"[T]here were three balls of fire in the sky then another bigger one moving much faster from the east, then another and another," reads a report from UFO*BC's January 2011 case files. “The sight was spectacular, the lights went from whitish to red to light blue, I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing,“ claims another witness. Vancouver's Georgia Straight contributors' pick for Best UFO Website in 2010 is UFOBC.ca run by UFO*BC, a not-for-profit society registered with the province of British Columbia. UFO*BC's primary mandate is to gather and investigate BC and Yukon based UFO sighting reports and make the public aware of the phenomenon. UFO*BC also collects and investigates other paranormal activity including but not limited to, Ghosts and Sasquatch/Bigfoot Sightings.

This month, UFO*BC Vice-President Gord Heath was interviewed in a 3-part podcast about his role in the 1953 Kinross incident in which USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla, Jr. mysteriously disappeared after his F89 left Kinross Airforce Base near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in pursuit of an unknown craft.

Major Donald Keyhoe investigated the case, with one source describing how in 1958 "Keyhoe got hold of a leaked Air Force document that made it clear that officialdom considered the Kinross incident a UFO encounter of the strangest kind. The document quoted these words from a radar observer who had been there: "It seems incredible, but the blip apparently just swallowed our F-89." The following year, in conversations with civilian ufologists Tom Comella and Edgar Smith, M. Sgt. O. D. Hill of Project Blue Book confided that such incidents -- he claimed Kinross had not been the only one -- had officials worried. Many, he said, believed UFOs to be of extraterrestrial origin and wanted to prevent an interplanetary Pearl Harbor. Cornelia subsequently confronted Hill's superior, Capt. George T. Gregory, at Blue Book headquarters. Gregory looked shocked, left the room for a short period, and returned to state, "Well, we just cannot talk about those cases.""

The Straight explains: “Most people don’t know there’s more than one Web site for UFO aficionados that’s based in the Lower Mainland. In our opinion, the best of the bunch is UFOBC.ca. It’s operated by the volunteer group UFO*BC and includes reports of UFO sightings, tales of alien abductions, and links to other sites such as Flying Saucer Review and The Crop Circle Connector. It will keep believers in extraterrestrial beings entranced for hours.“

Vancouver region UFO eyewitness accounts reported to UFO*BC for the month of January 2011 include the following raw, unconfirmed reports written in the language of the witnesses themselves:

Reported 1-Jan-2011
1-Jan-2011, Mission, BC: (00:30 am)
Hello. I was just outside bearing witness to all the noise & fuss about the welcoming of the new 2011, bright clear cold night, no clouds, looking about due north from my back patio. I was looking up at what I beleive was a 50-55 degree angle, not quite sure of the distance aspect as I could not see, possibly 2-5 miles away. What appeared to be a glowing trasnparent edge odd shaped glob, not pulsating or spinning, more like floating along but definatley looked like it had some sort of control as it went slightly west then changed to a southern direction, towards me gaining in altitude and speed, a smaller black shaded edge circle seems to move within the outer "shell" although it didnt appear to an out edge to it, just an odd shaped burnt orange to bright orange, like a cell moving along a glass lab plate...strange how it sounds I know, but as I watched, the "glowing odd ball" as I would like to call it, it didnt fade and there was no indication something was going to change as it was the same sort of movement only traveling higher, it was just gone! Gone! Now i dont know what to make of it, I am extremely excited to witness something that perhaps is a phenomenom/paranormal or even a sighting, natural earthly occurance from gases? I would be apprecaitive to hear back from you on what this may have been.

Reported 1-Jan-2011
31-Dec-2010, Abbotsford, BC: (11:23 pm)
While driving westward on the night of Dec 31 2010 along highway one, I saw a series of linear multiple lights on something triangular, hovering slowly eastward. When I got nearer, I saw the lights change colour underneath this triangular object. It blocked out the night sky which had some minor light pollution, I clearly saw a solid triangle (I would say a perfect triangle) with numerous lights differing in size and intensity. I was probably mid way between Abbotsford and Langley most likely Cloverdale. As I headed westward the object was on my left and estimated size would be about 5 Boeing 747 arranged together. I was not drinking nor any drugs. I clearly saw the object sadly I was driving and unable to stop. Even if I could've pulled out my iPhone the picture wouldn't show detail. The sight was spectacular, the lights went from whitish to red to light blue, I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing however the idea of UFOs is one that I've always suspected to be credible and most possible. I'm curious if others saw it...reassurance would be great! Thank you.

