Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Thousand Oaks California Special Interview (All 4 Eyewitnesses)
I did a 3 and a
half audio interview with four eyewitnesses which I will post shortly.
Finally I have did
all the interviews with all of the four eyewitnesses for the Thousand Oaks
California event and have the interview ready and posted. The length of the
interview is 3 hours and 13 minutes in length. The people who are speaking out
over the unusual experience is Steve, his brother Rick, Steve's Mom and Steve's
ex-wife.
The chain of events took place over two nights, the police were called, the newspaper wrote a story on a tree which caught fire as the fire department were called out to put out the fire. Balls of light shooting over the people's head while standing on their driveway listening to the god awful screams. Circles left on the ground behind the home on the hill. Flash of light which engulfed the entire inside of the home and a figure could be seen coming up the stairs while this bright white light filled the home. Plus missing time, and a lot of it. This interview you do not want to miss.
Thank you to the
family for taking the time with me.
Thousand Oaks, California UFO -
Blinding Light And Sheer Terror (Special)
Received Report:
January 2007
Date: November 1975
(2 nights)
Witnesses: Myself
(20 at the time)
My father -
deceased 1977 (age 47)
Mother
Brother (19 at the
time)
My now ex-wife (19,
6 months pregnant at the time)
2 German Shepherds
Co-worker of my
mothers - deceased.
UFO sighting
reports from the past years I find simply amazing. There have been scores of
sightings that have been reported to different UFO groups throughout the years,
but still there are thousands of cases that have gone unreported. In the below
letter is one of these. I would urge anyone from past years to file their UFO
sighting as it helps us all out and hopefully gives us a better understanding
of what is really happening in the day and nighttime skies.
Brian Vike's Note:
The report, or experience which was related to me by a really nice fellow
wishes to remain anonymous which is totally fine with me. Also I completely
understand why he would like it to remain this way. But, this is an important
case and the witness, or witnesses to this unusual event are looking for
answers, as I am.
These folks are requesting anyone's help, in other words people who may have been witness to some unusual events around the time of this experience. Anyone with information on sightings in the Thousand Oaks, California area in November 1975 would you please contact Brian Vike, with your information on what took place. I then can pass along just the detailed information to the people who were involved in the November 1975 incident. Thank you very much, Brian Vike.
We lived in
Thousand Oaks, California at the time, at 2130 Sapra (There are 2 Sapra's that
were supposed to connect but never did. Our house was on the short one,
connecting directly to Erbes Road). It was a new housing development when we
moved in from Amarillo, TX in 1969 (My dad worked for Burroughs and was
transferred from Texas to the Westlake Village branch).
We were the last house
on a dead end street at the end of town. The houses were on only the south side
of the street, cut out of the hill, with a large horse field across the street.
The house was perched quite high above Erbes Rd and we could see over the horse
field and into the valley below.
First Night:
My cousin lived
next door and he and I were playing guitar on my front driveway along with my
brother and a couple of other friends around 7:00 or 8:00 pm (close guess).
Suddenly a blue light (size of a basketball?) streaked (super fast- no sound)
over the house from the south and hit the horse field. I say hit, but it seemed
to dissolve on impact and sent blue, lightning like streamers shooting off
across the ground in all 3 other directions, for hundreds of yards until they
disappeared.
Well, this was kind of strange to say the least, but we were kind of laughing about it as a couple of the people were facing away and saw nothing. We went back to playing guitar and 15 to 20 minutes later, this huge pine tree on the street down in the valley (Marview Drive - just looked it up on map quest) suddenly was fully engulfed in flames.
We stood there for awhile
( I remember watching the fire truck come down Arboles and turn up Erbes down
in the valley below). Eventually it was put out (the story was in the paper
-News Chronicle- the next day).
That night my
brother, ex and I were up in my old room (My ex-wife and I were up in Alaska
that year and had just gotten back) watching TV and we had the window on the
east side of the room open. About 10:00 or so my brother told me to turn down
the TV, he thought he heard something.
We went over to the window and, after a
couple of minutes, heard a far off 'scream' way back in the hills to the
northeast. We looked at each other with a 'what was that' look and a couple of
minutes later heard it again, only it sounded farther away. I think we heard it
a couple of other times and than didn't hear it again. Nothing else happened
that night.
