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Spate Of UFOs Sighted In Northern B.C. Skies

Canadian Press
Saturday, August 17, 2002 – Page A8

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. -- Brian Vike is not about to point to little green men, but he says something strange is happening in the skies of northern B.C.
Mr. Vike, a "ufologist" and editor of the paranormal magazine Canadian Communicator, is mystified by the largest number of airborne-phenomena reports he has seen.

Since Feb. 1, Mr. Vike has received 73 reports of strange lights and objects in the sky over the region. That compares to five or six reports at the same time last year.

Now he is hearing about sightings over the north coast, and wants to hear from Prince Rupert, B.C., residents who think they have had a close encounter.

"Things like real bright lights doing real strange things," he said. "If you look up in the sky and see a bunch of stars, and all of a sudden five points of light start moving together, then disappear -- that's not a satellite."

Of the 73 sightings, Mr. Vike said five can be explained as planets and shooting stars. The rest evade easy answers, such as the case of three women travelling from Smithers, B.C., to Houston, B.C., who encountered a "huge craft."

"It descended through the cloud cover, went towards them at about tree-top level and went right over their car," Mr. Vike said.

"I interviewed them, and they were just freaked. . . . The thing is, people want some answers for what they're seeing."

Mr. Vike guesses that the spate of unexplainable events may be linked to military activity in the area.

"One report we got from nine witnesses in several locations on July 29 was of a white [and] yellow object as big as a school bus that was seen below the horizon, going into the valley.

"Some of my contacts in the Department of National Defence haven't written back to me lately, which is unusual."

Mr. Vike said he has unconfirmed reports from Telkwa, B.C., and Houston of military vehicles travelling the back roads.

UFO Man Looks For Ghost Stories

By JENNIFER LANG
Terrace Standard news
http://www.terracestandard.com/

ALL HALLOW'S EVE
Legend has it that the souls of the dead are closest to the living at this time of year.
Oct. 31 is the date of the Celtic New Year, Samhain, when the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is the thinnest and the souls of those who have died during the year bid farewell.
Maybe that's why our thoughts turn to ghouls and ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Or maybe it's the longer nights.
Whatever the reason, ghost stories - especially "true" ghost stories - hold an irresistible fascination for many readers.
Surprisingly few published reports of hauntings originate from northern B.C., however.

"There's lots of stories around - it's getting people to talk," says Brian Vike, the northwest's resident researcher on the paranormal.
Vike, who lives in Houston, B.C., is collecting true ghost tales for his new journal, The Canadian Communicator, a publication devoted to topics like UFO sightings, lake monsters and sasquatches, hauntings and crop circles.
His first issue explored one ghost story in detail, but it came from Ontario, says Vike, who's better known as a UFO investigator who's tracked down an impressive number of first-hand accounts of UFO sightings from northwestern B.C. residents.

But so far, he's investigated few local ghost stories.
"I know they're around," he says. "I've been trying to gather some from around here."
Vike has now collected more than 100 UFO reports from people in Terrace, Smithers, and even Seward, B.C. The majority stem from a string of sightings across Highway 16 earlier this year.
He's also a frequent guest on radio shows - local, regional, national and even international [one Mexican interviewer provides a simultaneous translation for his listening audience when Vike appears on his show].
Vike can be reached at 1-250-845-2189 or at hbccufo@telus.net

Crop Circles Return To Vanderhoof

Omineca Express Newspaper
Serving Vanderhoof - Fort Fraser - Fraser Lake
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
www.ominecaexpress.com

For the second time, pilot Brent Miskuski has seen something strange as he flew over Vanderhoof. On his way home to Prince George at about 7:30 last Thursday evening, Miskuski took off from the Vanderhoof airport over Sturgeon Point Road. Pressed into the grain crop were six circles - known as 'crop circles'.

"I didn't have my camera, so I went back out (Friday) morning and took some pictures," he said. "I don't know if anyone knows they're there. I didn't see any tracks of footprints going in there." As a pilot for Vanderhoof Flying Service, Miskuski has seen this before. The last time this area witnessed this phenomenon was in late August in 1998, when 11 circles appeared in a field leased by Halltray Farms.

