From: Brian Vike HBCC UFO <hbccufo@telus.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:28:30 -0700
Fwd Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:10:02 -0400
Subject: Barriere, British Columbia Update


Barriere, British Columbia

Date:  September 10, 2003
Time: 8:50 p.m.

I just posted a sighting report for September 3, 2003 which came
from a witness who resides in Barriere, British Columbia. A
witnessed watched a extremely large craft fly quickly overhead.

Just tonight I had a telephone call from the same folks. The
man's wife was outside tending the farm animals and her husband
was with her. He takes his video equipment with him on many
occasions as he is a sky watcher and does catch some good
footage of different things. He also caught some great footage
of the forest fires which were burning in the Barriere area.

Tonight on September 10, 2003 at 8:50 p.m. the couple heard a
sound coming from the north, when they looked towards that area
of the sky they saw a bright white light heading directly in
their direction and it passed soundless over top their farm.
Both stood speechless ! They looked again towards the north
where they could still hear the sound coming from, which at this
point was growing louder and louder as it approached their
location. Seeing the fellow was so shocked to see what just went
over top of them, meaning a large silent bright white light, he
never thought to "try" to take a bit of footage. But he did say
the white moved very quickly and was soon out of their line of
sight due to the surrounding area. But as the sound from
"something" else drew closer and at this point was at the edge
of the farm, he started rolling video tape and was surprised to
see two large military helicopters fly low over head. He said I
don't know what one would call the make of the helicopters, but
the two of them were really large and flying in the same
direction the light was heading. The witness also told me he has
good equipment for his camera and did catch the two helicopters
on film. (The footage will be making it's way to me as soon as
he can get a copy made up).

(HBCC UFO Note: Due to myself knowing there is a fire in that
area, I asked if the aircraft the witnesses saw were anywhere
near the fire. The fellow said the helicopters were not even
close to the area where the fire is burning. The fire is burning
way up on the Bonaparte area and the two helicopters should have
been way west of these peoples farm. I also asked one of the
witnesses if he knew of any helicopters flying at night due to
the fire activity in the area. He said he knew of none flying at
night. He did say the run of the mill helicopters are seen a lot
during the daylight hours but no military helicopters have been
seen in the area. He also added there are military personal in
the area and many of us would have heard of this on the news.
There are a good number of Canadian troops on the ground
fighting these awful fires through the province. I also asked
the witness how bad was the fire in the area, and he told me it
wasn't bad at all. (There is a bit of important information I
cannot give out as it could lead back to one of these witnesses.
This bit of information is key to knowing what is flying and
isn't). Something else which stuck me as odd. A shor time ago
the media, along with the general public were at one location
taking pictures of the forest fire. I was told the RCMP showed
up and took everyone's film away from them.

I also have heard from people in the Vernon area that the
military is buzzing around. Matter of fact the witnesses in
Vernon, B.C. said it was if they were on some kind of alert.

I telephoned the Kamloops airport tower just after I talked with
the witness, but the airport operations were closed for the
night as all I got was an answering machine telling me the hours
they operated in. So I will be calling them back first thing in
the morning to see if I can get any information on aircraft
flying in that area at the time of the sighting. I will also try
the Comox military base on Vancouver Island to see if they are
flying military choppers in the Barriere area.

So what we have is a bright white light/object flying low over
top of the witnesses farm, followed by two military helicopters
following at a distance behind the soundless light.

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I was just typing this report up, and in came another from
Cranbrook, British Columbia and a number of people saw something
very strange in the sky September 9, 2003. So I should have the
information on this very soon and posted.

Take care

Brian Vike, Director
HBCC UFO Research
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