Vancouver Island Sightings Of Lights – January 22, 2011 (Case Solved Flares)

Paraglider Injured In Crash

The plane dropped six flares to illuminate the area and rescuers got the man to an ambulance by about 8:00 p.m.

To read the full story: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Paraglider+injured+Duncan+area+crash/4151392/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canwest/F227+(Times+Colonist+-+News)

At 10:30am on January 24, 2011 I received a reply by way of telephone from the Canadian Coast Guard. They confirmed that a Paraglider had crashed and there was a rescue underway. It was illumination flares that a lot of folks saw that evening. Brian Vike – The Vike Factor.

Below are the sighting reports I received for the January 2011 British Columbia strange light sightings. We know now that flares were dropped from an aircraft to illuminate for searchers.

Bright Glowing Balls Of Light Looked Like A Bonfire Over Chemainus British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-glowing-balls-of-light-looked.html

Bright Orange Ball Of Light Looked Like Flames Hanging In The Sky Over Ladysmith B. C.
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-orange-ball-of-light-looked-like.html

Unusual Blinding Brilliant Orange Lights Over Cobble Hill British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/unusual-blinding-brilliant-orange.html

Bright Orange Light Hovering Over Ladysmith Harbour Ladysmith British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-orange-light-hovering-over.html

UFO Makes Strange Maneuvers Over Mudge Island Seen From Brickyard Beach Gabriola B. C.
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/ufo-makes-strange-maneuvers-over-mudge.html

Bright Orange Object Seen From Nanaimo To Chemainus British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-orange-object-seen-from-nanaimo.html

Orange Luminous Object Seen From Ladysmith British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/orange-luminous-object-seen-from.html

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Two Star Like Objects And Jet Aircraft Over Calgary Alberta

Date: January 23, 2011
Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Calgary Alberta
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 2
Shape of Objects: Round ?

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I stepped out side my house for a smoke. Looking in the northern sky, I saw a small fast moving jet travelling from the north going south. I turned, looked south and noticed two stars. At about 40 degrees above horizon. The lower one was brighter than the top one. I thought it was Jupiter.

The top "star" got very bright, then dimmed and then the bottom "star" did the same. Both brightened to a very strong white light. Just before the jet reached there position, the top one blinked out and then the bottom one. WX at the time is clear many stars visible No wind, Temp.- 3 C and the length of time was 2 minutes.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Yellow/Orange Colored Light Over Central Elgin County Ontario

Date: January 21, 2011
Time: Between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight.

Dear Mr. Vike, I found your site when I did an internet search to learn there were any other reports of something that I saw in the north-northeast sky between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight on Friday, January 21, 2011.

As I entered our bedroom to go to bed between 11:00pm and midnight, January 21, 2011, I saw a very bright yellow-orange colored light that appeared to be pulsating well above the tree-line of the horizon in the north-northeast sky, in the southern part of Central Elgin, in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada, approximately 3-4 km north of Lake Erie's north shoreline near Port Bruce.

The light was much brighter and some of the stars or planets that stand out from other stars, and it seemed much too brilliant and different than any airplane that one regularly sees in the evening night. It looked like it was pulsating, but it could have been multiple lights blurred together to look like a pulse, because it appeared quite distant from our location, perhaps more than 2 kms.

I stood looking at this light for about 15 to 20 seconds and was about to awaken my wife to look, but the light completely disappeared in an instant. It looked like it 'burned out'. I was in disbelief and I woke my wife up right away and told her what I'd just seen. This was not a meteor of any sort. I have seen many meteors of many sizes and speeds.

This object appeared stationary. There was no obstruction in the sky where I had seen that pulsating light, which might have explained its disappearance, as sometimes air craft flying directly away can cross obstructions such as trees that block one's view. As I said, this light was well above the horizon and tree-line and the sky was completely clear and there were no clouds at all.

I have not seen anything like this before, and I have to say that I feel awkward sending a message to a person like you who I only discovered via a quick web search for possible similar sightings.

I have not been able to find any online reports of a similar sighting in this area on that date. This is what I saw and I cannot explain it.

Have you heard of any other similar sightings from this area or elsewhere even remotely similar to what I saw? Please let me know what you think. Thanks and regards.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Glowing Balls Of Light Looked Like A Bonfire Over Chemainus British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

I saw the light you are talking about, but it happened 3 times. I also saw a red light circling around the 3 bright light. No sound. Looked like a bonfire in the sky.

