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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.125
Don't forget to "LOOK UP TO THE SKIES" you may see something exiting.
Your Comments, Sightings or UFO/Paranormal stories will be welcomed and
are needed. When submitting Sighting reports please send as much detail as
possible.
Also any sightings seen by "non Hams" are also welcome via Email.
Address them via Packet to ZS2ABF @ ZS0ELD.ECP.ZAF.AF
Or Via Email to ptottle@qwest.co.za
LISTED ON BBS 29/12/07
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Hazelton, British Columbia - Major UFO Sighting.
On November 29, 2007 at 4:30 a.m. to approximately 9:00 a.m. on a ranch in
Hazelton, British Columbia a man woke up in the early hours of the morning,
looked out one of the windows of his home to spot something very unusual in
the morning sky. He watched for a while then went and grabbed his spotting
scope. What he witnessed through his scope took him by surprise. It was a huge
ball of extremely bright white light, which turned out to be a "large" cigar
shaped craft hovering in the sky over his ranch. The craft did move from time
to time to a different part of the sky, but never really leaving the ranch
area. At one point it moved over top of, and sat stationary half way down a
mountain on the ranch called Roche Debulle.
Hazelton, British Columbia UFO Sighting
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 7
Shape of objects: Cigar shape through spotting scope.
I live in Ladner, BC. My brother lives in Hazelton. My brother called me at
5:00 a.m. and I was on the phone with him until approximately 8:00 a.m. He
watched as a craft hovered low on his ranch for about 4 hours. Other crafts,
a total of seven zipped all around, what we are calling the command ship which
remained on the ranch and in plain view the entire time.
The witness was at home on his ranch and had fallen asleep on his couch. At
around 4:30 a.m. he woke up, but he told me he wasn't really asleep, more like
just laying there hoping to catch a nap. The fellow decided to get up and head
upstairs to his bedroom and flicked the TV on and immediately tuned it off and
jumped into his bed. In his bedroom he has a large picture window which looks
over his ranch. The man says it is beautiful land, as he can see his ranch,
horses and Roche Debulle (mountain).
He said it was a clear night and he was looking up at the night sky when he
saw 4 to 7 objects, which were up at a good altitude and had red and green
lights on them. As he watched, and looking over towards a foothill on his
ranch he noticed an extremely bright light which also was very large in size.
The man watched it for a good period of time and eventually it moved over top
his property and stopped and hovered. I asked the witness roughly how low the
object was, and he told me it was about half the height of Roche Debulle which
is a beautiful mountain at the back of his property. (What ever this craft
was, it was really low in altitude)
The witness said this low hovering main craft was just a big yellow colored
light until he brought out his spotting scope and was able to really see some
kind of shape to it. It turns out this object was like a giant cigar. All the
other six objects which were green and red in color sat stationary much higher
above and in a straight line across the night sky.
Due to the main crafts brightness he only saw a ball shaped light. It was only
when he used his spotting scope that he could actually see shape to the
object.
He was afraid to take his eyes off the thing just in case he missed
something, but did eventually move down stairs to make a cup of coffee and was
still able to observe the object from his kitchen window and it still sat
there for a long time afterwards. Finally dawn started to break and when night
turned to day the craft rose up, straight upwards and eventually just
disappeared. The man told me he was able to watch the craft rising up until he
wasn't able to view it anymore. As for the line of colored objects, they
seemed to disappear due to the oncoming brightness from the daylight. That was
it, an amazing UFO event !
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Granisle, British Columbia - Major UFO Sighting.
In 1971 workmen excavating in an open-pit copper mine at Babine Lake
discovered the partly articulated skeleton of a Columbian Mammoth. The bones
were taken from silty pond deposits overlain by very thick boulder-clay
deposited by the last glacier that covered the area. Radiocarbon dates
indicate that the animal sank in sticky pond deposits about 34,000 years ago.
A replica of some of the Mammoth's Bones can be seen at the Granisle Museum.
Also Babine Lake is the largest natural lake in all of British Columbia.
A major UFO event took place on November 29, 2007 along the Granisle Hwy,
close to the lookout. Three witnesses were driving home from the Topley, B.C.
area which is located just south of Granisle. As the witnesses approached the
Granisle lookout, just a short distance south from it, fog rolled in and a
bright explosion (no sound) lit up the whole sky, their truck on the highway
and surrounding area. It was like night was turned into day for a brief second
or two.
