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Date: July 29, 2002
Time: 10:50 p.m.
Witness #1 (out of 6
witnesses)
On October 3, 2002 I had
a telephone call from a lady who resides in Sayward, British Columbia which is
located on the north eastern shore of Vancouver Island. It has about 1500
inhabitants and is approximately two hours south of Port Hardy, one hour north
of Campbell River and four hours north of the provincial capital, Victoria.
She had read an
article which I had written and which had been published in the North Island
Gazette (in a letter to the editor) where I had asked residents to report any
strange lights they may have seen recently in the area and which I could
investigate.
I had heard from a
colleague who informed me that a number of witnesses had reported seeing a
large fireball over Sayward, B.C. on the evening of July 29, 2002.
Below Image: Location
map of Sayward, British Columbia.
The reason why I was
so interested in hearing from these folks was due to the major sighting which
took place here (Houston, Quick, Telkwa and Smithers, British Columbia) on the
same evening where nine witnesses in four different communities watched an
unforgettable event which seemed to be connected to the Sayward B.C sighting.
Below Drawing:
Witness drew what it was they observed.
The lady went on to
tell me that there was a total of six witnesses who she knew who had also observed
the same thing. Her mother, aunt and three other women had witnessed this
strange object, all within a kilometer from each other and to this day she
can't figure out what it may have been.
Below Image: Witness
#1 filled out a questionnaire for Ed Majden - EMO Fireball Network Station,
Courtenay: http://victoria.rasc.ca/articles/2003/sandia_bolide.htm
When it was first
observed she told me that she thought it was a meteor, but as it travelled
along, she quickly changed her mind.
She said after the
event was over she logged on to the internet to seek help in trying to find an
answer which might give some clue as to what she had seen.
She found a
Meteorologist in Courtney, B.C. and wrote him a letter explaining what it was
she had seen and heard.
The gentleman told
her that it was most likely a meteor, but she felt like she was getting the run
around, and nothing basically came from her request for information.
She'd been told to
provide the latitude and longitude of her sighting .. and of course she was
unable to do that. It was not her expertise !
However he did ask if
he could send out a short questionnaire for her and the other witnesses to
complete.
She received the
paperwork and forwarded it to the other ladies and they all filled it in. After
the questionnaires were completed and collected, everyone's information was
basically the same. Three of the witnesses drew pictures of their sighting.
Below Drawing:
Witness drew what it was they observed.
Another trip to the
internet (to my website) provided the witness with more accounts of the same
sighting. A similar object had been seen further north (Bulkley Valley) on the
same date, much to her surprise. She immediately contacted me by telephone to
tell me of her experience and how she thought it may have been the same object.
The only difference
in all the reports is that this witness did hear noises and went on to say the
other three ladies also heard the same sounds.
She explained where
she was standing, on her driveway and the object was "just there" in
front of her "just" above the small mountain. I was told by this
witness that it was the noise which had attracted her attention.
In her words she said
the sound was like that of a "screecher" (fire cracker) which gave
off a whistling noise. When she looked up, the first thing that was noted was a
white tail.
She also said the
object looked as if it was hovering, moving really slowly. It also had a white
core center and black coloring around the outside edges. It was also described
as being covered with fire, or an orange color all the way around it.
As this was taking
place, she heard a scream from her neighbors property behind her. Her comments
to herself after hearing the screaming from the neighbors was,
"exactly"!, meaning she was glad someone else saw it.
After she lost sight
of the object, a couple of minutes went by when her mother and aunty came
driving up in their van.
The witness got into
the van and did not want to mention what she had just seen, but because it was
such an amazing event she said to her mother and aunty you wouldn't believe
what I just saw. The two women just looked at her and said, "did you see
what we've just seen"? She told them yes.
Brian Vike's, Note: I have talked to the two witnesses who were
driving the van at the time and have their reports as well.
They will be written
up separately. Some of the witnesses work for the Provincial Emergency Program,
so all are very credible and thought, at the time, that they were going to have
to respond to crashed aircraft.
I asked the woman if
she could give me a rough idea how far off the ground the object might have
been, she turned and asked her boyfriend, he said their property was sitting
about 100 feet above sea level, and the witness said the object was
approximately 100 feet off the ground traveling horizontally.
Her thoughts were
that the object was going to go into the ocean. It seemed as if it had just crashed.
She explained that
the Meteorologist she had contacted ... had said, in all his days...he has
never heard of a meteor making any noise. When I asked the witness about the
size of this object, she said it was "Huge"!
I asked her what was
the duration of the sighting and she replied that she had watched the object
for approximately 3 to 4 seconds before she lost sight of it when the trees on
her property blocked the view.
I received copies of
the drawings made by the witnesses and also copies of the questionnaires which
you have found in this report.
Questionnaire from
EMO Fireball Network Station Courtenay for the witnesses to fill out. http://www.amsmeteors.org/spectra/majdenobs.html
So far we have had no
reports on this object. Can you or someone that observed this event answer a
couple of questions?
1. How bright was it
as compared to the Moon or the planet Venus? Venus should have been visible low
in the NW around evening twilight.
2. You mentioned
sound associated with this object. Was this sound simultaneous or occurring at
the same time you saw the object or was it delayed sound?
3. Did you hear a
sonic boom? If so, how long after you saw the fireball did it occur?
4. What part of the
sky was it in?
5. Did it pass
overhead?
6. What was the
duration of the fireball?
7. Would you say it
was fast, slow, etc.
8. Did it break-up or
fragment or was it just a solid object?
Please answer these
questions as best you can. Ask them of each person who saw the event and try
not to influence them as to what they saw. Have them report their own
impression of what they observed or heard.
