Reports of missing time, hovering orbs and dreams of contact with extraterrestrials are just some of 2011’s most interesting witness submissions to UFOBC, a local not-for-profit society dedicated to gathering and investigating UFO sightings reports from British Columbia and the Yukon Territories. As the year draws to a close, it is time to take a look back at the most recent available published information from this venerable organization.
British Columbia is a vast and sparsely-populated territory, home to numerous mysteries of nature and contact with other-dimensional realities. This review of 2011’s most interesting witness submissions to UFOBC provides a brief glimpse into a world of possibilities available to those who dare venture beyond the cultural, political and psychological boundaries of official denial.
Through dozens of written statements, this year’s witnesses cited aviation industry experience and familiarity with conventional satellites, meteors, helicopters, jet and propeller aircraft that helped them to differentiate these known objects from other, more mysterious phenomena. While it is possible that the reports include cases of mistaken identification, a closer look at some of the details suggests deep processes influencing the minds of the witnesses that parallel those found in incidents of sightings supported by substantial instrumental evidence.
Forests are a location for UFO sightings familiar to students of the British 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident that involved US military service personnel. The first UFOBC 2011 report of note goes back even further in time, detailing an incident from the early 1960’s at the Green Timbers Forest Reserve in Surrey, BC. The report combines elements of a brilliant illumination, a grey-type ET and red orbs that hovered near the witnesses, offering a first-person perspective on complex interactions accompanying authentic incidents of human contact with little-understood dimensions of reality:
“Reported 4-May-2011
Summer 1962/1963, Surrey, BC: (dusk)
“Our relatively new, little (bedroom community) neighborhood located in the Green Timbers area, consisted of 2 roads, 148A Street and 148 Street which each ran for 2 blocks and between 92nd and 94th Avenues. Our little neighborhood was surrounded by old growth forest, including 400 hectares, which is still known as the Green Timbers Forest Reserve and is now the largest parkland in Surrey. There were no streetlights anywhere near our neighborhood, not even on Fraser Highway, so at night it was blacker than coal. We all knew the woods and trails in our area well, as this was our playground.
“The incident:
“It was warm, and a Saturday evening, (I know this, because I had to attend church the next morning) and either dark, or turning from dusk to dark; I'm not sure of the time. I was either 7 or 8 years old and was hanging around the end of my street with my best girlfriend and some boy friends [sic] we played with, there were seven or eight of us altogether, and I think three or so were on bicycles.
“All of a sudden, the woods to the north of 94th Avenue lit up and I remember thinking how cool it was that I could totally see deep into the woods, I could see details and clearer than I had ever been able to see in the daylight! From what I understand of acres and size now, I would guess that anywhere from two to four acres of woods was lit from above. The light was mostly white, but seemed to have some dimmer intermittent yellow, red and maybe blue colors as well. To this point there was no sound at all, just dead silence. All of us were at first shocked but in awe, then almost immediately became frightened and were panicking to get the heck out of the area as quickly as we could. The light lasted five seconds or so, and turned off as quickly as it turned on, just like a light switch had been flipped! I glanced one last time toward the woods and noticed a large stump with someone, or more like something, standing behind it! All I could make out was a very large, egg-shaped head (pointy part down) with large, almond-shaped, shiny black eyes pointed in my direction. I couldn't make out any other facial features, if it was a face I was looking at? I immediately ran toward a boy on a bike, who at the same time, was calling to me to give me a double. My girlfriend was several yards ahead of us already taking off, doubling on another boys bike.
“Everything seemed to happen simultaneously and in a very short period of time, until the two-block bike ride down 148 Street! All the while, with the boys pedaling as fast as they possibly could, we could hear periodic cracking of small limbs and underbrush in the woods along side [sic] us; just like someone was running through the edge of the woods following us; but, it wasn't a constant running sound, like a step taken every 3-4 feet or so - it was more like a step taken every 20-30 feet!
“On bikes, some doubling and others on foot, we cut through the lumberyard and rode up our street, 148A to one of the boy's houses. Some of the kids were so scared they went straight home! The four or five of us sat on the front steps of his house and were going on about what had just happened, everyone wanting to talk at the same time. We'd only been there a few minutes when we noticed these glowing, red balls in one of the ornamental trees in the front yard - I know now to call them orbs; there were three of them and at first I thought they were hanging in the tree, but then realized they were just kind of hovering, moving slightly up and down, left to right and front to back. They were about the size of grapefruits. Now we were freaked all over again, asking each other, "Do you see that, what is it, what are they?!" I think the red orbs lasted no more than a minute, then poof they were gone!
“The following day, after returning from church and changing into play clothes, I went immediately to the end of my road to look at the stump where I saw the head, and there was no stump there at all!!! So, this was my experience, in either 1962 or 1963.”
