Sir:

About 8:30 p.m., on March 7, I, along with my daughter and her girl friend, both University of Victoria students home for the weekend, had been to our small store near our home, and, as I turned to drive up our road, noticed a moving object in the west near a very bright star which my daughter said later she believed to be the planet Venus. The object had a red light, and was moving steadily in a southwest direction. We all watched it for several minutes believing it to be the new satellite carrying the astronauts when it suddenly stopped, hovered for a few seconds, then turned and proceeded in a northwest direction. I realized then it could not be the new satellite as they proceed in one direction.

Our curiosity was aroused and we continued to watch it, calling my mother and my husband from our house to watch also. It appeared to be looking for something, speeding up, and then slowing down, almost to a standstill. It passed over Mount Prevost, and turned east until it was over the large B.C. Hydro generating station, about four or five miles north of Duncan, the lights from which we can see from our house. It then hovered over the generating station for about 15 minutes, and then returned over Mount Prevost again in a westerly direction for a time. It again turned and came straight towards our house, and as it passed over us we could see quite plainly its shape as it was flying at a much lower altitude than previously, and its lights threw their gleams onto the object. It was round in shape, and we could plainly see it rotating. It had four lights, one green, one red, one yellow, and the other white.

After passing slowly over our house, it hovered around for a few more minutes, then speeded up and headed rapidly in an eastern direction towards where I believe Vancouver to be situated from here. I timed how long the UFO was in this area - 40 minutes. We live about three miles north of Duncan, at the foot almost of Mount Prevost. One of my husband's fellow workers, Ernie Anderson, of Gibbins Road, Duncan, also mentioned to my husband this morning that he had seen it.

Although there were five of us witnessing this, I did not mention it to our local radio station or our newspaper, fearing ridicule, so was extremely pleased to hear on the radio that a similar object was seen that same night over Vancouver.

I should say there was no noise at all, even when it was overhead, which made me feel sure it was something out of the ordinary.

Mrs. William Marshall,
Duncan, B.C.

A sketch by Mrs. Marshall showed the lights protruding in pairs, on what appeared to be brackets, from opposite sides of the object. – Ed.