Kamloops Lake - Thompson River – City Of Kamloops British Columbia (6 - Pictures)

Above Photo: Over looking the city of Kamloops, British Columbia.

As we travel around Kamloops, B.C. there is so much to see and never enough time to see it all. I wanted to take a few pictures of Kamloops Lake, the Thompson River and the city of Kamloops from a higher vantage point, which I did, but at dusk. 

For information about Kamloops, please visit Tourism Kamloops at:

http://www.tourismkamloops.com/home

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Heritage Railway Located In Kamloops British Columbia (13 - Pictures)

Above Photo: Welcome sign for travelers visiting Kamloops, British Columbia.

For myself trains have held a special place in my life. It started when I was a little guy when I received my first train on Christmas day. I was so excited as my Dad handed out the presents, and in one of the wrapped boxes was a locomotive, box cars, tracks and small houses. I quickly opened up the box pulling everything out onto the floor in one pile. 

I knew exactly how it was supposed to be put together, at least I thought so. My dad sat with me as we both transformed a pile of plastic and metal into a working model railroad. I was so happy with a smile from ear to ear.

As the years went by, we decided to build a larger scale railway, but little did I realize that it wasn’t going to be just a bit larger, it was going to be huge as it took up the entire recreation room in the basement. It was great and we had a lot of fun putting it together and then operating it.

So when my daughter drove me to the Kamloops Heritage Railway, I was just like that kid again on Christmas day. It was off season as we were in Kamloops in November of 2015, so I could not experience the ride the train took tourists on, plus the cowboys on horse back robbing the train.

The next time we visit my daughter, I will be the 64 year old sitting on the train with a smile from ear to ear.

So make your holiday stop in Kamloops, British Columbia where all your dreams will come true as did mine.

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23 Beautiful Back Alley Mural Paintings Kamloops British Columbia (23 - Pictures)

Above Photo: Just one of the amazing Back Alley Mural Paintings that is found in 

Kamloops, British Columbia.

During our visit with family in Kamloops, British Columbia, my daughter drove me to a back alley in the downtown area. I did wonder where she was taking me, but it soon became very clear as I my face lit up. All of the buildings along this back alley had beautiful murals painted on them by some very clever people. 

The back alley murals are amazing and when visiting Kamloops, B.C. make sure you take time to visit this wonderful work of art.

Back Alley Art Gallery:

http://www.kcbia.com/programs/back-alley-art-gallery/

Location Map for the Back Alley Mural Paintings in Kamloops, B.C.:

http://www.tourismkamloops.com/cultural-walking-tours-in-kamloops-bc

Kamloops Visitor Centre:

http://www.tourismkamloops.com/home

Location map for the Kamloops Visitor Centre:

Below I have listed some information about Kamloops I am sure you will enjoy reading.

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1887 St. Andrews On The Square Heritage Site Kamloops British Columbia (5 - Pictures)

Above Photo: 1887 St. Andrews On The Square Heritage Site Kamloops British Columbia.

In early November 2015 my daughter continued to show me around the city of Kamloops. It seemed at every turn there was something wonderful to see, then we came upon the St. Andrews On The Square site. 

St. Andrews On The Square was built in 1887 and is the oldest public building in the city of Kamloops. The city bought it, then restored everything back in 1998.

The Kamloops Heritage Society now operates the facility, where weddings and other events are held.

Also on site are the gorgeous St. Andrews gardens where 

local musicians and performers can be found.

So when planning your next holiday, don’t forget to put Kamloops on your agenda so you can tour all the wonderful historic sites seen around town.

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1895 Inland Cigar Factory Kamloops British Columbia (4 - Pictures)

Above Photo: 1895 Inland Cigar Factory in Kamloops, British Columbia.

As my daughter continued to shows me around Kamloops, we came to the Inland Cigar Factory which is located at First Avenue and Seymour Street. The building is a two-story, red-brick Victorian-era structure. 

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Amazing Little Man Formation And The Tranquille River In Kamloops British Columbia (9 - Pictures/Video)

Above Photo: Little Man Formation Kamloops, British Columbia.

On our visit to my families home in Kamloops, British Columbia, I was driven around to see some of the sights Kamloops has to offer travelers.

