Posted: January 23, 2008
Hi Brian, Your query re. Ghost Stories brought to mind something that happened to me a long time back. From 1955 to 1958 I delivered the Vancouver Sun newspaper from 41st and Oak north to 32nd. Oak to Laurel. This was in the city of Vancouver for those who don't know. Vancouver in the 50's was still only partially built up with houses and large blocks were still covered with second growth forest. At that time the area bounded by Oak St. to Laurel St. and from 37th. Ave. north to 33rd. Ave. was part of Langara Golf course. Later it was made into a High School. Around the outside perimeter of the Golf course was a band of trees. I believe with the intent to keep flying golf balls from flying across the street and striking the houses and a few pedestrians. There was one strip about midway up the driving range where there was a gap in the trees and several hundred feet of long grass dividing the course from the street and if it was a nice day I would often sit and watch the golfers and make a note of where their balls landed.
I would sit and watch as they hunted in the grass for their balls getting more and more frustrated. Finally I would get up and go and locate it for them this would always be rewarded, usually 25 cents which was a lot of money in those days. Some days I might take in two or three dollars which was a lot more than I got for delivering the paper. During the day I loved the area, but once each month I had to go back at night when I had to make my collections. Then those trees around the golf course would sometimes take on an eerie and sinister and sometimes menacing appearance, especially in the Fall and Winter when it got dark early. That's when I would rush to try to finish my route before it got to dark. The incident I recall took place in the Fall of 1957, I had gotten a late start making my collections and by the time I got as far as 33rd. it was already after 11:00 pm as I was reminded several times by irate customers who had been gotten out of their warm beds. Anyway that night it was really black with heavy rain and the wind was blowing almost gale force and the racket coming from all those trees was rather unnerving. Remember, I was just a teenager at that time. When I reached 33rd. there was a one block stretch with trees and bush on both sides of the road before I reached the houses again. I would always ride my bike down the centre of the road and do it at a good clip.
This particular night I had just reached the first of the houses when I got the feeling someone was calling me. I turned around and saw what appeared to be a tall slim woman all dressed in White from head to toe like she was wearing a cloak. She was standing about ten feet back in the bush and appeared to have one arm raised as if she was beckoning me. It was quite dark around her but she just seemed to glow. My first thought was she was a ghost the second the Virgin Mary. No, I am not particularly religious, just that is what she looked like. I only had three more blocks to collect from so I disturbed all my remaining customers just as fast as could and then beat a hasty retreat for home. On the way I met my brother who had been sent out by my father to search for me as it was about midnight by then. The next day was more of the same sort of weather and I was rushing to get finished. I never thought about the lady until I was already at the houses on 33rd. then I turned around and there she was still beckoning and still glowing in the dark. I realized that she could not even be seen when you were on the road next to her location due to the bush and it was only when well past that there was an opening into her little clearing.
I decided right then and there that I was going to do my route in the reverse direction the next day so I could be there during daylight. Luckily it cleared somewhat the next day and was still quite light when I got there. From across the street it still looked like a woman, but as I got closer I soon realized it was just a stump about six feet high. Someone had peeled all the bark off of it and the beckoning arm was just a jagged piece of the stump. As I stood there looking at it I soon found why it appeared to glow in the dark. The one solitary street light chose that moment to come on and the light from it managed to penetrate the trees to hit right on that stump. Now I knew what it was but still for the remainder of the time I spent delivering papers in that area I would still avoid that spot the best I could. Even knowing, it still gave me the creeps to look back and see her calling me back.
Thank you to the person for the story.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Vernon, British Columbia UFO Burning/Flames And Disintegrating
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 7, 2007 (Approx:) Time: Approx: 10:00 p.m.
Hey Brian, I saw something burning, all in flames and disintegrating, heading low in an eastern direction over Vernon town a couple of weeks ago. Close to 10:00 p.m. around midweek. It was coming down at, I am guessing, a fifteen degree angle from the west. The speed was slow, smoky, in flames and disintegrating. I have heard meteorites kind of spit and flare, with smoke, but this is the first time I have seen flames. Take care. Thank you to the person for relating the sighting.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 7, 2007 (Approx:) Time: Approx: 10:00 p.m.
Hey Brian, I saw something burning, all in flames and disintegrating, heading low in an eastern direction over Vernon town a couple of weeks ago. Close to 10:00 p.m. around midweek. It was coming down at, I am guessing, a fifteen degree angle from the west. The speed was slow, smoky, in flames and disintegrating. I have heard meteorites kind of spit and flare, with smoke, but this is the first time I have seen flames. Take care. Thank you to the person for relating the sighting.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Terrace To Kitimat, British Columbia UFO Makes A Circle In The Sky
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 12, 2007 Time: Approx: After 8:00 p.m.
Hello Again, I started working in Terrace last month, so I drive to and from Kitimat Monday to Friday to make my 11:00 a.m. till 8:00 p.m. shift.
Tonight I was driving home from Terrace and I saw a bizarre sight in the sky.
At the end, but above a straight stretch of road in the pitch-black night, I saw a light do a circle in the sky. From where I was driving, it crossed over the horizon (the road). It followed the treeline in a straight line. It was a very quiet thing flying not more than a hundred feet above the treeline along a straight stretch of road. It had a red light on one side and a blue light on the other, like an airplane shape. I know it was quiet because I stopped the car and got out. It was quietly droning, unlike any plane that I knew of (that doesn't say much because I'm not an expert on planes). Cars and trucks were driving by though I had my hazard lights on. A young man pulled over and I showed him the thing flying past. I was very shaken by the flying thing and quickly got back in my car and drove off. He took quite a chance stopping, and so did I considering the missing women in recent years on highway 16.
For your information, since I moved to Kitimat 2 years ago, I have been seeing a distant, slowly circling, red and blue flashing light from my balcony in Cable car Kitimat. I can count on it any night its clear in the summer. I've never seen it in the winter. This occurrence tonight seems to be related. Do you have any idea what this is? Regards.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 12, 2007 Time: Approx: After 8:00 p.m.
Hello Again, I started working in Terrace last month, so I drive to and from Kitimat Monday to Friday to make my 11:00 a.m. till 8:00 p.m. shift.
Tonight I was driving home from Terrace and I saw a bizarre sight in the sky.
At the end, but above a straight stretch of road in the pitch-black night, I saw a light do a circle in the sky. From where I was driving, it crossed over the horizon (the road). It followed the treeline in a straight line. It was a very quiet thing flying not more than a hundred feet above the treeline along a straight stretch of road. It had a red light on one side and a blue light on the other, like an airplane shape. I know it was quiet because I stopped the car and got out. It was quietly droning, unlike any plane that I knew of (that doesn't say much because I'm not an expert on planes). Cars and trucks were driving by though I had my hazard lights on. A young man pulled over and I showed him the thing flying past. I was very shaken by the flying thing and quickly got back in my car and drove off. He took quite a chance stopping, and so did I considering the missing women in recent years on highway 16.
For your information, since I moved to Kitimat 2 years ago, I have been seeing a distant, slowly circling, red and blue flashing light from my balcony in Cable car Kitimat. I can count on it any night its clear in the summer. I've never seen it in the winter. This occurrence tonight seems to be related. Do you have any idea what this is? Regards.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Metallic Object
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 9, 2007 Time: 4:46 p.m.
Approach Direction: East Departure Direction: South Witness Direction: South
Description: I had just left my office in the Inkster Industrial park area heading south on Keewatin St.at Burrows Ave. when I noticed something metallic in the sky. At first I thought it was a plane when I noticed something strange about the shape. It looked like a plane's fusilage without wings or a tail, just a silver fusilage.I had pulled into the safeway parking lot to grab my camcorder,when I noticed it bank to the left and changed direction south.As it banked to the left it was evident that it was no longer cigar shaped but clearly disc shaped.It appeared to be heading south and moving slower than a plane when all of a sudden it just disappeared.Temperature had plummeted to a brutal -32 w/windchill factors of -43 very cold w/clear blue skies.The other odd annomoll,y was every plane visible in the sky left a vapour trail and as it flew further away it was still visible.This craft just disappeared.Also when it banked or tipped to the left it did not straighten out it stayed in that position and continued to move south,clearly showing it's disc shape before it vanished.
Color/Shape: Cigar shaped or that of a fusilage at first until it banked left than it was clearly a disc.
Height & Speed: A little lower than most commercial airliners maybe 15-20,000ft.speed of travel was a little slower than a plane until it vanished.
UFOINFO:- http://www.ufoinfo.com
Date: February 9, 2007 Time: 4:46 p.m.
Approach Direction: East Departure Direction: South Witness Direction: South
Description: I had just left my office in the Inkster Industrial park area heading south on Keewatin St.at Burrows Ave. when I noticed something metallic in the sky. At first I thought it was a plane when I noticed something strange about the shape. It looked like a plane's fusilage without wings or a tail, just a silver fusilage.I had pulled into the safeway parking lot to grab my camcorder,when I noticed it bank to the left and changed direction south.As it banked to the left it was evident that it was no longer cigar shaped but clearly disc shaped.It appeared to be heading south and moving slower than a plane when all of a sudden it just disappeared.Temperature had plummeted to a brutal -32 w/windchill factors of -43 very cold w/clear blue skies.The other odd annomoll,y was every plane visible in the sky left a vapour trail and as it flew further away it was still visible.This craft just disappeared.Also when it banked or tipped to the left it did not straighten out it stayed in that position and continued to move south,clearly showing it's disc shape before it vanished.
Color/Shape: Cigar shaped or that of a fusilage at first until it banked left than it was clearly a disc.
Height & Speed: A little lower than most commercial airliners maybe 15-20,000ft.speed of travel was a little slower than a plane until it vanished.
UFOINFO:- http://www.ufoinfo.com
Keefer Lake, British Columbia Tubular Shaped UFO (News Footage)
Posted: January 23, 2008
HBCC UFO Research Note: The message below is in regards to Keefer Lake, British Columbia sighting and footage taken of the object. CHBC television went out and interviewed the man. News clip below.
Hi Brian, Rob from Keefer Lake here again. I have not been on your site for well over a year so have been out of the “loop” so to speak. I notice that there has been some interest in our sighting here. I would like to correct a misconception that has popped up. That being the second sighting by the CHBC news crew.
During the interview an object appeared similar to my original sighting. This object though similar was not the same as the first. I also taped this sighting and examined it on my computer after the reporter had left and after I had contacted you. On examination the differences are obvious. The CHBC sighting that day was obviously an aircraft. What has not been seen by you or anyone else are the close up shots that I have extracted frame by frame of the first sighting.
I have shown these shots to anyone interested including my brother-in –law, who owns and operates an aircraft maintenance facility, and the overwhelming conclusions have been ones of “…what the hell is that?...”. If it is an aircraft, not one of these persons, including pilots and air traffic controllers have been able to identify what type of aircraft it could be.
What was not shown on the CHBC broadcast is:
1. The first objects upon close examination reveal anything but a known aircraft. The gap between the 2 pods is distinct and not wing shadow. Blue sky is visible between them. I have changed hues, background colours etc. and the results all show a space between these pods.
2. These pods have flat faces front and rear with no tail, wings rotor or any other configuration common to known aircraft.
3. There are distinctly globular black dots appearing and disappearing from front to back of these objects in a rhythmic pattern. On some frames it can be that these dots are cut in half as they pass from front to back through the gap. On some frames there is only one dot and on other frames there are as many as seven distinct dots.
4. There is an obvious corona surrounding the entire craft that is visible no matter how you adjust the controls.
5. These objects were too close to the ground for commercial aircraft, a fact that is obvious to anyone who has been to our camp.
I have been staying incognito on this subject for the last year but I can say that these are not the only sightings of strange craft in the sky and I am not the only one in this area who has seen UFO’s here previous or since.
I will send you a complete copy of the tape ( the original stays with me) if you are interested as my equipment to properly analyze this tape is insufficient. Sincerely.
Thank you to Bob for the update.
Below are 4 clips from the TV news.
Clip 1 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Keefer_lake1.mpg
Clip 2 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff2.mpg
Clip 3 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff3.mpg
Clip 4 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Nav_Canada5.mpg
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
HBCC UFO Research Note: The message below is in regards to Keefer Lake, British Columbia sighting and footage taken of the object. CHBC television went out and interviewed the man. News clip below.
Hi Brian, Rob from Keefer Lake here again. I have not been on your site for well over a year so have been out of the “loop” so to speak. I notice that there has been some interest in our sighting here. I would like to correct a misconception that has popped up. That being the second sighting by the CHBC news crew.
During the interview an object appeared similar to my original sighting. This object though similar was not the same as the first. I also taped this sighting and examined it on my computer after the reporter had left and after I had contacted you. On examination the differences are obvious. The CHBC sighting that day was obviously an aircraft. What has not been seen by you or anyone else are the close up shots that I have extracted frame by frame of the first sighting.
I have shown these shots to anyone interested including my brother-in –law, who owns and operates an aircraft maintenance facility, and the overwhelming conclusions have been ones of “…what the hell is that?...”. If it is an aircraft, not one of these persons, including pilots and air traffic controllers have been able to identify what type of aircraft it could be.
What was not shown on the CHBC broadcast is:
1. The first objects upon close examination reveal anything but a known aircraft. The gap between the 2 pods is distinct and not wing shadow. Blue sky is visible between them. I have changed hues, background colours etc. and the results all show a space between these pods.
2. These pods have flat faces front and rear with no tail, wings rotor or any other configuration common to known aircraft.
3. There are distinctly globular black dots appearing and disappearing from front to back of these objects in a rhythmic pattern. On some frames it can be that these dots are cut in half as they pass from front to back through the gap. On some frames there is only one dot and on other frames there are as many as seven distinct dots.
4. There is an obvious corona surrounding the entire craft that is visible no matter how you adjust the controls.
5. These objects were too close to the ground for commercial aircraft, a fact that is obvious to anyone who has been to our camp.
I have been staying incognito on this subject for the last year but I can say that these are not the only sightings of strange craft in the sky and I am not the only one in this area who has seen UFO’s here previous or since.
I will send you a complete copy of the tape ( the original stays with me) if you are interested as my equipment to properly analyze this tape is insufficient. Sincerely.
Thank you to Bob for the update.
Below are 4 clips from the TV news.
Clip 1 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Keefer_lake1.mpg
Clip 2 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff2.mpg
Clip 3 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Bob_Horkoff3.mpg
Clip 4 - http://hbccufo.org/videos/Nav_Canada5.mpg
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Markham, Ontario A Light Down The Valley (Ravine) Frightening Experience
Posted: January 23, 2008
HBCC UFO Research Note: I wanted to add a short note about this sighting as there were a number of reports that I have received from different folks over unusual sightings for the same date and around the same time in other areas in Ontario, main location for the UFO sightings was Scarborough, Ontario.
Date: August 4, 1977 Time: 11:45 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Markham, Ontario Canada. Number of witnesses: 5 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: White sphere.
