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Date: Early to mid 1950's ?
Time: Early afternoon.
Location of Sighting: Tuc-El-Nuit Lake Oliver
British Columbia Canada
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Saucer shape on top and bottom.
Investigator Brian Vike’s Note: Now this is a really interesting sighting
report since there appears to have been more people who witnessed this object
as the person reporting mentions the radio station carried a news story on this
craft being observed by others.
I would like to request from others who were in
that area at the time and if they saw this craft, would you please be kind
enough to contact me here at brian_vike@telus.net with the details
of what you saw. Thank you, Brian.
Full Description of event/sighting: I recall I was
8 or 10 years old and playing by myself in our back yard on the west side of
Tuc-el-Nuit Lake.
I was not looking at the lake, but was facing
north. A movement over my right shoulder caught my attention and I turned
towards the lake.
Flying very low above the lake and coming from the
south was a very strange looking airplane. It had no wings, no propeller, was
the same shape top and bottom and made no sound. The size was a bit bigger than
any plane I'd seen before and the only planes I had seen were small private
planes. I'd never been to a big airport.
The colour a silver grey. The lake was only half a
mile wide at that point so "the plane" was quite close and only about
three times as high as our rooftop. If it had been a float plane I would have
expected it to be landing at the far end of the lake.
It was moving only a little faster than I would
have expected a plane to fly. I watched it continue up the lake then went back
to my playing.
Later when I went in the house I told my mother
about the strange plane I'd seen.
A short time later she heard on the 5:00 p.m. news
that a "flying saucer" had been seen by a great many people flying
north up the Okanagan Valley. It fit the description of what I'd seen so she
told me about it. The radio station was CKOK Penticton.
I wasn't overly impressed as I'd never even heard
of flying saucers. My parents were aware of them, but it was never a topic that
they had any reason to discuss. To me it was just a funny looking airplane. In
fact, if it had not been on the news I doubt that I would have remembered it as
the years went by. Of course to see it now would be very exciting and I would
pay a lot more attention!
Over the years I've looked at archives of
sightings in B.C., but have never seen mention of that event. That surprises me
a bit since several people apparently reported it to the radio station at the
time.
Unfortunately I can't give the exact year. I just
know it was after 1950 and before 1960. It was around the time that my parents
were part of a team of volunteers that had to report any planes they heard or
saw during their shift. My parents shift was midnight to 2:00 a.m..
Both being teachers they used the time to mark
papers! Years later when I asked why they were doing that, they couldn't
remember what it was about, but that it was being done in more areas than
Oliver.
Around that same time period there was another
sighting in the sky that I noted, but did not think about more than just
briefly. I was in the same area of Oliver playing with some friends. This was
early afternoon in the summer.
They were standing above me on a mound of dirt and
as I was looking at them I noticed three bright lights in the sky to the north.
They looked like very bright stars and formed a small triangle. We all watched
them for a while but they didn't move so we went on playing.
Over the next half hour whenever we looked up they
were there. Since I remembered my father saying that as a boy in Alert Bay
(1920's) he and a friend once watched several unmoving "stars" for a
whole afternoon I just assumed that we also were looking at stars.
Yes we knew that it was unusual to see stars in
the daylight. The reason I remembered the event was that I was pleased that I'd
seen something special that my dad had seen when he was about my age. Since
then I've looked for stars in the daytime sky when the air is very clear but
have never seen any.
I realize this report is from a long time ago but
I am hoping you have records of this from other people. If nothing else I
appreciate the opportunity to at last tell someone about the event. Thank-you.
Thank you to the witness for the wonderful report.
If you seen this object, or anything else
like it, would you please contact me, Brian Vike at brian_vike@telus.net
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Between 1954 and 1958, Tuc-El-Nuit Lake
Oliver, British Columbia Canada (Daylight sighting)
This is a bit of an unusual addition to a report
you posted earlier [see above].
My older sister submitted the report
"Tuc-El-Nuit Lake Oliver, British Columbia 1950s Flying Saucer". She
emailed me to take a look at this site, and I read her submission. Now, it gets
a bit strange.
This was the very first time I heard about her
seeing this event. That in itself is not particularly strange, but I saw something
similar, and she did not know of my sighting nor I hers! Reading her report was
a bit of a shock, to say the least.
What follows is a description of what I saw
sometime between 1954 and 58. I was somewhere between 4 and 8 years old.
It was a bright day with a solid high overcast,
and, I believe, in the afternoon. No wind and a warm day.
I was outside by the lake shore, facing south.
Something attracted my attention and I looked up high to my left in time to see
three objects streak towards the south. They were moving much faster than any
ducks flew, and were absolutely silent.
There was no flapping of wings or any body
movement whatsoever. They did not appear to be descending, but got smaller as
they flew out of sight behind a row of poplar trees about 100m away.
There were three objects, flying in a
"V" formation. They looked to me at the time like ducks with no tails
and very short stubby wings. They were dark in colour and I saw no markings or
distinguishable features.
My age and lack of any other reference led me to
assume they were just weird birds. What seemed unusual to me at the time other
than the weird shape was the speed and silence of their flight.
They appeared to me as ducks would look if they
were flying 10 or 15m above my head. I should have seen details and heard the
murmuring that ducks make as they fly.
I told my Mom and Dad about the "ducks".
They questioned me, but couldn't really come to any satisfactory conclusions
and we just shrugged and moved on.
My sister and I talked about these events for the
first time today. Neither of us was aware of the other's sighting. We are not
really able to figure out who saw what first, but we are both certain that we
did not know of each other's story. We are equally certain that we saw what we
saw, and are not "remembering" a story we heard from the other.
FYI. Tuc-el-nuit Lake is, according to Indian
legend, the birthplace of Ogopogo. He apparently swam up the Okanagan River to
Okanagan Lake. The "Okanagan Arch" is also visible from this area.
Thank you to the witnesses for their
reports.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
