Brian Vike's Favorite
Cases.
Newspaper Article.
By Joann Livingston
Daily Light Managing
Editor.
A more than
30-year-old report has surfaced alleging UFO sightings in southern Ellis County
- an area that has also seen rumors in the past of having a “big foot” type
inhabitant.
In a radio interview
Sunday on the Canadian-based Vike Report, a woman identified as “Kathy” said
she and her husband had several encounters of the first kind - sightings of a
UFO - during about a six-month period when the couple lived in a farmhouse in Milford.
“It’s a fascinating
report and seemed a very credible report,” Vike Report founder Brian Vike told
the Daily Light in a telephone interview Monday evening.
Describing himself as
a “pretty-level headed fellow, although I’m into UFOs,” Vike said, saying what
he does is take in all reports sent to his site without judgment. “You have to
leave everything open. ... Anything’s possible. It sounds nutty, but again,
anything’s possible.”
Of the hundreds of
reports Vike has received since he started researching UFOs in mid-2000 - 900
from 2006 alone - the majority are from the United States.
“I just love talking
to these people,” he said, noting the popularity of his Web site, which at any
given time can have upward of 100 people online and visiting.
“The response and the
interest in the topic is just incredible,” he said. “I was quite shocked, too,
when I started. I just wanted a hobby (and) boy, did I get surprised. From the
photos and the stories, I didn’t realize it would turn into what it has.
“It’s just nonstop,
but it’s really nice to get the interest into this and have people put their
reports in,” he said, saying the majority of the reports are explainable, but
“a small percentage is really wild.”
Kathy’s report is one
of the latter at this time, with Vike hoping that other people who lived in
Milford at about the same time contact him with information that might provide
some explanation for what she says she experienced.
Under its privacy
policy, the Vike Report doesn’t identify anyone by last name and does use a
pseudonym upon request, with Vike saying Kathy is a pseudonym for the woman who
lived in Milford.
In her interview,
which is available on the Vike Report Web site, Kathy said her first experience
with UFOs was as a teenager in 1970 near Pueblo, Colo. She said she was driving
alone on a highway at night when a brightly-lit object came up quickly behind
her on the roadway, lighting up the inside of her car before disappearing into
the night.
“It was almost as if
it singled me out,” she said, saying her next experiences were when she and her
husband moved to Milford, where they lived in a farmhouse “in the middle of
cotton fields.”
It was a summer’s
evening when she said she stepped outside to look at the stars and saw a
low-flying light coming toward her.
“It was flying about
as low as a prop plane would fly but there was no sound,” she said. “I watched
it and as it got in front of the house, it made a 90-degree angle turn, and
when I saw that, I thought, ‘That’s not right.’ ”
The object went to
the left and then as it got to the left of the house, it made another 90-degree
turn and went toward the back of the house on an “absolutely angled turn,”
Kathy told Vike, saying that’s when she asked her husband to come outside.
The two watched as
the object made another 90-degree turn and headed back in their direction, and
that’s when they decided to get back inside their home, she said.
“We’re watching it
from inside at this point, (it’s) heading to the back of the house and it
stopped. It was stopped and was just sitting there, still, and a little light
shot out from it,” she said, saying the “big” light disappeared and the little
light started making “jagged, straight-line movements.” She couldn’t recall
exactly how the incident ended, but did relate other instances where she and
her husband were returning to Milford from Waxahachie and she would notice out
the passenger window a light on the horizon that appeared to be following or
paralleling their travel. It was usually about 10 p.m. when this happened, she
said.
“It was just a white
light, following us on the horizon,” she said, saying the last experience the
couple had before moving from Milford was their being at home one evening when
they heard a strange vibrating sound above their house as they were watching
television.
They turned the
television off and heard what Kathy described as a “vibrating, pulsing sound”
that “vibrated the whole house.”
She said her husband
offered up an explanation that it was probably “electricity going through the
wires” - and neither of them ventured outside to see if there was another
cause.
In her final
recollection, Kathy said there was a calf born with a birth defect about that
time in a nearby field. She said she saw the rancher, told him about the
incidents she’d experienced and asked if he had ever seen anything strange. She
said he ignored her, though, and turned around and walked away without a word.
Besides Kathy’s
report, of the UFO sightings on Vike’s Web site, the nearest one to Ellis
County is a report of a single, triangular-shaped object in the sky at about
9:45 p.m. March 25, 2007, on U.S. Highway 175 between Seagoville and Crandall.
“Basically I could
see the shape and the direction it was moving because it was darker than the
clouds behind it,” the person’s report indicates. “It was just below the cloud
line and I got the impression that it was very large. It was also completely
silent. It didn’t seem like it was going very fast, it was kind of just
cruising along. The location was about a mile from the Wal-Mart on 175 outside
of Seagoville.”
Vike said he welcomes
comments or reports at his e-mail address of houstonbri7@gmail.com or through his
Web site at http://www.hbcculfo.org.
He said he’s
personally experienced about three sightings he has no explanation for, saying
his area of Canada was a major source for sightings around 2002.
“We were the UFO
capital for two years running,” he said. “It was just a concentration of
bizarre sightings (but) my area is dead right now. It seems to move around. All
of a sudden, you’ll have a concentration (of sightings) somewhere.”
It’s not just current
sightings on which he receives information. As with Kathy, Vike also is
receiving information from people’s past sightings. He attributes this in large
part to the Internet and its ability to bring together people reporting similar
type experiences.
“With the Internet,
it’s so open, it’s nonstop,” he said, noting the topic is of definite interest,
with a Google search Monday evening yielding almost 5 million results.
Vike said he posts
the reports he receives and - with rare exception - leaves them open as to what
may or may not have happened.
“I believe people are
intelligent. They can read it and figure it out for themselves,” he said, saying
the sightings can often be explained away as a planet such as Venus or an
aircraft. Through his work, he said he’s developed a number of sources, such as
in the military, who are able to help him identify what someone may have
actually seen.
“While I believe that
though, I wasn’t there to see it, so I leave them ‘as is’ mostly,” he said as
to why the majority of the reports he’s received remain in an open status.
Encounters
Many films have been
made of alleged encounters with beings from another world.
One of the more
famous is director/writer Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film, “Close Encounters of
the Third Kind,” described by www.filmsite.org as a “soulful, beguiling,
magical and benevolent look at ‘close encounters.’ ” The Web site remarks on Spielberg’s
film’s unusual “optimistic, loving portrayal of alien encounters” that “set it
apart from most science-fiction alien-encounter films of an earlier era.”
The film was almost
called “Watch the Skies,” the closing words from the 1951 science-fiction
classic “The Thing From Another World,” according to www.filmsite.org, which
notes that instead, Spielberg went with “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,”
relating to three levels of encounters. A close encounter of the first kind
would include a UFO sighting, while one of the second kind would be finding
physical evidence of an alien landing. A close encounter of the third kind
would involve contact with aliens. One of the publicity posters for Spielberg’s
film declared: “We are not alone,” www.filmsite.org notes.
Information from
www.filmsite.org
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