds, before the object flew behind some trees, blocking their view.
Vike is convinced people are seeing something. He just doesn't know what.
Last year, Canadians reported nearly two UFO sightings a day, adding up to 673 in all.
That's an all-time high for the Canadian UFO Survey, released by Ufology Research of Manitoba, an independent study group based in Winnipeg.
Most UFO reports are eventually identified as planets, meteors, or aircraft.
"Popular opinion to the contrary, there is yet to be any incontrovertible evidence that some UFO cases involve extraterrestrial contact," study author Chris Rutkowski said.
Just seven per cent of sightings in the survey's "unexplained" category are deemed "high quality" unknowns.
Many eyewitnesses are pilots, police and other individuals who are expected to have good observational skills -- and good judgment, Rutkowski said.
Nation-wide, the number of UFO sightings climbed by 39 per cent in 2003.
British Columbia leads the rest of the country in terms of sheer volume of sightings, with 304 reported here last year, compared to 150 in Ontario and 76 in Alberta.
Most sightings have two witnesses and last for 10 minutes.
Mass sightings sometimes stem from a big event -- like a major fireball in 1993 that hundreds across Canada witnessed.
Similarly, last year, a major event in the Okanagan helped boost the number of sightings. "Literally hundreds of people" saw a band of white light arching across the sky" on July 28, the report says. That mass sighting is unexplained, but some think it may be a phenomenon long-time residents call the Okanagan Arch, a whitish band that crosses the sky.
The reports offer no "positive proof that UFOs are either alien spacecraft or a specific natural phenomenon," the report cautions, but notes something people call a UFO is continually being observed.
Various agencies and individuals participate in the survey, including the Houston, B.C., Centre for UFOs, which supplied seven per cent of the reports in this year's survey.
Vike, meanwhile, says the northwest's growing reputation as a UFO magnet, is resulting in a tourism boom. He fields many calls from people who want to visit the region.
That's why he's started to showcase the region's natural and tourist attractions on his website.
"I get lots of letters about the beautiful scenery," he says. "That's what's catching people's attention, too. They're saying, 'Yeah, I'm coming up your way., People are saying, 'This sounds good -- you,ve got fishing and hiking.,"
He can't understand why the towns of Terrace and Houston don't capitalize on their reputations as great places to see UFOs.
Vike is in demand as a guest on talk radio shows in the U.S. He also runs his own website, tracking the reports from northwest B.C. -- and far beyond. "I reach about 13 million people now a month," he says
http://www.terracestandard.org
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Sunday, January 20, 2008
UFO Sighting Near Invermere Reported To Researcher
Posted: January 20, 2008
By Ian Cobb Echo editor Oct 04 2006
The northern lights turned into something a little different for some Invermere area people last week.
Watching aurora borealis in a field outside of Invermere Sept. 24, the unnamed witnesses said they observed numerous oval-shaped discs darting about in the sky above them.
Adding oomph to this sighting is that there was an identical report out of Castlegar that same evening, according to Brian Vike of HBCC UFO Research, out of Houston, B.C.
Vike contacted The Echo to relate the reports, hoping to inspire others to come forward with "any unusual sightings of strange objects in the skyover the past while."
"The Invermere sighting is in line with the others sightings for the same night. So something strange has been happening over the skies down there," said Vike.
"This particular rash of UFO sightings started in Castlegar, actually, and a number of folks have reported seeing several dark circular shapes, flying in formations, and performing unusual aerial acrobatics.
"It now seems that people in Invermere are seeing the same sort of thing, and on the same day when the objects were witnessed in Castlegar.
"I don't usually write over cases/sightings unless they are really unusual, and in hopes of trying to find others who witnessed this very same thing.
"The reason of course is to try to figure out what folks saw," Vike stated.
The following is the sighting as reported last week to HBCC UFO Research.
"On Sept. 24, at 12-1 a.m., my friends andI went into a high point of a field just outside of Invermere to watch the aurora borealis over the Rockies.One of us noticed silhouettes of multiple uniformly shaped ovals, which at first appeared far away but moved closer towards the town and seemed to make formations.
"At some points a few would disappear, but then we saw where others seemed to reappear at a different point in the horizon.
"This continued for a good 10 minutes when one of my friends brought out a didgeridoo, one of those native Australian musical instruments and played loudly and pointing right in the direction of the dark shapes (at this point they seemed to be much closer as they were much greater in size).Almost instantly one appeared much closer than the others and was much more circular as you would imagine looking underneath instead of to the side.
"My friend continued to play, and put on electronic music, when three more came above us.There were no lights and we could not make out any details of what it was, just that they were big and round, but more flat when looking from the side, like whatI would imagine a silhouette of a flying saucer to look like.
