- Hi Jeff
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- I thought I would send this report along to you. The
reason why I thought it important is because I would like people who read
the information below to know that we who investigate UFO sightings are
looking for the truth and trying to solve cases that come into us. Know
matter what the outcome is. Dozens of witnesses in Prince George, British
Columbia observed this event I discuss below. Only a very few actually
saw what was causing the lights...
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- On the evening of February 31, 2004, a large number of
Prince George residents were stunned and puzzled over what they were witnessing
in the night sky between 8:00 - 10:00 p.m., PST. Some called the Prince
George Citizen newspaper to explain what it was they saw, and how peculiar
it was. All of the witnesses, by the dozens, observed two extremely bright,
orange circular lights in the sky. The lights stayed fairly close together
and did not make any sudden moments. Many residents reported the lights
just hanging there for a number of minutes before moving ever so slightly.
HBCC UFO Research was contacted by the Prince George Citizen enquiring
about it, and a staff reporter did an interview for Saturday, February
7, 2004, newspaper.
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- Over the weekend the telephone did not stop ringing.
Many reports of orange lights came in from Prince George residents. Plus
other very interesting reports for 2003 and back as far as the 1950s. Some
of these reports included beams of lights hitting their vehicles as they
travelled along the highway. A huge ball of light hovering over the tree
tops not making any sound. A line of red balls of light sitting stationary
in the night sky, etc...
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- After taking the calls and listening to the stories,
some of the descriptions started me thinking. More folks contacted me.
Some had watched the whole event unfold viewing the lights through binoculars.
A retired military man was certainly the key to this case. Plus another
lady who also gave a great description of the event.
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- I made several enquiries to the RCMP but the police had
no information about the matter and took no calls from the general public
over it.
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- I typed up a few reports below from the eye witnesses
who called in.
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- Report #1
- Report received February 7, 2004
- Prince George, British Columbia
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- Date: January 30, 2004
- Time: Between 8:00 & 9:00 p.m.
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- I had a call from a lady on February 7, 2004 who wanted
to file a report on something she and her husband witnessed as they were
driving down Tabor from 15th. They looked to the east and saw lights in
the sky and thought at first it may have been an airplane. The witnesses
mentioned they saw no strobe lights which they knew an aircraft would have.
They reported the lights were moving rather slowly. As they drove down
the road they passed by the trees which blocked their view of the lights
in the sky. After they came to a clear area, they stopped the car and looked
to the south and again noticed the lights.
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- The witnesses told me that when they saw it again, this
time it appeared to look like a black balloon, or umbrella shape.
- The lady said it looked as if the object would flip over,
so the umbrella appearance was at the bottom and then would show up back
on top. The lady and husband reported not a sound coming from it and whatever
it was dropped downwards. The couple reported the lights as being white
in color. The witnesses estimated they observed the event for approx: 5
minutes.
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- The folks didn't believe the object was very far from
their location and said it wasn't that high up when they first saw it.
Also they finally lost sight of the lights when they dropped down low enough
that homes finally blocked their view. The people estimated the size to
be roughly that of a golf ball. One other note, the witnesses said they
believed that the lights were moving diagonally as they came closer to
the ground.
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- Thank you to the witnesses for their report.
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- Report #2
- Report received February 7, 2004
- Prince George, British Columbia
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- Date: January 31, 2004
- Time: Between 9:00 - 9:30 p.m.
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- A gentleman called to report seeing the orange lights
witnessed over Prince George on January 31, 2004. He and his wife live
near 1st & Foothills in Prince George and were planning an evening
out when the walked out of their home, which faces towards the downtown
area they noticed the two orange colored lights in the night sky. They
said the lights were very bright and that is what caught their attention.
The witness went on to say he is used to seeing helicopters and fixed winged
aircraft flying over all the time, but what he could not understand was
the brightness of the lights, also how close the lights were to one another.
The couple stood just outside their front door watching the lights for
a good three minutes, but due to them having reservations they had to get
on their way. The husband wondered if it might be a UFO, his wife said
it possibly might be a plane, but both still thought it looked rather odd.
He told me he almost dismissed it at that time. But as they drove along
1st Avenue heading towards Tabor and not traveling very far the fellow
decide it was time to pull the car over as he said one doesn't get to see
anything like this very often or ever.
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- As they both sat watching, they were able to get a good
view of what was taking place. One of the orange lights appeared to be
over top of the other or maybe off to a bit of an angle to the left. Another
3 to 4 minutes passed and the bottom light started dropping off towards
the left and seemed to flicker a little bit. He thought it may have been
going into some of the light clouds that were present that evening, then
all of a sudden the light disappeared. The other light was still visible
and stayed around the same area in the sky for a little while longer. The
witness estimated the last light held it's brilliance for maybe another
30 seconds before it started to flicker. It began to fade and then would
become very bright again.