Full Description of event/sighting: Brian, I was listening to the Rense show from last week and I realized that I had a sighting later the same night that Paul I believe his name was had the West Hill sighting. I lived in Markham due north of West Hill about 10 miles. I really did not see as much as I physically experienced. I and 4 friends were going home from the Roxy movie theatre after watching the 7:00 pm movie, and it had just become dark. I decided to cut through the ravine next to the main street Highway 48 going south toward Highway 7, also known as Wellington Street. As I was walking on the path I saw what looked like a motorcycle headlight except very bright down the ravine as I was making my way alone along the path. My friends were all walking the long way around as they were too freaked out to cut through the ravine at night. On the path there was a pair of posts, like the old cable guard rail posts from a highway guard rail with a chain across. I knew this was there and was very careful in the dark to find it and carefully step over.
About 10 feet past the chain is where I noticed the light down the valley (ravine). I remember looking at the light for about 2 seconds, and then I found myself on my face on the trail, as I got up there were leaves falling from the trees that I could make out in the darkness, I could just see them. The light was gone, I quickly made my way up to the highway and my friends were not there so I ran in the direction that they would have travelled and found them behind the beer store. They were a little shaken and when I finally got them to tell me what they had seen, they said a white meteor had come straight up the ravine just about tree top level. I asked them where it hit, they told me it didn't. It just kept going really fast.
I don't know if this in any way corroborates Paul's story but I never forgot Thursday the 4th August 1977.
Additional Information Below:
Cheers Brian, The answers to your questions are as follows.
Question 1:
You mentioned in your report that you saw the light in the ravine. Was the light actually in the ravine or sitting just above it ? I just wanted to be sure.
The light was diffuse it was not direct more of an indication through the trees. The light or whatever it was came over highway 7, now there is a stream in the bottom of the ravine which goes through a culvert under the highway. The reason that I mentioned this is because the elevation of the road was about 40 feet above the bottom of the ravine where the stream was.
I could make out the culvert and see light in it and through the trees the light was south and I would say was above the trees.
Question 2:
Also, roughly how far away were you from the light at it's closest point?
It went right over me, straight toward me and right over top too fast for me to look up before it was gone.
Question 3:
Was any type of sound detected?
No sound at all from the thing itself although I remember a whoosh and my first though was that it had been a helicopter but I thought instantly that there was no rotor or engine noise!
Question 4:
Or any lights on the object other than it being very bright?
I didn't see any although my friends just said that it just looked like a light ball and they heard a whoosh.
Question 5:
Something else I found of great interest, but not 100% sure as to what may or may not have happened. But you mentioned that you were looking at the light for approx: 2 seconds, and then I found yourself on your face on the trail. Now big question here, did you just trip, or fall down, and this is why you found yourself face down. Or did something else happened that may be related to the sighting event ?
I remember that I was careful that I did not trip over the chain across the trail (to stop cars coming in) as I knew it was there and was careful to locate it. I don't remember tripping and I do remember being really pissed off that I was face down and didn't know why. I went back the next day to see if there was anything on the trail that I could have tripped over.
Question 6:
I also was wondering if it was a windy night that day ? Reason why I ask is that you mentioned the leaves from the trees falling down around you. If you understand where I am going here, in other words I am wondering if there may have been interaction between you and the object.
No I remember that it was a warm night and that there was no wind to speak of not even a breeze it was a little eerie and maybe that's why my friends would not come for the short cut I think that they were a little freaked out. As far as interaction was concerned I am sure that it knocked me down but I don't remember anything else. The weird thing is that it must have displaced air because of the falling green leaves and the whoosh sound.
Regards.
Thank you to the witness for the very interesting report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
HBCC UFO Research Note: I wanted to add a short note about this sighting as there were a number of reports that I have received from different folks over unusual sightings for the same date and around the same time in other areas in Ontario, main location for the UFO sightings was Scarborough, Ontario.
Date: August 4, 1977 Time: 11:45 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Markham, Ontario Canada. Number of witnesses: 5 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: White sphere.
Full Description of event/sighting: Brian, I was listening to the Rense show from last week and I realized that I had a sighting later the same night that Paul I believe his name was had the West Hill sighting. I lived in Markham due north of West Hill about 10 miles. I really did not see as much as I physically experienced. I and 4 friends were going home from the Roxy movie theatre after watching the 7:00 pm movie, and it had just become dark. I decided to cut through the ravine next to the main street Highway 48 going south toward Highway 7, also known as Wellington Street. As I was walking on the path I saw what looked like a motorcycle headlight except very bright down the ravine as I was making my way alone along the path. My friends were all walking the long way around as they were too freaked out to cut through the ravine at night. On the path there was a pair of posts, like the old cable guard rail posts from a highway guard rail with a chain across. I knew this was there and was very careful in the dark to find it and carefully step over.
About 10 feet past the chain is where I noticed the light down the valley (ravine). I remember looking at the light for about 2 seconds, and then I found myself on my face on the trail, as I got up there were leaves falling from the trees that I could make out in the darkness, I could just see them. The light was gone, I quickly made my way up to the highway and my friends were not there so I ran in the direction that they would have travelled and found them behind the beer store. They were a little shaken and when I finally got them to tell me what they had seen, they said a white meteor had come straight up the ravine just about tree top level. I asked them where it hit, they told me it didn't. It just kept going really fast.
I don't know if this in any way corroborates Paul's story but I never forgot Thursday the 4th August 1977.
Additional Information Below:
Cheers Brian, The answers to your questions are as follows.
Question 1:
You mentioned in your report that you saw the light in the ravine. Was the light actually in the ravine or sitting just above it ? I just wanted to be sure.
The light was diffuse it was not direct more of an indication through the trees. The light or whatever it was came over highway 7, now there is a stream in the bottom of the ravine which goes through a culvert under the highway. The reason that I mentioned this is because the elevation of the road was about 40 feet above the bottom of the ravine where the stream was.
I could make out the culvert and see light in it and through the trees the light was south and I would say was above the trees.
Question 2:
Also, roughly how far away were you from the light at it's closest point?
It went right over me, straight toward me and right over top too fast for me to look up before it was gone.
Question 3:
Was any type of sound detected?
No sound at all from the thing itself although I remember a whoosh and my first though was that it had been a helicopter but I thought instantly that there was no rotor or engine noise!
Question 4:
Or any lights on the object other than it being very bright?
I didn't see any although my friends just said that it just looked like a light ball and they heard a whoosh.
Question 5:
Something else I found of great interest, but not 100% sure as to what may or may not have happened. But you mentioned that you were looking at the light for approx: 2 seconds, and then I found yourself on your face on the trail. Now big question here, did you just trip, or fall down, and this is why you found yourself face down. Or did something else happened that may be related to the sighting event ?
I remember that I was careful that I did not trip over the chain across the trail (to stop cars coming in) as I knew it was there and was careful to locate it. I don't remember tripping and I do remember being really pissed off that I was face down and didn't know why. I went back the next day to see if there was anything on the trail that I could have tripped over.
Question 6:
I also was wondering if it was a windy night that day ? Reason why I ask is that you mentioned the leaves from the trees falling down around you. If you understand where I am going here, in other words I am wondering if there may have been interaction between you and the object.
No I remember that it was a warm night and that there was no wind to speak of not even a breeze it was a little eerie and maybe that's why my friends would not come for the short cut I think that they were a little freaked out. As far as interaction was concerned I am sure that it knocked me down but I don't remember anything else. The weird thing is that it must have displaced air because of the falling green leaves and the whoosh sound.
Regards.
Thank you to the witness for the very interesting report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Kootneys In British Columbia Pulsing Colored Light
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 20, 2007 Time: 10:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Kootney's Number of witnesses: 3 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Looks like star that pulses coloured light.
Full Description of event/sighting: My children and I have been observing objects in the sky that looks like stars in the sky until closer observation when you see pulsing colored light. They can stay in the same place for hours, sometimes jumping left and right quickly. In Burnaby we observed them frequently. Sometimes they appear triangular when viewed through a telescope. When we just traveled to the Kootneys two days ago, we observed many of them in the sky along the highway to the Kootneys. It was as if they were traveling the highway out in front of us like a guide or something. Tonight, there has been one posted above the house we are staying in. I'm not sure what they are or what they are waiting for, but when we ran into the field back in Burnaby to get a video of them and we heard a melodic tone. It showed up on the video when we viewed it. You have to listen close but you can hear it. It was kind of like tone from the mother ship in the old movie " Close Encounters of a Third Kind"
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 20, 2007 Time: 10:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Kootney's Number of witnesses: 3 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Looks like star that pulses coloured light.
Full Description of event/sighting: My children and I have been observing objects in the sky that looks like stars in the sky until closer observation when you see pulsing colored light. They can stay in the same place for hours, sometimes jumping left and right quickly. In Burnaby we observed them frequently. Sometimes they appear triangular when viewed through a telescope. When we just traveled to the Kootneys two days ago, we observed many of them in the sky along the highway to the Kootneys. It was as if they were traveling the highway out in front of us like a guide or something. Tonight, there has been one posted above the house we are staying in. I'm not sure what they are or what they are waiting for, but when we ran into the field back in Burnaby to get a video of them and we heard a melodic tone. It showed up on the video when we viewed it. You have to listen close but you can hear it. It was kind of like tone from the mother ship in the old movie " Close Encounters of a Third Kind"
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
North West Of Toronto, Ontario Shiny Object Leaves Low Smoke Cloud (Photos)
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 21, 2007 Time: Approx: 6:05 p.m.
Hi Brian, How are you? My son call me from his cell this evening at around 6:05 pm from his car, He and his girlfriend saw two very shiny objects in the sky and it appeared that all of a sudden all this dark smoke developed and they didn't see the objects again.They were just around the corner So they grabbed me and my camera, This is all I got.It's the dark smoke you see in the middle of the sky.
We then turned around to go home and as we started to drive a little further I saw something flying very fast leaving a dark trail behind it. I'm sending 2 more pictures of that But you can't see the object it appeared to be flying way to fast, although it did leave a trail. The direction was in the NW sky and I am NW of Toronto. Thanks Again, Your the Best!
Additional Information:
The dark smoke near the tree on the left and the trail is in the centre near the top of the tree's. Hope you can get something out of this. I'm just glad my son and his girlfriend saw it, because he's a real skeptic and maybe just a little afraid. Though I think after hearing what they had to say makes me think he's finally getting it. I almost felt like they didn't think that I believed them!
I thought I should tell you that (name removed) (Son's girlfriend) said, 'It looked like something was on fire in the sky and then the smoke developed.' Plus, the smoke was in the sky for at least 10 min. before I noticed the fast object in the other two photo's.
Thank you to the witnesses for the very interesting report and photos.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 21, 2007 Time: Approx: 6:05 p.m.
Hi Brian, How are you? My son call me from his cell this evening at around 6:05 pm from his car, He and his girlfriend saw two very shiny objects in the sky and it appeared that all of a sudden all this dark smoke developed and they didn't see the objects again.They were just around the corner So they grabbed me and my camera, This is all I got.It's the dark smoke you see in the middle of the sky.
We then turned around to go home and as we started to drive a little further I saw something flying very fast leaving a dark trail behind it. I'm sending 2 more pictures of that But you can't see the object it appeared to be flying way to fast, although it did leave a trail. The direction was in the NW sky and I am NW of Toronto. Thanks Again, Your the Best!
Additional Information:
The dark smoke near the tree on the left and the trail is in the centre near the top of the tree's. Hope you can get something out of this. I'm just glad my son and his girlfriend saw it, because he's a real skeptic and maybe just a little afraid. Though I think after hearing what they had to say makes me think he's finally getting it. I almost felt like they didn't think that I believed them!
I thought I should tell you that (name removed) (Son's girlfriend) said, 'It looked like something was on fire in the sky and then the smoke developed.' Plus, the smoke was in the sky for at least 10 min. before I noticed the fast object in the other two photo's.
Thank you to the witnesses for the very interesting report and photos.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Cochrane, Alberta A Long Bright Shape Hanging In The Sky
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 21, 2007 Time: 6:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Rectangular.
Full Description of event/sighting: While driving west on Griffin Road in Cochrane I looked up at the clear blue sky and saw a long bright shape hanging in the sky. At first I thought it was a cloud reflecting the sun so I pulled over and watched it for a few minutes. It never moved and didn't dissipate like a small cloud would. I have no idea what it was and am curious if anyone else in the Calgary area saw this thing as well. Thanks.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 21, 2007 Time: 6:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Rectangular.
Full Description of event/sighting: While driving west on Griffin Road in Cochrane I looked up at the clear blue sky and saw a long bright shape hanging in the sky. At first I thought it was a cloud reflecting the sun so I pulled over and watched it for a few minutes. It never moved and didn't dissipate like a small cloud would. I have no idea what it was and am curious if anyone else in the Calgary area saw this thing as well. Thanks.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Whitby, Ontario Three Oval Shaped UFOs
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 16, 2007 Time: 11:40 a.m.
Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 3 Shape of objects: Oval
Full Description of event/sighting: I was on the phone when I looking up to the blue sky and I noticed three oval shaped UFOs traveling in formation heading west. Two of the UFOs split up and traveled south and the other one traveled west. Within five to seven seconds they disappeared. They were traveling faster than any jets I've seen at any show. They were approximately 5000 feet high, and approximately the size of a school bus. I paused for 5 to 7 seconds and apologized to my customer.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 16, 2007 Time: 11:40 a.m.
Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 3 Shape of objects: Oval
Full Description of event/sighting: I was on the phone when I looking up to the blue sky and I noticed three oval shaped UFOs traveling in formation heading west. Two of the UFOs split up and traveled south and the other one traveled west. Within five to seven seconds they disappeared. They were traveling faster than any jets I've seen at any show. They were approximately 5000 feet high, and approximately the size of a school bus. I paused for 5 to 7 seconds and apologized to my customer.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Churchill, Manitoba Object Travels Around Erratically Then Shot Straight Up
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: February 7, 2007 Time: 4:25 p.m.
Location of Sighting: North West sky Number of witnesses: 5 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Disc/roundish.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was leaving work, which is the local airport. I saw something that I assumed to be a aircraft on final approach break through the clouds and 3 white lights were end to end on it. Since I was expecting an aircraft to land at 17:00 I assumed it to be a little early and wasn't surprised when it was headed in my general direction because the airport runway was behind me. I kept driving into town and finally noticed this light to the left of me, it was very bright white so I thought maybe it's a plane or a star. But it almost seemed to be following alongside me, it was on my left and appeared to be heading up the river. I was still wondering out loud what the hell the plane was doing and where it was going. As I got closer to town I slowed down and watched it, that is when I noticed the different color lights. I felt sick suddenly realizing what I could be seeing, I drove to my parents house to get them.
