July 10, 1968
615 15th Avenue South
Port Alberni, BC

Dear Sirs,

The following enclosed data was compiled by my husband Blake. I was sky watching and saw a swiftly moving red light. I called my husband who immediately took the binoculars.

I admit that I have read with great interest your books on the subject of U.F.O.’s, but wasn’t actually hoping for a sighting. My husband complied the data because he was an artillery observer and specialist in the army and is familiar with trigonometry and higher math. Anyway, we trust it will be of some interest in view of reported sightings over Seattle, of which we read the following evening in the Vancouver Sun.

Thank you for listening,
Jean and Blake Reesor

On Sunday, 7/July/1968, at approximately 9:45 PM PDT, an object was sighted at a horizontal angle of about 15 degrees east of north and at a vertical angle of approximately 35 degrees above the horizontal from the corner of 15th Avenue South and Neill Street in Port Alberni. Through 7x35 binoculars this red light resolved to 3 red lights arranged in a triangle, apex leading. The resolution of the binoculars was between 30 seconds and 1 degree. The object traversed approximately 60 degrees of sky in less than 30 seconds. It maintained apparent straight line flight and disappeared gradually at about 15 degrees above the horizon and 40 degrees west of north. Its direction of travel appeared to be approximately east to west at the time, the sky was clear and the stars were out at peak brilliance. There was not even the faintest jet noise. And the background noise was at a minimum level. This is the end of the observed data.

Based on past experiences, I placed the velocity, on the basis of commercial jet size, at something in the order of 7 to 10 times the normal speed of a jet plane. If this was 3 or more objects, then they must have been at a considerably further distance, and the velocity in the order of 3,000 to 6,000 miles per hour.

Blake A. Reesor
10/July/68