Additional Information:

Hi Brian, so glad you are following through on this kind of stuff. I live in Victoria, and was visiting my friend who lives on (street name removed) Street in Chemainus (across from the Elementary School). The lights were due south, above the tree line of the Elementary School, very close and visible.

I saw one glowing ball, like a bonfire in the sky. It lit up the clouds around it, or the clouds were smoke coming from the fire. It glowed for about 4 minuets then just slowly faded. Another light just like it lit up about a minute later, about 100 metres from the first one.

Same thing, like a bonfire in the sky for about 4 minutes, then it faded. About a minute passed and a third light lit up the sky, about 100 metres from where the second light was. This time, though, I noticed a red light circling around the flaming ball, like it was monitoring it. I thought, is that an airplane, but when I went outside, there was no sound.

Just a circling red light around a bonfire in the sky. Then, the third light slowly extinguished.

Would love to hear what you find out. I can't believe more people didn't see it. It was so bright!

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Orange Ball Of Light Looked Like Flames Hanging In The Sky Over Ladysmith British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

(Vike Factor Note) I have received a number of reports on this sighting of a orange ball of light over a part of Vancouver Island here in British Columbia. Trying to figure it out and come up with an answer for the folks who sent reports in.

Hi Brian, I saw your other postings on the orange ball near Ladysmith and thought I'd share ours. We were driving down to Victoria from Nanaimo at around 7:00pm on January 22rd, 2011, along the Trans Canada highway when we saw a bright orange light that looked to me to be flames hanging in the sky. We were close to the Nanaimo airport at the time, so initially we thought it was a plane making an emergency landing that was on fire.

It seemed to move across the sky west to east. It was very bright and orange. There also seemed to be some flashes on the clouds above. We drove on and it was intermittently disappearing and than lighting up again. We've done some digging around and we found out there is a type of flare that releases a small parachute that slowly carries it down, so this would probably make sense, including the flashes on the clouds above when it dropped to the cloud.

There was also something about a paraglider rescue at the time. Can you confirm this? Anyways, I took a short video of it with my camera before the battery died, but its 200mb, so I can't send it to you. Looks like a round ball of light in the video.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Unusual Bright Horizontal Orange Line In The Sky Over Gatineau South Quebec Canada

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: 6:45 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Gatineau South Quebec Canada.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Horizontal line.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I was with my boyfriend in the car, when he turned around and saw a bright orange line. It was a horizontal line and it was also brighter in the middle and a little wider. It was obviously not a contrail or a shooting stars. It stayed there for a couple minutes from the moment when we saw it.

We watched it for 3 minutes and then it slowly dissipated, after slowly regained it’s brightness for another couple minutes and then dissipated until it completely disappeared. It was a cloudy night with almost no stars and we couldn't see the moon, only this thing. We also saw two similar white lights, but they were alot smaller and alot dimmer. When the orange light disappeared 2 minutes after, they started to disappear as well.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Unusual Blinding Brilliant Orange Lights Over Cobble Hill British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Time:

Hi there Brian, I live in Cobble Hill and last night, night of 22nd January 2011 I went outside and I saw some brilliant orange lights in the sky. Could not get a good look as they were obscured by trees, but it appeared to dip down and then up again and possibly divided and rejoined.

Anyway, they were very bright, so bright that I had to look away at one point for fear of burning my eyes like a welding arc, but orangey and appeared to be mobile to some degree.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Orange Light Hovering Over Ladysmith Harbour Ladysmith British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:35 p.m.

Brian, I was heading west on Cedar Road, ready to turn right onto the Highway near Cassidy airport on Vancouver Island. In the corner of my eye I saw this orange light that appeared to be hovering over Ladysmith Harbour; this was approximately 19:35 hrs. I have seen these lights before.

My whole family witnessed what were explained as flares over the North Shore Mountains January 21, 1990. I stayed for about 20 minutes watching lights appear, then move horizontally east. Then they moved south and disappeared.

They dimmed then became bright, then faded but still appeared visible as somewhat red and round. I'm wondering what military or coast guard action was going on in this area at that time as they must have been flares?

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Fast Moving Round Glowing Object Over Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia

Date: January 22, 2011
Time: 9:15 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Round.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: The sphere was spotted by my uncle, flying in an effortless motion in the night sky over the east coast of Cape Breton last night at 9:15. The light was quite large and was very different from the usual things spotted in our very dark sky's, such as stars, planes etc.