We all got home
from work the next day, ate dinner, then my folks sat in the living room to
watch TV and the 3 of us went upstairs to do the same. Around 7:00 my brother
again said to turn down the TV (He always sat in a chair that we had next to
that window) and immediately we heard the 'scream', only much closer.
How do I describe
'the scream' I can't. I've never heard anything like it, before or since. Part
human, part animal Pain Fear. Certainly wasn't happy. I can kind of imitate it,
but I can't describe it.
Let me also take a
break here and describe the terrain. The houses stepped up the street, each one
higher than the other. They had a lot above ours, but it was too small to build
on and they sold it to my dad and he put a pool on it. That lot was even with
the window in my room so my window looked out on the pool.
The hill behind both lots started very quickly up (steep) for about 30 feet to a small drainage ditch and then both were surrounded by a chicken wire fence we had put up to enclose both lots. Beyond that, thick, impenetrable sage brush. We owned that land but were never able to use it. You couldn't walk through it and the sage brush covered the entire hill south and east of the house.
The fire department
occasionally came and cleared a little back from the drainage ditch, but it
always grew back quickly. The hill went straight up for hundreds of yards to
the houses on the top of the hill, which you could neither see or hear.
At this point we
heard the scream coming from a point near a phone electric pole that was in the
middle of the hill (50 yards away maybe). It screamed again and the 3 of us
didn't need to hear it again to know it was time to get dad involved so we ran
downstairs. A thought occurred to me - where are the dogs? I went left out to
the garage and my brother and ex went right, into the living room.
I opened the back
garage door (somewhat hesitant I might add). Usually at this point, I'm bowled
over by a lovable, but hyper, 120 pound male German Sheppard who's favorite
thing is to bound inside or in the garage and destroy everything in his tails
path. But no dogs and then a scream up the hill to the left and I closed the
door and headed inside.
My dad and brother
were at the front door going out as I came in so I followed them outside. They
went down the driveway while I went over to the gate on the west side of the
house to see if I could find the dogs. I rattled the gate, and still no dogs
but I heard the scream again, at the edge of our property, about near the
drainage ditch. I went back to the front of the house and could see my brother
and dad standing on the sidewalk in front of the 2nd lot, looking up at the
hill.
I saw my dad and
brother flinch down and the scream was thunderous. By far, the loudest we had
heard, and the house was blocking me. My dad and brother came running up the
driveway, asking me if I'd seen the fireballs (which I hadn't). They said 2
blue fireballs came shooting over their heads and hit the hill and immediately
the thing screamed it's shriek. This was the only time in my life I saw my dad
scared.
We all went inside
and I tried to call my cousin next door, but nobody answered the phone. My Dad
then decided to call the police and he reported something was up on our hill to
the Thousand Oaks PD. At that point, the 3 of us went out the back door with a
flashlight to look for the dogs. The thing had stopped screaming after the
fireball incident to the best of my memory, but it wasn't screaming now. We
found both dogs in the doghouse, shaking. We finally got them out and into the
garage.
Quick note about
the dogs. Anything near the property, they went nuts on. Rabbits or birds? An
hour bark-a-thon. They protected that yard relentlessly, but what ever was up
there this night, they wanted no part of.
My dad, brother and
I went back out front and heard nothing. We stayed out there, one of us going
inside every few minutes to check on things. An officer arrived about 8:30 and
my dad somewhat told him what was going on (He was a Korean war vet so he
wasn't going to the unexplained just yet).
The officer stayed
for a while, shined his spotlight on the hill and of course not a peep. I'd say
he left after 20 minutes to 1/2 hour. We went back inside and talked about it
for a while then we went upstairs.
Now it got weird.
We were upstairs for a while (an hour maybe less) when we thought we heard it
again. We went to the window and it screamed again just as we got there, loud
from behind the main house. I ran downstairs and yelled at my dad, I remember
him sitting in his chair and Johnny Carson was doing his monologue so it was
between 11:30 and 12:00. They were always in bed by 12:30 - 1:00 on work nights.
