Jan 2: A Prince George man, Walter Webster, saw an object in the sky Wednesday evening which he believes could have been a UFO.

Webster was driving home along Fifth when he saw a bright orange object in the sky overhead.

At first he thought it to be Christmas lights and then possibly a jet. But when he stopped the car and put his head out of the window he saw the object was round with a square tail.

He also saw struts beneath the object and what seemed to be fire coming from the tail.

As it hovered overhead, apparently at a great height, he pulled into a service station and pointed it out to two attendants. They watched it travel slowly till it seemed to be above the Prince George pulp mill.

Webster drove home - keeping the UFO in view. At his Dahl Street home, he pointed it out to his wife and young children. He also phoned his brother, Ernie Webster, who watched it through binoculars. They saw it cruise above 100 Steps ski hill where the light fluctuated in brightness and faded out.

Webster said the object was completely silent and he had it in view for three-quarters of an hour. He was the only one who saw the object's detail as it appeared to have risen by the time he reached the gas station.

Webster contacted the Baldy Hughes RCAF base where he was told nothing had been observed on radar apart from "regular traffic."

He also contacted the RCMP who have received no other reports.

Webster is naturally interested in hearing from other citizens who may have spotted the UFO.

Jan. 3: Two more Prince George residents have come forward to add testimony to the Wednesday evening sighting of an unidentified flying object, reported by Walter Webster of Prince George.

Grant Magnuson, one of the sighters, was alerted by Webster - the other, Mrs. H.L. Hamel, said she saw it independently.

Magnuson, who wrote a paper on logical explanations of UFO's while he was in university, said the object appeared to be about one-eighth the size of the moon. He was accompanied by Don Cook when he made the sighting.

We watched the orange-yellow light for 20 minutes," Magnuson said.

"When we first saw it at 5:15 p.m. it was close to the moon. What struck us was that it was relatively big and stationary.

"It was not close enough for us to see any. thing, but light. It was round . . . there was some difference in the density of the light and there was a corona or halo. It was far larger than the stars and a different color.

"It started to move relatively slowly, then stopped for five or ten minutes. It started to fade out as if it was rising. It faded and brightened four or five times dwindling to a red dot then disappearing.

"At first we thought it was a helicopter with a light, but it was noiseless.

"It was directly over Fifth and Carney, and the sky was clear.

"I thought it might have been a weather balloon carrying a flare, but an investigating RCMP member said this morning he had not heard anything to substantiate this.”

Mrs. Hamel said she was driving east toward First with her husband and children when they sighted the UFO. “We looked at it for 20 minutes and saw it disappear.”

"I saw the same thing in February last year on a similar cold, clear night. Only that time it seemed as if the light was on top of a cone.”

Mrs. Hamel said they reported the UFO to the local weather station.