It was traveling pretty fast on a scale of one to ten in speed, it was about a seven. It was traveling from north to south and before it was out of sight it seemed to blink off and disappeared. When he returned home there were messages on his answering machine from some family and friends, saying that they had seen something very odd in the sky.

After speaking with them it was determined that they too had seen the same glowing object in the sky.

I was contacted by my uncle, due to my knowledge and understanding of these phenomenon's. I have spent the last 9 years researching and examining sightings.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Massive Mile Wide UFO One Thousand Feet From The Ground Over Sydney Nova Scotia

Date: July 2001

Time: 2:30 a.m.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: At 2:30 in the morning, my best friend and I had just walked outside for a cigarette. We sat side by side on the curb and chatted for a few minutes, when we noticed a flash in the sky. We both looked up and seen something that to this day neither of us could explain.

A massive UFO that spanned at least a mile in width. It was from my estimation, only 1,000 feet off the ground and it lit up the sky. There were five massive lights on the object. Each light approximately the size of a school bus. The lights flashed from both ends to the center. The light almost looked like a glowing fluid that moved in waves.

We were shocked! It hovered in one spot for at least 5 minutes. During this time my friend and I were trying to come up with an explanation for what we were seeing. There was only one explanation, a UFO. Suddenly, the object flew straight up into, what had to be space and hooked off in a westerly direction and disappeared into, behind the star. We were both speechless.

Only after it was gone, did we realize that it had made no noise what so ever. To this day I feel haunted by what we seen and have become increasingly obsessed with finding the proof, that... We are not Alone.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

UFO Makes Strange Maneuvers Over Mudge Island Seen From Brickyard Beach Gabriola British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:30 p.m.

I stopped at the brickyard beach on Gabriola 01/22/2011 at about 7:30 pm and looking south over Mudge Island, when we saw what looked like a fire on Mudge. We then noticed it was moving south, very slowly and it started to fade. We got into our car and drove south, it appeared in the sky over Mudge again, so we stopped on the side of the road to watch.

The light slowly moved, what looked like southeast and it was pulsing and lighting up the clouds above it. It then faded from sight, ten seconds later it appeared in the same spot over Mudge. Wow kind of freaked us out. It went in the same direction as before then faded out, that was about 7:45 pm.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Orange Object Seen From Nanaimo To Chemainus British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

While driving home from Nanaimo around 7:00pm I saw it as well, and by the time I got home to Chemainus it disappeared. Weird stuff.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Orange Luminous Object Seen From Ladysmith British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: 7:20 - 7:37 p.m.

Good evening, today is January 22, 2011 at 7:20-7:37 pm and there has been an orange light in the sky almost flashing at random (reminiscent of a meteor)! What is it?

Additional Information:

Hello again, this was on the #1 Highway on Vancouver Island, starting approximately at the 49th Parallel (Ladysmith, B.C). The object appeared to be orange in colour, quite luminous in the night sky, with as I said before bright bursts of light.

This object appeared and re-appeared in the sky due to the cloud formation. This object fell out of sight behind the front approximately 20kms further down the highway (Chemainus, B.C).

I would appreciate any answers you may provide.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Blue UFO Hovers Then Shoots Off Over Airdrie Alberta

Date: 2002 ?

Time: Evening.

I've seen the same thing. It was probably about two years ago now. I was driving back from work which at the time was in Airdrie, AB. I was taking the back roads. It was dark at the time. As I was heading south on the road that connects with the north end of Beddington Trail, I spotted a bright blue light in the distance.

At first I thought that it was perhaps an airplane, but as it got closer I realized it wasn't. It was about fifty yards sort of to the left of me, hovered for a few seconds and took off behind me in the distance, far too fast to be anything manmade. To this day, I still have no explanation of what I saw. Pretty strange.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

7 Red Star Like Objects Over Niagara Falls Ontario Canada

Date: January 21, 2011

Time: 11:45 p.m.

Hi, this is weird to me, but my wife and I were just outside at 11:45 pm having a smoke when we seen 7 red star like things in the air. There was no sound and they didn’t seem like planes because they were kind of close a few of them.

I came in the house to look it up, as to what just came over Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada with 7 red lights and you popped up. I was so glad to hear someone else seen this, let me know if you find out what it is. I might call the local airport when I am done typing. Thanks.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Boomerang Winged UFO Spotted Over Pilot Butte Saskatchewan (Photos And Diagram)

Re-posted with update, photos and diagram.