When HBCC UFO Research first read the report, or the first sentence in the
emailed sighting report I thought the witnesses may have seen a fireball. But
from talking to two of the eyewitnesses it became clear to me that what they
saw was rather unusual and not something easily explainable.
Right after the blue flash lit up the area a streak of white light shot out of
the sky towards the ground on the witnesses right hand side of the vehicle.
"It was very strange and surreal", the witness told me. The folks continued on
driving and then came across a whole set of orange and red lights in front of
them. (keep in mind the white streak of light shot out of the sky, downward
and appeared to be in front of them). The colored lights looked like they were
in front of them on the hill. Then just disappeared before they got to it
seconds later. There was no other traffic on the highway at the time of the
event. One of the people wanted to go back and see if they could find
anything, but the other two passengers in their vehicle were too frightened so
they continued on their way to home to Granisle.
Second Witness To Granisle, B.C. (A little earlier in the day and independent
from everyone else)
I called back to another eyewitness, a fellow who resides in Granisle, B.C.
What he saw was completely unusual. On November 29, 2007 at approximately 5:00
- 5:30 p.m. when the fellow witnessed a very strange cloud formation which
seemed to have parked itself directly over top of the old Granisle mine. The
cloud he described as being "dome" shaped and luminous. Up here in the north
it would have been just around dusk at the time he saw the dome shaped cloud,
which I will add, seemed to have structure to it. There was no type of wind
shear off the cloud itself. It was a perfect dome shape and extremely large
in size. As the witness said, you couldn't miss it as it stood out clearly. At
approximately 6:00-6:30 p.m. the gentleman dropped his mother off at her home
and he was heading back to his place which is alongside the lake shore when he
then noticed a light in the sky, which was moving horizontally. The man told
me the light appeared to be thin and really long in length. The long skinny
light was blue/blackish in color, similar to a black light, and his best guess
as to the length of it would have been 1/4 mile.
As this object moved down the lake he was able to see how the lights were
situated on the craft. At either end, they were somewhat brighter. As he
looked along the entire length of the craft, he saw a bright patch, then
dimmer, then bright again. This continued in the same pattern straight down
the length of the object. Bright, dim, bright, dim.
The object moved toward the dome shaped cloud, seemed to be above it, then
that was the last sight of it before it disappeared. He said he was able to
observe the blue colored object for about 10 to 15 minutes. What is
interesting about this, is that the fellow told me the unusual cloud was
parked over the mine all day. Also it was a lot darker than the surrounding
clouds which were moving on by, as he mentioned, maybe more of an inky color.
There was no sound whatsoever coming from the cloud, or the long blue craft.
HBCC UFO Research started making enquiries straight away and I called the
local RCMP detachment here in Houston, British Columbia, I told the RCMP
dispatcher who I was (Brian Vike - Director of HBCC UFO Research) and I asked
if there were any emergency vehicles called out on the evening of November 29,
2007 at 7:00 p.m. to the Granisle area and including the stretch of highway
running from Topley to Granisle. I wanted to see if the lights being reported
to me from the eyewitnesses may have been emergency vehicles.
As it stands, there were no calls out to attend to any emergencies that night
on the Granisle Highway. This eliminates the RCMP. I also called LDM (Lakes
District Maintenance) and talked with one of the LDM workers at their
headquarters here in Houston, B.C. as LDM looks after the maintenance for the
Granisle Highway. I asked if there were any sanding trucks, road graders or
snow plows on the Granisle Highway at the time of the UFO incident. I also
told the man who I was, and why I was checking to see if they had any
equipment working on the highway. I also stated that I was trying to eliminate
the explainable before moving onto the weirdness. The LDM worker said I may as
well start looking into the weirdness as he said there was only one truck out
and "may" have been on the highway that night, but not at that particular
time. He certainly stressed that they had no equipment that would have been as
bright as what had been reported. Not meaning the blue flash, but speaking
more of the orange lights that all the witnesses had seen. The orange lights
spread out for a great distance horizontally. None of the lights were reported
to be flashing at all !