One day my son-in-law and my grandson thought it would be fun if we drove some of the back roads on the outskirts of Kamloops. As we drove along following the Tranquille River which was way, way down in a canyon my son-in-law pointed out a really awesome formation. 

The formation was located across the canyon and half way up the mountain, and there were no roads that we were able to take for a up close look at this amazing formation.

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1909 Brick Courthouse Located In Kamloops British Columbia (Heritage Building - 4 Pictures)

Above Photo: 1909 Brick Courthouse Kamloops, British Columbia.

As my wife and I continued our travels in November 2015 throughout British Columbia, our next stop was at my daughter’s home. It is always nice to be there visiting with my daughter, son-in-law and my two grandchildren.

Since we were in Kamloops, and knowing some of the history there, I figured this was a good time to check out some of their heritage sites.

At our first stop, it was the 1909 brick courthouse located at 7 Seymour Street West. 

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Two Orange Objects/UFOs Seen From Bank Road Westsyde Kamloops British Columbia

Date:  April 6, 2015
Time:  Between 8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Hi, this evening at between 8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. my son and I were walking on Bank Road in Westsyde Kamloops, British Columbia  and we saw two of these large very bright orange orbs traveling on the mountain side towards the Batch area.

The first one faded as if it were getting higher and shortly after, so did the other. I tried to capture it on my phone video, but it's not a great image.
Super weird!

Thank you to the witness for their report.

If anyone has had a UFO sighting, please send me an email at sighting@telus.net or fill out the online UFO reporting form at the site with details of what you saw. 

Please remember to include the date and time and location. (Town/City – State or Province) and as much detail as possible.

Vike Factor Note: I do receive sighting reports from all over the world, and I post all of the reports I receive here: http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

Brian Vike.
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

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Houston British Columbia Beautiful Sunset - Kamloops British Columbia Thunderstorm And Flooding (Pictures And Videos)

Well I heard from my daughter this evening (August 2, 2014) and they are having a heck of a thunderstorm again in Kamloops, British Columbia. They had a wicked storm roll through on July 23, 2014 and caused major flooding.

Here are some of the YouTube videos people in Kamloops, B.C. loaded up for everyone to see.

1. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-RXnvbhHhw
2. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu8uR2LdHG0
3. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhL0PFtyDTo
4. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQgJGCFTdY

Here in Houston, British Columbia on August 2, 2014 at dusk the sky was beautiful. The clouds were really lit up from the setting sun. I should have moved a bit faster as it was a lot brighter in color, but here is what I managed to take, below.

Brian Vike.
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Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

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Kamloops Area British Columbia – Strange Lights/UFOs In The Sky And The Military (Audio)

(From Brian Vike’s UFO Files) Reposted by Mel.

There was a huge UFO wave taking place across the British Columbia skies, with major sightings of strange craft and alien abductions. UFO sighting reports poured in from 2002 and 2003. Some of these major sightings were aired on the TV news,  in Newspapers and on TV UFO documentaries.

Link to audio: http://www.4shared.com/mp3/Sj39fEuP/Kamloops_Area_British_Columbia.html

Brian Vike (Retired)
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Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

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UFO Operations Will Be Moved From Houston To Kamloops British Columbia In 2012

 

In the coming New Year, 2012 I will be moving from Houston, British Columbia where I have operated my UFO business since mid 2000 to Kamloops, British Columbia where I will take up a new residence. Looking forward to the change and great hot summers. At 60 years of age, time to warm up.

 

This area where I worked in and out of, gave me stacks and stacks of some of the most interesting UFO cases. The town of Houston made number 4 at one time for the most UFO sightings in a town out of all of Canada.

 

Of course, there were sightings happening all throughout the north. I met some wonderful folks, who had UFO and Sasquatch sightings.

 

But it is time to move on and be closer to family once again. Missing my two grandchildren a lot ! This is the main reason why I will be pulling up stakes here and heading out.

 

So I hope to work out of Kamloops, but cover field investigations all throughout the Thompson Okanagan region of British Columbia.

 

Also as normal, I deal with UFO/Sasquatch cases from all around the world.

 

I certainly will be posting any updates when I do move.

 

Thank you.

Brian Vike

The Vike Factor

Witnesses Watch A Metallic UFO 2 Meters In Diameter Over Kamloops British Columbia

 

Date:  July 1992

Time:  Mid afternoon.