- This went on for a very short period of time before it
to vanished.
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- Again it was lightly overcast with a high ceiling. The
witness also estimated the objects were roughly a finger length apart if
one was to hold out their hand at arms length. The witness stated that
the lights did sit stationary for some of the time, before moving. The
witnesses reported no sound was heard, and no aircraft were seen in the
area. At arm's length, using his
- thumbnail to guess at an approx: size of the lights,
he said each one may have been one fifth of the size of his nail.
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- Thank you to the witnesses for their report.
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- Report #3
- Report received February 7, 2004
- Prince George, British Columbia
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- Date: January 31, 2004
- Time: approx: 9:30 p.m.
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- Calls kept coming into HBCC UFO Research over the January
31, 2004 sighting in Prince George, B.C.
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- Below is another report from a fellow who wanted to tell
me what he witnessed that evening. The evening was overcast and no stars
were visible at the time of the sighting. The man went on to tell me that
his daughter spotted it first and then called to the rest of the family
to come out and look at the strange lights in the sky which were reported
to be just over top of one of the local mountains. He explained that the
color of the lights were an orange/white. The witness also said he thought
there may have been a small tail behind each of the lights, but it was
hard to distinguish for certain. The lights were stationary for a very
short time when these folks noticed them and as they watched, the lights
did start to move but ever so slightly.
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- They said there were two very bright lights which looked
identical to one another. The man's wife said they looked like landing
lights from an aircraft due to how close they were together, and the brightness
of them. They all ruled this out quickly as the lights just stayed in the
one area of the sky. They observed the lights rise up for a short distance,
still staying close to one another. As they watched one of the lights seemed
to disappear quickly, but they didn't think it went into the clouds as
he noted the cloud ceiling was rather high that night and the lights weren't
close to them.
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- The other remaining light was seen to move back, or away
from the families location and it also disappeared. Both lights were extremely
bright, and the family said they stayed that way until they finally blinked
out, or just vanished.
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- These folks figured they watched the lights for at least
two minutes before they were gone. The man said, how long they were visible
before he noticed them is anyone's guess. They also reported no sound and
the witnesses said if it had a plane or helicopter you would have certainly
have heard it. The folks estimated that the lights were approx: 10 times
larger than their thumbnail.
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- Thank you to the family for their report.
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- Report #4
- Report received February 7, 2004
- Prince George, British Columbia
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- Date: January 31, 2004
- Time: approx: 9:30 - 10:00 p.m.
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- Now this was a very interesting call that I received
from a man who resides in Prince George, B.C. When I answered the phone,
the fellow said he had just read their local newspaper and that he could
tell me exactly what the lights were that everyone saw that evening. Below
is the report the gentleman gave to me.
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- The fellow said he watched the whole event through a
pair of field glasses. It was January 31, 2004, between 9:30 - 10:00 p.m.
and the man claims "it" landed two blocks from his home. The
witness said what he watched was a couple of night jumpers, jumping with
parachutes with lights attached around their feet or ankles. The man observed
them coming over from the west over the hill. He mentioned that he had
a fairly strong set of glasses (binoculars) and was clearly able to see
the jumpers hanging in their chutes and saw when they turned their lights
off. One of them landed in a park just two blocks away from the witnesses
home and the other went towards the Fraser River and the BCR Railway. The
gentleman figured the were practicing night jumping.
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- When the jumpers were first spotted they were rather
high up and he and his wife first thought it may have been an airplane.
He went on to say the lights were a very bright orange in color, and the
reason they were no longer visible was simply because they had turned them
off. The fellow, now retired, was in the military himself and had done
a lot of jumping and as soon as he spotted the orange lights he thought
it looked familiar due to the descent, plus the way the lights were traveling.
When he looked through his binoculars he knew exactly what it was he was
seeing.
- He figured the jumpers used their lights to keep track
of each other and to designate where they were going to. Once they started
getting closer to the ground they turned off their lights and just used
the lights from the city to land. He also said the chutes were beautiful,
very modern shaped parachutes and the jumpers with such good gear were
able to carry out some of the antics they pulled off that cold evening.
It was actually comical as the witness said one of the jumpers almost turned
himself upside down and then this would give the impression of the lights
going back up into the night sky. The two jumpers were carrying out some
acrobatics on their way and obviously no sound was reported.
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- Thank you very much to the witnesses for their reports.
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- Brian Vike, Director
- HBCC UFO Research
- Canadian Toll Free UFO Hotline 1 866 262 1989 - Free
call.
- Home - Phone 1 250 845 2189
- email: hbccufo@telus.net
- Website: http://www.hbccufo.com
- http://www3.telus.net/public/wilbur8/hbcc_ufo_research.htm
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