I also called The Peak Radio station in Smithers, B.C. to see if they may have
received any calls from folks who witnessed the unusual event, and no reports
were called in to the newsroom.
Also I spoke to a lady at CJFW Radio which is located in Smithers as well. I
talked with the receptionist and she mentioned that they took a call from a
lady who lives in the Hazelton, B.C. area and who reported lights in the sky
there. I was then put through to the newsroom and spoke to another lady about
what had taken place and she also confirmed that a report did come into CJFW
Radio.
Now after speaking to two of the witnesses, it seemed we had an extremely
bright flash of blue light, followed immediately by a white object streaking
downwards toward the ground. We are not talking about a white object at a high
altitude, but rather something very low and from what the people told me who
saw this, the object could have landed, or impacted on the ground. (however
there was no physical evidence of that happening). Then there are the unusual
lights, large non flashing and sitting pretty much directly in-front of the
travelers. The driver of the truck said the lights were there and then either
blinked out or just disappeared. HBCC UFO Research did ask if it was at all
possible that they might have missed the lights as they passed the area in
their truck and the driver and daughter said no "it was as if they had just
completely disappeared". They had been right in front of their vehicle just
yards down the road.
I also talked to the daughter who was in the truck that evening and witnessed
the bright blue flash of light, but did not see the streaking white light. She
did observe the orange colored lights, not blinking/flashing and she told me
they must have been a great size because the area the lights took up was huge.
The daughter also said that she was able to watch the strange lights move
through the wooded area, behind trees, etc until they either tuned off and
just disappeared.
HBCC UFO asked if there were any roads in the area where the lights were, and
I was told no. No roads at all. It seems to me that something, or a white
colored object of some kind came from out of the brilliant blue flash and
headed down towards the ground, and what the witnesses were watching was the
object moving itself through the forested area ahead of their truck just off
to the side of the highway.
Did an unidentified craft land ? That is the big question, but it sure appears
that something of an unknown nature did come down. No reports have been filed
to the authorities at least at this time.
I talked to a lady in the Houston mall who told me that there were other
witnesses besides these people who already reported the sighting, who also saw
blue flashing lights and unknown lights that were stationary in the sky. More
weirdness, more witnesses !
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Telkwa, B.C. email from a witness reporting what he and his son saw the night
sky light up green, also his email to Environment Canada and their response
below.
Telkwa, British Columbia (Green Flash Lights Up The Entire Night Sky)
Date: November 29, 2007
Time: Between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Near the Field and Stream Trailer Court.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 0 (no objects witnessed, just bright green flash)
Shape of objects: The whole sky lit up.
My son and I were driving back to Telkwa when we saw the clear night sky
flash dimly green. We didn't see any objects, but after talking with (friends
name removed), he told me what he read on your site. So I thought that I would
check it out. I have written to environment Canada, with the hope that they
could explain it as a natural thing. Anyway, I just thought that I would add
what I saw. When I was a kid I saw this once before, but at that time it was
snowing and everything lit up green. I didn't hear thunder when I saw it that
time so I knew that it wasn't an electrical storm.
The witness who observed the flash of green light did receive a short reply
from Environment Canada which is given below.
Subject: RE: Environment Canada (Inquiry, other, green flash in the sky, BC)
Ser: J1130ZOXWF
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 06:46:53 -0500
From: Weather.INFO.Meteo@ec.gc.ca
Thank you for sending your request to Environment Canada. Meteorologically,
there is nothing that can explain the green flash you saw last night. The only
thing I can think of would be a fireball (meteorite) passing over your area
(or even exploding as it passed over the region).
Bernard Duguay.
Meteorological Inquiry Specialist.
MSC National Inquiry Response Team.
Environment Canada.
I also found out while looking into this case that a disk shaped craft was
observed by two witnesses from their job site. Also reports of UFO's coming in
and out of Babine Lake. Not to mention a possible missing time case I have now
heard about as well. This all happening in and around Granisle, British
Columbia.
Other witnesses observed a bright UFO hovering over a person's home in the
Houston, B.C. area, this witnessed by a number of neighbors.
Over the years HBCC UFO Research has received some pretty amazing sighting
reports from this general area. Is it the mineral from the mines that may be
an attraction, or the huge body of water - Babine Lake. I guess one could
speculate, but I am sure no answers would be easily found.
