- Received: March 29, 2004
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- City of Commerece, California
- Date: Spring of 1996
- Time: 10:30 a.m.
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- The following happened in the Spring of 1996 in the City
of Commerece, just east of downtown Los Angeles. The weather was cold,
windy, overcast with a steady drizzle. My office was located on the 2nd
floor of a office building located in a industrial park. My window gave
me a view due north. At about 10:30 AM, a co-worker entered my office and
asked if I had seen the strange object in the sky north of our office.
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- I looked out the window and observed a V-shaped black
object at about 1,000 feet altitude. The object did not appear to be very
large. It was completly stationary in the sky, even though the wind was
blowing quite hard. The object appeared to morph, changing shape so quickly
that you couldn't process what it was doing. It would always return to
the V-shape after a few seconds. To the SE of the object was a red cylinder
(pipe shaped) with an antenna array sticking out of the end facing the
V-shaped obdject. Within a few meters of the cylinder was another cylinder.
I was later told by co-workers that there were more cylinders directly
above our building. I did not go out to observe because of the steady drizzle.
These ojects were observed for about 30 minutes when they suddenly moved
upward and to the NE in unison. Again, none of the objects swayed in the
steady wind while stationary in the sky. This incident was observed by
at least 30 people in our building. This was the subject of discussion
the next morning on a L.A. talk radio program and an article in the Orange
County Register newspaper where witnesses described it as looking like
a junkyard in the early morning sky.We were all left with a errie lingering
feeling that we had observed something extraordinary. I have never been
able to locate any followup information on this incident.
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- Thank you and keep up the great work.
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- Thank you to the witness for the interesting report.
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- Report received: April 5, 2004
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- Also the witness provided three graphics, showing what
the whole event looked like. What the person illustrated is very interesting.
The graphics can be found at http://www.hbccufo.com/index.php under the
Rupert, Idaho Cluster Sighting
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- Rupert, Idaho
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- Date: 1999
- Time: Approx: 10:00 p.m.
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- We were driving north to our farm on a dark moonless
night. I saw a white smudge in the sky to the northwest more west than
north and another almost north. They looked almost alike. When we got
home I ran into the house, got the binoculars and ran back out to look
at the smudges. The one to the west was a group of round white moonlike
objects with fog
- surrounding them. By this time clouds had moved over
the north group. As I watched, all the "little moons" moved
slowly to form one larger "moon". The "moon" was still
surrounded by a kind of fog. After a few minutes it all disappeared. I
have three drawings I made on my computer.
- Additional Information Below:
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- We live 6 miles north of Rupert, Idaho (50 miles east
of Twin Falls, Idaho, southern Idaho USA)
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- First looked at it through binoculars at about 10:00
p.m.. It was sometime in about 1999.
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- The only way I can describe "smudge" is that
it looked like a elongated very small chalk line in the sky....not round
like a star. The first computer drawing shows both objects. The right
group disappeared behind clouds
- before I got out with the binoculars.
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- They were like a cluster of white round grapes surrounded
by a wisp of fog when I first saw them through the binoculars. Fog was
white like a thin cloudy material.
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- The object was about an inch at arms length with unaided
eye.
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- The computer drawings show about the amount of small
round moon-like objects....can't remember counting them but there were
many of them...some larger than others.
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- They didn't move in any way except to very slowly gather
into one moon-like object.
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- My husband and I were the only witnesses on our farm.
Didn't hear of any other witnesses.
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- Weather conditions: clear dark skies and a little cool.
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- No aircraft seen or heard....no sound.
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- No beams of light coming from them and no tails or trails.
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- Drawings below made by witness.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report.
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- Osbourne Village, Manitoba
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- I recently heard an archived interview with you and Whitley
Strieber. You mentioned an incident that involved some sort of beam of
light appearing in the sky over BC. This was a mass sighting. I would like
to add my 2 cents.
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- I currently live in Vancouver, but at the time I was
studying graphic design in Winnipeg. More accurately I was between school
years. It was sometime in the summer of 2001 or 2002. Three of my friends
and I were in a part of the city just south of the downtown core know as
Osbourne village. We were walking north through the parking lot of Shoppers
Drug Mart. It was a warm, hazy summer night. Cloudless, but the sky was
orange-pink with the glow of city lights. There were alot of people around
at that time of night in that part of town.
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- Suddenly this enormous beam of light appeared from horizon
to horizon. There was no sense of velocity, it was as if is was turned
on, or suddenly became visible. There seemed to be no arc to it either.
