Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date: Around 1999,
2000.
I
was just goofing off blowing some idle time looking for any recent news or
articles regarding claims of UFO sightings and a link brought me to your sight.
First thing I see is this illustration of what someone else had reported
seeing. Then it hit me! This looks like something I saw.
Around
1999 perhaps 2000, I can’t be sure. I know I documented it, but I can’t
remember where and when. Kind of like writing down a password and forgetting
where you put it so documenting it did me no service. I will never ever forget
the event in my life.
I
was working in a retirement home and I had to go outside and smoke a cigarette
out by the front of our facility. I was in charge of the desk on the night
shift up until midnight. Everyone was asleep, or at least none of the residents
were out and about.
The
time frame I would estimate must have been somewhere between 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
I was online with my laptop in my office. I wasn't suppose to be online and
generally I would have disconnected and put away my laptop long before the next
staff members came on shift and would never setup the laptop until well after
all the residents and other staff were gone except our nurse. She was ok about
me being online.
So
I am standing outside and its dark and the sky is clear. I would be facing east
towards the SFO international airports general area, but I glanced southward
and saw something very strange. I couldn't make it out, but it was big.
My
first impression was a giant plastic grocery bag falling from the sky. I
assumed my eyes were playing tricks on me, but I got the sense that it not
exactly a hard form but it was far away. I’d say at least who knows? A
mile or more? I don't have a sense of measurement that's scientifically
accurate. However you see planes all the time and after a while you kind of get
to figure size and heights and distances.
My
guess would have been a couple miles south. I was in the town of Millbrae
California and this would have put this object as coming down somewhere over
Burlingame. I recall looking around for anyone who might be out and about.
The lot around the company was empty of people and the nurse somewhere off in
our building doing her rounds.
I
didn't want to walk away for a moment unless I loose sight of this. I watched
it carefully and going through my mind as fast as possible trying to relate it
to anything. I even thought it might be a sign torn loose from one of those
small planes that passed over with advertisements. Yet that didn't make sense.
It was night. Who would be flying around with one of those. No one could see
it.
After
a good 5 minutes of what appeared as this objects descending it seemed to level
off. Sure enough it was moving towards my area. Towards me or across my
path. I was frozen in place, my eyes affixed on this object and as it grew
closer it seemed larger. Of course what doesn't seem larger as it gets
closer.
I
did not see any lights and the object no longer looked like this grocery bag or
bed sheet fall from the sky. It was like a massive grayish/whitish thing moving
slowly across the sky. It was at I’d guess a 45 degree angle from where I stood
looking up at the sky.
I
remember having the most difficulty discerning a shape. The body seemed to be
changing or perhaps something was moving over it like steam or clouds of steam.
I could not make out a solid defined form. It was kind of rectangular at once
them oblong another moment. It was sure as hell not a cloud. Nothing had I
seen in my life move like this.
As
it crossed the sky and got where it was in front of me overhead. I would say
maybe it was 1000 feet up. I remember wondering why no one else saw this. Why
traffic hadn't stopped. I wasn't right on the main strip and had limited view
of traffic and it was night so it would make sense that drivers aren't looking
up when they are driving.
My
guess was that this object was as big if not bigger than the building I worked
in. Which was about 3-5 stories tall. I can’t remember and spread over a good
block. Hell of a lot bigger than anything I had ever seen flying.
When
it was somewhat dead in front of me at that 45 degree angle which might have
put it just over the SFO (San Fran National Airport) it started to go back up
into the sky. It was rising and I watched it until it appeared to look like a
tiny star. A twinkle in the sky. Then the little star like object started back
in the same direction from which it came.
When
it was far away and the street lights glare caused me to loose sight of it, I
ran back into the building and called my wife who lived in Burlingame. Our
apartment faced in the same direction as the place I worked. I asked her to
look out over towards the bay with my binoculars and see if you could spot what
appeared to be a star moving across the sky. She went outside and did see it
and watched it until it was well out of her range. My only witness!
One
month before this event my wife and I were standing outside our apartment
building looking up at sky in the same general direction, but it was partially
cloudy night. I saw something cut through the clouds fast as all hell. I was
completely caught off guard and I watched the clouds and caught a second
glimpse of it heading away from me towards Millbrae very fast.