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Houston, British Columbia UFO Hovering Over Tree Tops
Date: October 23 or 24th, 2007
Time: Just before daybreak (7:00-ish a.m.)
Since HBCC UFO Research was on the trail over the November 29, 2007 sightings
and I started asking people I know around town if they knew anyone who had
witnessed anything on the date of the major sightings. I ran into a couple of
friends who did see something very unusual, but this goes back to October 23
or 24 of 2007.
A husband and wife were out on the old Equity Mine road which is just south
east of the town of Houston. They parked their truck on a pull out alongside
the road waiting for the sun to come up before starting to hunt. As they sat
in the vehicle talking, they noticed one large ball of light, it was green and
red and strobing. The object was pretty much stationary when they first saw
it. This object was just a little bit lower than the tree tops with one of the
mountains in the background. This of course threw out the idea of the object
being a star of any kind. The lady told me the object was hovering between two
tall evergreen trees, at times the object would move to the north and then
back to the south in short hops, then back again between the two tall trees.
They watched this happen for about 10 minutes and then all of a sudden the UFO
started to move directly upward, straight up until they completely lost view
of it. The couple said it was wild seeing such a weird sight.
I listed a couple of the older, but interesting UFO sightings below from
Granisle, British Columbia.
1. - Granisle, British Columbia A Large Glowing Orange Gold Saucer
Date: October 22, 2002 Time: 10:25 p.m.
I was contacted by a gentleman ( RCMP Officer) recently who gave me quite a
story. The witness was with another fellow driving north just a couple of
kilometers south of Granisle, B.C. (their exact location when they viewed the
craft was at Topley Landing). The two large forest companies here in Houston
have a barge which runs back and forth across Babine Lake carrying logging
trucks. The old Bell Copper mine is directly across the lake from the
witnesses position. An approximate guess would be a 3/4 to 1 mile between the
craft and the witnesses.
The officers observed a large glowing orange/gold almost saucer shaped (oval?)
object hovering right over top the old Bell Copper mine. They said it was very
low to the ground. At this point they pulled over to have a look and to try to
figure out what they were seeing. As they watched the object hover, it would
rise up very slowly and come to a complete stop, move sideways then stop and
drop down roughly the same height from the ground when the witnesses first saw
it. HBCC UFO Note: I asked if they witnessed any type of light coming from the
object, meaning a downwards beam of light. They both told me no, no lights
were seen coming from the object. They did say that it almost looked as if
every time the object moved to another position and dropped back down, it
seemed to them the light intensity grew from the object while it stayed
stationary. At "one" point the object moved out over the lake and stopped for
a few seconds, then went back over top the mine once again.
They mentioned they heard no sound at all, but keeping in mind that the two
fellows were some distance away from the object when viewing it. (HBCC UFO
Note: I asked them if they could give me an approximate size of this UFO).
Their rough estimate was about the size of the Moon (maybe a hair smaller).
They also said there were a few other cars and trucks that passed by them at
the time, but no one stopped.
But they did say that everyone traveling the highway had to have seen it, you
couldn't miss it. They said the area around the object, (ground area) was lit
up for some distance. Also due to the brightness of the craft it cast it's
reflection on the lake. The men watched this event for approximately 7 minutes
before it rose up and left slowly heading north, still at a low altitude and
out of their sight.
(HBCC UFO Note: I found this a very interesting case to work on. Three things
came to mind. Why was this craft sitting over the old Granisle/ Bell Copper
mine? Why did it move and stop over top of the lake? Why did the intensity
seem to grow when it moved to a new position and hover? Actually I have a
million questions I could think of to ask, but who? I am not sure if I can
gain access to the mine, but I am going to check into it, as I would love to
take a drive out to have a look around. Also something to keep in mind,
Granisle Copper & Bell Copper mine's sit on an island on Babine Lake. Since
the mines have been closed for sometime it may be hard to get onto the
property.