 

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: 1

Shape of Objects: Round.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: My friend an I were enjoying a beautiful summer day sitting on top of a hill overlooking the city of Kamloops. Directly in our line of sight, some 100 meters above the city streets below and some 200 meters in front of us, I saw an object hovering in the air.

 

I asked my companion if he could see "something odd" floating in front of us. He said yes, so I asked him to describe it to see if indeed he was looking at the same thing I was. His description matched what I was seeing.

The object itself was perhaps 2 meters in diameter, metallic although not particularly shiny and orb shaped for the most part. The bottom hemisphere was mostly featureless, with only what appeared to be a few thin rods protruding from it.

 

The top hemisphere was very odd. There was a number of box shapes clustered together. Almost looking like miniature buildings of a city center, with more thin rods sticking up in between the blocks.

 

There was no obvious propulsion or guidance to be recognized.

The object was not stationary, but appeared to be moving gently and slowly both up and down and back and forth. The distance of motion being about 10 meters at a time.

 

There was a brisk wind from the west and the object was not being affected by wind at all, often moving westward. It is probable that anyone looking up from below it would not have seen it at all, due to it's small size a great height.

 

It moved towards us, closing the distance by about 100 meters, half the distance that separated us. Then it disappeared, vanished as I was looking directly at it.

We speculated if it might be some sort of new CIA surveillance device or a miniature UFO. In the years since I have never seen any other UFO report describing anything like it nor has anything similar appeared amongst the US arsenal of flying toys that they have made public.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

10 Or So Orange Lights Over Kamloops British Columbia

Date: September 27, 2011

Time: Approx: 12:20 a.m.

Hi Brian, last night I stepped out side to have a smoke and was looking east observing the mini green dipper, then I turned north, and to my amazement I saw 10 or so orange lights in the sky. The travelled southwest towards Vancouver. They were flying at an incredible speed in an erratic formation.

This sighting was very similar to the "orange lights" observed in the central US as I had seen on UFO hunters. I observed them for a good 30 seconds and then lost them as they travelled west due to the city lights.

Tonight I am organizing some friends with cameras, hopefully we catch something. The approximate time was 12:20 am.
Have you had another reports in the area last night? Thanks.

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Orange Red Flame Like Crescent Shaped Object Over Kamloops British Columbia

Date: February 6, 2011

Time: Approx: 9:30 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Kamloops British Columbia.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Crescent.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: # 1 ) We, my husband and I, live in Kamloops B.C. At about 9:30pm last night Feb. 6, 2011 I looked out our patio doors which face west and saw a large orangeish/red ( flame like coloured ) crescent shaped light or object in the distance. It wasn't the moon, it was way too big to be the moon and the moons current phase is a crescent shape on the right side. The large crescent we saw was more on the bottom on it's back, very slightly to the right.

At one point it looked like the top part of the point on the right shot off, but the crescent regained it's shape again. The large crescent moved slightly several times, but then it moved back again. A couple of times it seemed to grow slightly larger, then smaller again almost like a pulsing.

Just before it disappeared (behind the mountain or the clouds covered it ? ) from our view it tilted slightly more upright to the right. We don't know what it was, but it looked way, way too big to be the moon, bigger than a harvest moon. I would like to know if anyone else seen it, and/or if you have any idea what it was .

# 2 ) Also I want to tell you about a strange low tone sound I've been hearing. I noticed it first in about November or October last year 2010. It's always there, sometimes it's louder than at other times. It's really hard on the nerves hearing that constant sound all the time. The only way to stop hearing it is to plug my ears, wear headphones, or have the sound turned up on the TV, PC, etc. Have you heard of anyone else here in Kamloops hearing that constant low sound ?

Also sometimes I hear a very high pitched sound, but it's not there all the time. Also last fall I heard a painfully loud sound only in my right ear, and then my hearing went very dull in that ear and stayed dull for a long time, for awhile I thought I was going to be mostly deaf in my right ear, but gradually my hearing came back to normal.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Cluster Of Three Glowing Orange UFOs Seen Over Kamloops, B. C.

Date: 1999 or 2000 (?)
Time: Summer morning.

Location of Sighting: Kamloops, B.C.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Round.

Full Description of event/sighting: Hello, don't know why I've decided to do this today, but anyways. A friend and I were sitting on my back patio in Kamloops having coffee one summer morning around 1999 or 2000. He was relating to me how his girlfriend and he had seen some weird orange balls in the sky the previous evening at the drive in movie.