We ran upstairs,
met my ex and brother at the top of the stairs, and headed into my folks
bathroom which had the best vantage point at the back hill with a south facing
window. I got there first and listened for a few seconds when suddenly a large
scream bellowed forth followed by a very loud electronic 'beep'. My dad was at
my side and I said 'Listen, I heard a beep' and on queue, loud scream - beep.
It had moved about 5 feet east at that point with no sound (remember the
sagebrush) and then it did it a third time (scream - beep) and had moved a
little further.
My ex was screaming about somebody putting a needle in her
belly button (The Betty/Barney Hill movie had aired about a month ago) so I
stepped back to the door to comfort her, I saw this blinding white light that
seemed to fill the house and then we are all standing in the hallway and going
off in different directions to go to bed. My brother decided he wanted to sleep
in the chair instead of alone and when we got into my bedroom I saw the clock
said 4:30 exactly. I remember I could hear the screams now from there original
point by the poles on the hill, but we all went to sleep.
Everybody went to
work the next morning, but I called in sick cause my ex didn't want to stay
there alone. I went up the hill to the east of the property as far as I could
get and there were 2 circular patterns in a clearing where there were weeds,
about 8 feet in diameter. That was all I saw and that was the end of that.
A woman who worked
at my mothers work (an optometrist's office) told her that day she was driving
up Erbes road about 7:30 that night when she saw 2 cars stopped on Erbes with
people looking up at our hill, and she looked and saw a bright white light
hovering over the hill east of our house, and then it just disappeared.
Aftermath:
We talked to my
cousin next door and they heard nothing (I have no explanation because they
should have, that thing was LOUD) and they said they were home and never heard
the phone ring.
The male German
Sheppard went fast. He was 5 years old, and in the weeks following the
incident, he lost control of his nervous system to the point he couldn't
function and was put to sleep. The vet said he had no idea what was wrong with
him. The female went blind (7 years old) over the next few months and she too
was put to sleep.
My dad seemed to
age rapidly for the next year and 1/2 and died of a heart attack at a company
picnic in August 1977.
My daughter was
born normally, but has had a few 'strange' incidents and I watched her lose her
baby teeth then get in her adult teeth, only to lose them all at age 12 and get
a third set of teeth, The dentist said it wasn't happening but we know it did.
A few months after
the encounter, I went and laid down after work and spiked a 106 temperature. I
was sick for a year, was put in the hospital and tested for hepatitis and
cancer but they had no idea what was wrong with me. The only thing they told me
was my blood work showed some irregularity and I was told not to give blood.
The lady that
worked with my mom quit unexpectedly that day and I never had a chance to ask
her about it as she committed suicide shortly there after.
That's it. The scream
and fireballs were strange, but the fact we all went to bed and didn't seem to
care that our 10 minutes in the bathroom turned into 4 hours was maybe the
strangest. I have no explanation for any of it.
This was hard to
write about. I had to stop once and thinking about it still causes Goosebumps.
A couple of days
after that my dad, brother and I were on our front yard talking about this
encounter, when my dad told us the following story. He joined the Air Force in
1950 after 2 years at the University of Minnesota and spent some time in Korea
as a jet mechanic and then came stateside and was stationed at Sioux City Iowa,
were he was trained as a radar technician.
One night in 1954 the whole base went on alert suddenly and he was told there was an unknown object coming from the north. They got a radar reading that it was at 50000-80000 feet and traveling in excess of 1,200 mph (I recall him saying 1,800 mph but my brother said 1200 so we'll go with that).
It went off the screen to the south, and everybody in the room was told to forget it even happened. He never told us about that before, but my mom confirmed today that he told her about it the next day (he was on the overnight shift).
To listen to the interviews I did with Steve, his brother Rick, their mother and Steve's wife at the time please visit each of the links below.
Steve's interview which is 1 hour 19 minutes in length: https://jmp.sh/10IlbB2
Steve's brother Rick's interview which is 37 minutes in length: https://jmp.sh/KbIzBLR
Steve's Mother's interview which is 22 minutes in length: https://jmp.sh/wXAyLC5
Steve's wife's interview which is 28 minutes in length: https://jmp.sh/SaQ3Dnj
Thank you to Steve, his brother Rick, his Mom and his Ex Wife for spending the time with me to get this amazing experience out there.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