"Last time, Eric (Spier) and I were the first to see those, too," said Miskuski. "There are fewer now and they're smaller." Spier, the pilot who spotted them first in 1998 agreed. "I don't think these ones are as nice as the first ones," he said. "They look rougher."
Rough or not, the circles are already grabbing attention. Crop circle specialists from Vancouver, UFO enthusiasts and documentary makers are already on their way to the small town.

Brian Vike, an Unidentified Flying Object researcher from Houston, British Columbia was out Saturday morning, collecting soil and grain samples from the new circles. "This is my first time looking at circles like this," he said. "It's really exciting."
Vike who describes himself as an open-minded person, usually gathers reports of UFO sightings in the area. He spent Saturday collecting as much data about the six circles as he could.

One formation of circles - now being referred to as "Mickey Mouse's head" - consists of three separate circles. The largest one is 30 feet across and is flattened in a clockwise spiral. The smaller two are 16 and 17 feet across the smaller one flattened in a counter-clockwise spiral and the other clockwise. About 30 feet away lies another 17-foot circle in a counter-clockwise pattern. Forty feet from that is a formation of two circles - one is 27' 9" across in a clockwise spiral and the other 19' 10" in a counterclockwise spiral.

"Nobody had touched it before I got out there," said Vike. "There is one set of tracks out to one of the circles, but absolutely none leading from circle to circle and no other disturbances to the grain at all." The stalks of grain in the circles are all intact, simply bent over, said Vike. Nothing broken, just flattened," he said. "The spirals go in tighter and tighter as you approach the center of the circle - and then they start to overlap a bit in the middle." Nike also interviewed several people in the area who reported a "smoky" smell on the night the circles were first seen.
"One lady said the smell was so disgusting they had to get up and close the window, "he said.

Vike's UFO research has kept him hopping lately. He said sightings are up almost 55 per cent this year alone. (for Canada) He's never encountered crop circles before, however. I hate to say it, but I suppose it would be fairly easy to fake them. That's why we take all these samples for analysis," he said. The samples will be tested for "just about everything", including magnetic traces, chemicals, and molecular structure.

"Man made or not," said Vike, "they're still cool."

Circles Mysterious Return

Crop Watch 2001

They're baack. Three years after a set of mysterious, circular patterns appeared in an oat field next to the Vanderhoof airport runway, observers have spotted six more "crop circles" formed in the flattened grain. Crop circle experts promptly descended upon the town, located about 100 km east of Prince George, soon after the new patterns were discovered September 6, 2001

Canadian Crop Circle Research network field research assistant Brian Vike quickly headed out to collect soil and grain samples.
The CCCRN had already expanded its research project into the mysterious shapes that are found more frequently I August and September than any other time of the year in Canada.
The new circles aren't as intricate as the ones discovered in 1998

Vike noted Vanderhoof's six new circles weren't as intricate as those discovered back on September 1, 1998 by a local pilot, Brent Miskuski. Those circles ranged in size from 10 to 100 feet (30 meters). The CCCRN says a half dozen crop circle reports had come out of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba so far this year. The network adds that nine other countries in the world have reported crop circle formations this year. It's not known what causes the curious formations. Some of them appear to be manmade; however others continue to baffle scientists because lab results of soil and plant samples show anomalies that can't be explained. The circles usually appear overnight and in all kinds of weather.

Courtesy The Terrace Standard Newspaper

Island Gazette newspaper - First Article.
http://www.oocities.org/ufologia_canadiana/Saywardnewspaperarticle1.html

Island Gazette newspaper - Second Article
http://www.oocities.org/ufologia_canadiana/saywardnews2.html

UFO Sighting In Telkwa & Houston, B.C.

by Nicole Fitzgerald
The Interior News
Smithers, B.C.
Wednesday, August 7, 2002
www.interior-news.com

By Nicole Fitzgerald
The Interior News

On July 29, winding down from a day on his Telkwa farm, Gordon Stewart settled into his chair facing two bay windows, overlooking the valley for a late-night movie.