My dad was home so he and I drove down towards the river, we hadn't even started out drive when he spotted it between all the houses. He was so excited telling me to hurry, we arrived at the river and it was still there. It's colors were rapidly changing from red to blue to orange and bright white. It looked like the light would slowly die out then suddenly it would get really large and bright. We went to 2 different houses at the river and everyone watched it, it traveled in irregular patterns, it also looked like it was taking pictures because of a bright flash that also came from it. (that happened twice)
Everyone who seen this in the dusk sky seen it appear again 3 days later and this time it flew around erratically then shot straight up into the sky. That's a lie, this time my mom seen it.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 7, 2007 Time: 4:25 p.m.
Location of Sighting: North West sky Number of witnesses: 5 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Disc/roundish.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was leaving work, which is the local airport. I saw something that I assumed to be a aircraft on final approach break through the clouds and 3 white lights were end to end on it. Since I was expecting an aircraft to land at 17:00 I assumed it to be a little early and wasn't surprised when it was headed in my general direction because the airport runway was behind me. I kept driving into town and finally noticed this light to the left of me, it was very bright white so I thought maybe it's a plane or a star. But it almost seemed to be following alongside me, it was on my left and appeared to be heading up the river. I was still wondering out loud what the hell the plane was doing and where it was going. As I got closer to town I slowed down and watched it, that is when I noticed the different color lights. I felt sick suddenly realizing what I could be seeing, I drove to my parents house to get them.
My dad was home so he and I drove down towards the river, we hadn't even started out drive when he spotted it between all the houses. He was so excited telling me to hurry, we arrived at the river and it was still there. It's colors were rapidly changing from red to blue to orange and bright white. It looked like the light would slowly die out then suddenly it would get really large and bright. We went to 2 different houses at the river and everyone watched it, it traveled in irregular patterns, it also looked like it was taking pictures because of a bright flash that also came from it. (that happened twice)
Everyone who seen this in the dusk sky seen it appear again 3 days later and this time it flew around erratically then shot straight up into the sky. That's a lie, this time my mom seen it.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Stratford, Ontario A Glowing UFO Moving Erratically
Posted: January 23, 2008
Date: Early February, 2007. Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Near centre of city of Stratford. Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Spherical.
Full Description of event/sighting: While sitting in a parked car saw very bright glowing orb moving erratically for three minutes or more. Appeared to move short distances east and west, then gain and lose elevation.
Object perhaps 10 ft across from my ability to determine given distance from me. I could see detail of the outline/shape of the object fairly clearly. It was brighter than high beams on a car. It looked to be the size of a large pea while held at arm's length. It was smooth and spherical. It did not appear to be too distant from me, as the cloud cover was very low that day- perhaps 700ft. Moved in and out of very low cloud cover. Glow was unvarying and white. Moved from north central sky toward north east sky at end. There is a major power line directly under the area. Speed varied from hovering to a very fast exit.
Had time to get out of car and look for husband to verify sighting but could not attract his attention in a local store, unfortunately. Would describe self as university educated skeptic...not my idea to report this sighting because it's a little out of my comfort zone of "normal". Unable to explain object given my experience.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
Radio show host for the Vike Report, eyewitness relating their experiences. *The Vike Report Eyewitness UFO Radio Show*
Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do. *Vike Report Radio Show Blog*
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: Early February, 2007. Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Near centre of city of Stratford. Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Spherical.
Full Description of event/sighting: While sitting in a parked car saw very bright glowing orb moving erratically for three minutes or more. Appeared to move short distances east and west, then gain and lose elevation.
Object perhaps 10 ft across from my ability to determine given distance from me. I could see detail of the outline/shape of the object fairly clearly. It was brighter than high beams on a car. It looked to be the size of a large pea while held at arm's length. It was smooth and spherical. It did not appear to be too distant from me, as the cloud cover was very low that day- perhaps 700ft. Moved in and out of very low cloud cover. Glow was unvarying and white. Moved from north central sky toward north east sky at end. There is a major power line directly under the area. Speed varied from hovering to a very fast exit.
Had time to get out of car and look for husband to verify sighting but could not attract his attention in a local store, unfortunately. Would describe self as university educated skeptic...not my idea to report this sighting because it's a little out of my comfort zone of "normal". Unable to explain object given my experience.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
Radio show host for the Vike Report, eyewitness relating their experiences. *The Vike Report Eyewitness UFO Radio Show*
Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do. *Vike Report Radio Show Blog*
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Monday, January 21, 2008
British Columbia Scoop Mark And Pea Sized Object Removed
Posted: January 21, 2008
Hello Brian, Mother - When I was around 12 years old, I woke up one morning with what people call a "scoop mark". It's only on my left leg and I have no idea how it got there. It is a perfect circle which dips down a bit, and is about the size of a large pea.
I will add also that there is a lot to this story and we hope one day soon we will receive more details as to what has taken place over the years.
About 11 months ago, my 18 year old son came to visit me for a few days from (deleted by HBCC UFO). A couple of days into the visit, he woke up in the morning and went to have his morning shower. As he was walking into the bathroom (wearing only shorts), I noticed to my horror that he had a perfect 4"x4"x4" triangular mark on his back, and inside this triangle were all these perfectly round red marks about the size of a pencil eraser. He said that he felt no pain, but that it was kind of itchy-burning feeling.
We went to the walk in clinic to have a doctor look at it, but the doctor did not have any idea what this could be, or what may have caused it. She had never seen anything like it before. It disappeared about 4 days later.
Another strange cir*****stance that goes along with this story is the fact that the same morning of this event, the tree outside the bedroom window where my son had slept, (the leaves were yellow like they had been slightly burnt or something).
This is also the same son at 9 years old who woke up with a hole in his spine that was a bit smaller than a dime. It took us about 3 months of antibiotics to get rid of the infection. This hole was so deep, that you could actually see the bone. The doctor had no explanation for this injury. All my son remembers was being woken up by a loud, scary, "BEEP-BEEP" sounds.
Mother - A couple of weeks ago I was on the phone talking to a friend, my daughter expressed a pain that she was suddenly feeling in her nose area. I watched in disbelief as a "white scoop mark" was quickly appearing there, right before my eyes. I could not believe what was happening. It disappeared a couple of days later. Since then she has had at least 6 nose bleeds. We no longer bother to have a doctor examine us when things happen, since they never seem to have any answers for us anyway, or maybe it is that they are afraid of what these injuries and events might implicate, who knows? (HBCC UFO Note: I do have the picture of the young lady, and the white mark which appeared on her nose. You cannot miss it. I have decided not to post this picture as it gives the identify of the young lady).
These are just a few of the medical anomalies that have happened to the children and I over the last few years. There is so much more, but I think I have taken up enough of your time for now. Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it. In writing this letter, I am hoping that maybe you will have some answers for us, or that at least we may find out that we are not alone with all this. That maybe others out there are experiencing the same type of things. I would really appreciate some feed back from you, if you have the time.
Take care of you, and I look forward to speak with you again.
Sincerely, (name deleted by HBCC UFO).
HBCC UFO Note: I would always recommend that if anyone shows these types of problems on their bodies, or any other for that matter. Please do seek medical advise. It is for your own safely and let us hope some answers can or will be found.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Hello Brian, Mother - When I was around 12 years old, I woke up one morning with what people call a "scoop mark". It's only on my left leg and I have no idea how it got there. It is a perfect circle which dips down a bit, and is about the size of a large pea.
I will add also that there is a lot to this story and we hope one day soon we will receive more details as to what has taken place over the years.
About 11 months ago, my 18 year old son came to visit me for a few days from (deleted by HBCC UFO). A couple of days into the visit, he woke up in the morning and went to have his morning shower. As he was walking into the bathroom (wearing only shorts), I noticed to my horror that he had a perfect 4"x4"x4" triangular mark on his back, and inside this triangle were all these perfectly round red marks about the size of a pencil eraser. He said that he felt no pain, but that it was kind of itchy-burning feeling.
We went to the walk in clinic to have a doctor look at it, but the doctor did not have any idea what this could be, or what may have caused it. She had never seen anything like it before. It disappeared about 4 days later.
Another strange cir*****stance that goes along with this story is the fact that the same morning of this event, the tree outside the bedroom window where my son had slept, (the leaves were yellow like they had been slightly burnt or something).
This is also the same son at 9 years old who woke up with a hole in his spine that was a bit smaller than a dime. It took us about 3 months of antibiotics to get rid of the infection. This hole was so deep, that you could actually see the bone. The doctor had no explanation for this injury. All my son remembers was being woken up by a loud, scary, "BEEP-BEEP" sounds.
Mother - A couple of weeks ago I was on the phone talking to a friend, my daughter expressed a pain that she was suddenly feeling in her nose area. I watched in disbelief as a "white scoop mark" was quickly appearing there, right before my eyes. I could not believe what was happening. It disappeared a couple of days later. Since then she has had at least 6 nose bleeds. We no longer bother to have a doctor examine us when things happen, since they never seem to have any answers for us anyway, or maybe it is that they are afraid of what these injuries and events might implicate, who knows? (HBCC UFO Note: I do have the picture of the young lady, and the white mark which appeared on her nose. You cannot miss it. I have decided not to post this picture as it gives the identify of the young lady).
These are just a few of the medical anomalies that have happened to the children and I over the last few years. There is so much more, but I think I have taken up enough of your time for now. Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it. In writing this letter, I am hoping that maybe you will have some answers for us, or that at least we may find out that we are not alone with all this. That maybe others out there are experiencing the same type of things. I would really appreciate some feed back from you, if you have the time.
Take care of you, and I look forward to speak with you again.
Sincerely, (name deleted by HBCC UFO).
HBCC UFO Note: I would always recommend that if anyone shows these types of problems on their bodies, or any other for that matter. Please do seek medical advise. It is for your own safely and let us hope some answers can or will be found.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
The Sky's The Limit
Posted: January 21, 2008
By JENNIFER LANG
TERRACE’S reputation as B.C.’s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region. Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
“You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas,” says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says. The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they’re more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city’s official symbol.
Vike says he’s often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region’s tourist attractions and accommodations.
“Many have never been up this way,” Vike says. “So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have.”
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
“As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have.”
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way. “Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year’s total count for sightings,” he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that’s home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn’t the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world’s first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
“All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul,” reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel’s tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of “UFO tourists”.
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the “Extraterrestrial Highway” to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too. Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That’s the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region’s latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada’s Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A do*****entary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
“All of this is great for tourism,” he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen. The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Vike’s got a website: http://www.hbccufo.org
Terrace Standard Newspaper http://www.terracestandard.com/
By JENNIFER LANG
TERRACE’S reputation as B.C.’s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region. Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
“You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas,” says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says. The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they’re more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city’s official symbol.
Vike says he’s often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region’s tourist attractions and accommodations.
“Many have never been up this way,” Vike says. “So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have.”
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
“As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have.”
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way. “Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year’s total count for sightings,” he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that’s home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn’t the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world’s first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
“All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul,” reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel’s tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of “UFO tourists”.
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the “Extraterrestrial Highway” to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too. Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That’s the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region’s latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada’s Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A do*****entary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
“All of this is great for tourism,” he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen. The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Vike’s got a website: http://www.hbccufo.org
Terrace Standard Newspaper http://www.terracestandard.com/
Victoria, B.C. A Florescent Tube Shaped Object
Posted: January 21, 2008
Date: August (?) 2000 Time: approx: 3:00 a.m.
A witness reported looking out his window and seeing an unusual object at approx: 3:00 a.m. near the Oak Bay Junction, where Oak Bay Avenue meets Fort Street and Pandora Street. The fellow said there is a hill, which is at the highest point in the city on Belmont Avenue. On the hill there is a large condo complex which is 12 to 14 stories in height. On top of the complex there are microwave and cell phone towers. From the witnesses position, looking toward the condo complex he saw a strange object flying close to the top of the complex. (He said if people would have been looking out there windows they would have had this object pass right in front of their faces). He described the object as looking like an ordinary florescent tube, square on both ends, maybe slightly rounded (ends) and a pale yellow orange glow in color.
It was traveling in a flat trajectory and just "zipped" by, traveling at an incredible rate of speed right at the top of the building. The witness noted the same object passed by the building twice within ten minutes in exactly the same spot. At this point he said his heart was thumping rather hard due to what he just saw. Each time the object was noticed the sighting lasted maybe for about 2 seconds. He figured it was approx: the length of a city bus.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: August (?) 2000 Time: approx: 3:00 a.m.
A witness reported looking out his window and seeing an unusual object at approx: 3:00 a.m. near the Oak Bay Junction, where Oak Bay Avenue meets Fort Street and Pandora Street. The fellow said there is a hill, which is at the highest point in the city on Belmont Avenue. On the hill there is a large condo complex which is 12 to 14 stories in height. On top of the complex there are microwave and cell phone towers. From the witnesses position, looking toward the condo complex he saw a strange object flying close to the top of the complex. (He said if people would have been looking out there windows they would have had this object pass right in front of their faces). He described the object as looking like an ordinary florescent tube, square on both ends, maybe slightly rounded (ends) and a pale yellow orange glow in color.
It was traveling in a flat trajectory and just "zipped" by, traveling at an incredible rate of speed right at the top of the building. The witness noted the same object passed by the building twice within ten minutes in exactly the same spot. At this point he said his heart was thumping rather hard due to what he just saw. Each time the object was noticed the sighting lasted maybe for about 2 seconds. He figured it was approx: the length of a city bus.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Brandon, Manitoba A Deep Red Oval Shaped Object
Posted: January 21, 2008
Around 1947
I'm not sure of the year, but it was about 1947, after dark. I'm not sure whether it was Spring or Fall. A group of five of us boys from the Indian Residential School, which was about three miles northwest of Brandon, Manitoba. We were playing out in the yard. I was twelve years old in 1947, and the other boys were around that age.
One of the boys hollered,"What's that??" We all stopped and looked in the direction he was pointing. We saw a wonderful sight. Descending slowly from the starry sky was an oval-shaped object that was deep red, and which looked as if it were red-hot metal. While it was descending at about a 60 degree angle, we all began to run in the direction that it was landing. We were struck by its complete silence. Then one of the boys said, "Oh, it must be the Air Force experimenting with some type of balloon." So, we decided that we had better not go up there. It definitely came down and landed beyond the trees. We then went on with our silly game, not realizing that we were possibly witnessing the landing of a craft from another world.
I made a rough graphic to illustrate how that object looked. See the attachment. I hope you can open it.
My many thanks to this witness for his report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Around 1947
I'm not sure of the year, but it was about 1947, after dark. I'm not sure whether it was Spring or Fall. A group of five of us boys from the Indian Residential School, which was about three miles northwest of Brandon, Manitoba. We were playing out in the yard. I was twelve years old in 1947, and the other boys were around that age.
