For Steve and Frances Tomecek of Rosswood their ceiling has practically been the sky for over fifty years of their lives in peaceful Kalum Valley.

And now strange forms are appearing regularly across the wide horizon of their valley vision that reaches to the far-off mountain tops of Maroon and Goatie.

The object takes the form of an orange ball - at times moving across the sky at terrific speed; at others slowly with abrupt stops, motionless, as Mrs. Tomecek puts it "As if surveying the world - looking everything over."

Viewed from a 30 mm telescope the round object takes on a whitish hue circled with an orange glow; the surface appears rough.

From another angle "five black portholes appeared on the rough surface, grouped in three and two, above one another, the Tomeceks explained.

"What seems odd they are not all alike," Mrs. Tomecek said. "One midmorning last week one hovered above the house, exactly like a full moon.

"We keep wondering what propels them - there is no sigh of smoke or any kind of vapour trail."

The Tomeceks have been seeing these objects regularly since last spring - travelling either southwest or northeast.

During last summer the object appeared like clockwork every evening about 5:30. When time changed to Standard, so did its flight time change.

"On one occasion I saw this bright orange ball mixed up in the four stars of the Big Dipper," Tomecek explained, "and then I knew I was not just seeing things."

The Tomeceks feel many are probably skeptical, but to them "the flying objects in the sky are very real, and certianly no fluke of the imagination."

Of this they are confident - besides being mighty curious.