Three members of a Campbell River family and another man watched a UFO for more than an hour in the wee small hours of last Tuesday morning. (7 April 1970)

"It was brighter than a star and projected a beam to the southwest," Mrs. Pat Herman of 1421 Perkins, said this week.

Mrs. Herman, her husband Ken, 16-year-old son Larry and Dick Lapine, watched the object from the Herman home.

Ken Herman and Lapine first spotted the UFO while driving home from work at 2:30 a.m.

The men woke Mrs. Herman and her son up as soon as they arrived at the Herman home and the four watched the object for more than an hour.

"It held steady and didn't move at all," Mrs. Herman said, "dispelling any thoughts in my mind that it was a comet.

She said she phoned the Comox Air Base and pointed out the location, but the man on duty said he was unable to see anything. (40; )