| Whitehorse, Yukon Thanks To The Whitehorse Star by Chuck Tobin November 1996, 10:30 PM Though it's been four years since she and her daughter saw three UFOs along hamilton Boulevard in Whitehorse, only recently did former Whitehorse resident Colette Opper learn there might be more to the encounter. Opper told the audience at last Saturday's UFO conference that she and he daughters were also shadowed by a UFO one night after leaving the Takhini Hot Springs. The Oppers now live in Edmonton. But in November 1996, Opper and her eldest daughter, Brianne, wre driving to their home in the Granger area at about 10:30 PM, following a performance at the Yukon Arts Center, when they first saw a UFO. Four months later, while returning from the Takhini Hot Springs at around 10:00 PM, Opper and her three Daughters watched as an unidentified object seemed to follow them all the way into the city from the Hot Springs Road. But the encounter of the closest kind apparently occurred during the Hamilton Boulevard incident, the audience was told by the 12 year Whitehorse resident, who worked as a recreational therapist for the Yukon government. As she and Brianne approached the big bend just before Elijah Smith Eleentary School, they saw three large lights hovering about five meters above the ground. Both Opper and her daughter remember breaking out in hysterical laughter,for no rational reason. They remember seeing the lights ahead of them, and then again as they looked back from a point just beyond the traffic lights. "But I do not remember being beside them." After her first session in August with internationally renowned psychologist and hypnotit Helen Neufeld, both Opper and Neufeld suspect Opper's Hamilton Boulevard encounter was one of the third kind. They suspect Opper and her daughter were detained for however long - moments, minutes - by life forms aboard the three UFOs. "I did not see anybody because the light was so close around me," Opper recalled for the audience. "I felt there was people there, I know there were beings there... I was thinking, 'Where is Brianne ? I knew she was safe and I also knew she would be OK. "The other thing that came out of that was something, the feeling that I was getting; there was some energy actually going into the left side of my brain, and it was a very different feeling." Neufeld said in her 30 years' experience working with hypnosis, and as a chartered psychologist who's been practising privately for 21 years, she's experieced the difference between subjects under hypnosis who are reliving genuine and fabricated events. When it comes to the genuine moment, there's no mistaking the change in body language, she said. As Opper relived the time between first seeing the lights and then glancing back at the, her face became distored or contorted beyond belief. "The face was so totally, absolutely different ... that there is no question in my mind that she was undergoing a distasteful - distasteful may be the wrong word - but in awe... It was grimacing in the extreme, but I did not see terror." Both Opper and her daughter were left with marks on their body, marks that can look like bruises. But they do not fade like any bruise she's ever seen. There's no change in color, from the black and blue prominence of the standard bruise, and then fading to the yellowish tinge before it goes away. In this case, it's as though the marks were there, and then they were gone. Neufeld, who's also been a school educator for 30 years, told the audience the maks on Opper's body, and how they eventually went away, are consistent with the experience by countless others who've reported similar encounters. Opper said she decided to undergo hypnosis in August because she felt there was something lingering in the back of her mind. Brianne hasn't undergone hypnosis, but may. Brianne knows her mother has, but they've not discussed the sessions, nor are they making a big deal out of the Hamilton Boulevard encounter. While raising three children and working, there's not a lot of extra time to be preoccupied with the experience, she said. After all, Opper added, it was not a negative one. Opper explaned in an interview that she decided to return to Whitehorse for the conference as a show of support. The conference was, in part, to show people it's OK to talk about uFOs, with an aim of reducing the ridicule most often aimed at those who tell of eyewitness accounts. She remembers the ridicule her daughters faced at their local school when a local newspaper went to far in describing the family while recounting the Hamilton Boulevard experience after it happened. "It is just something for people to be aware of, because I did see what I did, and my children did see what they saw." Whitehorse, Yukon By Dane Gibson Northern News Service Whitehorse- October 25, 1999 Martin Jasek thinks they're out there. In his mind there is no doubt that the 22 people he talked to from three different Northern communities saw an unidentified flying object. Along with his duties as husband, father, and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern development water resource engineer, Jasek is