Sir:

I did not think that I would relate my experience to anyone except close friends. But after reading Vol. 1 No. 7 of Canadian UFO Report I feel I should. On page 11 paragraph 2 you describe a light that was many times brighter than a star performing spectacular maneouvres in the sky.

The experience which I, my wife, oldest son and a friend witnessed occurred about the middle of June of this year at about 10:30 p.m.

My friend was just leaving for his home and when we went outside we both looked up to the sky to look at the stars as we are all interested in astronomy and space travel. As I glanced towards the northwest I noticed a light the size of a star, but many times brighter, moving in a northerly direction towards the Big Dipper.

At first I thought it was a plane or satellite, but this could not be. The light was travelling too fast to be a satellite and too slow to be a plane of any kind. For one thing it seemed to be too high and only one light was visible. One other thing that convinced me was that after the light reached the vicinity of the Big Dipper it stopped and remained there for about three minutes.

In the meantime my friend and I called my wife and she came outside shortly before the light stopped. Then, all of a sudden, it moved south and proceeded so for almost one minute, then it went in a southeastern direction. It was still well above the horizon when all of a sudden it just disappeared. The next night we were watching for it again. Sure enough, around 11 p.m. this time, we all saw it again, only this time we were in the backyard and the light was two-thirds of the way above the eastern horizon, heading in a northern direction. Once more it stopped near a cluster of stars a little past the halfway point in the northeastern direction. It was easy to see as it was brighter than any star.

This time after about two minutes the light moved again, this time as before in a southeastern direction, and disappeared again about the same distance above the horizon as the previous night.

We have since looked for it on occasion but have not sighted it again. I plan to buy a telescope in the near future. My friend, wife and son are more convinced than ever that this was not an aircraft of any type, and not a satellite, as I have seen satellites and they do not move as quickly as that.

We are all very interested in UFOs, and I have been since childhood. I hope that this information will be of interest to you.

Peter Borkent,
North Surrey, B.C.

The object's flight in the direction of the Big Dipper may have been deliberate. In our issue No.1 we reported this sighting by Marina McCreedy, then 13, at Swift River on the Alaska Highway: "On one occasion, playing outside in the evening, she and other children noticed a strange star in the middle of the Big Dipper. As they watched, it started to move. Marina went in to call her mother but by the time Mrs. McCreedy came out the object had disappeared. As the children continued playing, they saw the object move slowly in sight again toward the Big Dipper where it resumed its exact previous position. Then abruptly it disappeared." - Ed