At 10:45 p.m., a bright light flashed by his field of vision, raising him from his chair, astonished at the peculiarity and speed of the sight.After walking onto the front porch for a clearer view, only silence filled the valley sky smudged with light cloud cover. He called the RCMP.

There was no air force activity in the area. he woke his wife Joanna, who had already turned in for the night without hearing or seeing anything. On sharing his description of the round, white light with a yellowish hue, he learned his wife had seen the same light in the same location a couple of months earlier.

"I didn't want to tell him because he'd think I was crazy," Joanne recounted. Earlier that evening at 10.20 p.m. in Houston, a Canfor employee stepped from a forklift to examine a phosphorescent like white ball of light with yellow undertones, which appeared to hover, before slowly crawling across the sky line. The worker called out to two fellow co-workers who caught sight of the glowing light, which grew a tail as it gained momentum.

The phenomenon gained speed towards Tweedsmuir Park and shot out of view over the horizon. "I called them over because I wanted proof that I saw something and that I wasn't crazy," the Canfor employee explained. Despite having two witnesses, the Canfor employee wished to remain anonymous. Despite his wife having seen the same phenomenon's, Stewart was relieved a similar sighting was reported the same day.

Stewart caught the tail end of a movie when he was startled from his chair by an unidentifiable round light streaking across the valley. Combined with his house being stationed at 3,000 feet - Smithers sits at approximately 1,750 feet - and large bay windows, Stewart has an ideal birds eye view of air traffic.

Crazy and UFO are often terms that go hand in hand when trying to determine an experience that appears to be out of this world.

Already this year, over 70 unidentifiable sightings have been reported in northern B.C. Only two days before the Telkwa/Houston sighting, an erratically moving, bright light was spotted in Prince George. Sightings in Prince Rupert and Port Simpson were reported the same day of Stewart's experience. The two days that followed it reports from Terrace were filed on a glowing, cigar-shaped craft and four multiple sightings of an unidentifiable light.

"There is so much going on here it's nuts", Houston B.C. Canada UFO researcher Brian Vike remarked. Vike suspects action in space is growing with the number of hits he receives on his UFO website. "Recently, I have been

getting numerous hits," he said, "Everything from the National Defense Department to Federal Aviation".   He also noted that open information transitions between himself and the National Department of Defense has since clammed up with the publishing of the recent sighting in Telkwa - where three women attested to seeing an unidentified object with bright lights.

"No one wants to say anything and I am kind of wondering why", He questioned. "Is the military running a project we are not aware of? Something has happened I just don't know what ... yet". Many of these speculated extraterrestrial occurrences have been explained away as meteorites, flying exercises, space debris and the result of power towers.

A recent space ship sighting in Smithers turned out to be the planets Jupiter and Venus. Stewart dismisses many of these suspicions in his case. He began by explaining that the object flew in a flat line unlike meteorite or space debris's falling arc pattern. Planes might be a credible explanation, but because no sound was detected and the size of the light - the size of a pick up truck from the distance he sat at - flew so low, a plane wasn't a logical solution in Stewart's mind.

According to Central Mountain Air, there were no late night flights except for a training run July 29. Northern Thunderbird training was up between 10:07 - 11:04, however, a Central Mountain Air spokesperson saw no connection between the occurrences. She speculated that the tiny Cessna 185 would not emit a bright light of that magnitude and its engines would be heard at a close proximity.

Although a comet spotted the same evening would solve Stewart's mystery, its glowing green light, arc-shaped flight and Hudson Bay Mountain location did not pair up with what he saw - leaving Stewart questioning, "What the heck was it?"   For Stewart, the speed of the light was the most notable. "If you had blinked, you would have missed it, it was that fast," he said. He assessed the light reached faster than the speed of light at over 650 miles per hour. Stewart is well acquainted to gauging speed, he assessed, after driving dragsters that reached up to 200 miles per hour. As to whether he believes in another life force traveling through the universe, Stewart has always believed since reading space comic books as a kid, that people on earth weren't the only ones out here. "There's too much on earth not to disbelieve," he argued, noting other phenomenon's such as the Pyramids. "I think there was someone before us."

