It started with a Burnaby, B.C. woman seeing a UFO hovering over the municipality in the first week of April of this year. It ended with the members of the family being rousted out of bed at 3 a.m. When she protested to the RCMP officers about the Inconvenience, one of the constables told her they were merely following "orders from Ottawa". Mrs. Aileen McPherson was walking her dog around 11:30 p.m. when she saw a "bright pink light" in the sky. “It was hovering over the houses at a low altitude,” she said. “I noticed that the light appeared to be pulsating. As I watched, the UFO started to get larger, still pulsating, as though it was coming towards me. I went toward the house, calling for my daughter to come out and look. As I did so, the object stopped, hovered and finally vanished behind some trees.”

When her daughter appeared, the object reappeared, still pulsating and it started to climb swiftly on an erratic course. It went behind some trees but was still visible. The two women called the Burnaby RCMP. "The officer said they would contact them later.” Mrs. McPherson locked the house and went to bed.

At 3 a.m. Mrs. McPherson was awakened by the phone. It was the RCMP telling her they were sending two men over to take their statements. A third statement came from Dan Goodbout, a young man who was. staying with them. Asked about the incident a spokesman for the Burnaby RCMP said that he had no explanation for the “unusual procedure" unless the matter was of extreme urgency. "But there was no urgency In this case and I cannot offer an explanation," he sald.

The radar control center at Vancouver Airport, reported "nothing unusual".