"Another thing is we would have never seen them if the northern lights weren't going on as it was for this that we could see the silhouettes in the night sky.When they disappeared they could have very well have been in another point in the sky and we wouldn't have been able to see them. The whole experience lasted about 25 minutes."
Vike said the identical sighting in Castlegar, 355 km by road from Invermere, adds a great deal to the reports, especially because he was speaking to the witnesses in Castlegar on the phone while they were seeing the strange phenomenon.
"I was talking to the gentleman who was watching the event take place while speaking to me on his radio phone; we ended up losing one another, or lost the phone connection. He called back approximately 15 minutes later when he was able to get to a landline and we still had problems with the phones. In both instances the objects were being viewed while the witness is explaining what was happening, so very unusual," Vike said.
If you saw anything strange on the evening of Sept. 24 or any time before or since, contact Brian Vike, director HBCC UFO Research at 250-845-2180 or email: hbccufo@telus.net.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Ian Cobb Echo editor Oct 04 2006
The northern lights turned into something a little different for some Invermere area people last week.
Watching aurora borealis in a field outside of Invermere Sept. 24, the unnamed witnesses said they observed numerous oval-shaped discs darting about in the sky above them.
Adding oomph to this sighting is that there was an identical report out of Castlegar that same evening, according to Brian Vike of HBCC UFO Research, out of Houston, B.C.
Vike contacted The Echo to relate the reports, hoping to inspire others to come forward with "any unusual sightings of strange objects in the skyover the past while."
"The Invermere sighting is in line with the others sightings for the same night. So something strange has been happening over the skies down there," said Vike.
"This particular rash of UFO sightings started in Castlegar, actually, and a number of folks have reported seeing several dark circular shapes, flying in formations, and performing unusual aerial acrobatics.
"It now seems that people in Invermere are seeing the same sort of thing, and on the same day when the objects were witnessed in Castlegar.
"I don't usually write over cases/sightings unless they are really unusual, and in hopes of trying to find others who witnessed this very same thing.
"The reason of course is to try to figure out what folks saw," Vike stated.
The following is the sighting as reported last week to HBCC UFO Research.
"On Sept. 24, at 12-1 a.m., my friends andI went into a high point of a field just outside of Invermere to watch the aurora borealis over the Rockies.One of us noticed silhouettes of multiple uniformly shaped ovals, which at first appeared far away but moved closer towards the town and seemed to make formations.
"At some points a few would disappear, but then we saw where others seemed to reappear at a different point in the horizon.
"This continued for a good 10 minutes when one of my friends brought out a didgeridoo, one of those native Australian musical instruments and played loudly and pointing right in the direction of the dark shapes (at this point they seemed to be much closer as they were much greater in size).Almost instantly one appeared much closer than the others and was much more circular as you would imagine looking underneath instead of to the side.
"My friend continued to play, and put on electronic music, when three more came above us.There were no lights and we could not make out any details of what it was, just that they were big and round, but more flat when looking from the side, like whatI would imagine a silhouette of a flying saucer to look like.
"Another thing is we would have never seen them if the northern lights weren't going on as it was for this that we could see the silhouettes in the night sky.When they disappeared they could have very well have been in another point in the sky and we wouldn't have been able to see them. The whole experience lasted about 25 minutes."
Vike said the identical sighting in Castlegar, 355 km by road from Invermere, adds a great deal to the reports, especially because he was speaking to the witnesses in Castlegar on the phone while they were seeing the strange phenomenon.
"I was talking to the gentleman who was watching the event take place while speaking to me on his radio phone; we ended up losing one another, or lost the phone connection. He called back approximately 15 minutes later when he was able to get to a landline and we still had problems with the phones. In both instances the objects were being viewed while the witness is explaining what was happening, so very unusual," Vike said.
If you saw anything strange on the evening of Sept. 24 or any time before or since, contact Brian Vike, director HBCC UFO Research at 250-845-2180 or email: hbccufo@telus.net.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Something Was In The Sky Over Terrace On April 24, 2006
Posted: January 17, 2008
Terrace Standard News: http://www.terracestandard.com/ (Click on community tab)
TERRACE'S REPUTATION as a UFO sighting hot spot continues thanks to two independent reports from two couples who both saw mysterious lights in the sky the evening of April 24.
The lights were described as blue-coloured balls with tails coming out the back, says Houston, B.C.-based UFO researcher Brian Vike.
Vike, one of North America's leading UFO researchers, said having two independent reports makes the occurrence all that more tantalizing.
"In the first report there were three balls and in the second, two. Whether one was behind the other then, I don't know," he continued.