One of the boys hollered,"What's that??" We all stopped and looked in the direction he was pointing. We saw a wonderful sight. Descending slowly from the starry sky was an oval-shaped object that was deep red, and which looked as if it were red-hot metal. While it was descending at about a 60 degree angle, we all began to run in the direction that it was landing. We were struck by its complete silence. Then one of the boys said, "Oh, it must be the Air Force experimenting with some type of balloon." So, we decided that we had better not go up there. It definitely came down and landed beyond the trees. We then went on with our silly game, not realizing that we were possibly witnessing the landing of a craft from another world.
I made a rough graphic to illustrate how that object looked. See the attachment. I hope you can open it.
My many thanks to this witness for his report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
North Vancouver - Strange Objects
Posted: January 21, 2008
I was looking in a drawer and found a couple of photo's of the Seymour, Grouse Mountain area. In the one photo I noticed what appeared to be metallic disk shaped object at about 8,000 feet over Indian Arm. I scanned it into my computer but to my surprise I could hardly even see the object in the photo, instead there is a much larger triangular shaped object just below and to the left of the object I was looking for, there are also several other objects including something that looks like a cross above and a little to the left of the triangular thing. If you look closely you can just make out the shadowy outline of the object I can see in the photo.
Its just above and to the right of the triangular object. I then scanned in the second photo and found the same triangular object over closer to Seymour Mountain the photos were apparently taken back in January 2003 and from the lighting I would say one was taken early in the morning and the second in the afternoon. I thought maybe I had dirt on the glass of my scanner and that was the object in question but after cleaning the glass and wiping off the photos the object is still there, also seem to have picked up a couple of what looks like small hairs. I looked at the photos through a magnifying glass but cannot see the objects. Just the original one that caught my attention in the first place. Funny that the scanner does not pick it up as it is easily seen with the eye.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
I was looking in a drawer and found a couple of photo's of the Seymour, Grouse Mountain area. In the one photo I noticed what appeared to be metallic disk shaped object at about 8,000 feet over Indian Arm. I scanned it into my computer but to my surprise I could hardly even see the object in the photo, instead there is a much larger triangular shaped object just below and to the left of the object I was looking for, there are also several other objects including something that looks like a cross above and a little to the left of the triangular thing. If you look closely you can just make out the shadowy outline of the object I can see in the photo.
Its just above and to the right of the triangular object. I then scanned in the second photo and found the same triangular object over closer to Seymour Mountain the photos were apparently taken back in January 2003 and from the lighting I would say one was taken early in the morning and the second in the afternoon. I thought maybe I had dirt on the glass of my scanner and that was the object in question but after cleaning the glass and wiping off the photos the object is still there, also seem to have picked up a couple of what looks like small hairs. I looked at the photos through a magnifying glass but cannot see the objects. Just the original one that caught my attention in the first place. Funny that the scanner does not pick it up as it is easily seen with the eye.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Fort St. James, British Columbia A White Colored Object
Posted: January 21, 2008
Date: May 23, 2002 Time: 1:04 a.m. "Possible meteor"
Witness contacted me after he watched a white in color object fall out of the sky on a slight angle. The fellow said the object disappeared before it passed behind a mountain in the far distance. Thank you to the folks who made the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: May 23, 2002 Time: 1:04 a.m. "Possible meteor"
Witness contacted me after he watched a white in color object fall out of the sky on a slight angle. The fellow said the object disappeared before it passed behind a mountain in the far distance. Thank you to the folks who made the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Fraser Lake, B.C. Two White Colored Round Balls Of Light
Posted: January 21, 2008
Date: June 7, 2002 Time: 11:25
Witnesses (3 young teens) reported to me seeing two white colored round balls of light streaking low over the lake (Fraser Lake). The sighting lasted approx: 6 seconds from when they caught sight of the objects. I asked how high the objects were off the lake, the teens said "maybe" 200 feet". As the object moved from one end of the lake to the other, they said it looked as if the lights were rotating over one another. In other words circling each other while in flight. The object were moving from the east to the west.
Thank you to the folks who made the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: June 7, 2002 Time: 11:25
Witnesses (3 young teens) reported to me seeing two white colored round balls of light streaking low over the lake (Fraser Lake). The sighting lasted approx: 6 seconds from when they caught sight of the objects. I asked how high the objects were off the lake, the teens said "maybe" 200 feet". As the object moved from one end of the lake to the other, they said it looked as if the lights were rotating over one another. In other words circling each other while in flight. The object were moving from the east to the west.
Thank you to the folks who made the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Jack Pine, Terrace, B.C. Bright White Light With A Halo Around It
Posted: January 21, 2008
Date: March 4, 2002 Time: approx: 10:00 p.m.
This witness telephoned me to report what her, and her husband had witnessed after reading an article in the Terrace newspaper about UFO sightings around the north. She tells me that they had a pretty weird sighting in the area of Jack Pine which is a area just 20 minutes outside of Terrace, B.C. She also felt that this was very strange as her in-laws were coming over to their home early the next morning, but her husbands father likes to stop at Tim Horton's for a coffee. When the father arrived at the witnesses home, he told them that he was talking to a fellow in Tim Horton's who had seen a "UFO" the night before and this lady who reported to me had not told the father that they also to had seen a UFO.
She went on to explain that both her and her husband just looked at each other wondering what it could be as they knew what they were watching did not have a rational explanation. Seeing her husband is a professional and works in the scientific field they were both at a loss, and said what else could it be other than a UFO ?
The sighting lasted approx: 20 minutes, and it was a very bright white light with a halo around it. She told me the light moved quite a bit from side to side but always seemed to come back to a center point and stay stationary before continuing to repeat itself. After the approx: 20 minutes time was up it disappeared.
The husband said to her that it could not have been a plane as they don't do things like this. (as above). I asked the witness what direction the light departed to, she said they actually did not see it leave, but said the light just went out. I also asked if she would be able to give some idea of how big this would have been, she said at arms length the light would have been about the size of a pea or maybe a bit smaller.
The light was high up in the sky she said.
Investigators Note: This is where my ears perked up as she mentioned the crop circles in Vanderhoof, British Columbia and a close friend and biologist (fisheries technician) and her friend, another witness were working on a salmon enhancement project and had seen a large bright object hovering over the area where the crop circles were discover back in September, 2001. (the night before the circles were formed, this information was a total surprise to me). It wasn't until two weeks later when the fisheries technician heard about the crop circles she put two and two together thinking if what they saw had anything to do with the crop circles. I was told the fisheries technician would wake up every four hours to check the salmon traps to see if they had caught any fish. So the technician and her friend had spotted the object at approx: 4:00 a.m. and said it was so very bright and moving so strangely.
My phone number has been passed along to the fisheries technician so she can fill me in with the details of her sighting in Vanderhoof, B.C.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: March 4, 2002 Time: approx: 10:00 p.m.
This witness telephoned me to report what her, and her husband had witnessed after reading an article in the Terrace newspaper about UFO sightings around the north. She tells me that they had a pretty weird sighting in the area of Jack Pine which is a area just 20 minutes outside of Terrace, B.C. She also felt that this was very strange as her in-laws were coming over to their home early the next morning, but her husbands father likes to stop at Tim Horton's for a coffee. When the father arrived at the witnesses home, he told them that he was talking to a fellow in Tim Horton's who had seen a "UFO" the night before and this lady who reported to me had not told the father that they also to had seen a UFO.
She went on to explain that both her and her husband just looked at each other wondering what it could be as they knew what they were watching did not have a rational explanation. Seeing her husband is a professional and works in the scientific field they were both at a loss, and said what else could it be other than a UFO ?
The sighting lasted approx: 20 minutes, and it was a very bright white light with a halo around it. She told me the light moved quite a bit from side to side but always seemed to come back to a center point and stay stationary before continuing to repeat itself. After the approx: 20 minutes time was up it disappeared.
The husband said to her that it could not have been a plane as they don't do things like this. (as above). I asked the witness what direction the light departed to, she said they actually did not see it leave, but said the light just went out. I also asked if she would be able to give some idea of how big this would have been, she said at arms length the light would have been about the size of a pea or maybe a bit smaller.
The light was high up in the sky she said.
Investigators Note: This is where my ears perked up as she mentioned the crop circles in Vanderhoof, British Columbia and a close friend and biologist (fisheries technician) and her friend, another witness were working on a salmon enhancement project and had seen a large bright object hovering over the area where the crop circles were discover back in September, 2001. (the night before the circles were formed, this information was a total surprise to me). It wasn't until two weeks later when the fisheries technician heard about the crop circles she put two and two together thinking if what they saw had anything to do with the crop circles. I was told the fisheries technician would wake up every four hours to check the salmon traps to see if they had caught any fish. So the technician and her friend had spotted the object at approx: 4:00 a.m. and said it was so very bright and moving so strangely.
My phone number has been passed along to the fisheries technician so she can fill me in with the details of her sighting in Vanderhoof, B.C.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
UFO Sighting In Telkwa & Houston, B.C.
Posted: January 21, 2008
by Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News Smithers, B.C. Wednesday, August 7, 2002 www.interior-news.com
By Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News
On July 29, winding down from a day on his Telkwa farm, Gordon Stewart settled into his chair facing two bay windows, overlooking the valley for a late-night movie.
At 10:45 p.m., a bright light flashed by his field of vision, raising him from his chair, astonished at the peculiarity and speed of the sight.After walking onto the front porch for a clearer view, only silence filled the valley sky smudged with light cloud cover. He called the RCMP.
There was no air force activity in the area. he woke his wife Joanna, who had already turned in for the night without hearing or seeing anything. On sharing his description of the round, white light with a yellowish hue, he learned his wife had seen the same light in the same location a couple of months earlier.
"I didn't want to tell him because he'd think I was crazy," Joanne recounted. Earlier that evening at 10.20 p.m. in Houston, a Canfor employee stepped from a forklift to examine a phosphorescent like white ball of light with yellow undertones, which appeared to hover, before slowly crawling across the sky line. The worker called out to two fellow co-workers who caught sight of the glowing light, which grew a tail as it gained momentum.
The phenomenon gained speed towards Tweedsmuir Park and shot out of view over the horizon. "I called them over because I wanted proof that I saw something and that I wasn't crazy," the Canfor employee explained. Despite having two witnesses, the Canfor employee wished to remain anonymous. Despite his wife having seen the same phenomenon's, Stewart was relieved a similar sighting was reported the same day.
Stewart caught the tail end of a movie when he was startled from his chair by an unidentifiable round light streaking across the valley. Combined with his house being stationed at 3,000 feet - Smithers sits at approximately 1,750 feet - and large bay windows, Stewart has an ideal birds eye view of air traffic.
Crazy and UFO are often terms that go hand in hand when trying to determine an experience that appears to be out of this world.
Already this year, over 70 unidentifiable sightings have been reported in northern B.C. Only two days before the Telkwa/Houston sighting, an erratically moving, bright light was spotted in Prince George. Sightings in Prince Rupert and Port Simpson were reported the same day of Stewart's experience. The two days that followed it reports from Terrace were filed on a glowing, cigar-shaped craft and four multiple sightings of an unidentifiable light.
"There is so much going on here it's nuts", Houston B.C. Canada UFO researcher Brian Vike remarked. Vike suspects action in space is growing with the number of hits he receives on his UFO website. "Recently, I have been getting numerous hits," he said, "Everything from the National Defense Department to Federal Aviation". He also noted that open information transitions between himself and the National Department of Defense has since clammed up with the publishing of the recent sighting in Telkwa - where three women attested to seeing an unidentified object with bright lights.
"No one wants to say anything and I am kind of wondering why", He questioned. "Is the military running a project we are not aware of? Something has happened I just don't know what ... yet". Many of these speculated extraterrestrial occurrences have been explained away as meteorites, flying exercises, space debris and the result of power towers.
A recent space ship sighting in Smithers turned out to be the planets Jupiter and Venus. Stewart dismisses many of these suspicions in his case. He began by explaining that the object flew in a flat line unlike meteorite or space debris's falling arc pattern. Planes might be a credible explanation, but because no sound was detected and the size of the light - the size of a pick up truck from the distance he sat at - flew so low, a plane wasn't a logical solution in Stewart's mind.
According to Central Mountain Air, there were no late night flights except for a training run July 29. Northern Thunderbird training was up between 10:07 - 11:04, however, a Central Mountain Air spokesperson saw no connection between the occurrences. She speculated that the tiny Cessna 185 would not emit a bright light of that magnitude and its engines would be heard at a close proximity.
Although a comet spotted the same evening would solve Stewart's mystery, its glowing green light, arc-shaped flight and Hudson Bay Mountain location did not pair up with what he saw - leaving Stewart questioning, "What the heck was it?" For Stewart, the speed of the light was the most notable. "If you had blinked, you would have missed it, it was that fast," he said. He assessed the light reached faster than the speed of light at over 650 miles per hour. Stewart is well acquainted to gauging speed, he assessed, after driving dragsters that reached up to 200 miles per hour. As to whether he believes in another life force traveling through the universe, Stewart has always believed since reading space comic books as a kid, that people on earth weren't the only ones out here. "There's too much on earth not to disbelieve," he argued, noting other phenomenon's such as the Pyramids. "I think there was someone before us."
Despite Stewart's open mind towards other life forms, he talked himself through other possible explanations, but came to the same conclusion: "I knew I saw something out of the ordinary".
Although highly skeptical, the Canfor employee agreed his sighting was something more than an every day occurrence. "In my mind it looked like a meteorite," he comforted himself, but wavered as he turned the 20 second experience over in his mind. "But, it was like no meteorite I've ever seen. I've seen meteorite showers before, but they never looked anything like this. I really don't know what it was."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
by Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News Smithers, B.C. Wednesday, August 7, 2002 www.interior-news.com
By Nicole Fitzgerald The Interior News
On July 29, winding down from a day on his Telkwa farm, Gordon Stewart settled into his chair facing two bay windows, overlooking the valley for a late-night movie.
At 10:45 p.m., a bright light flashed by his field of vision, raising him from his chair, astonished at the peculiarity and speed of the sight.After walking onto the front porch for a clearer view, only silence filled the valley sky smudged with light cloud cover. He called the RCMP.
There was no air force activity in the area. he woke his wife Joanna, who had already turned in for the night without hearing or seeing anything. On sharing his description of the round, white light with a yellowish hue, he learned his wife had seen the same light in the same location a couple of months earlier.
"I didn't want to tell him because he'd think I was crazy," Joanne recounted. Earlier that evening at 10.20 p.m. in Houston, a Canfor employee stepped from a forklift to examine a phosphorescent like white ball of light with yellow undertones, which appeared to hover, before slowly crawling across the sky line. The worker called out to two fellow co-workers who caught sight of the glowing light, which grew a tail as it gained momentum.
The phenomenon gained speed towards Tweedsmuir Park and shot out of view over the horizon. "I called them over because I wanted proof that I saw something and that I wasn't crazy," the Canfor employee explained. Despite having two witnesses, the Canfor employee wished to remain anonymous. Despite his wife having seen the same phenomenon's, Stewart was relieved a similar sighting was reported the same day.