Despite Stewart's open mind towards other life forms, he talked himself through other possible explanations, but came to the same conclusion: "I knew I saw something out of the ordinary".

Although highly skeptical, the Canfor employee agreed his sighting was something more than an every day occurrence. "In my mind it looked like a meteorite," he comforted himself, but wavered as he turned the 20 second experience over in his mind. "But, it was like no meteorite I've ever seen. I've seen meteorite showers before, but they never looked anything like this. I really don't know what it was."

UFOs: To Be Or Not To Be

By Nicole Fitzgerald
The Interior News

After an article on UFO sightings in Telkwa and Houston was published in last week's edition of The Interior News, reports on UFO sightings are flying in and credibity of the sightings are gaining momentum.

"I can't keep up with all that is going on, " said an excited and exhausted Houston UFO researcher Brian Vike.

A flurry of phone calls, on-site interviews and investigative research has left Vike with little sleep. Since the papers hit the stands, five witnesses came forward, claiming they saw the white ball of light Telkwa resident Gordon Stewart glimpsed on the evening of July 29.

After reading the paper, Quick teacher Dina Hanson called Stewart to share the details of her sighting, which she recorded in her journal the day after her experience. Her son, civic engineer Ryan Hanson also saw the object, which partially matched Stewarts's description.

The Hanson's sighting also took place July 29, five minutes earlier than Stewarts's sighting, traveling in a southwesterly direction from Quick towards Telkwa.

Both observations commented on the awe striking brightness and size of the light; the white and yellow hues and soundless travel at a speed, which exceeded the propulsion of a man-made object.   Some of the differences between the two incidents was that Dina's light shape was an elongated circle opposed to Stewart's round one. Dina also noted a slight downward trajectory to her object, unlike Stewart's parallel flight pattern.

However, Ryan introduced that because the object was moving away from his mother and himself, the object may have just appeared to be dropping because of their perspective. Dina originally attributed her experience to a meteorite sighting, but after a phone call to a professor at the University of Northern B.C. revealed that meteorites produce sound, Dina is uncertain.   "I am pretty cynical about things like UFO's, " she said. "But because there was no sound, I think it is remotely possible it was something else."

A Smithers family of late night hot tubbers comprised of both adults and children also contacted Stewart, sharing a similar story, adding that the light engaged in a series of loops. Smithers resident Dan Derbyshire was also added to the list in an unrelated sighting. However, he wanted to support those stumbling upon these unexplainable phenomenon's.   "Sometimes people feel they are the only ones (that are seeing unusual sights)," Derbyshire said, "But I thought I'd let them know, they aren't alone."

Like many other UFO reports, the edges of reality expand with the number of incidents reported as viewers digest science fiction's fanciful imagination with tangible physical experiences.   "It was not what I classify as a flying saucer," Derbyshire noted of the craft, which reminded him of a metallic 40-gallon barrel, heading towards Houston at an estimated 300 kilometers per hour. He stated he is a UFO believer, but dismissed his incident as an American flight exercise in one breath while pondering over why he heard no sound in another.

His experience neither fits H.G. Wells' War of The Worlds where aliens employ mass destruction in tea- cup-and-saucer shaped crafts nor did it fit with the characteristics of a man-made aircraft. Reality and rationale collided as he attempted to interpret what he saw. Unlike a plane, there were no wings on the ribbed object and its flight was soundless, Derbyshire noted. Unlike many UFO sightings, the object did not emanate a white glowing light nor assume the regular saucer form, he added.

Vike surmises Derbyshire's suspicions are correct after a series of phone calls attributed the sighting to a military reconnaissance drone. Although if this assessment is correct, many more questions arise about what is going on for Vike. "A secret military exercise?" Vike questioned. "Who knows".   Vike's suspicions are rising as reports of military trucks are detected around Houston and the Telkwa High Road. Vike and his wife also saw and heard the hum of large turbo propellers of military type crafts flying over Houston on August 8.   "Something is going on," Vike alleged.   Despite the couple both seeing and hearing the two military crafts, the Smithers air tower told Vike there was no air activity in the Houston vicinity.

