- On Nov. 9, 1974, Richmond resident Dorothy Izatt says,
she awoke at 4 a.m. and went to the window. She looked up to see a huge
spaceship hovering in the sky, with all sorts of smaller craft coming and
going out of it, "like little bugs."
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- Alarmed, she phoned the Vancouver airport tower to report
her sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object, a UFO. They told her nobody
else had seen it. She tried the newspapers, who said nobody else had seen
it. She phoned radio hot-liner Pat Burns, whose producer suggested she
document the UFOs on film.
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- So she went out and bought a Keystone XL 200 Super-8
movie camera, and started filming. Twenty-seven years later, she has 500
home movies she says capture the strange phenomena she sees most everywhere
she goes: flashes of light, squiggly lines that look like "neon spaghetti,"
and round dealies that look like mini-planets.
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- Izatt's UFO movies have brought her worldwide renown
among those who believe we are not alone in this universe. She's been featured
on TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings, Strange Universe and Hard
Copy, and this Saturday night at 7 p.m. at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
she'll be showing her movies for local UFO buffs.
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- "Saturday I'm going to show something special that
has never been out . . . families of beings, aliens, getting on their ship,"
said Izatt. "I call them light beings. I don't call them aliens, because
we are aliens, too."
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- Since her fateful 1974 UFO sighting, the 78-year-old
Izatt claims to have had almost daily contact with the "light beings"
and their craft.
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- "There are all different types of beings,"
she explained. "Some are like us. You wouldn't be able to tell the
difference if they walked among us. Some are different, but down here on
this earth we are all different, too. It all depends on where you come
from and where you are born.
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- "With them it's the same. I guess it depends on
which planet or dimension they come from. Their skin colour, hair, everything
is different. I've met many many many many different ones."
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- She claims to communicate with the extra-terrestrial
visitors telepathically.
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- "You talk mind to mind," she said. "They
can pick up your thoughts, and I have the ability to pick them up, too."
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- She feels her own ability to see them is the result of
having a special sense she possesses.
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- "I was born with it," she said. "My parents
have it, and my family all have it. My aunts and uncles all seem to have
this second sight. People call it the sixth sense.
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- "To me everyone has it. We're born with it, it's
just some of us don't make use of it, and you lose it." She said "hundreds"
of researchers from around the world have studied her to ascertain what
is going on in her films, but have come up empty. Her Web site (www.manari.com)
includes stills from her UFO movies, along with commentary from UFO experts
who have met Izatt.
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- "It's not some kind of flaky, wishy-washy, woo-woo
type phenomena," said Dr. Lee Pulos, a clinical psychologist and paranormal
researcher who will be one of several UFO experts speaking Saturday night.
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- "Something's there, but we don't know what. I have
no doubt that whatever she's experiencing is real, but the question is
. . . what is it?"
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- Incidentally, Sunday has been dubbed Worldwide International
UFO Research Day. If you spot a UFO that day, you can report it to www.ovni.net,
which deals with all sorts of UFO phenomena.
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- Izatt herself doesn't belong to any UFO group. Until
she spotted the spacecraft in 1974, she was just a regular mother of four
who worked at Eaton's, the post office and Canada Manpower.
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- She figures she has spent about $50,000 making home movies
of the aliens and UFOs she has encountered over the years. When she wants
to make contact, all she has to do is concentrate, and they appear.
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- Oddly, some people can see the aliens when she points
them out, others can't.
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- The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is located at 1100 Chestnut.
Saturday's event runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $15, $10 for
seniors and students.
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