a UFO investigator. "We know some of these craft are large and encounters are close, " Jasek said from his home in Whitehorse, Yukon. "They also exhibit behavior that's not explainable through human technology." Jasek has compiled testimony from 22 witnesses who saw something in the air on December 11, 1996, that was "larger than a football stadium." The sightings took place along a 216 kilometer stretch of the Klondike Highway in the Yukon. The witnesses were located in three major areas along the highway: Fox Lake, the village of Carmacks and the village of Petty Crossing. After researching the incident for three years, Jasek has released his findings on the Internet and is preparing a hard copy report for the RCMP. "What I hope that the report will encourage acceptance from mainstream science. I also hope it will help provide an atmosphere of legitimacy so people will feel more comfortable coming forward if they see something they can't explain," Jasek said. Jasek said the sightings from witnesses were consistent, collaborating what was seen in each different area. All but one witness requested their names not be used in the report. In the Fox Lake area, the report states two friends were following one another home from Whitehorse to Carmacks in separate vehicles. They both spotted the UFO and slammed on their brakes. According to the report, one of the men got out of his vehicle to better observe the craft. The UFO proceeded to drift silently towards them and stopped directly over where they had parked. He described seeing a "white light in the center of an elliptically shaped object." The object continued to travel over him and eastward out of sight. In total, there were six witnesses in the Fort lake area from different points along the lakeshore. In Carmacks, the UFO was seen by nine witnesses, including a family of five. The last seven recorded sightings were in Pelly Crossing. One witness was tending his trapline northeast of Pelly when he observed a long row of lights drifting over the hills. In a matter of seconds, it was hovering an estimated 275 meters in front of him. he ran away from the object and when he turned back, it was gone. A little later, four women who were taking an evening course at the Pelly Crossing Community College spotted the object from the school's front deck where they were taking a break. "They were out on a break on the front deck of the one story building looking west when they observed a row of lights," the report's event summary states. "The lights were traveling slowly towards them and slightly towards the north. They recall the object being huge and there was no sound at all." Jasek said comparing the size of the UFO to a football stadium is not due to exaggeration on the witnesses part. "On the contrary. This comparison is conservative as it was shown in the report that the UFO was likely much larger than a football stadium, " Jasek said. He said a reasonably accurate estimate of the size of the UFO (or UFOs) was accomplished by a technique known as triangulation. "Triangulation relies on the observation of an object from different vantage points at the same time. This method was employed six times to obtain six estimates for the size of the UFO," he said. Jasek said by using this technique, he estimates the UFO to range anywhere from .88 of a kilometer to two kilometers in length. After reviewing all his research, he's convinced that there was something in the sky that December night that can't be explained. "I think the evidence is overwhelming. It's just a matter of acceptance and getting used to the idea," Jasek said. "To some people, it may indicate there's extraterrestrial involvement. Based on the evidence I've seen, it's the most logical explanation. As to what they're doing here, we're not sure. But that's one of the things we'd like to find out." More Than Northern Lights Whitehorse based UFO investigator Martin Jasek, recently released a detailed report about a multiple witness UFO sighting that took place on December 11, 1996, just outside of Whitehorse. What he may not know is that around the same time, residents in NWT's Deh Cho region were also seeing unexplained activity in the sky. "Almost everybody in Trout Lake saw something in the sky in 1996," said Ruby Jumbo of the Sambaa KeDene Band. "We had major sightings here during that time, but it's slowed down since then." Exactly one month before the 1996 event that Jasek's report documents, the Deh Cho Drum newspaper in Fort Simpson ran a front page story about an elder who saw "mysterious lights" in the sky. Liidli Kue elder Leo Norwegian was one of many area residence who reported seeing lights that hovered then sped away "faster than anything known on this planet." The newspaper's editor at the time, P J Harston, wrote an editorial a week later because cynics were coming out to joke with him about the story, which he didn't think was funny. He said in his Jan. 18, 1996 editorial: "How can a reporter so easily laugh away a strange sighting seen by dozens of people, video taped and under investigation by the Department of National defense ?" More recently, in