Stewart is heartened by the additional reports coming in. "(People) can't say I've lost my marbles," Stewart laughed. "There are too many people who have seen it. I am not the only one."

Have You Spotted A UFO Lately

The Houston Today
The Editor
Wednesday, August 9, 2000

Images conjured up by television shows and movie makers continually feed our imaginations as to "what lies out there." However the acronym UFO sometimes lets us slide into the thinking that we are solely interested in Aliens. Not so !!
UFOs encompass a variety of explanations and thoughts whether it be from space junk to government cover ups. For years the word "Roswell" has instilled visions of crashed alien craft.

Astronauts too have reported strange sightings from their space ships as was done in June of 1965 when ed White (the first American to walk in space) and James McDivitt were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft and saw a weird-looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out of it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera but those pictures have never been released !!! This is just one of many accounts by American and Russian astronauts.

We know for a fact that lights and shapes of aircraft can fool us quite often --satellites moving across the night sky and ever weather phenomenon all prove to be exciting and unexplained. Then, of course, there are the billions of stars and our planets out there that often intrigue us with their eerie brightness which leads to imaginary conclusions (if only for a short while).
Media confirms the continuing interest in UFOs with radio programs, movies and now the internet which enables us to visit web pages with books, personal sightings, UFO related material and data (to our heart's content).

I have been interested in this phenomenon for many years, but for the last year and a half been investigating sightings. Most can be explained, but there are the ones that we have no explanation for. It is these kinds of sightings I am most interested in. There are so many reports of strange lights or objects in our day and night skies that are being reported around the world on a daily basis. At the present time my main interest has been with sightings throughout Canada. These number in the hundreds and go back many, many years... and continue up until the present day.

British Columbia rates highly in these reported incidents. I've gathered information from many sources including libraries, newspapers, interviews, books and UFO Research Organizations and continue to communicate regularly with these worldwide groups. My endeavors in this field have led me to create a web site with a database of sightings from around the world and one which contains a great deal of other space related material. I'm interested in hearing from anyone who may have had a sighting experience or know of anyone who has been subjected to an unexplained UFO event, past or present.

I can be contacted at:

HBCC UFO Research
PO Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia
Canada
VOJ-!ZO
or emailed at hbccufo@telus.net
Phone/Fax - 1-250-845-2189
Web Address: http://www.oocities.org/hbccufo/home.html

Thank you
Brian Vike

Gathering The Goods On UFOs

The Terrace Standard
by Keith Freeman
Wednesday, October 18, 2000

So you've seen a UFO ? Who are you gonna call ?

Well there is no alienbusters, not yet anyway, but there's one man in the Northwest who's spending a lot of time gathering stories and creating a database of sightings and encounters. He's Brian Vike, who in the past few years has been running Houston British Columbia, Canada (HBCC) UFO Research out of his home. And his research just doesn't consist of old filing cabinets stuffed with old newspaper clippings and frantically scrawled out reports either. he's gone to the world wide web and created Northwestern B.C.'s first homemade UFO web site.

Vike, 50, says that the whole moon walk and space program that spawned during his generation's upbringing generated his interest in the UFO question. "You could say I was hooked (after the moon walk)," he said. "I'd like to think we're not alone in the vastness of space." When one hears of so many strange sighting incidents from around the world, then you start to wonder, are we alone ?"

He got his first low powered telescope when he was a teenager in 1969, and the star gazing hasn't stopped to this day. "My day researching the UFO phenomena starts as soon as I wake up," he said. "I head for the computer where there's unusually numerous letters addressed to me, accounts of sightings and reports from all over the world." Vike says he receives reports through e-mail, personal mail, newspapers and TV reports. Vike isn't the only person in the house that does it either. "My wife helps me out a lot with entering information into my database and offers ideas on how to present the information on the web site," he said.

Vike admits he's never actually seen a truly unidentified flying object. "The strange things I've seen in the sky could easily be explained," he said, alluding to things like weather balloons and the ever-increasing number of satellite's orbiting the earth.
The rest of the family, almost inevitably, has also taken an interest in UFOs. "My kids have grown up surrounded by my beliefs and interests and I'm sure some of it has been absorbed by them through the years."