Also rumors have been floating around that one of the companies were thinking
of going back in and high grading the remaining ore. One other note to this
story which may be of interest. On the mine site there have been a good number
of fossils found, one which has brought a lot of attention has been the
Mammoth. Bones have been found, and also were buried by the mine some time ago
when it was in operation. From a newspaper article in the Smithers Interior
newspaper a while back the company thought it best to not have their mining
operation stopped, or slowed down by having folks digging for these fossils.
2. - Did The Same Golden UFO Return To Granisle?
Date: December 27, 2002 Time: approx: 2:10 a.m.
I had a telephone call from a nice fellow who reported that he, and three
other co-workers were doing some last minute work around the logging camp
which is located across Babine Lake, just across the lake from Granisle,
British Columbia. One of the workers gave out a loud cry telling the other
workers to look into the direction he was pointing to. Approximately a half
kilometer away from their location, which would have been to the north. The
men all witnessed a bright, white/yellowish light coming from behind the trees
in the distance. At this point all that was visible was a brightness shining
above the trees.
(HBCC UFO note:) I know the area well as I have spent a lot of time fishing
the lakes in the area, and there is nothing out there other than forest, lakes
and streams. Of course cut blocks which are being logged. I asked the fellow
if there may have been logging equipment working in the area where the light
was seen coming from, using their bright lights to log and harvest the timber.
He said no ! The loggers were making ready the area/camp for logging to start
up again after the holiday season, so no loggers were operating.
After dropping everything the men were doing, watching and wondering what this
glowing light was, to their shock a large glowing golden/orange-ish disk
shaped object with a large halo of white around the craft rose up in the
distance and stopped and hovered. I was told they observed the object for
approximately 10 seconds at the most, which the fellow said seemed like a life
time. As the object moved away from their location, heading roughly to the
north they did lose sight of the craft quickly, but after losing sight of the
object they still could see the bright light, which they figured was the light
which was given off from the craft for some time. (approx: 5 minutes after
seeing the object). The light grew faint and disappeared.
Canadian Sighting Reports Sent To HBCC UFO Research And UFOINFO For 2007 !
Also since we are rapidly coming closer to the end of another year, 2007. I
thought I would place the total number of reported sightings for Canada for
2007. Although we still have the rest of December to go, things have slowed
down dramatically as UFO sightings have done all around the world. Winter is
upon us and sighting reports do drop off.
Total number of Canadian reported sightings so far for 2007 is 434 cases.
(There are actually more reported sightings, but these are not added to this
tally due to reports not being written up from telephone interviews. This, at
least gives you a rough idea of what HBCC UFO Research and UFOINFO pulled in
for Canada in 2007.
Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report radio
show can be reached at 250 845 2180. But please note, this number is to be
used only for anyone wanting to "file a UFO Sighting Report or the Media" if
they would like to contact me. Or you can write to me through the HBCC UFO
Research website.
Sighting reports takes us through from January 1, 2007 until December 10, 2007
HBCC UFO Research at http://www.hbccufo.org and UFOINFO at
http://www.ufoinfo.com/ together have received 434 written (and audio) UFO
sighting reports from January 1, up until December 10, 2007 and there possibly
may be a few more to come before the end of this month. But this is where we
stand right now. Not included in the total number of reports is approximately
41 telephone interviews which HBCC UFO Research did and the reports have not
been written up as of yet, these would include sightings from British
Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Manitoba.
First of all as I stated when I released some numbers back in August 2007,
reports varied from meteors, fireballs, aircraft, stars, planets and of course
the really unidentified craft. Hence UFOs. All I am doing is giving a total
number of "reports" that have come into us both. Not breaking anything down
into categories, etc.
Also, keep in mind that many other UFO groups across Canada, United States and
other countries who have received a Canadian report will I am sure send in
their Canadian cases at the end of the year for the survey.
Ontario still leads the Canadian provinces with a whopping 191 reported
sightings, followed by British Columbia with 136 cases. Between HBCC UFO
Research and UFOINFO alone "just" broke the number of reports for all of 2006
which were sent in from all groups. So Ontario had a good year for sightings
of explainable and unknowns.
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This document is shared information that is intended to assist anyone and
everyone with a further understanding of UFO information from around the
world.
Our usual thanks go to Brian Vike for his Canadian contribution.
73's and Bye from Peter ZS2ABF - East London, South Africa.
73 - Peter, ZS2ABF @ ZS0ELD
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