Written by BERNICE TRICK
Citizen staff
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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One of the few that remains unidentified was a strange object over the Granisle, Houston, Telkwa and Hazelton area on Nov. 29.
Brian Vike, director of Houston UFO Research, who works with Ufology Research, received reports from "many different people who actually saw it."
He said the best description came from a rancher in Hazelton, who noticed a large bright yellow light over a distant foothill on his ranch from his picture window. He watched it for some time before it eventually moved closer and hovered near his ranch buildings. With his spotting scope he could discern it was shaped like a cigar. He also saw six other red and green objects much higher above it and in a straight line across the night sky.
The object remained there until dawn started to break and then rose straight upwards until he could no longer view it.
"As for the line of coloured objects, they seemed to disappear with the daylight, that was it ... an amazing UFO event," said Vike.
During the same time witnesses in Granisle reported blue flashes lighting up large areas, streaks of white shooting from the sky downward to the Earth and bright orange lights that spread out horizontally for a great distance, but did not flash.
Others reported an unusual luminous and dome-shaped cloud hovering over an old Granisle mine coupled with a long, thin horizontally-moving light that appeared to be a craft with a pattern of bright, dim, bright, dim lights along its entire length. Witnesses said it hovered above the strange cloud for 15 minutes before disappearing.
Vike made inquiries as to the possibility of emergency or police vehicles or highway equipment being out that night to account for the lights, but to no avail. Vike said he "hasn't a clue what the object was that so many people saw in that area."
Last year researchers examined 836 UFO sightings from across the country, an increase of about 12 per cent over 2006. Reports came from a range of witnesses from government, military and police agencies to civilian UFO groups and online sites.
Only 16 per cent were labeled as unexplained and only one per cent were labeled as "high quality unknowns" that were both unexplained and had above-average levels of investigation and documentation.
The Granisle area sighting was among the one per cent along with sightings on March 3 in Hammonds Plains, N.S. (large, structured craft with lights moving ponderously across the sky) and on Dec. 26 in North Tyron, PEI (small shiny object flying in corkscrew manner leaving behind a strange smoke trail).
Ufology research shows most UFO sightings have at least two witnesses, most UFOs are white in colour and the typical sighting in 2007 lasted an average of 17 minutes. Reports of saucer-shaped craft are rare compared to triangles and spheres, said Chris Rutkowski, leading Ufology researcher.
Reports of unusual sightings in the sky continue to come in by "witnesses who are pilots, police and other individuals with reasonable good observing capabilities and good judgment," Rutkowski said in the report.
He also notes that "contrary to popular opinion, there is no evidence that some UFO cases involve extraterrestrial contact."
More information can be found on the web site at http://survey.canadianuforeport.com Vike can be contacted at Email:
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