If we get any more
reports I will let you know. Thanks for reporting this to us.
The results to the
above questions have been postal mailed to me, as soon as I receive them I will
post the answers to these questions.
Below is an email I
received from the Sandia Bolide Detection Station EMO Courtenay, B.C in which
explained the gentleman's thoughts on what he felt the residents of Sayward
saw. I do thank this fellow for his input and answering my email.
Hello Brian:
Thanks for your
email. This object was probably a bright meteor. You get all kinds of strange
reports when these events occur as most people that see a bright fireball are
surprised by it and are not skilled at making such observations.
We often get reports
that the meteor landed just behind my farmer Joe's barn. If you see a bright
fireball, it is still quite high in the atmosphere and many kilometers from
you.
The last portion of
the flight is not visible. Directions are not accurate either. It can be moving
toward you or away from you and still draw the same path across the sky. It is
better to ask the observer if it was going from left-to-right or right-to-left.
This way we can
determined if we have observers on both sides of the path. This is necessary if
you want to do a triangulation and plot a possible fall area. You should see
the reports we get from UFO buffs! If the fireball is near you, a sonic boom is
often heard, sometime after the event.
Perhaps several
minutes later depending on how far away it is. Some people report simultaneous
sounds but this is still not proven. It is probably too late to do anything
about this event but we are still interested in hearing about them.
Best regards:
Ed Majden - Sandia
Bolide Detection Station EMO Courtenay, B.C.
Brian Vike's, Note: I already have two more reports to add soon to this page, and I
will be contacting the other three witnesses tonight, October 8, 2002.
Sayward, British
Columbia
Witness #2 (out of 6
witnesses)
I interviewed a very
nice lady who took the time to explain what she had seen the night of July 29,
2002.
In this report two
sisters were in their vehicle when the passenger exclaimed "oh my
goodness, what is that"? The driver then spotted the object, and thought
both women thought it was an airliner about to crash.
She said it was very
"low" and thought it was on fire. She again stressed just how low it
was from the ground. (Maybe 150 feet when she watched it pass by.)
Below Image: Witness
#2 filled out a questionnaire for Ed Majden - EMO Fireball Network Station,
Courtenay British Columbia, Canada.
I asked the witness
if the object was traveling in a horizontal position, or had any slight angle
to it. She said it could have been going straight, meaning flying horizontally.
She stopped for a
moment, and said to me, "I know this is going to sound strange, but it
looked as if it was being operated by someone !"
She said she didn't
think it was falling down at all, but more like an airplane which was coming
into an airport to land and almost following a straight path.
As both women are
part of the Provincial Emergency Program they were concerned that they would be
called out that night to deal with an impending crash.
They rushed down to
the wharf to see if there was any activity in the water, island or on the
mainland which isn't far from Sayward across the ocean. They were expecting to
see flames, debris and a crash scene and couldn't not believe that there was no
sign of anything out of the ordinary.
The witness described
the object as being dark. It looked like a big black cloud with the moon behind
it. She said it was very long, like a cigar shaped object.
Brian Vike's Note: She did not want to use the words "cigar shaped", as
she had heard of these types of objects before. She preferred to compare it to
the shape and size of the body of a 747 aircraft.
Next day she drove
past the same spot where the object had been seen previously and realized what
she had seen had indeed been flying "very low". There had been no
sound heard from the object because the women were traveling inside a vehicle
at the time.
She stressed to me it
did not look like it was falling, but being handled. (She said I don't know if
that is the right word to use, but it looked as if it was coming in to land,
and looked to her as if it was on fire.) She went on to say, I couldn't tell you
what it was, but I sure know what I saw !
The witness also drew
what she saw on paper, and after everyone was done, all the drawings were
compared and found to be identical.
Her sighting lasted
for approximately: 4 seconds. It was also moving very slow, and like she
mentioned to me, she had seen many meteors in her life, and this was no meteor.
Thank you so much to
this witness for sharing her experience with me.
Sayward, British
Columbia
Witness # 3
I talked with the
third witness who gave a brief description of what she saw on July 29, 2002.
She said it looked like a plane blowing up ! (A huge fireball of flame). She
also told me that the object was very low to the ground, but it was hard to
estimate the exact altitude.
Below Image: Witness
#3 filled out a questionnaire for Ed Majden - EMO Fireball Network Station,
Courtenay British Columbia, Canada.
It was traveling
straight along, not falling at an angle.
This witness said she
heard no sound coming from it.
She described the
color as being orange/yellow.
It also had a short
tail following behind. In her estimation she figured the total time of the
sighting lasted between 5 to 8 seconds.
She claims the object
was traveling in a northerly direction.
Thank you to this
witness for her report.
Brian.
Below Image: Witness
#4 filled out a questionnaire for Ed Majden - EMO Fireball Network Station,
Courtenay British Columbia, Canada.
I had no written
report for the fourth witness, I do though have an audio interview.
I would like to thank
the witness for all of their help.
Brian.
Northern Island
Gazette Newspaper article requesting witness to come forward with what they saw
on July 29, 2002.
The two images below
are for the newspapers articles that the Island Gazette newspaper ran,
requesting folks come forward with a sighting they had on July 29, 2002 in
Sayward, British Columbia.
Below Image: First newspaper article ran in the Island Gazette newspaper. Click on the image for larger view.
Below Image: Second
newspaper article ran in the Island Gazette newspaper. Click on the image for
larger view.
Brian Vike would like to extend it's many thanks to the newspaper for all their help.
Thank you to everyone
for their reports.
Brian Vike, Director
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