The view from my patio is generally southwest and I live on the valley bottom so there is a clear definition of altitude if anything is below the ridge line. After I had teased him about blowing a gear (he's a logging truck driver) we were chatting and enjoying a typical beautiful Kamloops early summer morning when we both see a cluster of three glowing orange balls zipping across our field of view, below the ridge line.

They were only visible for a few seconds as they were moving fast, best guess would be three to four times as fast as a Dash 8 on final, something I see five or 6 times a day as we are on the glide path to KYA airport. They quickly disappeared from view heading down the valley out over Kamloops Lake.

To summarize; they were orange (pale) they were probably between 5 and 10 feet in diameter and they were traveling somewhere between 400 to 800 mph at an altitude of less than 1,500 feet, but more than 1,000 feet.

With the benefit of hindsight I wish I had made some notes to record the details, but the points I've just related are not subject to confabulation and the story can be confirmed by my friend and my wife (who didn't see them because she was in the house) can verify the incident. Best.

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Cylinder Shaped Illuminated UFO Over Kamloops, British Columbia

Date: June ?? 1998
Time: 2:00 a.m.

Kamloops 1998 2:00 a.m. clear and cloudless June. A cylinder shaped illuminated craft flew over my head and straight down the center of town and the valley at around 5000 feet it was huge silent and moved at around 15 mph.

Sunday the next day I asked locals at the coffee shop about what I had seen and was told it was a common thing to see lights in the sky here.

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Tranquille, North Of Kamloops, B. C. Lights Move Apart From One Another

Date: Early 1970's
Time: Evening.

Hi Brian, By the way, minutes after I finished the interview with you the other Friday, my younger sister (the one from the 1968 sighting in Tranquille) called from Washington State and I told her about my interview with you and how you had asked me if anyone else in my family had seen any other UFO's. I was unaware of this when I was speaking to you, but my sister and my grandparents had a sighting that I was not aware of. It was in the early 1970's and my grandparents and sister were driving home to Tranquille after going out for dinner in town.

My sister said they saw two lights side by side flying west away from the airport. At first, they thought they were seeing the wingtip lights from a plane that had just taken off from the airport, but after about a minute or so, the lights kept moving west, but started moving away from one another while still flying west, i.e. the north "wingtip" light started veering north while the south "wingtip" light veered south. The lights eventually disappeared. I asked her if the lights were flashing like an aircraft wing light but she said no and they were just solid white lights. Anyway, just thought I would pass that along to you.

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Tranquille - North Of Kamloops, British Columbia UFOs Making Figure Eight Motions

Date: July, 1968
Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m.

Report 1 from witness.

The Vike Factor Note: The witness who submitted this sighting report below, also filed two others reports in the same email. I have decided to break them up into three different reports. All of the sighting are good ones, but I was shocked when I read the last report on his email, this sighting for July 31, 2003. Possible Missing Time and if you all remember the case where two ladies had a missing time event in Kelowna, well this is where this man's event took place, same date and around the same time.

Also I would like to point out that the names in the report are the real names of the folks involved. I checked with the witness before releasing the names to make sure it was fine to do so, the OK was give.

Also the fellow has been kind enough to join me on an upcoming show for the Vike Report to discuss his sightings. This should be very interesting.

Full Description of event/sighting: My first sighting was in July, 1968 when my grandparents moved to their new home in Tranquille, B.C.. This place was a hospital for mentally retarded persons just north of Kamloops. My grandfather had just begun his new job as medical superintendent for the Tranquille school. The other witnesses besides my grandfather (Dr. John Bower), were his wife, Winifred Bower, my mother, a social worker/English teacher, Angela Linge, my father, Frederick Linge a psychologist, myself, and my younger sister, Rachel.

We were taking a break from moving chores in the backyard around 11:00 P.M.. I looked up to the southern sky, just above the mountaintops and saw six bright lights flying around each other in what seemed to me like they were playing "tag" in the sky. The lights were doing figure eight motions at very high speed. We all watched the lights for about ten minutes. Then, the lights all formed a circle shape in the sky, hovered there for about ten seconds, then sped away in every direction from the centre of the circle. They moved so fast that after about a second or two, they were gone.

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