Wednesday's night sky over Vancouver, BC played host to a pulsating UFO that was captured on video during skywatching activities from Burnaby Mountain Park on July 27, 2011. The UFO was detected by a night vision camera and tracked for nearly five minutes as it travelled SE to NW before disappearing behind a stand of trees. During this period, the UFO was first seen being overtaken by a second, faster-moving object before amplifying its luminous output in what veteran skywatchers describe as a “power-up” incident. While in flight, the UFO performed multiple power-ups, inviting comparison with another object recorded four nights earlier near Vancouver City Hall. Both UFO’s are featured in a new video available now on YouTube’s SecretMessageTV channel.
Click here to watch this new video of pulsating UFO’s flying over Vancouver, BC on SecretMessageTV.
Other Explanations
Some online respondents to recent reports of UFO’s captured on video in the Vancouver Lower Mainland have cited the International Space Station, Space Shuttle Atlantis, satellites and balloons as the source of these compelling moving images.
NASA Skywatch Tables
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration website, NASA.gov, provides a Skywatch Sightings calculator that enables civilian observers to determine the dates and times when the ISS is visible from their locations. The current table for Vancouver, BC, where the most recent UFO sighting took place, shows how the ISS, while visible at night, is only visible between the hours of 2:00am to 5:00am PST through August 11, 2011.This information places potential ISS sightings at a location on the timeline at least three or more hours later than what Wednesday night’s video capture reveals.
Regarding the accuracy of NASA’s published tables, Joseph E. Pascucci, Jr. from the International Space Station Trajectory Operations office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston explained to this reporter earlier in June how, under normal conditions, NASA’s projected local sightings times “would not vary significantly from what is published” online.
STS-135 Final Mission
On July 21, 2011 at 5:57am ET, STS-135 Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the end of the US Space Shuttle program after 30 years in operations of what was reportedly the world’s first manned reusable spacecraft. Regarding the program’s role in expanding human consciousness via the exploration of space, Commander Chris Ferguson told members of the press how “The space shuttle changed the way we view the world, the way we view the universe.” Having completed its final landing six days before Wednesday night’s UFO incident over Vancouver, neither Atlantis nor any other vehicle in the now-retired space shuttle fleet can be considered a likely candidate for the source of such mysterious images.
Only One Flare
Satellite flares are reportedly singular incidents in which vehicle surfaces temporarily reflect sunlight onto the earth. One source describes how flares from Iridium communication satellite antennae can illuminate “a spot on the surface below of about 10 km diameter. To an observer this looks like a bright flash, or flare in the sky, with a duration of a few seconds.” Such descriptions do not match observations taking place over a five minute period in which multiple flares are recorded on video, as was the case during Wednesday night’s incident over Vancouver, BC.
There is, after all, only one star in the Earth’s solar system, and thereby only one possible source of illumination from which satellites can produce reflections in the form of flares. The UFO’s tracked over Vancouver this week, through their multiple power-ups, demonstrated independence from the constraints of vehicles that must reflect light in order to increase their visibility, revealing how these UFO’s are in fact self-luminous objects.
Inflated Theory
Regarding the possibility that balloons could play a role in Vancouver UFO observations, there are several points to consider. Smaller balloons, including weather balloons, typically rely upon lighter-than-air gasses for buoyancy in flight. Their courses are determined by wind conditions, which change continuously throughout their ascent. This causes erratic changes in both speed and direction of flight that are easy to observe. Their surfaces are mono-colored, thereby equally reflective on all sides. If the balloon rotates, this will have no effect on the luminous output from its reflective surfaces.
Hot air balloons, while typically displaying more complex colors and designs are also much larger and easier to identify at range using telephoto optics on a camera system. There are no commercial hot air balloon formation flights over Vancouver and no flights available in the Fraser Valley in the hours after sunset, a time when the majority of recent UFO sightings were reported to have taken place.
UFO’s demonstrating on-camera stable, independent powered flight, pulsating light displays and night time operations defy characterization as balloons for these very reasons. The UFO’s captured on video during flights over Vancouver both evade NASA’s timetables and defy skeptical explanation. To paraphrase the words of Atlantis Commander Chris Ferguson, in order to understand the UFO phenomena, we must retire our conventional models for interpreting perceptions in order to “change the way we view the universe”.
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