Stewart caught the tail end of a movie when he was startled from his chair by an unidentifiable round light streaking across the valley. Combined with his house being stationed at 3,000 feet - Smithers sits at approximately 1,750 feet - and large bay windows, Stewart has an ideal birds eye view of air traffic.
Crazy and UFO are often terms that go hand in hand when trying to determine an experience that appears to be out of this world.
Already this year, over 70 unidentifiable sightings have been reported in northern B.C. Only two days before the Telkwa/Houston sighting, an erratically moving, bright light was spotted in Prince George. Sightings in Prince Rupert and Port Simpson were reported the same day of Stewart's experience. The two days that followed it reports from Terrace were filed on a glowing, cigar-shaped craft and four multiple sightings of an unidentifiable light.
"There is so much going on here it's nuts", Houston B.C. Canada UFO researcher Brian Vike remarked. Vike suspects action in space is growing with the number of hits he receives on his UFO website. "Recently, I have been getting numerous hits," he said, "Everything from the National Defense Department to Federal Aviation". He also noted that open information transitions between himself and the National Department of Defense has since clammed up with the publishing of the recent sighting in Telkwa - where three women attested to seeing an unidentified object with bright lights.
"No one wants to say anything and I am kind of wondering why", He questioned. "Is the military running a project we are not aware of? Something has happened I just don't know what ... yet". Many of these speculated extraterrestrial occurrences have been explained away as meteorites, flying exercises, space debris and the result of power towers.
A recent space ship sighting in Smithers turned out to be the planets Jupiter and Venus. Stewart dismisses many of these suspicions in his case. He began by explaining that the object flew in a flat line unlike meteorite or space debris's falling arc pattern. Planes might be a credible explanation, but because no sound was detected and the size of the light - the size of a pick up truck from the distance he sat at - flew so low, a plane wasn't a logical solution in Stewart's mind.
According to Central Mountain Air, there were no late night flights except for a training run July 29. Northern Thunderbird training was up between 10:07 - 11:04, however, a Central Mountain Air spokesperson saw no connection between the occurrences. She speculated that the tiny Cessna 185 would not emit a bright light of that magnitude and its engines would be heard at a close proximity.
Although a comet spotted the same evening would solve Stewart's mystery, its glowing green light, arc-shaped flight and Hudson Bay Mountain location did not pair up with what he saw - leaving Stewart questioning, "What the heck was it?" For Stewart, the speed of the light was the most notable. "If you had blinked, you would have missed it, it was that fast," he said. He assessed the light reached faster than the speed of light at over 650 miles per hour. Stewart is well acquainted to gauging speed, he assessed, after driving dragsters that reached up to 200 miles per hour. As to whether he believes in another life force traveling through the universe, Stewart has always believed since reading space comic books as a kid, that people on earth weren't the only ones out here. "There's too much on earth not to disbelieve," he argued, noting other phenomenon's such as the Pyramids. "I think there was someone before us."
Despite Stewart's open mind towards other life forms, he talked himself through other possible explanations, but came to the same conclusion: "I knew I saw something out of the ordinary".
Although highly skeptical, the Canfor employee agreed his sighting was something more than an every day occurrence. "In my mind it looked like a meteorite," he comforted himself, but wavered as he turned the 20 second experience over in his mind. "But, it was like no meteorite I've ever seen. I've seen meteorite showers before, but they never looked anything like this. I really don't know what it was."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Winnipeg, Manitoba Disc Shaped Object
Posted: January 21, 2008
Date: January 24, 2007 Time: 4:40
Location of Sighting: North west horizon while standing at Convergys Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Disc
Full Description of event/sighting: Well I'm not 100% sure what I saw, I was outside in the bus shack when I noticed what looked like a white reflecting line that was horizontal, and to my eye looked about 4 mm long. I went out side to watch it because it seemed odd and I was looking through glass. It drifted slowly towards the west and slightly upwards, it seemed like it was closer then most planes fly unless landing and normally you can see its shape at that size. At one point it reversed directions and went east about an inch and headed back west. When it changed directions it didn't change shape like a plane or a helicopter viewed at different angles while changing directions, it stayed the same. Not to mention there was no trail like jets leave, and if it was a prop plane it would have to have been closer because of it being a smaller plane. It then seemed to head directly away from me as it disappeared into the blue of the sky, it didn't look normal the way it kind of when up and out of sight. There was a jet in the sky at the tie way to the left and I could see its trail coming from the horizon and its approach was very slow compared to the object which didn't go down the horizon like a plane fallowing the shape of the earth.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: January 24, 2007 Time: 4:40
Location of Sighting: North west horizon while standing at Convergys Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Disc
Full Description of event/sighting: Well I'm not 100% sure what I saw, I was outside in the bus shack when I noticed what looked like a white reflecting line that was horizontal, and to my eye looked about 4 mm long. I went out side to watch it because it seemed odd and I was looking through glass. It drifted slowly towards the west and slightly upwards, it seemed like it was closer then most planes fly unless landing and normally you can see its shape at that size. At one point it reversed directions and went east about an inch and headed back west. When it changed directions it didn't change shape like a plane or a helicopter viewed at different angles while changing directions, it stayed the same. Not to mention there was no trail like jets leave, and if it was a prop plane it would have to have been closer because of it being a smaller plane. It then seemed to head directly away from me as it disappeared into the blue of the sky, it didn't look normal the way it kind of when up and out of sight. There was a jet in the sky at the tie way to the left and I could see its trail coming from the horizon and its approach was very slow compared to the object which didn't go down the horizon like a plane fallowing the shape of the earth.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Smithers, British Columbia Object With Glowing Center (Graphic)
Posted: January 21, 2008
Date: February 20, 2003 Time: 2:40 a.m.
I had a witness call from Smithers, B.C. this morning. She mentioned to me that her husband thought she was seeing things, but it sounds like she was certainly witnessing something rather strange. The woman was up with her baby at 2:40 a.m. and has a great view of Hudson Bay Mountain and the ski runs, (which are located in Smithers). Actually the witness sits at the base of the mountain. Her blinds were semi open and allowed her to see a very bright light crossing the mountain, and then coming to a complete stop over one of the largest runs, which is called "Cold Smoke". She went on to say the light was dead center of the run, and wondered if it was just hovering, or "maybe" it had landed. She also reported hearing a clicking sound from the direction of the object. (HBCC UFO Note: My son lived a while back in the very same area as the witness lives now, and I know many sounds bounce off the mountain which allows everyone to hear different noises much clearer). The object moved from east to west before coming to a complete stop over the run. Approx: 5 minutes went by and a train could be heard coming in the distance and the object disappeared. Her words, "turned off". After the train had come and passed, and approx: one hour later, the object once again showed up. She knew the times for certain as she was up with their baby.
After the second time the light showed up, she said "I got frightened and closed the blinds." I asked if she could describe the color of the light to me, she went on to say it was an extremely bright white, with an orangy light coming from the center. The light moved quicker than a helicopter, or any small plane that she knew of. (keep in mind that this light was spotted travelling some distance just below the peaks of the mountain and came to a sudden stop above the ski runs).
When the witness observed the light the second time, or after the train had long passed, she did not notice the light moving, but it just showed up in exactly the same position it was observed before. The second sighting only lasted a couple of minutes. She reported that her cat, which was also sitting on her bed, perked it's ears up looking in the direction of the window. I asked her an approximate size to the light. She said it may have been half of her thumb nail (held at arm's length) and round in shape.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: February 20, 2003 Time: 2:40 a.m.
I had a witness call from Smithers, B.C. this morning. She mentioned to me that her husband thought she was seeing things, but it sounds like she was certainly witnessing something rather strange. The woman was up with her baby at 2:40 a.m. and has a great view of Hudson Bay Mountain and the ski runs, (which are located in Smithers). Actually the witness sits at the base of the mountain. Her blinds were semi open and allowed her to see a very bright light crossing the mountain, and then coming to a complete stop over one of the largest runs, which is called "Cold Smoke". She went on to say the light was dead center of the run, and wondered if it was just hovering, or "maybe" it had landed. She also reported hearing a clicking sound from the direction of the object. (HBCC UFO Note: My son lived a while back in the very same area as the witness lives now, and I know many sounds bounce off the mountain which allows everyone to hear different noises much clearer). The object moved from east to west before coming to a complete stop over the run. Approx: 5 minutes went by and a train could be heard coming in the distance and the object disappeared. Her words, "turned off". After the train had come and passed, and approx: one hour later, the object once again showed up. She knew the times for certain as she was up with their baby.
After the second time the light showed up, she said "I got frightened and closed the blinds." I asked if she could describe the color of the light to me, she went on to say it was an extremely bright white, with an orangy light coming from the center. The light moved quicker than a helicopter, or any small plane that she knew of. (keep in mind that this light was spotted travelling some distance just below the peaks of the mountain and came to a sudden stop above the ski runs).
When the witness observed the light the second time, or after the train had long passed, she did not notice the light moving, but it just showed up in exactly the same position it was observed before. The second sighting only lasted a couple of minutes. She reported that her cat, which was also sitting on her bed, perked it's ears up looking in the direction of the window. I asked her an approximate size to the light. She said it may have been half of her thumb nail (held at arm's length) and round in shape.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Calf Mute in Lumby, B.C. Conversation With Conservation Officer
Posted: January 21, 2008
Conversation With Conservation Officer By Way of Telephone
I phoned a conservation officer in Vernon, British Columbia this morning and left a message on his answering machine to request he call me back as I was looking for any help (information) on a cattle mutilation which took place in Lumby, British Columbia, Canada. I didn't have any information on this case such as date, time, etc.... He phoned me back about a half hour later and we had a informative talk.
I asked if he had any information dealing with this calf mute in the Lumby area. He told me he had none at all as their field is dealing pretty much with wild animals. But he was kind enough to set me up with the information in which I needed to contact the rancher to discuss the calf mute. The conservation officer also told me this mutilation took place approximately 2 years ago.
The officer was kind enough to fill me in on some of the ways in which a wild animal can do this to a dead carcass. Below is our conversation.
I mentioned to Brent that I had received his name from the RCMP when investigating the Falkland "Mutilated Cow" report. I explained who I was, and that I was trying to investigate and gather information on the cattle mute which took place in his area.
After filling Brent in on how I came about acquiring his name, and a little about the case in the Falkland area I asked him if he possibly had a case file on this mute. He said no, and then told me that this mutilation report took place about 2 years ago and went on to inform me that this type of report (case) was not for their department and basically was not classed as wildlife.
Brent's comments to me were the ranchers found a cut up calf and did not have any ideas on what had taken place, they thought the mutilation was done by a cougar. But from the description the ranchers gave to the conservation officer it seemed that this was done by a knife which didn't make any sense to the him.
Brent asked me what was the nature of the mute down in the Falkland area. Did it have knife cuts on the animal ? I told him that the RCMP Constable, when he observed the dead animal, said that it looked as if a knife or fine instrument had made all the cuts. I also told him that in the Falkland case after an inspection of the dead animal, there was "no" blood remaining in the animal, no blood found around the scene whatsoever, also I was told there was a rectal core had been taken from the animal. The udder was removed, and sexual organs were also missing.
After giving Brent the information as to the shape of the dead animal he mentioned that it was not uncommon as coyotes will eat the udder off. Not only that, it looks as if the coyotes peeled it, or stripped it and a lot of times they will eat a hole into the back end of the dead animal as that is where they start to feed. He also mentioned that the damage at the back end could be done by turkey vultures as they are known to do this as well to the cavity. Brent said he wouldn't be surprised if that was predation.
Brent went on again to mention that the mutilation in Lumby had knife cuts on the animal and the organs, udder, whatever were also taken. We then chatted about different types of ideas as to what may cause these events, other than wild animals such as a possible cult or someone out to cause problems for others.
I mentioned a case from the United States which recently happened where the organs were removed and there was no blood left in the animal. Not to mention no trace of blood at the area where this cow was found.
Brent brought up some good points on the loss of blood for a mutilated animal. He said that a cougar will kill to the base of an animals head. He also mentioned that with a smaller animal such as a sheep or goat the cougar will basically eat the ears and open up the throat and drink the blood out of the animal. He said this can be common with cougars.
Brent also added that farmers/ranchers have phoned to report that their sheep were cut open and left on the ground. Brent went on to tell me that when he went out to look into this report it turned out to be the work of a cougar. He tells me the cougars use their teeth like snips and peel back the hide with their incisors which looks as though this has been done with a knife. Basically they will cut a hatch into the ribs and it appears as if a set of shears have done it. Peel the hide back and it seems like its done with a knife and that way they get at the organs better. A little port hole in the side and eat all the heart and lungs and get all the good parts.
I still have to talk to the ranch owners on this matter and get their version of the occurrence. This case is still unsolved but investigations are still in progress. I am inclined to think it was a wild animal but probably will go down as an unsolved case. More to come on this matter.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Conversation With Conservation Officer By Way of Telephone
I phoned a conservation officer in Vernon, British Columbia this morning and left a message on his answering machine to request he call me back as I was looking for any help (information) on a cattle mutilation which took place in Lumby, British Columbia, Canada. I didn't have any information on this case such as date, time, etc.... He phoned me back about a half hour later and we had a informative talk.
I asked if he had any information dealing with this calf mute in the Lumby area. He told me he had none at all as their field is dealing pretty much with wild animals. But he was kind enough to set me up with the information in which I needed to contact the rancher to discuss the calf mute. The conservation officer also told me this mutilation took place approximately 2 years ago.
The officer was kind enough to fill me in on some of the ways in which a wild animal can do this to a dead carcass. Below is our conversation.
I mentioned to Brent that I had received his name from the RCMP when investigating the Falkland "Mutilated Cow" report. I explained who I was, and that I was trying to investigate and gather information on the cattle mute which took place in his area.
After filling Brent in on how I came about acquiring his name, and a little about the case in the Falkland area I asked him if he possibly had a case file on this mute. He said no, and then told me that this mutilation report took place about 2 years ago and went on to inform me that this type of report (case) was not for their department and basically was not classed as wildlife.
Brent's comments to me were the ranchers found a cut up calf and did not have any ideas on what had taken place, they thought the mutilation was done by a cougar. But from the description the ranchers gave to the conservation officer it seemed that this was done by a knife which didn't make any sense to the him.
Brent asked me what was the nature of the mute down in the Falkland area. Did it have knife cuts on the animal ? I told him that the RCMP Constable, when he observed the dead animal, said that it looked as if a knife or fine instrument had made all the cuts. I also told him that in the Falkland case after an inspection of the dead animal, there was "no" blood remaining in the animal, no blood found around the scene whatsoever, also I was told there was a rectal core had been taken from the animal. The udder was removed, and sexual organs were also missing.
After giving Brent the information as to the shape of the dead animal he mentioned that it was not uncommon as coyotes will eat the udder off. Not only that, it looks as if the coyotes peeled it, or stripped it and a lot of times they will eat a hole into the back end of the dead animal as that is where they start to feed. He also mentioned that the damage at the back end could be done by turkey vultures as they are known to do this as well to the cavity. Brent said he wouldn't be surprised if that was predation.
