RECENTLY REPORTED BC SIGHTINGS

UPDATED - January 2, 2003

18-Jan-2003, Burnaby: (9:30 pm)

At approximately 9:30 - 9:40 pm three witnesses, all members of the same family, were out for an evening walk on Pauls Crescent, in the Montecito area of north-east Burnaby. It was a crisp, clear night, with some streets enshrouded in fog while others were clear. We all admired the beautiful halo around the full moon. All of a sudden a bright comet-like object went sharply from Position 11 to Position 5 in the south-eastern sky. It was intensely green in colour, with red in its tail. We were all stunned. It was incredibly beautiful. It appeared at approximately 45 degrees above the horizon and disappeared close to the city skyline (between the Cariboo Hill and Edmonds areas). It sort of 'burned off' on the approach. By a lucky chance, all the three witnesses at that moment were looking in the same direction, towards New Westminster / Surrey. No sound was heard. I listened to the radio that night but no reports were mentioned.

31-Jan-2003, Ladysmith: (11:27 pm)

I witnessed a red and white orb that appeared to be about 2000 feet above Tent or Kuper islands. It was not stationary but it also was not covering much ground, it was kind of undulating or swaying like a pendulum but erratically from side to side. It did this for about thirty seconds and then seemed to bounce or skip thru the air in a northwesterly direction. It traveled for probably three kilometres at the most. I was walking my dogs at the time and I had to gather them up so I could follow the object as it went behind a stand of trees. When I had reached my new location, I could not find it in the sky. The whole thing took maybe 90 seconds.

I am not a crackpot! I have seen many military exercises with helicopters and jets flying at night. I have seen the American air force warthogs flying slow and low at night, Black Hawk helicopters, Chinooks and many other aircraft. What I saw did not act like any aircraft I have ever seen in my life.

3-Feb-2003, Houston: (8:10 pm)  HBCC UFO

Reported by Brian Vike, Houston

"Today, Friday, February 7, 2003 I was contacted about a sighting which took place here in Houston, B.C. A Canfor employee who runs a track mobile at the saw mill was moving around chip cars on company property. He said he climbed down off the machine he was operating to switch over to another track, when an extremely fast object, or more specifically, three bright, hazy blue/white lights came out of the north and disappeared to the south. The witness said everything happened so fast that he could not make out any type of outline to what he was viewing. The forestry worker said the three lights were in a triangular shape, and held the same shape until he lost sight of it. I asked the witness if he might be able to give me a rough idea of the altitude the lights were at. (I gave him a few examples). In the end he mentioned the lights were not that high above him, but had to be high enough to clear the mountains to the south. (approximately 2500 to 3000 feet)."

25-Feb-2003, Burnaby: (6:00 pm)

The witness was on the street in Burnaby when he heard a woman up ahead of him say to her husband, "Look at that! Look at that! He also looked up and was astonished to see a long slim-pointed (at each end) cylindrical-shaped object cruising slowly across the
evening sky at he estimates, 20,OOO feet. It was silver in colour, had no apparent wings, engines or tail attachment. Nor did it seem to be emitting any sound. The sky was free from any cloud obstruction and he had it in sight for at the most ten seconds before it was lost to view behind a distant building. The object was heading on a course that would have presumably taken it in the direction of west Vancouver.