Vike Factor Note: Marina, the lady who witnessed this amazing UFO event and will be a guest on the Jeff Rense show this evening, January 21, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. PST. You will be able to hear first hand what it was she saw, and how it effected her life.

Date: August 11/12 1997
Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m. and 12:18 a.m.

Location of Sighting: Pilot Butte Saskatchewan.
Number of witnesses: 7 and 1.
Number of Objects: 1 and 1.
Shape of Objects: Boomerang wing.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: A lot happened afterwards too. The first night the object looked liked a scalloped wing, bright against the stars, high in the sky. Much, much bigger than a jet plane at a high altitude. No sound on either night.

The second night I was alone in my back yard. I was watching the Perseids meteor shower. (as we had been doing the night previously). It was very clear moonless night and the constellations could be seen clearly, Cassiopia especially. I was about to turn in for bed when the Northern Lights flared up in the distant north horizon. I went to my gate to get a better view, my yard at that time faced the open Prairies.

To view the entire report with update, photos and diagram of the UFO, please visit the link provided. http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/2011/01/boomerang-winged-ufo-spotted-over-pilot.html

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

UFOs Moving Across The Night Sky Over Whycocomagh Cape Breton Canada

Date: 1981

Time: 11:30 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Whycocomagh Cape Breton Canada.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 3
Shape of Objects: Star like.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Myself and my cousin were camping at the Whycocomagh Provincial Park. I was laying on the picnic table looking at the night sky and began seeing lights flicking on and off rapidly, these objects were really high up. They almost seemed as if they were playing. They would disappear over the mountain and then com back again.

One of them went across to the other side of the bay in a heartbeat, then returned. I still wonder to this day what they were. If a satellite in the night sky is 25 miles above, these things were 500 miles, they were extremely high.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Two Vertical Columns Of Flashing Lights Flying Horizontally North Of Edmonton Alberta Canada

Date: February 2002

Time: Evening.

I don't know if it’s the same thing I saw about 9 years ago, but around February 2002 north of Edmonton, Canada. I saw two vertical columns of flashing lights flying horizontally. The patterns displayed were like the ones you described, flashing rapidly for a brief moment, then off for a moment.

The shape of the objects that I saw, were what fascinated me the most. They were not of a conventional shape suitable for flight. They looked (this is strange, but keep an open mind) crystalline shaped, pointed on the top and bottom, but long and parallel sides. They were narrow (about 1/10 width to height) and stayed side by side as if tethered. each "column" consisted of dozens of red lights.

They flew north at a slow pace. it was difficult to tell size, but due to lack of atmospheric distortion, I would guess they were less in the range of 100 feet in height and within a couple miles distance from me.

Every car in the west bound lane, including me hit the brakes and slowed to a crawl. I watched the object (or objects, if you will) for about a full minute. Regrettably, I did not have a camera at the time.

About six months later, I saw it again only much further away. I couldn't see the space between the lights, but I believe it was the same object due to the same flashing patterns seen previously.

I’m anxious to hear your thoughts on this and to hear more of your experience. It’s strange and terrifying to me to think we are not alone, but who knows. Maybe there is a reasonable explanation to what we are witnessing.

Respectfully yours from Canada.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Soundings - UFOs over Thompson: The Truth Is Out There

January 12, 2011
John Barker

Some stories just seem to always strike a chord with readers. Near the top of the list has to be UFO stories. Readers (not to mention journalists) find them irresistible. So when Kimberly Wavey sent us an e-mail during the early hours of Boxing Day saying she saw "three unexplained reddish orange lights in a triangle" Christmas Eve at 7:47 p.m. in the night sky over Thompson, it was like manna falling from heaven during an otherwise slow news week between Christmas and New Years.

To read the entire article: http://www.thompsoncitizen.net/article/20110112/THOMPSON0301/301129990/-1/thompson0301/soundings

7 Orange Lights Moving In The Sky Over North Vancouver British Columbia

Date: January 8, 2011

Time: 7:15 p.m.

Hi. My name is (name removed), and I am emailing in regards to this post: http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/formation-of-floating-lights-over-inter.html

My friend called me at 7:15pm on January 8th, 2011. He told me to "look outside, there's UFOs!" Naturally, I looked. I was expecting to see something kind of weird, but what I saw was 7ish orange kind of twinkling lights moving slowly upwards, not in any particular formations.

As they got higher in the air, they got a little bit faster. They eventually disappeared, moving not with the wind, going faster than any wind-carried object. Needless to say, I was very weirded out. My mother, who was with me, also saw and thought of it as very strange.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/