Brent went on again to mention that the mutilation in Lumby had knife cuts on the animal and the organs, udder, whatever were also taken. We then chatted about different types of ideas as to what may cause these events, other than wild animals such as a possible cult or someone out to cause problems for others.
I mentioned a case from the United States which recently happened where the organs were removed and there was no blood left in the animal. Not to mention no trace of blood at the area where this cow was found.
Brent brought up some good points on the loss of blood for a mutilated animal. He said that a cougar will kill to the base of an animals head. He also mentioned that with a smaller animal such as a sheep or goat the cougar will basically eat the ears and open up the throat and drink the blood out of the animal. He said this can be common with cougars.
Brent also added that farmers/ranchers have phoned to report that their sheep were cut open and left on the ground. Brent went on to tell me that when he went out to look into this report it turned out to be the work of a cougar. He tells me the cougars use their teeth like snips and peel back the hide with their incisors which looks as though this has been done with a knife. Basically they will cut a hatch into the ribs and it appears as if a set of shears have done it. Peel the hide back and it seems like its done with a knife and that way they get at the organs better. A little port hole in the side and eat all the heart and lungs and get all the good parts.
I still have to talk to the ranch owners on this matter and get their version of the occurrence. This case is still unsolved but investigations are still in progress. I am inclined to think it was a wild animal but probably will go down as an unsolved case. More to come on this matter.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Cattle Mute RCMP Investigation HBCC UFO Received
Posted: January 21, 2008
September 2001
I have been in contact with CBC Radio News and they have provided the following information.
The area where this took place was between, Fulton and the Chase area in British Columbia.Some horse back riders had found the carcass of the animal (cow) and had contacted the farmer and the RCMP were also contacted. There was only one set of tracks leading to the animal, these tracks were left behind by the farmer as he inspected the dead animal. No other tracks were found around the area, leading in or out. After an inspection of the dead animal, there was "no" blood remaining in the animal, no blood found around the scene what so ever, also I was told there was a rectal core was taken from the animal. The udder was removed, and sexual organs were also missing.
From Constable Lange of the RCMP:
Brian
Here is a copy of the portions of our file that we are able to release to you. It has taken a fair amount of time to conclude this matter. Hopefully this information will prove helpful to your research.
Thank you , Cst. C.D.H. Lange - RCMP
I have now talked to the RCMP investigating officer and I will be faxed their full report in a week or two after they wrap up their investigation. I will post all results from this, and my look into this strange event.
Date: 2001-11-27 - Time: 12:5212:52
CST Lange phoned the Saskatchewan Research Counsel and spoke with Eve Plante at (phone number deleted by HBCC UFO). Plante asked about several contacts of his whether they had any statistics. His contact on the matter with the breed association in Calgary had no records available. His contact at the Saskatchewan Pasture Management like wise had heard of cattle mutilations but had no statistics. Plante's contact at the University of Saskatchewan also had several cases of cattle mutilation reported to them however, the cases turned out to be the work of scavengers eating their way through the soft tissue area of the body.
Date: 2001-12-07 - Time: 16:40
No further information to add to this file. Although it is unknown exactly what has happened, all evidence points towards the work of small scavenger animals.
Time 17:10
Concluded Constable Lange (RCMP)
Date: 2001-10-15
Cpl. Paul Robinson from the livestock section in Kamloops requested a copy of the cattle mutilation file. Cst. Lange sent the file, however some pages may not have gone through. Cst. Lange notified Cpl. Robinson and asked him to phone if he thought there was a need for the missing pages and they would be re-faxed. Cst. Lange said he would fax more information that would be received from the University of Saskatewan once he found some time to conclude the file.
Date: 2001-10-21 - Time: 15:38
Sui CDHC Cst. Lange
Date: 2001-10-26 - Time: 14:40 Called Bouine Research Laboratory at Saskatchewan Research Council #15 innovation Blding (phone number deleted by HBCC UFO). They said that they have no research on possible cattle mutilations however they would check several other sources of information they knew of and get back to us by the middle of next week.
Time: 14:51
Sui CDHL Cst. Lange
Date: 2001-09-24 - Time: 18:42
Released to the media for fear that the media attention would feed the situation causing those who did the mutilating the satisfaction that the public was genuinely frightened. (Name deleted by HBCC UFO) suggested that her parents were very frightened by the whole situation and they could not figure out who would do such a thing.
Time: 18:46
Cst Lange phoned (name deleted by HBCC UFO) for more information regarding the situation in Lumby.
Date: 2001-09-25 - Time: 06:40
Cst. Lange did an interview with CBC Radio. Sui. Cst. Lange asked for help with solving the mystery from the general public.
Time: 09:43
Sui Cst Lange
Date: 2001-09-25 - Time: 09:25
Spoke with Cpl. Ramsay of Clinton RCMP. He explained that he had previous dealings with the University of Saskatewan concerning cattle mutilations. He suggested that most likely the situation was caused by rodents. They apparently leave the impression that the hide was cut with a knife. They chew the soft tissue and essentially saw out the utter and other areas of soft tissue.
Sui Cst Lange
Date: 2001-9-21 - Time: 0930
Conservation officer (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO) reports that last year a cow belonging to the (Deleted by HBCC UFO) was likewise killed. It had the tongue and sexual organs/reproductive trac all removed and all the other meat was left behind.
The matter was referred to either the RCMP Stock Association or Lumby RCMP.
Sui RCMP
Date: 2001-09-24 - Time: 15:21
Phoned Graham Stevens at CBC radio out of Kelowna. Arranged for an interview at 06:40 tomorrow morning.
Date: 2001-09-24 - Time: 18:41
Phoned (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO) re: cow mutilation that happened on her parents ranch in Quesnel some 10 years ago. She said that we should phone the veterinarian doctor (name deleted by HBCC UFO) for more information. The cows apparently had been mutilated in the same fashion, however the information was not available.
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 11:41
Called (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO) concerning the situation, she left a note for Cst. Lange to call. No one home and message left.
Date: 2001-09-19 - Time: 14:19
(name deleted by HBCC UFO) reports that on Sunday, September 09 the dogs were going crazy and her cat went missing. The direction of the dogs attention was towards the area where the mutilated cow incident happened. (DOB 1949-10-19) RR #1, Falkland, British Columbia.
Date: 2001-09-19 - Time: 17:37
Cst. Lange called (name deleted by HBCC UFO) who informs Cst. Lange that the tire tracks were made by his son (name deleted by HBCC UFO) who had reported the incident to him before the investigation was launched concerning this (1927-09-30) (address deleted by HBCC UFO)
Time: 17:39
No further leads, (name deleted by HBCC UFO) owned the dead cow. (name deleted by HBCC UFO) thanked Cst. Lange for helping in the situation.
Time: 17:42
Cst. Lange called the complainant to notify of the situation.
Date: 2001-09-16 - Time: 10:22
(name deleted by HBCC UFO) phoned Cst. Lange through dispatch. Cst. Lange spoke with her. She mentioned that (name deleted by HBCC UFO) owns the cattle and that he mentioned his son had been up to the pasture on Thursday and had found the dead cow and mentioned that it had already began to stink. Cst. Lange was told by (name deleted by HBCC UFO) that (name deleted by HBCC UFO) would attend the Falkland Detachment to speak with a member concerning the incident.
Time: 11:25
Cst. Lange phoned (name deleted by HBCC UFO) to speak with him concerning the incident at (phone number deleted by HBCC UFO). Left a message on his answering machine to call back.
Time: 11:30
Cst. Lange called (name deleted by HBCC UFO) to speak with him. before Cst. Lange could call, (name deleted by HBCC UFO) said that he would check on his cow. He called back at 11:30 and would speak with his son and get his son to phone the RCMP. He mentioned that his son was in the pasture on Thursday (which would explain the tire tracks and footprints around the site.
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 15:10
Cst. Lange after he showed Cst. Overby and Cst. Lange his (deleted by RCMP) he mentioned to Cst. Lange that he was quite nervous to see police in his driveway as all the happenings in New York had him of edge somewhat. He mentioned that he had lived at the residence for a number of years (since - deleted by RCMP) and that his girlfriend lived there about 5 months out of the year. (Cst. Overby mentioned this) as there had been a file at the property a number of years ago.
Time: 15:14 Cst. Lange and Overby departed from the scene.
Time: 16:00
Cst. Lange and Cst. Overby did CPIC, PIRS and CFRO, and Interpol checks on (deleted by RCMP).
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 10:55
Earlier in the day (name deleted by HBCC UFO) phoned regarding the property renters possibly the (name deleted by HBCC UFO). She mentioned that the past number of years. Not this year but years previous. There are two (name deleted by HBCC UFO) one (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO and the other (name & number deleted by HBCC UFO).
The last sentence on this paragraph only gives the names of the two people in question and their addresses which I will leave out.
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 14:42
Cst. Lang and Cst. Overby to investigate with (deleted by RCMP) the mutilated cow was located on. Investigation of the event will be at (deleted by RCMP)
Time: 14:53
Arrived at the scene and entered the neighbors driveway to do neighborhood inquiries (deleted by RCMP) License markers (deleted by RCMP) was at the residence. We walked up the driveway in behind the police car. he ducked into the bushes and appeared to drop something. Cst. Overby said. "hey you down there !! The man came out of the bushes and introduced himself to us. he appeared very nervous and figgitty, he was sweating and would not look Cst. Overby or Cst. Lang in the eyes. We told him that we were doing neighborhood inquiries to the death of a cow that was mutilated out behind his place. He said he knew nothing about that. He mentioned that he had set a kokanee beer can on the edge of the fence near the gate. He wished to take Cst. Lange and Cst. Overby's picture ?? He took a picture of Cst. Overby and Cst. Lange.
Date: 2001-09-13 - Time: 15:49
Cst. Howard and Cst. Overby were told that a charlors/hereford cow had been dissected by someone up on Paxton valley Road. Cst. Lange tried to phone (name deleted by HBCC UFO) who apparently knows the exact location of the animal. Cst. Lange went to investigate.
Time: 16:15
Cst. Lange arrived from the Falkland detachment to the junction of Paxton Valley Road and Six Mile Road and met (name deleted by HBCC UFO) and (Name deleted by HBCC UFO). Cst. Lange investigated and there was a dead cow on the locally termed "320" acres. It appeared as though the utter and the sexual organs of the cow had been removed. Cst. Lange took photographs and noted footprints and tire tracks near the cow. Cst. Lange along with (name deleted by HBCC UFO) followed the tracks out to a gate, beer cans were seized as evidence. One Bud Weiser can on the road and one Kokanee can on the gate. The gate hinges were wired shut and a footprint was seen going to a key on one of the fence posts - 25m from the gate hanging on barbed wire. Cst. Lange took photo's. No other truck tracks or prints were seen besides the one set. A neighbor to the (deleted by RCMP) through the trees adjacent to the land and (deleted by RCMP).
End of RCMP Investigation report. I was told other information was given to another unit of the RCMP for possible more investigation. But this information is not for the public, at least at this time.
Other do*****ents that were faxed from the RCMP are pages from the Freedom of Information Act which are rather interesting also.
I would like to extend my many thanks to Constable Lange of the RCMP for all his help. The RCMP at this time are placing small animals which may have caused the damage to the animal after it died. Also more information on this will follow soon.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
September 2001
I have been in contact with CBC Radio News and they have provided the following information.
The area where this took place was between, Fulton and the Chase area in British Columbia.Some horse back riders had found the carcass of the animal (cow) and had contacted the farmer and the RCMP were also contacted. There was only one set of tracks leading to the animal, these tracks were left behind by the farmer as he inspected the dead animal. No other tracks were found around the area, leading in or out. After an inspection of the dead animal, there was "no" blood remaining in the animal, no blood found around the scene what so ever, also I was told there was a rectal core was taken from the animal. The udder was removed, and sexual organs were also missing.
From Constable Lange of the RCMP:
Brian
Here is a copy of the portions of our file that we are able to release to you. It has taken a fair amount of time to conclude this matter. Hopefully this information will prove helpful to your research.
Thank you , Cst. C.D.H. Lange - RCMP
I have now talked to the RCMP investigating officer and I will be faxed their full report in a week or two after they wrap up their investigation. I will post all results from this, and my look into this strange event.
Date: 2001-11-27 - Time: 12:5212:52
CST Lange phoned the Saskatchewan Research Counsel and spoke with Eve Plante at (phone number deleted by HBCC UFO). Plante asked about several contacts of his whether they had any statistics. His contact on the matter with the breed association in Calgary had no records available. His contact at the Saskatchewan Pasture Management like wise had heard of cattle mutilations but had no statistics. Plante's contact at the University of Saskatchewan also had several cases of cattle mutilation reported to them however, the cases turned out to be the work of scavengers eating their way through the soft tissue area of the body.
Date: 2001-12-07 - Time: 16:40
No further information to add to this file. Although it is unknown exactly what has happened, all evidence points towards the work of small scavenger animals.
Time 17:10
Concluded Constable Lange (RCMP)
Date: 2001-10-15
Cpl. Paul Robinson from the livestock section in Kamloops requested a copy of the cattle mutilation file. Cst. Lange sent the file, however some pages may not have gone through. Cst. Lange notified Cpl. Robinson and asked him to phone if he thought there was a need for the missing pages and they would be re-faxed. Cst. Lange said he would fax more information that would be received from the University of Saskatewan once he found some time to conclude the file.
Date: 2001-10-21 - Time: 15:38
Sui CDHC Cst. Lange
Date: 2001-10-26 - Time: 14:40 Called Bouine Research Laboratory at Saskatchewan Research Council #15 innovation Blding (phone number deleted by HBCC UFO). They said that they have no research on possible cattle mutilations however they would check several other sources of information they knew of and get back to us by the middle of next week.
Time: 14:51
Sui CDHL Cst. Lange
Date: 2001-09-24 - Time: 18:42
Released to the media for fear that the media attention would feed the situation causing those who did the mutilating the satisfaction that the public was genuinely frightened. (Name deleted by HBCC UFO) suggested that her parents were very frightened by the whole situation and they could not figure out who would do such a thing.
Time: 18:46
Cst Lange phoned (name deleted by HBCC UFO) for more information regarding the situation in Lumby.
Date: 2001-09-25 - Time: 06:40
Cst. Lange did an interview with CBC Radio. Sui. Cst. Lange asked for help with solving the mystery from the general public.
Time: 09:43
Sui Cst Lange
Date: 2001-09-25 - Time: 09:25
Spoke with Cpl. Ramsay of Clinton RCMP. He explained that he had previous dealings with the University of Saskatewan concerning cattle mutilations. He suggested that most likely the situation was caused by rodents. They apparently leave the impression that the hide was cut with a knife. They chew the soft tissue and essentially saw out the utter and other areas of soft tissue.