The sightings were at about the same time - shortly after 7:30 p.m. - as well and the weather conditions that evening were excellent.
"That this took place during daylight makes it very interesting," Vike said.
The first couple was on Munroe St. on the Bench and the second in the arena parking lot. Their sightings were toward the south. Neither reported a sound coming from the respective objects.
"They moved together, silently through the sky from our right to our left sides," reported the wife of the first couple's observation.
"They were fast, but slow enough that we both could say 'Do you see that?' and look back."
The woman added that she would not have told anyone but that her husband "is a non-believer of anything, and even he saw it."
The husband of the second couple said their sighting looked like flares or a welding spark.
"One large one and a smaller one underneath. I jumped out of the truck and said, 'Did you see that?' and she said 'yes,'" he said of his wife.
"[It] was kind of spooky. Never seen anything like this before in my life - probably never again," the man continued.
Vike welcomes information from anybody else who saw something in the sky shortly after 7:30 p.m. on April 24.
Terrace at one time ranked near the top of UFO sightings for all of Canada.
Vike can be reached at hbcufo@telus.net. His Web site is http://www.hbccufo.org and his phone is (number changed).
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Terrace Standard News: http://www.terracestandard.com/ (Click on community tab)
TERRACE'S REPUTATION as a UFO sighting hot spot continues thanks to two independent reports from two couples who both saw mysterious lights in the sky the evening of April 24.
The lights were described as blue-coloured balls with tails coming out the back, says Houston, B.C.-based UFO researcher Brian Vike.
Vike, one of North America's leading UFO researchers, said having two independent reports makes the occurrence all that more tantalizing.
"In the first report there were three balls and in the second, two. Whether one was behind the other then, I don't know," he continued.
The sightings were at about the same time - shortly after 7:30 p.m. - as well and the weather conditions that evening were excellent.
"That this took place during daylight makes it very interesting," Vike said.
The first couple was on Munroe St. on the Bench and the second in the arena parking lot. Their sightings were toward the south. Neither reported a sound coming from the respective objects.
"They moved together, silently through the sky from our right to our left sides," reported the wife of the first couple's observation.
"They were fast, but slow enough that we both could say 'Do you see that?' and look back."
The woman added that she would not have told anyone but that her husband "is a non-believer of anything, and even he saw it."
The husband of the second couple said their sighting looked like flares or a welding spark.
"One large one and a smaller one underneath. I jumped out of the truck and said, 'Did you see that?' and she said 'yes,'" he said of his wife.
"[It] was kind of spooky. Never seen anything like this before in my life - probably never again," the man continued.
Vike welcomes information from anybody else who saw something in the sky shortly after 7:30 p.m. on April 24.
Terrace at one time ranked near the top of UFO sightings for all of Canada.
Vike can be reached at hbcufo@telus.net. His Web site is http://www.hbccufo.org and his phone is (number changed).
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Friday, January 11, 2008
Keefer Lake, British Columbia - CHBC Television Films Object At Keefer Lake
Posted: January 11, 2008
Date: August 25, 2005 Time: Between 11:40 & 12:40 p.m.
HBCC UFO Research Note: This is the second sighting at Keefer Lake, B.C. Both times footage has been taken, one by the eyewitness and this time by CHBC television as they were doing an interview with the eyewitness who shot the footage on Date: July 20, 2005 at noon.I will be posting some of the photos shortly of the first objects seen and filmed.
Hi Brian, Bob from Keefer Lake here. This may be hard to believe but we have recorded another sighting less than an hour ago with 4 witnesses. Better yet, I was being interviewed by CHBC television at the time (re: the first sighting) and their camera was also able to record footage of the object There was only one this time. They are taking the footages to the Kelowna office of NavCan for analysis. They tell me that it will be picked up by Global News tonight or tomorrow.
Eyes to the sky.
Thank you to Bob for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: August 25, 2005 Time: Between 11:40 & 12:40 p.m.
HBCC UFO Research Note: This is the second sighting at Keefer Lake, B.C. Both times footage has been taken, one by the eyewitness and this time by CHBC television as they were doing an interview with the eyewitness who shot the footage on Date: July 20, 2005 at noon.I will be posting some of the photos shortly of the first objects seen and filmed.
Hi Brian, Bob from Keefer Lake here. This may be hard to believe but we have recorded another sighting less than an hour ago with 4 witnesses. Better yet, I was being interviewed by CHBC television at the time (re: the first sighting) and their camera was also able to record footage of the object There was only one this time. They are taking the footages to the Kelowna office of NavCan for analysis. They tell me that it will be picked up by Global News tonight or tomorrow.
Eyes to the sky.
Thank you to Bob for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
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