2002 YUKON UFO
SIGHTINGS
25-Jan-2002, Alaska
Hwy. Yukon River Bridge at Marsh Lake, Yukon: 6:40pm
A woman left her home at the Army Beach Subdivision
at Marsh Lake to travel to Whitehorse. She was about to make a left
turn onto the Alaska Highway westbound when she noticed a very bright
stationary object the color of a welding torch over the mountain
ahead of her to the north. She continued on her way.
Just after crossing the Yukon
River Bridge and , she saw an object (glowing dark emerald green)
come from the Marsh Lake water level control gates below on her
right side (duration of flight was about two seconds). The object
was saucer shaped, it stopped in front of her car about 10 feet
up for a few seconds and was gone. She didn't noticed which direction
it disappeared to. She stated that that there should be at least
two other witnesses as there was an oncoming truck-trailer and a
car following behind her.
26-Jan-2002, Army
Beach at Marsh Lake, Yukon: 7:15 am and 6:30pm
A woman noticed a blinking star-like object that was visible in the
morning as well as later in the evening that was stationary and
would move slightly some times. The witness video taped the light
from her home in the evening and the light remained there all night.
28-Jan-2002, Army
Beach at Marsh Lake, Yukon: 4:30pm
A woman turning right off the Alaska Highway
into the Army Beach Subdivision saw a green glow (shape depicted
below) in the sky above the Marsh Lake dump. The glow was very large
and then suddenly was gone. The dump is to the left of the highway
when looking east from the Army Beach turnoff.
29-Jan-2002, Alaska
Hwy. Yukon River Bridge at Marsh Lake, Yukon: 6:40am
A woman driving towards Whitehorse just passed
the Yukon River bridge when she noticed a light about 300 metres
above the river flow control gates. In 5 seconds the light descended
towards her and stopped about 60 metres away above and to her right
side. The witness kept on driving and thinks the light stayed in
the location where it stopped as she drove on.
30-Jan-2002, Whitehorse,
Yukon: 7:30am
A woman videotaped a light from the parking
lot of the Whitehorse General Hospital. The light appeared in line
with the wind turbine on Haeckel Hill but below the mountain top
to the east.
31-Jan-2002, Whitehorse,
Yukon: 4:10pm
A woman was driving up Robert Service Way
(South Access Rd.) and had just passed the traffic lights at Ear
Lake Road when she saw a metallic object (as shown below) low in
the sky, coming from the Carcross direction. She was close to the
Alaska Highway when she lost sight of the object which at the time
was above Miles Canyon (southern direction). She wondered if the
object went down in that area. The distance from the Ear Lake turnoff
to the Alaska Highway is about 1 km therefore the duration of the
sighting would be approximately 1 minute.
31-Jan-2002, Whitehorse,
Yukon: 9:10pm
Heard on CBC radio on Feb 1 at about 8:00am:
Some caller(s) saw what they described as a "meteor" last night,
Jan. 31/02, approx. 21:10 in the eastern sky. One caller described
it as having a big bright light at the front, followed by a long
tail, and ending with a small "star". She said it was travelling
slowly. I heard another caller describe the same thing.
February 1, 2002 Friday
Whitehorse Star, p. 6:
"Residents see lights in Whitehorse sky
It was a close encounter of an unknown kind over Whitehorse on Thursday
night.
"We to no indication of what it is," Whitehorse RCMP Const. Shawn
Lemay said in an interview this morning.
At around 9:00 last night, police received eight calls about strange
bright lights in the Yukon sky.
The calls were from Riverdale, Lake Laberge and Porter Creek.
Although police have confirmed it wasn't an aircraft, they are unsure
what else it could be. "
At least 8 independent witnesses reported this sighting.
Note: There were subsequent reports that this was a reentry of a
satellite. The satellite was evidently tracked by NORAD and the
H. R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver.
31-Jan-2002, Whitehorse
(Porter Creek Subdivision), Yukon: 9:20pm
I was walking the dogs last night and was coming back onto the street
at about 9:20 in the evening and coming from the southeast and along
side Haeckel Hill I saw a bright bluish white light (silver-dollar
size) with 7 or eight smaller lights following behind.This lasted
for about 8 seconds,they were heading northwest,low in the sky with
no sound or smoke trail. I guess there was several reports of people
seeing the same thing (thank god!). WOW!!!!! Kim
Thank you to Gord Kijek for
forwarding it to us:
How did you lose sight of the object?
lost sight of it over the horizon
Color of objects: bright bluish/white
Description of sighting: The first object was about the size if
a silver dollar to the eye with 6 smaller ones following behind.