Just a huge Fluorescent blue-green beam. I had the impression that it was
quite far away. At arms length it was about 3.5 inches thick I am not certain
how long it was observable but I would approximate the duration was less
than one second.
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- When I saw this, my knees buckled. I do remember that
distinctly. I felt absolutely dwarfed by whatever kind of forces were behind
this display.
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- I am a designer working in television. I have an excellent
eye for color and proportion and composition. I have served formally as
a court artist on several occasions. That said, I would like to send you
a full color graphic depicting the event. To the best of my knowledge the
color of the sky, the beam and its size relative to the buildings in the
graphic are not exaggerations.
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- Once again, I would like you to see it. I think you may
find it interesting.
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- Additional Information provided By the witness. Below:
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- There was no sound whatsoever. No pre-cursor flash. I
had the impression, and I emphasize impression that it was very far away,
perhaps even in space... The size of it was absolutely staggering. And,
it was absolutely straight. From what I could tell, there was no variation
in intensity along the beam. Shooting stars for instance, have a tail that
fades away into nothing. This was solid by comparison.
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- Horizon to horizon. I have seen neon lights of the same
color. That is probably the best way to describe it. A gigantic blue green
neon tube in the sky. Again, it was as if something was switched on and
then off. Very hard to gauge velocity. It seemed static while we observed
it. Soft edged, like laser light in smoke, but very well defined.
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- For an instant it seemed like the end of the world. A
knee-buckler for sure! Mind-bending. I didn't see any other beams that
evening, and I am not sure I could have dealt with any more. I have seen
meteor showers miles away from any light pollution and I've even seen space
debris re-entering the atmosphere, which is quite spectacular. But both
of these things seem to move at a snails pace in comparison to thing. I
really feel that graphic is an accurate depiction of what we saw that night.
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- I am fairly certain this event took place in the summer
of 2001.
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- A few notes on how this image was created. I found a
photo of Osbourne Village in Winnipeg on a google image search. I have
enlarged it, cropped it blurred it compressed some of the low res color
information, adjusted the levels and made daytime night. The sky erased
and re-rendered an appropriate shade. It bears little resemblance other
than basic composition to the original photo, which is a fairly generic
tourist eye view of Village. I have blurred the buildings and street partly
to compensate for poor quality of the sampled image and partly to emphasize
the phenomenon.
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- This is the intersection of Osbourne and Stradbrook looking
north on the west side of the street. This was the nearest vantage point
close to our location that I could find on an image search. Our position
would have been one and a half blocks north and 30 meters west relative
to the perspective shown. We saw the beam behind several high rise apartments
(one of which is visible).
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- Thank you very much to the witness, for both the report
and the wonderful graphic of what he saw.
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- The witness for the sighting below are referring to the
sighting report which took place on March 31, 2004 and the witnesses to
that case had taken a number of photos of what they saw. Also a link to
the March 31, 2004 sighting is included in this new report below.
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- Vernon, British Columbia
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- Date: March 29, 2004
- Time: 5:50 p.m .
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- Hello Brian
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- I was watching the contrails in the sky as they were
odd. The one I was watching had the appearance of a large plane contrail,
two thick and twisting trails leading into thinner lines and disappearing.
I looked in the binoculars to see what plane left this trail. At the head
of the trail there was no plane body. There was instead 5 distinct shapes
and their trails were
- merging into two. The "body" looked like a
cloud hand in a fist. As it approached the ground the "fingers"
were slightly opening. I saw a small ship, silver and reflecting the sun.
It was about a centimeter long (in the binos) and it was circling the area
where the trail ended. It was an eliptical plate in shape and the back
end had a red marker on it. I don't know for sure if the mark was chevron
shaped. As the ship circled the area moving with speed I noticed it was
doing rollovers and would dissapear and reapear in the sunlight. This sighting
occured in the sw sky over the mountains and Okanagan Lake between Vernon
and Kelowna. The ship I saw headed SE. The total time was approx. five
minutes from watching the contrail descend to the ship leaving the area.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report.
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- St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Date: April 1, 2004
- Time: 8:30 p.m.
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- My wife and I saw the exact same thing over downtown
St Paul last night heading south around 8:30 PM. We believe it was a flock
of geese flying at a high elevation that were catching the last rays of
sunlight.
