Brian Vike's
Favorite Cases.
Newspaper Article.
By Paul Strickland
Staff Writer Prince
George Citizen
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2-8-4
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.
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