Alone in her car one night early the previous winter, Joanne Hammond, then 16, of Radium, on her way to visit friends had an encounter with a UFO so frightening that for months after she would not drive by herself at night.

"It came flying right toward the windshield until it was just two or three feet away, then it shot up and disappeared for a second," she recalled. "The next thing I knew it came shooting at me from the driver's side before it again went over the car, just missing the window.

Completely shaken, Joanne started to speed up only to have the object take up pursuit. "It had a golden light coming from it," she said, "and I knew it was following me because the light was shining in the rearview mirror. It lit up the whole inside of the car. I was doing about 70 miles an hour by this time and still it came after me.

After a mile or two the object gave up the chase when they came to a point where a few people were walking beside the road. When she later met her friends they immediately saw something was wrong and soon learned what had happened.

But despite her fright, Joanne formed a clear impression of the object's appearance.

"When it first came toward me, it looked round in front with a hump on top. But when it shot up over the car it looked more triangular. It had two wings that tapered off and right behind in the middle was a narrow tail about six inches long. The wings spread right across the windshield so I guess the whole thing was three or four feet wide altogether. It was very solid-looking, like metal, with the light coming out from the center of it. During our interview Joanne made a sketch of what she saw. Her drawing looked like a miniature delta-wing aircraft.

Several weeks later this item in an Australian newspaper caught our eye: "Two Canberra women who claimed to have seen four unidentified flying objects over Lake George described them as dull silver-white delta-shaped objects.

These matching cases raised two significant points. One was that delta-shaped craft were showing up as part of our visitors' equipment. The other was that Joanne's description was just as detailed as the Australian women's though she was alone and in a much more frightening position. It made a good case in favor of accepting certain single-witness sightings.

Drawing from Canadian UFO Report. No. 11. 1971.