- HBCC UFO Research Note: The witness who
reported the below experience would like to know if anyone at the time
he drove the Fraser Canyon Highway here in British Columbia on the Easter
weekend in 1968 witness the same events he did. If so, would you please
be kind enough to contact Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research. Thank
you.
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- Date: Easter weekend 1968
- Time: 19:00 - Midnight
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- Number of witnesses: 1
- Number of objects: ?
- Shape of objects: ?
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- Full Description of event/sighting: Hi
Brian, could ask if anyone might have been on the road through the Fraser
Canyon at that time and possibly seen what the heck was flying over my
car. Re: The possibility of missing time, I still don't know but I still
think there could be up to two hours missing somewhere on that trip. I
don't remember being scared but was rather apprehensive when the power
died. I believe that must have happened going down Jackass Mountain. Why
I didn't get killed that night I will never know.
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- 1968 - Easter Weekend - I decided to
drive the approximately 800 miles north to see a friend of mine who'd recently
moved to Dawson Creek. I left Vancouver quite late and about midnight found
myself driving through the mountains near Cache Creek. As I drove along
the mountain crests I noticed far off in the North West a number of what
appeared to be search lights playing on the clouds. At the time I thought
there must be an airport over there somewhere. Later on when I checked
my maps found nothing but bush and also realized that the lights I'd seen
were not shining up at the clouds but down from somewhere above. Shortly
after passing Cache Creek it began to snow and I ended up driving for 18
hours. I found my friend, booked into one of the Hotels in town and passed
out.
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- She had the weekend off, so the next
few days we spent touring the area. The third day I started back to Vancouver.
The snow had all melted and I was cruising along about 80 mph. At sunset
I was just north of Quesnel and had a large field on my right, as I passed
it I noticed what appeared at first glance to be a white bird about the
size of a Herring Gull, it took off from approximately 150 feet away and
skimmed across the field at approximately 3 feet in the air on an interception
course with my car. I stepped on the brakes and it passed through my head
light beams approximately. 20 feet in front of me. It then climbed at about
a 45 degree angle and shot off up into the sky. As it passed I realized
it was not a bird as the wings were fixed and not flapping. My foot came
down a little harder and soon I was cruising at 90 mph. Hours later I was
back up in the mountains, just south of Cache Creek.
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- I'd not seen another car for hours and
I was still rolling along about 90. All of a sudden a brilliant white light
shone down on me from somewhere above. It was like the light from a flash
bulb, so bright I couldn't even see my own headlights and from what I could
make out appeared to be a perfect circle, perhaps several hundred feet
in diameter. I floored the gas and went up to about 110 mph. but the light
stayed right with me. After a minute or so the light went back out. I could
feel all the hairs on the back of my neck standing up and sensed that whatever
it was, was still directly over my car.
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- I wanted to stop and take a look, but
since I was by myself and there was no other traffic I continued to keep
my foot in it. About 10 minutes later the light came back on and I got
the distinct impression that whoever was behind it wanted me to stop. I
went even faster. Just before I reached the Kanaka Bar Restaurant the light
went out again. I came around a bend and found the Restaurant right in
front of me. A car had just left the restaurant and I passed him doing
about 120 mph. He must have thought I was a UFO. A few miles further on
I came over the crest of a mountain and could see a long steep hill in
front of me with a curve at the bottom, suddenly my car lost all power
and I was flying blind down the hill.
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- I was still doing close to 120 mph and
had lost my lights, power steering, power brakes etc. I put both feet on
the brake pedal and pushed as hard as I could. I couldn't see the road
at all as there are tall trees on each side of the road and it was black.
All I could do was try and keep the car heading straight. I kept picturing
the road curving up ahead but didn't have the faintest idea how close I
was or even if I could make it at the speed I was still going. Without
my power assist the car didn't feel as if it was slowing the least. Just
as I reached the bottom of the hill my power all of a sudden came back
on. Needless to say I made the corner but didn't slow down until I reached
the main Trans Canada Highway with all its traffic. I owned that car for
more than five years and never before or after did I have any problems
with it mechanically or electrically. The loss of power seemed to be their
goodbye present as I lost that feeling that they were sitting on my roof
just shortly afterwards.
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- I often read or see programs about people
losing time during incidents similar to what I went through but don't think
I was stopped. I was near Quesnel at sunset which I'd guess to be about
19:00 and hit the Trans Canada near Hope at about 02:00. I was just doing
some calculations and they don't work out. Quesnel is approximately 325
miles north of Hope and at the speed I was going I should have done it
in about 3.5 hrs. not 7, maybe something did happen? I sure don't recall
slowing.
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- Years later when I first saw the movie
Close Encounters it brought it all back again especially the scene where
they were all up on the mountain watching the UFO approach above the clouds.
When I came out of the theatre after the movie I didn't have the faintest
idea where I was. Nothing seemed familiar and it took several minutes for
me to figure out where I was. Several years later I asked some Police Officers
if they might have had helicopters working in the Canyon at night and they
said not to their knowledge. Too dangerous.
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- Thank you very much to the witness for
the interesting report.
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- Brian Vike, Director
- HBCC UFO Research
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- UPDATE:
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- Oval Shaped Luminous Object Shrouded
By A Mist In The Fraser Canyon, B.C.
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- Date: Thanksgiving long weekend
in 1968
- Time: Approx: 3:00 a.m.
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- Hi Brian, I just read your latest
posting on Rense and found some remarkable similarities to the event of the sighting
I wrote you about last year. If you recall I wrote you about returning
late from a hunting trip on the Thanksgiving long weekend in 1968 with
a friend who was also a witness and seeing an Oval shaped luminous object
shrouded by a mist or fog hovering above the river in the Fraser Canyon
between Yale and Boston Bar at about 3:00 AM. We were late coming
home from a hunting trip from the Cariboo when our attention was drawn
to the strange light coming from the darkness of the canyon below us so
we pulled over to investigate. We did not have a time loss but did
both have a sense of fear after a few minutes and decided to get the heck
out of there. Regards.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report.
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- I would also like to point out that this
report may correspond to a report I posted today for around the same area.
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- The full written report on the Beam
Of Light Almost Blinds Man On Highway #1, B.C. - Missing Time
- http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4002
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