Low on the horizon heading northwest towards Lake Laberge. No smoke
or sound. It was seen be other people as I was told by local R.C.M.P.
Shape of objects: Disk or Ball
2-Feb-2002, Whitehorse,
Yukon: approx. 7:00am
I saw a yellow light in the sky just as I'm
turning onto the Alaska Highway (westbound)at Army Beach. Just before
crossing the Yukon River Bridge I saw a small orange light on the
left, high on the mountain. The light was going on and off.
2-Feb-2002, Mary
Lake Subdivision, Whitehorse, Yukon: 7:45 to 8:15 pm
A woman went out on her deck in the evening
and was watching what she thought was a satellite until it suddenly
stopped dead in its flight (east to west). After a while it continued
its movement, but now going north. Then going back east, north and
west again. At one point she called at her family to come and look,
which they did but they did not stay long enough to see it change
direction (Temperature was -20 deg-C). The UFO was 30 degrees above
the horizon when first spotted, and in 30 minutes had moved to about
60 degrees above the horizon. Getting cold she went inside but went
back out to look an hour later. By then it was cloudy.
At the same location in the
summer of 1997 she saw a what she later found out from the First
Nations to be called a "Grandmother light". In her case it was a
pale green Frisbee sized plasma like cloud moving above the ground
in her yard.
6-Feb-2002, Whitehorse, Yukon.
9:45pm
My Daughter (14 yrs) spotted
it initially and I also witnessed the tail end of the sighting.
We observed three faint objects in the night sky at 9:45 PST pass
directly overhead in a west to east direction. The night sky was
clear except for some cloud cover on the southern horizon. The moon
was below the horizon. The three objects all had the same light
intensity (low but easily visible with the naked eye), in line in
a north/ south direction, evenly and closely spaced, and were visible
for about 1.5 minutes. The objects disappeared from view at about
50 to 60 degrees vertical angle, azimuth would be about 140 to 150
degrees. I suspect the objects were space junk but I have never
seen more than one object at a time - three pieces in line together
seems odd to me. I did make an attempt last night to determine what
they were through a tracking web site (http://www.heavens-above.com).
The information I was able to get for my location and time did not
show anything passing overhead at nearly 90 degrees vertical in
a north/south direction. I don't know how good this site is over
other sources so thought best to pass this on to you. I thought
maybe you may have access to some good tracking information that
could explain this sighting or speculate on what it could be.
Investigation:
After we posted this sighting to the Canadian UFO discussion group
we received the following reply from Frits Westra of the Working
Group Netherlands. Both the witness and myself (Martin Jasek) are
satisfied with his explanation below:
Hello Martin,
I've entered the witnesses' data into Stephen Fels' Sathunt tracking
program. Using Mike McCant's element sets for classified satellites,
I get an overhead pass of USA 121, USA 122, USA 123. These three
are also known as a NOSS trio.
USA 121 1996-029C [NOSS 2-3C]
USA 122 1996-029D [NOSS 2-3D]
USA 123 1996-029E [NOSS 2-3E]
Note: NOSS Satellites are classified
military satellites that travel in groups of three. Their function
is to intercept and locate sources of communication originating
from ships on the ocean.
At the observation location,
the trio reached a max elevation (culmination) of 80 deg at 21.44
hrs PST, which is almost directly overhead.
All three objects must have appeared in the West (azimuth 293 deg)
at an elevation 20 deg over the horizon. Culmination of 80 deg was
at azimuth 021 deg. Objects disappeared in the Northeast (azimuth
039 deg), still at an elevation of 80 deg. Calculated max magnitude
was 3,5-3,8 during culmination.
(Above figures are not corrected for terrain elevation)
The trio should have looked like an extremely flattened triangle
moving sideways:
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Please contact me if you need any further information.