July/August 1999 edition of Canadian Geographic, the magazine's Geo Map section identified UFO hot spots in Canada. Yellowknife was one of the areas identified on the map. "In the latest (ufology Research of Manitoba) report, British Columbia and Ontario each have about 30 per cent of the sightings and there is also an unusually large number from the Yukon, with reports from the North increasing over the last few years," states the Canadian Geographic article. For more information on sightings in the North, check out the Internet web site, www.ufobc.org UFO SIGHTED IN YELLOWKNIFE On Friday night, February 23, 1996, a UFO appeared over downtown Yellowknife, provincial capital of the Northwest Territories. The object was sighted at 8 p.m. by Albert Wilson, a resident of Yellowknife who is confined to a wheelchair. Looking out his window, Mr. Wilson saw "a row of rotating lights" hovering above the Legislative Assembly building and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center. "They were rotating clockwise," Mr. Wilson said, but added that, because of darkness, he could discern no vehicle or object above or below the hovering lights. Immediately Mr. Wilson reached for his cellular phone to call the local radio station. Before he could dial the number, however, the hand-held phone went dead. Mr. Wilson wheeled himself into the kitchen and then tried to use the main Phone. He heard a dial tone for three seconds, and then that phone also went dead. Trapped in his own home, unable to contact anyone in the outside world, Mr. Wilson moved his chair to the window and watched the UFO until 8:30 p.m. The lights, he added, were red, yellow, green and blue. He tried the phone again and this time heard a dial tone. Quickly he phoned the local detachment of the Royal Candian Mounted Police. An RCMP cruiser arrived at Mr. Wilson's home at 8:40 p.m. However, by the time the Mounties showed up, the UFO was gone. Colonel Pierre LeBlanc, commander of CFB Yellowknife, has stated that the Canadian military aircraft are not responsible for the recent flurry of UFO reports. UFO ROUNDUP Volume 1, Number 6. March 25, 1996 Editor: Masinaigan Yellowknife, NWT January 17, 1996, 8:10 PM At approx: 8:10 PM, January 17, 1996 a bright object streaked across the Yellowknife skyline in an easterly direction. I was driving my F-150 (half-ton) truck down the Kam lake road towards Franklin Avenue when the sky started to brighten. Giving the impression that a flare had been sent off above my truck. As I leaned forward to look upwards through the windshield of my truck, I saw a silvery white object trailing sparks and streak across the sky. I saw the object for approximately one second. It seemed to be above the city since I had to lean forward to see it and it disappeared before crossing my field of vision. I am unable to give you an altitude estimate or an approximate distance to it's flight path, but the object was bright enough to leave shadows if one thought to look. I sketched the flight path on a city map, but I assume it could have been miles away depending on it's altitude. Comment: (name deleted adds that (name deleted) who works with his office estimated the altitude of the object to be at least 500 meters. (Name deleted) was in the vicinity of Gitzel Street and (name deleted) was on Kam Lake Road opposite the Yellowknife Correctional center at the time of the sighting. Capt. Maedel, G3 Air and WO Nickerson, G2, CFNAHQ, Yellowknife were involved to the extent that they accepted and forwarded the information. Mr. Langlois, Natural Resources Canada is compiling reports due to his interest in any seismic activity related to the event. The recent number of UFO reports and media attention is expected to spurn additional sightings. Natural Resources Canada (Seismic Station) suspects the sighting was a descending meteor but unable to provide proof at this time. No further action by this HQ anticipated. Fort Resolution, NWT UFO sighting commencing on January 4 and ending January 7, 1996 The UFO was sighted approx: 10- 20 KM southwest of Fort Resolution every night commencing 4 January and ending 7 January, 1996. The UFO was sighted between 1730 and 1900 HRS every night. The UFO was described as a bright white light that would change in intensity from dim to bright. The light would then change in color from white to red to blue and repeat the sequence continuously. The object would hover low on the horizon, approx: 500 - 600 AGL. The longest continuous observation of the object was 30 minutes after which the object flew off at a great speed and disappeared. A three minute video was taken of the object. Copt to be forwarded when received by this HQ. Approx: 20 - 30 persons from Fort Resolution witnessed the object. CBC have run a few radio and TV clips featuring the sighting in Fort Resolution. Inquiries from the media to this HQ to date have centered around questions on military exercises in Fort Resolution area of which there have been none. The initial sighting was reported to this HQ by Mr. Ian Hunter, Mayor of Fort Resolution (403-394-5521). |
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