Reported 2-Jan-2011
2-Jan-2011, Vancouver, BC: (7:05 pm)
I saw an object in the south west sky moving in a forward motion and it looked like it was on fire or some kind of amber flame like color. it then stopped in motion and stayed in one place, it was too high in the sky to be a helicopter . it burned bright for about one minute or so and the light got dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared in the sky in the place it stopped.

Reported 3-Jan-2011
June/July 2010, Hope, BC: (2 - 5 pm)
UFO over hope - photo and video footage. A lot of raw data, someone was able to blow up one picture for me, witnessed by 3 people. I told my family they said it was on the news? I cant find any media on it. Someone could possibly treat the pics better than me?

UFOBC Responds:
Without any more details as to what you saw we cannot say if someone else saw something in or around that day (or matching your object). Would you be able to send us more details about the object and possibly snippets of the footage and a copy of the original photo?
Thanks
Richard
UFO*BC

Reported 8-Jan-2011
2-Jan-2010, Abbotsford, BC: (about 8:30 pm)
On January 2nd, 2011 at approximately 8:30pm Pacific Standard time, I heard my husband yelling for me several times to come out on our back deck (I was in the bathroom at the time and thought there was an emergency or something, he doesn't usually yell like that). What we both witnessed was an extremely bright orange fireball traveling slowly across the sky, from North to South. I managed to see it too for about 30 seconds, before it arced and was obscured by buildings. It was a brilliant orange fire colour and I asked my husband if he thought it was a small plane that had caught fire. He stated no, as there appeared to be no "tail", it was too round. The height of it could have been about 2,000 feet but hard to tell. It definitely wasn't a meteor, or space debris entering the earth's atmosphere, which we've seen many times before. It was very silent and moving slowly as though with purpose.

Reported 9-Jan-2011
9-Jan-2011, Surrey/Langley, BC: (6:58 - 7:05 pm)
I saw multiple orange lights, circular in appearance, they were moving in a westerly direction. What first caught my eye was it almost appeared to look like the big dipper but with orange stars, which seemed odd to me. As I kept looking I noticed they were moving. They kind of formed a line and all headed for a general area in the sky, hung around and then statred to fade away. For the next several minutes a few more kept coming from the east, one came from behind and caught up with another and then moved past. No audible sounds came along with what I saw. Thankfully I ran to the neighbors to get them to come and see... but to my relief they were already watching the event unfold. I just want someone to explain what I saw...until that happens they were U.F.O.s

Reported 9-Jan-2011
9-Jan-2011, Langley, BC:
I was on the computer and heard my mum shouting to come outside, thinking it was just something silly. But something in her voice made me think twice. I ran outside to meet 4 other family members (ages ranging from 28 to 54) who witnessed the same thing and none of whom had seen anything like it. We live in the East area of Surrey BC, many people driving on 88th Avenue or Hwy 1 or 176th Street would have seen it - there was a small plane circling as well who could not have missed it.... At first we thought it was flares or something falling out of the sky but to look closer there were three balls of fire in the sky then another bigger one moving much faster from the east, then another and another they were moving very fast and none seemed to be falling, just moving from east to west, no sound and just a smooth movement. It didn't look like a plane on fire it didnt look like anything any of us could explain...They came from the east, very rapidly and then slowed down at a steady rate, all ten or so turned south at the exactly the same place then slowly faded out...at one point two of them stuck together and kinda moved from side to side. We have video but it's not the best. We are all still trying to explain what we saw but to no avail. As in response to the posting in Abbotsford and Vancouver on the 2nd of January, it gave me goosebumps - you described it to the T as to what we saw.

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