Sui Cst Lange
Date: 2001-9-21 - Time: 0930
Conservation officer (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO) reports that last year a cow belonging to the (Deleted by HBCC UFO) was likewise killed. It had the tongue and sexual organs/reproductive trac all removed and all the other meat was left behind.
The matter was referred to either the RCMP Stock Association or Lumby RCMP.
Sui RCMP
Date: 2001-09-24 - Time: 15:21
Phoned Graham Stevens at CBC radio out of Kelowna. Arranged for an interview at 06:40 tomorrow morning.
Date: 2001-09-24 - Time: 18:41
Phoned (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO) re: cow mutilation that happened on her parents ranch in Quesnel some 10 years ago. She said that we should phone the veterinarian doctor (name deleted by HBCC UFO) for more information. The cows apparently had been mutilated in the same fashion, however the information was not available.
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 11:41
Called (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO) concerning the situation, she left a note for Cst. Lange to call. No one home and message left.
Date: 2001-09-19 - Time: 14:19
(name deleted by HBCC UFO) reports that on Sunday, September 09 the dogs were going crazy and her cat went missing. The direction of the dogs attention was towards the area where the mutilated cow incident happened. (DOB 1949-10-19) RR #1, Falkland, British Columbia.
Date: 2001-09-19 - Time: 17:37
Cst. Lange called (name deleted by HBCC UFO) who informs Cst. Lange that the tire tracks were made by his son (name deleted by HBCC UFO) who had reported the incident to him before the investigation was launched concerning this (1927-09-30) (address deleted by HBCC UFO)
Time: 17:39
No further leads, (name deleted by HBCC UFO) owned the dead cow. (name deleted by HBCC UFO) thanked Cst. Lange for helping in the situation.
Time: 17:42
Cst. Lange called the complainant to notify of the situation.
Date: 2001-09-16 - Time: 10:22
(name deleted by HBCC UFO) phoned Cst. Lange through dispatch. Cst. Lange spoke with her. She mentioned that (name deleted by HBCC UFO) owns the cattle and that he mentioned his son had been up to the pasture on Thursday and had found the dead cow and mentioned that it had already began to stink. Cst. Lange was told by (name deleted by HBCC UFO) that (name deleted by HBCC UFO) would attend the Falkland Detachment to speak with a member concerning the incident.
Time: 11:25
Cst. Lange phoned (name deleted by HBCC UFO) to speak with him concerning the incident at (phone number deleted by HBCC UFO). Left a message on his answering machine to call back.
Time: 11:30
Cst. Lange called (name deleted by HBCC UFO) to speak with him. before Cst. Lange could call, (name deleted by HBCC UFO) said that he would check on his cow. He called back at 11:30 and would speak with his son and get his son to phone the RCMP. He mentioned that his son was in the pasture on Thursday (which would explain the tire tracks and footprints around the site.
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 15:10
Cst. Lange after he showed Cst. Overby and Cst. Lange his (deleted by RCMP) he mentioned to Cst. Lange that he was quite nervous to see police in his driveway as all the happenings in New York had him of edge somewhat. He mentioned that he had lived at the residence for a number of years (since - deleted by RCMP) and that his girlfriend lived there about 5 months out of the year. (Cst. Overby mentioned this) as there had been a file at the property a number of years ago.
Time: 15:14 Cst. Lange and Overby departed from the scene.
Time: 16:00
Cst. Lange and Cst. Overby did CPIC, PIRS and CFRO, and Interpol checks on (deleted by RCMP).
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 10:55
Earlier in the day (name deleted by HBCC UFO) phoned regarding the property renters possibly the (name deleted by HBCC UFO). She mentioned that the past number of years. Not this year but years previous. There are two (name deleted by HBCC UFO) one (name & phone number deleted by HBCC UFO and the other (name & number deleted by HBCC UFO).
The last sentence on this paragraph only gives the names of the two people in question and their addresses which I will leave out.
Date: 2001-09-15 - Time: 14:42
Cst. Lang and Cst. Overby to investigate with (deleted by RCMP) the mutilated cow was located on. Investigation of the event will be at (deleted by RCMP)
Time: 14:53
Arrived at the scene and entered the neighbors driveway to do neighborhood inquiries (deleted by RCMP) License markers (deleted by RCMP) was at the residence. We walked up the driveway in behind the police car. he ducked into the bushes and appeared to drop something. Cst. Overby said. "hey you down there !! The man came out of the bushes and introduced himself to us. he appeared very nervous and figgitty, he was sweating and would not look Cst. Overby or Cst. Lang in the eyes. We told him that we were doing neighborhood inquiries to the death of a cow that was mutilated out behind his place. He said he knew nothing about that. He mentioned that he had set a kokanee beer can on the edge of the fence near the gate. He wished to take Cst. Lange and Cst. Overby's picture ?? He took a picture of Cst. Overby and Cst. Lange.
Date: 2001-09-13 - Time: 15:49
Cst. Howard and Cst. Overby were told that a charlors/hereford cow had been dissected by someone up on Paxton valley Road. Cst. Lange tried to phone (name deleted by HBCC UFO) who apparently knows the exact location of the animal. Cst. Lange went to investigate.
Time: 16:15
Cst. Lange arrived from the Falkland detachment to the junction of Paxton Valley Road and Six Mile Road and met (name deleted by HBCC UFO) and (Name deleted by HBCC UFO). Cst. Lange investigated and there was a dead cow on the locally termed "320" acres. It appeared as though the utter and the sexual organs of the cow had been removed. Cst. Lange took photographs and noted footprints and tire tracks near the cow. Cst. Lange along with (name deleted by HBCC UFO) followed the tracks out to a gate, beer cans were seized as evidence. One Bud Weiser can on the road and one Kokanee can on the gate. The gate hinges were wired shut and a footprint was seen going to a key on one of the fence posts - 25m from the gate hanging on barbed wire. Cst. Lange took photo's. No other truck tracks or prints were seen besides the one set. A neighbor to the (deleted by RCMP) through the trees adjacent to the land and (deleted by RCMP).
End of RCMP Investigation report. I was told other information was given to another unit of the RCMP for possible more investigation. But this information is not for the public, at least at this time.
Other do*****ents that were faxed from the RCMP are pages from the Freedom of Information Act which are rather interesting also.
I would like to extend my many thanks to Constable Lange of the RCMP for all his help. The RCMP at this time are placing small animals which may have caused the damage to the animal after it died. Also more information on this will follow soon.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
The Canadian CIRVIS Reports From HBCC UFO Research
Posted: January 21, 2008
(Communications Instructions For Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings)
. The CIRVIS Do*****ents have been obtained through the Canadian Freedom Of Information Act from the National Defense Headquarters. These do*****ents contain sighting reports from all parts throughout Canada, some are only a line or two. Others give a little more detail. The reports I have here are from 1960s and run through to 1999.
Thank you to my friend Don in Burns Lake, he has placed them all onto PDF files for me, to share with all you. You will need the Acrobat Reader to view these files.
If you do not have the Adobe Reader you can download the reader at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
These URL's below are a direct link to each set of the Canadian CIRVIS reports. There are two sets of each of the files, one in "Standard Resolution" and the other in a "High Resolution".
The "High Resolution" files are much bigger in size but will give a very good quality printout. Standard - Resolution
To view or download each of the files, see the media section below.
All files found at this link: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1536
The Canadian CIRVIS Reports from 1960 to 1999.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
(Communications Instructions For Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings)
. The CIRVIS Do*****ents have been obtained through the Canadian Freedom Of Information Act from the National Defense Headquarters. These do*****ents contain sighting reports from all parts throughout Canada, some are only a line or two. Others give a little more detail. The reports I have here are from 1960s and run through to 1999.
Thank you to my friend Don in Burns Lake, he has placed them all onto PDF files for me, to share with all you. You will need the Acrobat Reader to view these files.
If you do not have the Adobe Reader you can download the reader at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
These URL's below are a direct link to each set of the Canadian CIRVIS reports. There are two sets of each of the files, one in "Standard Resolution" and the other in a "High Resolution".
The "High Resolution" files are much bigger in size but will give a very good quality printout. Standard - Resolution
To view or download each of the files, see the media section below.
All files found at this link: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1536
The Canadian CIRVIS Reports from 1960 to 1999.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
UFOs Create Tourism Boom In Terrace, British Columbia
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Jennifer Lang - Terrace Standard
Terrace's reputation as B.C.'s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region.
Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
"You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas," says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says.
The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they're more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city's official symbol.
Vike says he's often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region's tourist attractions and accommodations.
"Many have never been up this way," Vike says. "So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have."
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
"As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have."
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way.
"Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year's total count for sightings," he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that's home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn't the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world's first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
"All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul," reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel's tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of "UFO tourists".
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the "Extraterrestrial Highway" to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too.
Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That's the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region's latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada's Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A documentary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
"All of this is great for tourism," he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen.
The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Brian Vike's website can be viewed at: http://www.hbccufo.org
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Jennifer Lang - Terrace Standard
Terrace's reputation as B.C.'s UFO capital is creating a new kind of tourism boom in the region.
Curious travellers from across North America are inquiring about the tourism facilities in communities across Highway 16, including Terrace, says a UFO researcher based in Houston, B.C.
"You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas," says Brian Vike, editor of Canadian Communicator, a magazine specializing in the paranormal, and director of HBCC-UFO Research.
Earlier this year, Terrace cracked the top 10 in a national UFO survey, earning third place, just ahead of Houston, where Vike operates a toll-free UFO hotline so he can collect and investigate eye-witness reports.
Terrace recorded the third highest number of UFO sightings in the country last year, bringing national and international attention to the region, Vike says.
The resulting publicity means the northwest is rapidly emerging as one of the best places to see UFOs in Canada.
Savvy tourists know they're more likely to see a flying saucer than the elusive Kermode bear, the white form of a black bear that is the city's official symbol.
Vike says he's often contacted by UFO buffs and the just plain curious who want to know about the region's tourist attractions and accommodations.
"Many have never been up this way," Vike says. "So I give them the lowdown on what our communities have."
He tells them about camp sites in the area, the excellent hiking, fishing and boating opportunities here, the beautiful scenery and the range of wildlife.
"As a matter of fact, I receive so many emails, I was going to put up a page on my website which would give information to tourists on what we have."
Vike says 2003 is shaping up to be another record year for UFO sightings in the skies over Terrace, where 25 sightings were recorded last year, suggesting more national and international attention could be on its way.
"Right now Terrace has darn near caught up to last year's total count for sightings," he says.
UFO-related tourism is a growing market in the rest of the world.
Vulcan, a town of 1,700 in southern Alberta that's home to a replica starship and a tourist information centre built to look like a space station, isn't the only place cashing in on its Sci Fi cachet.
St. Paul, Alberta was out of the gate back in 1967, when it built the world's first UFO landing pad, ensuring that future space travel would be safe for all intergalactic beings.
"All visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul," reads an inscription beside the 12-metre-diameter concrete pad.
The tiny U.S. town of Rachel, Nevada, meanwhile, has capitalized on its proximity to the mysterious Area 51, thought to be a secret U.S. military base.
Rachel's tourism industry began to take off in the late 1980s, thanks to its reputation as a reliable location for sightings, drawing ever larger numbers of "UFO tourists".
Nearby Nevada State Highway 375 was officially renamed the "Extraterrestrial Highway" to reflect the large number of sightings along this stretch of road.
Enterprising community leaders in other countries have boarded the UFO tourism spaceship, too.
Last year, a Chilean mayor took the bold move of designating the region near his town as an official UFO tourism zone because so many sightings have taken place in the Andes mountains there.
That's the kind of notoriety places like Terrace, Houston, and other Highway 16 towns could easily take advantage of.
While Terrace may presently lack an officially-sanctioned UFO tourism strategy, Vike is functioning as an unofficial intergalactic ambassador, sharing the region's latest eye-witness reports and his own pet theories with a curious world.
From Houston headquarters, he keeps busy doing interviews with newspapers, TV shows and radio talk shows all over North America.
Canada's Life network shot 18 hours of footage with Vike in Houston, Smithers and Telkwa in February. A documentary will air this fall season or early in the new year.
"All of this is great for tourism," he says, reminding northwest residents to keep their eyes to the skies this summer.
Vike has noticed a new pattern in the most recent reports: more eyewitnesses in the northwest are reporting objects in the sky, instead of just unexplained, or oddly-moving lights.
One sighting reported by multiple witnesses across a wide geographic area involved gigantic triangles.
Others have reported seeing crescent or ring-shaped objects in the sky.
Vike adds a number of eyewitnesses reported seeing a large, saucer-shaped disk travelling from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island to Kitimat past the Alcan Smelter and on towards Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Vike, a former forestry industry worker, tries to uncover likely explanations for what eyewitnesses have seen.
The planet Venus is sometimes mistaken for a UFO. Other sightings are later found to be aircraft, meteors, satellites, stars or even blimps, says Vike, who once belonged to the Royal Astronomical Society and volunteered at the planetarium in Vancouver.]
Brian Vike's website can be viewed at: http://www.hbccufo.org
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Coming In The Air Tonight
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Carolyn Grant Townsman Bulletin Newspaper Kimberly, British Columbia Tuesday, July 29, 2003 (Page 3)
KIMBERLY -- Did anyone in the Wycliffe - St. Mary Lake area see something strange in the sky late Saturday night, early Sunday morning? Rhonda Brass of Cranbrook would like to know, because she saw something she can only describe as an unidentified flying object.
Rhonda and her family were camping at St. Mary Lake over the weekend. At about 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, she and her husband took a walk on the road near the old cabin.
"The kids were sleeping and we wanted to take a few minutes to admire the stars," Rhonda said. "We saw a bright, white light coming from over top of Bootleg Mountain, about 4,000 to 5,000 feet. But then we realized that there was no noise and the light was really bright and much bigger than the light on an airplane." Rhonda says the light travelled across the lake and seemed to vary speed."
"It would go fast, then slow and it was zigzagging a bit, almost like a wobble. I know it wasn't a satellite, it was far lower down and it definitely wasn't a shooting star.
"All you could see was the light. It was like when you see Venus at night, just as bright, only 10 times bigger."
Rather than being unnerved by the sight, Rhonda said that she used her big flashlight to try and signal whatever it was.
"It was really neat. It didn't scare me.I was quite impressed. I would have loved to meet whoever it was. After it was out of sight I said to my husband, 'I think we've just seem our first UFO'".
Rhonda called the Cranbrook airport to see if any planes were in the area at that time. There were none. Cpl. Rod Caronneau of the Kimberly RCMP said the Detachment received no calls. "Usually that type of thing draws a lot of attention," he said.
Rhonda Brass would be very interested to know if anyone else saw it. "Both my husband and I saw it. We weren't drinking. I would really like to know what it was."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Carolyn Grant Townsman Bulletin Newspaper Kimberly, British Columbia Tuesday, July 29, 2003 (Page 3)
KIMBERLY -- Did anyone in the Wycliffe - St. Mary Lake area see something strange in the sky late Saturday night, early Sunday morning? Rhonda Brass of Cranbrook would like to know, because she saw something she can only describe as an unidentified flying object.