Bests,
Frits Westra
UFO Working Group Netherlands
P.O. Box 2191
7500 CD Enschede
The Netherlands
Witness Responds:
Thanks for digging up more
details on our siting - this is exciting stuff. My daughter will
be pleased to know that the lights she saw can be explained. The
details provided by Mr. Westra fit very well - I should add that
my original estimate on the azimuth were in error. I went out tonight
with a compass and found the path was very much a west to east track
(sorry for not doing this from the outset). Thanks again to Mr.
Westra for providing you with the information. Another mystery solved!
7-Feb-2002, Dawson City, Yukon:
am
Witness was heard on the radio
the following day describing a fireball including a description
of multiple colors.
Late Feb/early March-2002,
Top of the World Highway: Evening
Documented by Hans Grasholm
A woman was paid $15 to drive two young men up on Hwy.9 the
top of the world highway west of Dawson. It was a clear starlit
night with strong northern lights. They were standing outside the
car about 35 km from Dawson watching the sky, but were on the way
back to the car when the woman noticed a light blink and then another
and four more lights. She called out to the boys to watch. The lights
were around 45 degrees up from the horizon and in a northeast direction.
There was only one light on at a time, but the blinking lights formed
a "Y". The woman thinks it was one big object because the lights
suddenly blinked in a different location in the sky, like the object
had moved forward and the lights still kept their relative position
to each other. She says it looked like the object moved forward
and then back and to one side, lasting about 10-15 seconds, at which
point the lights did not blink any more and they lost sight of whatever
it was. Returning to the car, the woman noticed the compass on the
dashboard going wild, and taking the compass out of the car made
no difference, it kept on moving wild. She did not say for how long.
The woman new how to describe the position of the lights accuratly
over the phone, she asked UFO investigator Hans Grasholm to get
a piece of paper with squares on it with letters designating columns
and numbers designating row. She then told him where to put the
dots (Lights) 1F, 5F, 7D, 8H, 11A, 11J as shown below.
Other information:
Number of witnesses :3
Six blinking lights, each about the size and brightnes of a bright
star.
Angular size: Three times the size of the Moon, (about 1.5 degree)
Distance unknown and no sound.
21-Mar-2002 Whitehorse,
Yukon: 6:30pm
Documented by Hans Grasholm and Cher Davidson
A woman was sitting in a living room in a house on Liard Street
feeding a baby 5 feet from a bay-window when she spotted an object
that was black with no markings. She estimated the dimensions were
12 inches long, 3/4 inch thick (Cigar shaped). In an interview,
it was determined that the object had an angular size of 1/2 degree
in length. It was above the houses, but behind the trees at a height
of about 30 degrees, due north and moving toward N-E. The woman
thinks it was 100 meters away (Investigator's note: object would
have crashed on the hills in that case, so suspect the distance
would have been much greater). Duration of sighting was about 3
seconds, traveling very fast, spanning a straight line of about
45 degrees. She lost sight of the object behind some trees. The
weather was cloudy under daylight conditions.
22-March-2002, Whitehorse, Yukon: 8:00pm
Documented by Hans Grasholm
A young man went out with the dog and was looking straight up when
he saw an oval-shaped object, silver in color and reflecting the
sun, which was low in the horizon. The object was spinning (clockwise)
at about 10 revolutions per second. It went up into the clouds,
came down again, moved 100 feet east, back west 50 feet, then straight
up again into the clouds. The young man said that his mother came
out and also saw the object before it vanished into the clouds.
The duration of the sighting was 2 to 3 minutes. The size of the
object was about 1/10 that of the full moon. The sky was partly
overcast.
Mid August-2002
, Carcross, Yukon: 2:00
We were sitting at YAY! park, at first, I was looking
at the northern lights, they looked like they were bursting all
different colors like purple and green, then after they faded away
I noticed one star..moving around in all kinds of weird directions,
so I called my friends over and they saw them too. After we were
just focused on the one star, like 4 or 5 more appeared..and they
were dancing around the sky too..
How did you lose sight of the UFO? they
all went off in separate directions, we lost sight of them eventually
Location:
Chootla Subdivision
Number of witnesses: 4
Color(s), shape: like normal sized stars
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Angular size & distance: they were small orbs or something,
they looked like normal stars..and as far away as stars too
Speed & directions of motion and direction
of observation?: They moved in different directions, zig-zagging, circling, and kinda
swirling around...they were moving quite fast..like how a hummingbird
moves
Weather & Sky Conditions , night or day
?:
It was a very clear night.
