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- March 30, 2000. Little Fox Lake, Yukon, Canada (5:00am)
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- A man, a woman and a young boy (who was a sleep) were
travelling along the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to the Village of
Pelly Crossing, Yukon. The sky was clear with a glow of predawn blue. They
were nearing the end of Little Fox Lake and came around a sharp right-hand
bend near the base of a mountain. Upon coming out from the bend they could
not believe their eyes!
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- To the right and about 300 ft away was a 30 to 40ft diameter
saucer, hovering about 200 ft off the ground. They observed it to be stationary
for 4 to 5 seconds as they were travelling along the highway and than it
shot across horizontally in front of their vehicle at an "incredible
speed" and stopped instantly on the left side of the road. "Nothing
can move that fast...in the blink of an eye" the witnesses described.
It remained motionless for only another split second and shot off even
faster in a different direction (basically performing a 90-degree turn
and shooting off behind them
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- One witness thought it went right into the side of a
mountain while the other thought it followed the mountainous skyline. "Come
on, floor it, floor it!" shouted the passenger to the driver. They
eventually pulled over about 20 minutes later and both were shaking. "We
were more scared than excited, I think if it wasn't so close it would not
have been that scary", "It's like we caught it by surprise when
we came around the corner", "it was so advanced", "I'll
never be the same" were some of the comments by the witnesses.
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- The witnesses got a good look at the saucer. It was a
classic disc shape with a dome on top. The dome had two curved windows
or lights from which a beautiful ocean blue or aqua colored light was shining.
The surface of the craft was difficult to describe. Some of the words the
witnesses used were "mirror, silver, translucent, shiny, glassy, reflecting
the color of the sky". It was as though the UFO was trying to "camouflage
against the background sky color". "Had it been pitch black out
I don't think we would have seen the body of the craft, just the windows
or lights" the woman remarked.
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- As the UFO streaked in front of their vehicle, the car
headlights dimmed and their tape deck stopped playing. They both wanted
to check the time of their sighting. However, the woman's battery-operated
analog watch stopped (at 5:00am) and the man's digital watch got stuck
in "chrono mode" and wouldn't reset. A few miles down the road
the woman tapped the face of her watch and it started working again. The
man fiddled around pushing buttons on his digital watch and it started
working as well, the time indicated was 5:12 am. They checked the tape
deck and by all indications, John Fogerty should have been playing away.
The tape hadn't run out, the volume was on, and the lights on the cassette
window indicated that the power was on. Other than the initial power drain,
no additional problems were noted with the truck. The man figured that
they managed to get the tape deck and watches functioning properly after
they traveled a couple of miles past the UFO sighting location. The woman
figured that about 5 minutes had elapsed when they managed to get their
watches functioning and about 10 minutes until the tape deck started to
work. Although the witnesses were travelling in a vehicle, no noise was
heard emanating from the UFO.
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- To help visualize the lighting conditions an astronomical
simulation program was used to determine that the sun was 11 degrees below
the horizon during the sighting. It is difficult to put this in perspective
in terms of the amount of time before sunrise as the sunrise rate varies
significantly with latitude and season. For the location and date in question,
it was about 1 hour and 35 minutes before sunrise. For different latitudes
similar lighting conditions can be found at the following times before
sunrise or after sunset:
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- For March 30:
- Equator (0 deg lat.): 42 minutes
- Los Angeles (34 deg lat.): 55 minutes
- Vancouver (49 deg lat.): 1 hour 05 minutes
- Little Fox Lake (61.5 deg lat.): 1 hour and 35 minutes
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- For June 30:
- Equator (0 deg lat.): 45 minutes
- Los Angeles (34 deg lat.): 1 hour 05 minutes
- Vancouver (49 deg lat.): 1 hour 40 minutes
- Little Fox Lake (61.5 deg lat.): does not get dark enough
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- Submitted by:
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- Martin Jasek
- UFO*BC, Yukon Representative
- www.ufobc.org
- martin@ufobc.org
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