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- Additional Information Below:
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- We live in a high rise in downtown St Paul, Minnesota,
so I believe we have a different vantage point from which to view the phenomena
than someone on the ground would have. At approximately 8:30 PM on Thursday
we went out on our balcony to have a cigarette. The sun had set and it
was fairly dark.
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- My wife noticed the flying "V" formation heading
due south. The sight was identical to the picture you posted on Rense.com.
or here at: http://www.hbccufo.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1150
She pointed it out to me and we stared at it. Our initial thought was
that it was a UFO. But as we observed for about three minutes we noticed
that the formation metamorphised into a sloppy looking "W".
Then we saw a piece of it break off and go to the other side forming a
lopsided "V" formation again. There was a cloud formation to
the southeast that was slightly illuminated on the top as well. Both the
formation and the cloud to the southeast faded out simultaneously.
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- There is a large Canadian goose population around here.
Typically we can see flocks flying south near the end of the evening.
Based on our observation we thought that the "V" was a flock
of geese flying at a higher than normal elevation and they were catching
the last rays of light on their underbellies.
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- Again, we could be wrong. I have seen unexplained sights
in the sky before but this was the first time I had ever seen an illuminated
flying "V". In this particular instance though, I think that
the sight we saw probably had a natural explanation.
- It may very well be that what you observed portrayed
different characteristics and was not the same phenomenon we observed.
I wish you luck in solving the mystery.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report.
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- Haysboro, Calgary
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- Date: April 1, 2004
- Time: 11:55 p.m.
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- Calgary, I saw something towards the west at 11:55 p.m.
Thursday. I watched it thinking its only a star, then it moved one way
then back again. It looked kind of like a yellow white light with pulsing
red light. Two planes flew past, this was weird because the light didn't
move at first, then after the second plane flew by, it moved away slowly.
I live in Haysboro Southwest part of Calgary, looking west is where I saw
this. It's a very cool evening. I hope someone else saw this too.
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- Additional Information Below:
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- The witness observed the light for approximately 5 minutes
before losing sight of it. I also was playing a cat and mouse game, hide
behind a tree branch, and see if it moves, and yes it did. Now as for the
lights probing, moving back and forth, its kind of hard to see between
the branches and my binoculars aren't that great for distance. I would
estimate the object's altitude was as high as the two planes as they were
flying into the city. I did not hear any sound coming from the object but
did hear the sound of the planes that flew over. It was about the size
of a pea/dime.
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- There were no other witnesses to the sighting, only myself.
I went out side to see why there was so many lights in our alley. Some
kids decided to spray paint their initials on the side of our garage last
night and I thought they were back. So I went on to the porch to have a
look. I saw the moon and I decided to take a picture of it. Then I looked
at all the stars in the sky when I noticed that one was was sitting there
as the first plane flew by, then it moved. I grabbed my binoculars to have
a closer look and then it moved again. I played this game you close one
eye, see what happens, it moved further west and then north. The red light
kept pulsing and I noticed it turning and then it stopped. I wanted to
go chase it, but thought it would disappear.
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- After the second plane flew by, it left heading west
by north. The first plane looked like a normal commercial airline, the
second plane I paid no attention to it.
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- Sorry that's about all I can tell you, I hope someone
else saw it too.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report.
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- Calgary, Alberta - Red Objects
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- Date: April 04, 2004
- Time: Between 9:00 -11:00 p.m.
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- Number of witnesses: 1
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- Number of objects: 3
- Shape of objects: red dots
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- Full Description of event/sighting: I was in my hot-tub
enjoying the night sky looking at planets and stars and such when I noticed
a faint red dot flying away from me going west. At first I thought it was
a plane but the dot's red color didn't seem to flash, it retained it's
colour perfectly as it flew. It was when it started going back and forth
as it flew west that i knew it wasn't a plane or helicopter. It was fairly
low on the horizon so it was far yet it sped back and forth FAST. The speed
and manuverability of it stunned me. Then when I knew this thing wasn't
explainable, another two red dots flying in formation quickly joined up
with the first and they all sank below my line of sight because trees were
in the way. I hopped out of the tub and ran to where I could see, but they
were too far. All of this happened in around 6 seconds...these little dots
were moving way too fast for any vehicle I know of. I would be interested
to hear if anyone else might have seen this.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report.
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- Brian Vike, Director
- HBCC UFO Research
- Home - Phone 250 845 2189
- email: hbccufo@telus.net
- Website: http://www.hbccufo.com
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