The next report worthy of inclusion in this review describes how anticipatory statements of UFO witnesses can reveal potential memories of prior contact that were invoked before visual contact took place:
“Reported 13-Sep-2011
12-Sep-2011, Hope, BC: (around 00:30 - 01:00 am)
“We were camping in between Silver Lake and Ross Lake at about the 18km marker on the road. We (3 of us) were sitting around the fire at around 0030 - 0100 when our attention was drawn to three lights that were in a perfect line (size roughly 3/4 of an inch from where we were sitting). The object(s) observed lights were cream coloured it appeared. It was located perfectly between the peaks of two mountains, both of which were perfectly lit by the full or almost full moon. Visibility of both landscape and sky was high due to the phase of the moon and the clear, cloudless sky. However, no definite shape was visible. Within a mere 10 seconds or so of sighting this stationary object, it simply disappeared as though somebody turned off a light switch. We were completely baffled as to what it was. The object(s) sighted sat stationary, ruling out it simply flying behind the mountain. What was odd about the whole encounter is just before seeing the object(s) one person in our party stated a feeling of being watched or taken (the latter of the two being a really odd thing to say). Right after we all agreed on the feeling of being watched and puzzled by the latter half of what was said I saw the object(s) sitting there in the sky. I wonder if, and urge anybody that saw something similar to report this, there were many people camping Sunday-Monday evening. We couldn't have been the only people to see it.” [Emphasis added]
The final report in this examination of remarkable 2011 witness submissions to UFOBC details a profound incident of missing time and the witness’ subsequent dream recall. The dream symbolism of the “space gateway” that the witness associates with UFO’s offers a fascinating parallel to known phenomena seen by hundreds of people at the ECETI Ranch in nearby Washington state:
“Reported 1-Aug-2011
Jan/Feb 1988, Dunn Lake, BC:
“I came out of a white fog and was standing in the living room of the house I had been staying at and renovating. I could not recall anything previous to the moment of emerging from this fog stretching back to the Monday before. I turned on the radio to and found it was now Friday morning. I could not remember the most minute detail as if a chunk of my memory was erased. My mind felt like I had electroshock treatment (I am guessing as nothing like that has happened to me).
“I had a post hypnotic suggestion that kept saying "I must have been here working". In thinking of this later it seems a strange thing to keep saying since where else would I have been? I looked at my surroundings; about a foot of icy snow on the ground. I inspected my truck and could see where I had returned from town the previous Sunday evening. I could also see that no one had driven in or out. So I had not left in my truck. My fridge was still full of the weeks' food I had purchased and nothing had been eaten. My pile of fire wood by the entrance door was still there from the past Sunday evening so the house's wood stove had been off for at least 3 1/2 days yet despite the minus 10 night time temperatures (plus 2 or so in the day) the house was not frozen up. The temperature in the house was odd in that it was not warm but not cold either; I did not need to light a fire for a few more hours and I spent the intervening time investigating my "situation".
“I was warm and dry, not hungry or thirsty so I had not been out in the snow covered elements. I looked at my progress of finishing the log house and no work had been done inside or at my small workshop outside since Monday morning. So no food eaten, no work done. I looked at my log book (day-timer) and it was curiously open to the correct date. I remember this as I only had to turn the pages backwards in time to see what I had written. This work log had been faithfully kept for each days' [sic] work (it was kept by me in order to honestly keep track of my time for the absent landlord). The past days were blank (previously I had never missed more than one day in recording my times). I could also see from my log book that everything work-wise was just as I had left it the previous Monday.
“Since the (what I now call it) post hypnotic suggestion was saying "I must have been here working" over and over, I dutifully filled in the missing days with obviously fictitious work (since I had already determined that no work was done). Despite my confusion I filled this in quickly, taking no more than a few minutes. This was (is) extremely out of character for me as I care most about being honest and giving more work and charging less. I deeply care about my reputation and have always felt it is better to work an extra 1/2 hour to make sure I am giving a good proper deal. In fact this is the only time in my life that I can remember charging for time that I did not perform.
“I could not reconcile this missing time and deciding that I must be bushed. I decided to take better care of myself (in spite of the fact of not remembering anything like this ever happening previously). So life went on and I went on. In August of that year (about seven months later) I had a dream and there I was on the fateful Monday. Somehow I immediately knew in my dream that it was that day exactly. I was working in my wood shop. Right in the middle of planing a board in the thickness planer, I thought that I must go over to the lake. I shut off the tool and walked the 30 feet over to the edge of the hill overlooking the lake. I looked up and there was an odd shaped hole in the bright overcast sky. It seemed that I was looking into the cosmos as if it was an opening or gateway into space. I was confused for a moment then I realized that I was seeing a UFO. I had a rush of excitement (very positive as this was amazing to me) when I got an electric shock instantly awaking me. The realization of seeing a UFO, the shock, and the being awake upright in bed all happened at the same time. I did not want to wake up and the shock was something external applied to me as if my dream was monitored. I immediately thought "Now I know what happened to me in those missing days; it was a UFO and it all made sense.
“I have tried many times since that time to will another dream like that. The UFO dreams I have had all have silver discs and once the disc landed in front of me (in my dream) and I could see inside the front window. Sitting there (inside the disc) were about a dozen in total very attractive human men and women in silver suits. They were smiling at me and I could see all of them right up to their eyes (which I could not see). I assume something is different about their eyes. Most every time I have willed a dream, after the sighting I am suddenly stumbling around after my dream disoriented (all in the dream).
“I am wanting to solve this mystery and have some regressive hypnosis although I have resisted doing this with just anyone. I would be interested in having a recommendation. I have never had any reaction to the grey alien type descriptions or drawings and it seems my experience is with another group (this is only my feeling and my dream memories. I know often people have a different memory after regression). My main concern is to find someone with experience in this field who will impartially explore this without inserting any preconceived thoughts or agenda.”
Many of the witnesses who submitted their reports to UFOBC indicated their interest in obtaining further information regarding what they had seen and experienced. This reporter recommends a form of knowledge access that can be made possible through the application of non-invasive voice-based disclosure technology as reported in Examiner.com. To explore this avenue, witnesses can call the Vancouver UFO Examiner at 1 888 453 0751, provide some details of their experience and leave a call-back number for follow-up.
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