My
first immediate thought was maybe I’d seen an owl, but it was too big and
it didn't look like it had wings. I concluded no owl could ever move that fast.
My second glance assured me this was way to huge to be any thing other than an
object in flight. Yet with the clouds giving me only two separate one
second glances I was at a total loss to conclude anything about what I had
seen.
I
assumed the second sight was related to the first. But the second flight the
object was moving super slow. It took a good 15 minutes from when I first
spotted it until when it became a star like object. I took about 20 minutes to
walk home one night from my Millbrae work sight to my home. So you can imagine
the speed was incredibly slow.
I
remember going back into the building and telling my friends online what I saw.
I was immediately the comic hit of the hour. It changed me. I can no longer go
out at night without looking up and studying the sky. My one friend called it
the magic bed sheet. But what struck me about your illustration was
picture if turned face forward with the rear turned up and front faced down.
From far away at night it might look like a plastic grocery bag with the tail
being the handles.
I
have told this story many times to many individuals, but I have never contacted
anyone in the media. As a witness of how many of these stories are treated I
had no desire to become a public object of someone's humor and no interest in
any publicity. I believe I saw something that highly likely was not from around
this planet. I am not a college schooled person or hold a degree, but I am self
educated and very informed.
I
have vast knowledge of many things and so I am fully capable of critical and
objective thinking. I do know that I do not know the source of that object
or have any knowledge of anything that resembles that object with the
capabilities of flying in the manner it did. Note this. The object was on
a definite flight path. It did not swerve. It maintained a specific distance
from the ground to the sky and flew in a straight path. So I knew at a
certain point this was not an object falling from the sky.
This
was an object that was being directed in a specific controlled direction. I had
seen planes go over my building but not in the same flight path. The path
would have somewhat followed the path of the 101 freeway from the south to the
North then returned south. The actual path id have to get out a compass to be
more accurate. I just know I saw the planes head out more towards the San Mateo
bridge aka the 92 freeway.
To
the best of my knowledge no planes flew that path leaving or entering the
airport ever. No planes leaving or entering the airport could be mistaken for
anything other than an airplane. I wasn't more than a mile from away from the airfields.
The planes are loud and low flying over. Under no circumstances could
this object have a plane of any sort that I have ever heard of ever. I know of
nothing that could fly that slow and yet climb that high to the point it
appeared to be a tiny star. It had no discernable lights! How would it get its
light at night so that you could see it? Reflected light from the sun or the
moon?
I
did finally catch up with the nurse in the building. It was about 6 months
later she called me and told me there was a story on TV about someone who had
seen something similar to what I had described. I was not in my home at the
time of the call and not able to catch the broadcast but she remembered my
story and wanted to let me know that perhaps there was a lot more to this than
just what I had seen. Validating my sighting basically.
I'd
say a week didn't go by before I went to one of the electronic outlets and
purchased myself a movie camera with night vision and kept it in the back of my
car for many months in hopes that I might again get another glimpse. I never
did see anything like it again. I still reside in the Burlingame area. I still
look at the sky with intensity and an excited hope of seeing something or
anything ever again. Now all I do is see what I guess to be satellites moving
across the heavens. Some fast some slow and an occasional shooting star.
I
don't know anything about you or your organization. I do not specifically
follow UFO sightings. I am curious when I do hear or come across something
specifically if it resembles anything like what I had seen. I am fascinated by
knowledge of the heavens and the sciences around it. I do believe that it is
highly unlikely that the human race is the only race of beings in the universe.
Given
the scope of the universe and the variances and similarities of various
galaxies there is a good chance we are anything but alone. I suspect that
other life forms out there may know of us and perhaps who knows they are just
watching us like any scientist might watch changes in any subject of
interest. Its all speculation without concrete evidence.
I
am sharing this with you and I hope you find it useful. I apologize for my lack
of skills in writing a fluid grammatically correct synopsis for you to analyze.
I just write as my meager mind lets it flow.
Thank you to the
witnesses for the report.
Brian Vike, Director
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