Rhonda and her family were camping at St. Mary Lake over the weekend. At about 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, she and her husband took a walk on the road near the old cabin.
"The kids were sleeping and we wanted to take a few minutes to admire the stars," Rhonda said. "We saw a bright, white light coming from over top of Bootleg Mountain, about 4,000 to 5,000 feet. But then we realized that there was no noise and the light was really bright and much bigger than the light on an airplane." Rhonda says the light travelled across the lake and seemed to vary speed."
"It would go fast, then slow and it was zigzagging a bit, almost like a wobble. I know it wasn't a satellite, it was far lower down and it definitely wasn't a shooting star.
"All you could see was the light. It was like when you see Venus at night, just as bright, only 10 times bigger."
Rather than being unnerved by the sight, Rhonda said that she used her big flashlight to try and signal whatever it was.
"It was really neat. It didn't scare me.I was quite impressed. I would have loved to meet whoever it was. After it was out of sight I said to my husband, 'I think we've just seem our first UFO'".
Rhonda called the Cranbrook airport to see if any planes were in the area at that time. There were none. Cpl. Rod Caronneau of the Kimberly RCMP said the Detachment received no calls. "Usually that type of thing draws a lot of attention," he said.
Rhonda Brass would be very interested to know if anyone else saw it. "Both my husband and I saw it. We weren't drinking. I would really like to know what it was."
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Daylight UFO Over Resolute Bay, Canada (Photo)
Posted: January 21, 2008
Resolute Bay, Canada
Date: Week of November 6th to Nov 14th 2001 Time: 12:45 p.m.
Hello, my story starts with a visit to Cornwallis Island on the week of Nov 6th to Nov 14th 2001.
After my visit was complete we departed Cornwallis Island and flew to Resolute. We had about a 3 hour wait for our connecting flight to Nanisivik. So we stayed in the airport and waited for our plane to show up.
On a previous project I had purchased a new Sony digital top of the line camera and I had this with me for the site visit to document an area where I was going to, etc.
I took several shots of the surrounding airport terrain and when I got back to the office a week later I went through the 100 plus photos. To my surprise picture number 97 had an object in the background. This shot was taken at approx. 12:45 in the afternoon in the direction of the end of the runway.
I have enlarged this photo and examined it in many ways. It sends a little chill up and down my spine every time I look at it. My friends and work colleagues are speechless . Those that are do not believe in UFO's don't know what to say or can't.
When you enlarge this photo you will see this object at an angle and underneath it you can see three columns of disfigured airspace (possibly drives). The afternoon was clear and crisp and the shacks at the end of the runway clearly are proportionate to the object passing just past the end of the runway. I did not see the object to take this photo I pointed at the end of the runway and took the shot, what was in the shot as I said was discovered later.
Let me know what you think of this photograph.
Regards.
I would like to thank the witness for the report and photo. Also some information was removed from this report to keep the witnesses identity private. Posted with permission.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Resolute Bay, Canada
Date: Week of November 6th to Nov 14th 2001 Time: 12:45 p.m.
Hello, my story starts with a visit to Cornwallis Island on the week of Nov 6th to Nov 14th 2001.
After my visit was complete we departed Cornwallis Island and flew to Resolute. We had about a 3 hour wait for our connecting flight to Nanisivik. So we stayed in the airport and waited for our plane to show up.
On a previous project I had purchased a new Sony digital top of the line camera and I had this with me for the site visit to document an area where I was going to, etc.
I took several shots of the surrounding airport terrain and when I got back to the office a week later I went through the 100 plus photos. To my surprise picture number 97 had an object in the background. This shot was taken at approx. 12:45 in the afternoon in the direction of the end of the runway.
I have enlarged this photo and examined it in many ways. It sends a little chill up and down my spine every time I look at it. My friends and work colleagues are speechless . Those that are do not believe in UFO's don't know what to say or can't.
When you enlarge this photo you will see this object at an angle and underneath it you can see three columns of disfigured airspace (possibly drives). The afternoon was clear and crisp and the shacks at the end of the runway clearly are proportionate to the object passing just past the end of the runway. I did not see the object to take this photo I pointed at the end of the runway and took the shot, what was in the shot as I said was discovered later.
Let me know what you think of this photograph.
Regards.
I would like to thank the witness for the report and photo. Also some information was removed from this report to keep the witnesses identity private. Posted with permission.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Cariboo Airspace A-Buzz With UFOs
Posted: January 21, 2008
By Neil Horner © 2003 Quesnel Cariboo Observer
The skies above Quesnel and the rest of the Cariboo area have been relatively crowded lately, and not just with airplanes and helicopters.
In fact, says UFO researcher Brian Vike, nobody is exactly sure what they are.
In an interview from his home in Houston, B.C., Vike said he's amazed at the number of sightings in the Cariboo over the past summer and fall.
I've been getting stuff like crazy from your area, he said. All kinds of things are happening. It's been very busy ever since mid-July.
One incident, he said, involved some Quesnel women who said they saw an object that looked like a giant plasma ball moving slowly across the sky one night.
"It took about eight seconds, which is a very long time, Vike said. They watched it from their kitchen."
In another incident, he said, a Wal-Mart employee working a late shift, saw a great big red object shoot across the heavens.
Vike said he received reports of a fireball coming down in the Quesnel area recently, which was seen from Vanderhoof to 100 Mile House.
It was very bright, very low, he said.
These are just a few of the local sightings that Vike has had reported to his web site at www.hbcufo.com.
I've had reports coming in about just about every shape and form of unidentified craft you can think of, from triangles to crescent shapes and cylinders, he said. I had reports of a really dark object, really low over Okanagan Lake. According to witnesses, two jets flew over just after this object went through, although that's hard to verify.
One of the most disturbing elements of any UFO report is the possibility of missing time - where witnesses find they can't account for several hours just after seeing something. This, too, he said, has happened in B.C. this year.
In Kelowna on July 31, two women were out star gazing and they pulled over, and got out of their vehicle. When they did, they saw three white lights come together to form a triangle and then drop out of the sky, Vike said. They tried to run, but they said it was like running through quicksand. One of them said she felt like she had been zapped with electricity, and the other agreed. They managed to get to a house, with the lights still following, and that was it.
Or was it? The women reported between 25 and 35 minutes of missing time.
Interestingly, Vike said, the womenâs tale was bolstered by a report from someone else living in the area who said they could see where the ladies were and could see the lights over the highway.
In the morning, one of the two women was sitting at a table and all of a sudden said, she felt awful and then blood started trickling from her right nostril. As well, she found she had a burn mark on her tailbone that she couldn't explain. The doctor, Vike said, suggested it looked like a radiation burn.
Those ladies went through hell with this, he said.
In another local incident, a Quesnel area resident was looking up at the stars when a number of them all of a sudden moved and fanned out in different directions.
In all, there were 150 reports of unidentified flying objects in British Columbia over the past year. That, Vike noted makes up about 50 per cent of the entire crop of UFO sightings in the entire country.
Vike has been working as a UFOlogist since mid-2000, following up a lifelong passion for astronomy. When he moved to Houston, he set up his web site and started posting some old UFO pictures, and people started calling in their reports.
One thing I would like to stress is that if people make a report, their personal information will not be given out, a Vike said. This is very important.ä To report a UFO sighting, call Vike's toll-free number at (not operating anymore)
Article at http://www.quesnelobserver.com under the Community section.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
By Neil Horner © 2003 Quesnel Cariboo Observer
The skies above Quesnel and the rest of the Cariboo area have been relatively crowded lately, and not just with airplanes and helicopters.
In fact, says UFO researcher Brian Vike, nobody is exactly sure what they are.
In an interview from his home in Houston, B.C., Vike said he's amazed at the number of sightings in the Cariboo over the past summer and fall.
I've been getting stuff like crazy from your area, he said. All kinds of things are happening. It's been very busy ever since mid-July.
One incident, he said, involved some Quesnel women who said they saw an object that looked like a giant plasma ball moving slowly across the sky one night.
"It took about eight seconds, which is a very long time, Vike said. They watched it from their kitchen."
In another incident, he said, a Wal-Mart employee working a late shift, saw a great big red object shoot across the heavens.
Vike said he received reports of a fireball coming down in the Quesnel area recently, which was seen from Vanderhoof to 100 Mile House.
It was very bright, very low, he said.
These are just a few of the local sightings that Vike has had reported to his web site at www.hbcufo.com.
I've had reports coming in about just about every shape and form of unidentified craft you can think of, from triangles to crescent shapes and cylinders, he said. I had reports of a really dark object, really low over Okanagan Lake. According to witnesses, two jets flew over just after this object went through, although that's hard to verify.
One of the most disturbing elements of any UFO report is the possibility of missing time - where witnesses find they can't account for several hours just after seeing something. This, too, he said, has happened in B.C. this year.
In Kelowna on July 31, two women were out star gazing and they pulled over, and got out of their vehicle. When they did, they saw three white lights come together to form a triangle and then drop out of the sky, Vike said. They tried to run, but they said it was like running through quicksand. One of them said she felt like she had been zapped with electricity, and the other agreed. They managed to get to a house, with the lights still following, and that was it.
Or was it? The women reported between 25 and 35 minutes of missing time.
Interestingly, Vike said, the womenâs tale was bolstered by a report from someone else living in the area who said they could see where the ladies were and could see the lights over the highway.
In the morning, one of the two women was sitting at a table and all of a sudden said, she felt awful and then blood started trickling from her right nostril. As well, she found she had a burn mark on her tailbone that she couldn't explain. The doctor, Vike said, suggested it looked like a radiation burn.
Those ladies went through hell with this, he said.
In another local incident, a Quesnel area resident was looking up at the stars when a number of them all of a sudden moved and fanned out in different directions.
In all, there were 150 reports of unidentified flying objects in British Columbia over the past year. That, Vike noted makes up about 50 per cent of the entire crop of UFO sightings in the entire country.
Vike has been working as a UFOlogist since mid-2000, following up a lifelong passion for astronomy. When he moved to Houston, he set up his web site and started posting some old UFO pictures, and people started calling in their reports.
One thing I would like to stress is that if people make a report, their personal information will not be given out, a Vike said. This is very important.ä To report a UFO sighting, call Vike's toll-free number at (not operating anymore)
Article at http://www.quesnelobserver.com under the Community section.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Houston BC Resident Vike Busy Researching Sightings In Sky
Posted: January 21, 2008
Py Paul Strickland Staff Writer Prince George Citizen © 2004 All Rights Reserved
A Houston man who researches celestial phenomena says a number of unexplained objects have appeared in the night sky over Prince George and the Northern Interior in recent years.
Brian Vike hopes local residents will phone his toll-free line, 1-866-262-1989, to report any unusual sightings.
Vike owns and operates HBCC UFO Research (HBCC stands for Houston, British Columbia, Canada), which he established in 2000. He says the number of reports of unexplained night-sky phenomena has increased dramatically since 2002.
"There is no doubt something is happening in our skies", he said. "Particularly in the last two months there have been a lot of strange things."
Vike said a Prince George resident reported a red ball of light just west of the city Jan.30 around 9.30 p.m.
"The first time it rose from behind trees, and then it moved to the west and hovered above the trees," he said.
"Afterwards it jumped higher quite suddenly, took off for the west, and made a curving motion.
"She said that, being so close, they thought it may be a helicopter but it made no noise." Vike says.
Another resident called around the same time to report exactly the same phenomena, he added.
Other Prince George residents saw a ball of light over the industrial area east of the downtown core, the evening of January 29th. "It flew over and split in two," Vike said. "Each part went in a different direction".
This week a city resident near First and Tabor told The Citizen she and four friends saw two orange objects in the northern sky, January 31st around 10.p.m. After five or 10 minutes they moved lightly apart, one more slowly than the other. The first one disappeared fairly quickly into clouds afterwards, while the other moved out more slowly and faded off.
Above a month and a half ago, Prince George residents phoned about a possible meteor, Vike said. "It was a real good fireball streaking across the sky just west of Prince," he said. "It was blue and left a long bright trail behind it. It lit up quite an area as it travelled through."
Another incident occurred in the city about a month ago. A resident was standing by the Future Shop, looking west just after the sky had turned dark. For two minutes the resident saw a large flame, such as from a jet afterburn, but they didn't see any aircraft anywhere.
Last Fall, a Quesnel resident driving north towards Prince George saw an oval shaped light from highway 97 between the two communities.
"In the last while dozens of people in Prince George have seen unusual phenomena," he said.
Reports of sightings may be faxed to Vike at (old number) or email to hbccufo@telus.net
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Py Paul Strickland Staff Writer Prince George Citizen © 2004 All Rights Reserved
A Houston man who researches celestial phenomena says a number of unexplained objects have appeared in the night sky over Prince George and the Northern Interior in recent years.
Brian Vike hopes local residents will phone his toll-free line, 1-866-262-1989, to report any unusual sightings.
Vike owns and operates HBCC UFO Research (HBCC stands for Houston, British Columbia, Canada), which he established in 2000. He says the number of reports of unexplained night-sky phenomena has increased dramatically since 2002.
"There is no doubt something is happening in our skies", he said. "Particularly in the last two months there have been a lot of strange things."
Vike said a Prince George resident reported a red ball of light just west of the city Jan.30 around 9.30 p.m.
"The first time it rose from behind trees, and then it moved to the west and hovered above the trees," he said.
"Afterwards it jumped higher quite suddenly, took off for the west, and made a curving motion.
"She said that, being so close, they thought it may be a helicopter but it made no noise." Vike says.
Another resident called around the same time to report exactly the same phenomena, he added.
Other Prince George residents saw a ball of light over the industrial area east of the downtown core, the evening of January 29th. "It flew over and split in two," Vike said. "Each part went in a different direction".
This week a city resident near First and Tabor told The Citizen she and four friends saw two orange objects in the northern sky, January 31st around 10.p.m. After five or 10 minutes they moved lightly apart, one more slowly than the other. The first one disappeared fairly quickly into clouds afterwards, while the other moved out more slowly and faded off.
Above a month and a half ago, Prince George residents phoned about a possible meteor, Vike said. "It was a real good fireball streaking across the sky just west of Prince," he said. "It was blue and left a long bright trail behind it. It lit up quite an area as it travelled through."
Another incident occurred in the city about a month ago. A resident was standing by the Future Shop, looking west just after the sky had turned dark. For two minutes the resident saw a large flame, such as from a jet afterburn, but they didn't see any aircraft anywhere.
Last Fall, a Quesnel resident driving north towards Prince George saw an oval shaped light from highway 97 between the two communities.
"In the last while dozens of people in Prince George have seen unusual phenomena," he said.
Reports of sightings may be faxed to Vike at (old number) or email to hbccufo@telus.net
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
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