Vike says his goal is to travel the province and gather stories, eventually putting together a book on the Canadian aspect of the phenomenon. One report Vike shared dates back more than 30 years and involves a Lillooet woman and her friend, who's names he protected. The pair were relaxing in the living room of the woman's suite overlooking the Fraser Canyon. While preparing to watch the Dean Martin Show, the lady's friend saw a huge flaming fire-ball through the window hurdling towards them. The object then proceeded to hover above a mountainside spinning, flaring and jerking erratically before receding back into the sky and vanishing. Being a weekend nothing was open and no one else was around who might have seen the same thing. Also, being 1966, the ladies felt rather awkward about reporting the incident to others in the tiny town.

How times have changed. Vike says UFO sightings are more wide spread than ever and the media now plays a crucial role in getting the message out. "I browse the hundreds of online newspapers and television stations from around the world and somewhere you'll find a reporter doing a story on a UFO sighting, or report on what the government may know and are hiding," he said.

There are limits though to how far Vike will go in believing what people report to him. he says, he keeps "an open mind" and has "never brushed off anyone's suggestions of a UFO."

Vike says that those close at hand support him regardless of their own leaning on the issue. "I get a lot of support from family and friends," he said. "Some believe, some don't believe, but it's been interesting hearing of some of the strange occurrences in their lives that are often unexplained."

Have a sighting to share ?

Brian Vike can be reached at:

HBCC UFO Research
PO Box 1091
Houston, B.C.
Canada
VOJ-1ZO
He has e-mail at: hbccufo@telus.net and a website at: http://www.oocities.org/hbccufo/home.html

Article On HBCC UFO Research

By SHERRI GALLANT
Lethbridge Herald

It's been seven years since any reported UFO sightings occurred in Lethbridge, but the matter is beaming up again, with requests for information coming from both ends of North America. Brian Vike is a UFO researcher from Houston, B.C. Vike is asking people in southern Alberta - and elsewhere - to share their stories about UFO sightings with him. Not keen to re-invent the wheel, he is only interested in virgin material, tales yet to be shared. "I started about a year and a half ago on a serious note dealing with the subject of UFO phenomena here in British Columbia and Alberta as there have been so many sightings slipping through the cracks," said Vike.

"A lot of these sightings can be explained, but there are the few good sightings that are still a mystery." Vike is interested in interviewing people about their experiences and then, if it appears as though their encounters cannot be explained, he may
consider compiling them for publication. "I live in a small town called Houston in the northwest of British Columbia and at times find it hard to find information," he said, via e-mail to The Herald. "Being in a small town people are rather tight-lipped at times. But over the years, I have found through trust, some of the older folks are now talking, and talking about the things that have not been reported before. "To me, this is so very interesting and can add to the thousands of sightings around the world. The work I am now doing is very serious; it has, and is taking up so much of my time. The nice thing about this is I do have the time to research on a proper level."

Vike operates under the name HBCC UFO Research, and can be contacted via e-mail at yogi@lakesweb.com or through snail mail at HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091, Houston, B .C., V0J 1Z0. Meanwhile, a New York lawyer who drove across Canada in the summer of 1972 is keen to hear from anyone who might have witnessed the same mysterious orb she and a friend saw in the skies between Medicine Hat and somewhere in western Saskatchewan. "I was in law school in New York, and during summer vacation a friend of mine asked me to go with him to drive his car back to California," said Randi Season from her Greenwich, Ct. home. "We were racing against time because he had to get to California before the registration on the car expired." Just before sunset one August evening on the Trans Canada Highway, the pair observed a metallic, football-shaped object coming into their field of view from the southwest.

"It came into view from the upper left (of the passenger side window) very, very fast, and then instantly froze, off to the north," Season recalled. "Then it looked like it kind of fired something off to the right side, like a mini rocket, but there was no smoke or flames - you could just see something coming out. "Then it went speeding off to the left, parallel to the horizon, stopped again, fired the same way but on the left, and then went to the right again."

