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B.C. WOMAN CONFUSED BY STRANGE CIRCLING TRIANGULAR CRAFT |
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filed June 01.07
UFO ‘not from here,’ says local deejay
Believe it or not, Dave Francis and his girlfriend Kelly McDonald saw something otherworldly Sunday night.
And their story backs up the report of neighbour Lisa McCubbin, who saw a large triangular-shaped object appear just after midnight in the skies over the UCFV campus in Chilliwack.
But unlike McCubbin, who’s holding out for a rational explanation, Francis, 29, and McDonald, 30, are sold on the belief they saw something not of this world.
“I really think it was a UFO,” says Francis, a local deejay. “I don’t really care if anybody else believes me ... it was the craziest thing I ever saw.”
“I know that I saw something that wasn’t from here,” says McDonald. “I’ve never seen anything move that way.”
UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews doesn’t dismiss what all three Chilliwack residents saw, but he believes that city lights reflecting off the bellies of a flock of birds is a more “reasonable” explanation.
He says flocks of birds do take off at night, and the light reflecting off their bellies can give the appearance of a single translucent object.
Unlike our ancestors, he says, people today are “spending less and less time looking up at the night sky ... and there’s a lot of stuff that happens up there on a regular basis that looks weird.”
But all three Chilliwack witnesses insist what they saw did not move anything like birds.
“It wasn’t birds,” McDonald says flatly. When the triangular-shaped object came closer, she says, “it broke apart into 20 or more of these little spheres ... birds don’t dive-bomb in at each other.”
Francis agrees that what he saw could be explained as a bunch of birds flocking together into a triangular shape, but frankly he simply prefers the UFO explanation.
“I want to believe what I saw,” he says, adding that birds don’t “shimmer” and they don’t change shape.
“Whatever it was, they were moving from place to place as a unit,” he says, and then “just faded away” in the skies over the Promontory area.
.:Story originally published by:.
The Chilliwack Progress / BC | Robert Freeman - June 01.07
Lisa McCubbin doesn’t believe in alien visitations from other planets.
But for a sober-minded tax accountant, what she saw just after midnight Sunday doesn’t add up.
It looked like a very big hang-glider, she says, “at least as big as a small aircraft, maybe larger” lit up by the city lights in the night sky just below cloud level.
But instead of slowly descending like a hang-glider must, it circled over the UCFV campus in downtown Chilliwack long enough for McCubbin to run back into the house for her video camera.
“Then, quite quickly ... it moved away, rising up and to the west from us into the darkness,” she says. “There’s no way a hang-glider has that kind of control.”
McCubbin says she’s heard of drug smugglers using hang-gliders to deliver their illegal goods, which would at least be a “rational” explanation, but this was not a hang-glider.
“Hang-gliders can’t do tight circles - and this thing went up,” which hang-gliders also can’t do, she says. Unfortunately, her video camera didn’t capture any images of the mysterious object.
Paul Greenhalgh, president of the Fraser Valley Astronomers’ Society, says one “plausible” explanation is that someone was flying a remote-controlled stunt kite, which are usually triangular in shape and translucent.
“I can see where this might be a possibility, that someone might think it’s a UFO from their vantage point,” he says. Although an RC kite’s lines are at best 180 feet in length “at night a person seeing this from a distance would not have the depth perception as they would during daylight hours.”
“This is only one possible answer mind you,” he adds. “But it’s a very plausible one.”
Another explanation might be one of the aircraft the Canadian military has brought to the Fraser Valley to monitor Fraser River water levels, but officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Chilliwack RCMP Const. Bert Paquet says there were no other reports of UFO sightings, but people don’t normally like to talk about these things anyway.
But McCubbin is positive others saw what she did, and she’s hoping they will come forward.
It was three young people on the street Sunday night, one of them shouting “Oh, god, it’s coming back!” that made her look out her window in the first place.
“I don’t believe in UFOs,” says the 36-year-old tax accountant. “I would like to believe it was something explicable.”
A similar report of a large, triangular-shaped object was made May 4 on the ufoinfo.com website.
(Original headline: UFO sighting doesn’t add up for accountant )
.:Story originally published by:.
The Chilliwack Progress / BC | Robert Freeman - May 29.07
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