Feelings, perceptions?: amused, it was
like they were dancing for us, like they knew we were watching.
It was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen!
Did they report it to the authorities (specify)?:
No, this is the first time we've ever spoken about it to someone
else other then ourselves
15-Sep-2002, Whitehorse,
Yukon: 10:00 - 10:30pm
Documented by Hans Grasholm
A man was driving north (KM 1475) toward Porter Creek on the Alaska
Highway when he noticed a globe-like object with a bright orange
color above Haeckel Hill (windmills). The object was about 15 degrees
below Venus and a little to the left. When the object was first
seen, it appeared to move about erraticly and then became stationary.
The man, an amateur astronomer, stopped the truck and got out to
watch. It did not move, and after about 10 minutes he decided to
go home to Porter Creek and take the telescope out for a better
look. However, by the time he came out of Rabbitsfoot Canyon, the
object was no longer in sight, although Venus was still visible.
The object had a bright orange glow, globe-like and about 5 to 10
times larger than Venus. Distance to the object was unknown. Duration
of sighting was about 10 minutes. Conditions were night time with
a clear sky.
20-Sep-2002, Whitehorse, Yukon: 7:30am
Documented by Hans Grasholm
A man was driving toward Whitehorse on the Alaska Hwy (km 1476)
and had just passed the Fish Lake Road, when, within 10 seconds,
a small shining cloud formed just 2 degrees above the mountains,
looking straight East. The "cloud" was in the pink of the sky, perfectly
round and half the size of the Moon, and much brighter than the
pink sky, almost shining like a light. The "cloud" appeared like
a vortex, (like a paintbrush started at 11:30, going clockwise and
almost running out of paint). The center was the darkest and the
color was white to yellow. The witness lost sight of the object
going down the "2 Mile Hill" into Whitehorse, but in the three minutes
he looked at it, it did not change or move. Sky Conditions: About
10 minutes before sunrise and possibly in the same direction that
the sun would rise. Horizon above the mountains was pink, no cloud
could be seen, the pink would gradually turn to blue higher up and
a layer of gray and white clouds formed a band about 10 degrees
above the horizon.
25-Sep-2002, Whitehorse,
Yukon: 8:30 pm
Documented by Martin Jasek
Two women from an apartment window in downtown Whitehorse observed
a bright white "<" shape that hovered in the sky for about one
and a half minutes and then traveled to the right and rotated to
a vertical "V" shape and descended below the roofline of a tall
building across the street. It did it gracefully and the witnesses
got the impression it was far away and huge. The total sighting
time was about 3 minutes. Just before the object rotated, a bright
light appeared on the bottom corner of the �<�. Several more
lights appeared along the open end of the �V� after it rotated.
The witnesses were looking towards the clay cliffs (airport, west).
Several photographs were taken and are being analyzed. Although
object and lights appear very faint in the images, due to the bright
sky following sunset, we have obtained the negatives from the witnesses
and hope to have them enhanced and analyzed.
14-Nov-2002 , Whitehorse,
Yukon: 12:05 am
Documented by Hans Grasholm
A woman stepped outside for a smoke when she spotted a yellow object
at an angle above the horizon that put it just under the power lines
(15 degrees up from horizon) and straight east above Grey Mountain.
Within 5 seconds the UFO was straight above her and almost seemed
to stop which gave her a scary feeling. The object was 1/3 the size
of a full moon at this point. It made a slight left turn and continued
west-southwest and was out of sight in about 5 seconds. It was a
clear starlit night, except between the two houses where the UFO
disappeared. In that portion of the sky there were clouds and the
UFO appeared to fly below them. The woman stated that the object
lit up the underside of the clouds the same way city lights do.
She was going to call her husband but things were moving too fast
so she was the only witness. The shape of the object was an oval
except for the two long sides that were parallel, like a circle
with opposite sides cut off:  The dimension
would be twice the length of the width. The color of the object
was yellow with what looked like red glowing speckles. There was
no pattern to the speckles.
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