The duo kept driving, but their attention was on the object more than the road. Just as they expected it to veer to the left again, it shot skyward at an unbelievable rate and disappeared. Before too long, they drove into Medicine Hat and spent the night, talking for hours about what they had witnessed. The next morning, newspapers in Medicine Hat carried accounts of similar sightings. "They all said the same thing, and described exactly what we had seen, but from all points north, south, east and west," Season said. "The only differences in the stories were the colours, which we think was because of the setting sun because the object appeared to reflect." The Canadian government explained the sightings as "fireballs," but Season said she will never believe that explanation. A Canadian Press report in the Aug. 11, 1972 edition of the Medicine Hat News said the objects
reported were most likely meteorites. They were reportedly seen by people in the interior of B.C., across the northern U.S., in southern Alberta and eastern Saskatchewan.

"Falling meteorites don't stop, pause, reverse directions, and eventually shoot back up into the sky from whence they came - at a speed even faster than their arrival speed!" Season says. Several callers to the Medicine Hat News described not fireballs, but
ovoid, metallic-looking spheres. Their stories were, as Season said, basically identical. CP also reported that a pilot flying for Frontier Airlines over Utah said he saw an indentified object pass beneath his plane and, in Missoula, Mont., an employee of the federal aviation administration reported a large fireball. A jet pilot flying over southeastern Washington said he followed a fireball travelling at 2,500 miles per hour with a pinkish contrail. It disappeared over Alberta, the pilot said. Season regrets not saving the newspapers she read that summer morning, and is eager to learn more about the pilot who said he'd chased a thing that
night that got away. She's been curious about sightings and paranormal events since her experience, but would also like some validation.

"My husband and my two kids think I'm crazy," Season said. "They don't believe a word of it and I'd like to be able to show them that it's true. It happened, and it wasn't any fireball, of that I am positive." Season can be reached at randiseason@yahoo.com. Lethbridge gained international attention when a series of crop circles were discovered at different locations in 1991, the first one in a wheatfield adjacent to CISA TV. The second, a random and complicated pattern, appeared in a wheatfield just west of West Lethbridge, and a pattern of four circles showed up in a field near Warner. The Warner circles received the most attention and have yet to be explained. The dry grain, ready to be harvested, was bent, not broken, and had been woven together in two places. No footsteps led into or away from the patterns in the field. UFO enthusiasts turned their attention here again in 1993 when two independent reports were filed of a silent, black triangular object over Lethbridge. The craft, with three dully-glowing orangy lights - one in each corner - was seen at the same time by a couple in one location and an individual a few blocks away. All three were outside to watch the Perseids meteor shower. These incidents and others can be viewed in more detail by visiting the Web site of the Alberta UFO Study Group, a serious independent body of researchers headquartered in Edmonton. Visit the site and check out the Alberta sightings at www.aufosg.org. As an added bit of intrigue, go to the visitors' page and see some of the interesting organizations which seem to be keeping an eye on things.

Sherri Gallant
Health reporter
The Lethbridge Herald
504 7 Street South
Lethbridge, Alberta, T1J 3Z7
Phone: 328-4411, Ext. 311
Email: sherri.gallant@lethbridgeherald.com

Thank You The Lethbridge Herald and Sherri Gallant for Allowing Me To Use This Article!

UFO*BC Welcomes Researcher Brian Vike

Houston A Hotbed Of Activity

UFO*BC
Quarterly Journal
Volume 5 Number 4 Autumn 2000

Part of UFO*BC's sucess as an organization is a result of its working relationship with independent researchers, such as Lorraine Bretlyn and Martin Jasek in Whitehorse, Don Vanden Hoorn in Burns Lake, John Webster in Salmon Arm, and Jason Graff on Vancouver Island. In this issue we would like to feature Brian Vike of Houston, BC. His research organization (basically him and his wife) is called HBCC. When we asked for biographical material, Brian sent us a recent article from the Lethbridge Herald which had him featured. We include portions of that article as well as 2 stories that Brian received as a result of that article.