Showing posts with label Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Town. Show all posts

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Christmas Lights In Steelhead Park Small Town Houston British Columbia (20 Pictures/Video)


Above Photo: A look at Houston’s old church at Christmas time November 27, 2015.

Since we are getting into the Christmas season, I thought that this message would be a 
great place to start.

I moved to Houston with my family in 1981 from Surrey, British Columbia, it also was in the dead of winter. The temperature at that time was in the minus 30’s, and what a time to start a new life in a small town and trying to dig frozen ground for water lines, etc. Honestly, I thought I had made a huge mistake, but life moves on and you have to make the best of the situation. Winter passed and Spring and Summer rolled in, and we got things ready for the next winter.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Photos From Around Houston British Columbia (6 - Pictures)


Above Photo: A look towards the snow capped Telkwa Mountain Range.

Today my wife and I took a short drive around town, here in Houston, British Columbia. I wanted to take some more pictures before winter sets in, which could come at anytime now.

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Red Fireballs Seen In The Sky Over West Town Chicago Illinois (Video Footage)


 Date:  July 20, 2014
Time:  Approx: 1:30 a.m.

I am currently sitting on my rooftop patio it's about 1:30 a.m. in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago IL. and I notice a little red fireball in distance. As it slowly approaches me, it is at quite a low elevation at first, I thought it was a drone and someone was just playing around. However, the object was not a drone and then I started to record it's movement and the object ended up increasing it's elevation and the red light sort of disappeared.

Furthermore, I look out into the distance and I see another trailing red fireball approaching me again and again I recorded the object and it did the same thing as the first one. Therefore, I started looking in all directions into the sky.

Then I noticed another red fireball far out into the distance coming from the east passing downtown Chicago, however the object was to far away to capture on my iPhone. The first two fireballs I witnessed coming from the south. Here is video of the first two little fireballs.



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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Blue Green Flash Spotted In The Sky From Cape Town International Airport South Africa

 
Date:  April 21, 2012
Time:  10:00 p.m.
 
Hi there, I'm replying to the post I saw on your site about the blue green flash of light over South Africa.
 
A friend and I were driving to Cape Town International airport and all of a sudden on the horizon was a big flash of white light then followed, but a bigger flash of blue green light that took up the entire horizon.
It was blinding and scary and it couldn't of been thunder because there was not a cloud in sight, and no power outages were reported, there was also no sound. Us and a few other cars also was very startled by it as we all slowed down.
 
Please let me know if you have an idea what it was.
 
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.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Fast Moving Large Orange Object Spotted Over Tableview Beach Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  March 12, 2012
Time:  Approx: 8:00 p.m.
 
Hi Brian, I just read an article written by a women that was walking on Tableview beach with her boyfriend  when she saw a glowing orange ball flying over them.
 
I stay in Tableview just down the road from the beach front and two nights ago on the 12th March 2012 between 20:30 and nine I was sitting outside smoking a cigarette.
 
I do this every night as I like to look up at the stars. When I finished smoking, I stood up and started heading inside when I looked in the direction of the beach.
 
I saw this bright orange ball of light, at first I thought it was a star and was going to go in when I stopped and thought dang hang on a second.
 
That is one hell of a big star, I then thought aircraft and it was flying towards me because it just got bigger and bigger. It then stopped in the distance, I then saw a second light come from it and star flying in my direction.
 
The thing was about the size or maybe bigger than a helicopter. The only thing is it didn’t make a sound, which is weird cause I’ve seen thousand of planes large and small and helicopters fly over head and they make one hell of a noise, this thing was as silent as night.
 
Anyway it flew towards me and over head and headed in the direction of Durbanville, when it passed me it picked up speed and accelerated so fast and within like two seconds was gone.
 
I looked back in the direction it came from, and instead of just the large glowing orb it came from there was a second smaller one. I went inside for a minute to call my brother, when I came out the large one had disappeared.
 
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.

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Object Seen Trailing Orange Sparks Over New Town Edinburgh UK

 
Date:  March 3, 2012
Time:  Approx: 9:40 p.m.
 
I'm relieved to see that other folk saw this too, I nearly phoned the Police as I thought it was about to hit a building! I live in the New Town and saw what I thought was a rocket initially, travelling from the north.
 
It caught my attention as it was flying horizontal to the ground and trailing orange sparks. It’s trajectory was tracking north to south and passed right over my property.
 
I ran through the building to watch it disappear towards the south (Bridges I would guess). It must have been travelling at several hundred miles per hour and no sound.
 
It can't have been flying at much more than 1,000 feet. No idea what it was, a small meteor perhaps?
 
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.

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

4 Orange Colored Lights Observed Over Somerset West Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  February 27, 2012
Time:  9:45 p.m.
 
Hi Brian, last night at 9h45, I noticed 3 orange lights travelling from the Simons town area towards the northern suburbs. They were what seemed to be increasing in altitude at a constant rate. 

When the first two seemed to turn towards Cape Town, my daughter saw the 4th one coming from the same direct in exactly the same path/route, until this one also turned and disappeared out of sight.

We also saw an aircraft flying toward JHB and specifically noticed the typical strobe lights flashing on the aircraft. But these red/orange blobs appeared to just glow with no flashing lights or anything.

The pictures I took, when zoomed in looked like elliptical in shape, but it was dark and they were very far away.

What are your observations/comments? Regards.

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.

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Orange Lights Flying In A Triangular Formation Over Brackenfell Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  Week of 25th to the 31, 2012
Time:  Evening.
 
Last week saw 4 orange light. The first 3 were flying in triangular formation and disappeared, my wife thought it was clouds, but there were no clouds to be seen. The forth 1 carried on straight and finally disappeared. This was in Cape
 
Town in the northern suburbs, Brackenfell.
 
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.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Orange Lights Seen On Different Dates Over Brackenfell Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  January 24, 2012 (Various other dates)
Time:  Evening.
 
Good day, one evening in March 2011 my husband called me outside to come and look at these funny bright orange lights that looked like lanterns hanging in the sky. There were 3 of them and they came out of different directions and flew into one direction almost forming a triangle. 

First the one stopped like it was waiting for the others. When they all reached each other they just disappeared. I contacted our local radio station to report the sighting and they made a joke and asked me if we have been eating “special cookies”.

Again on New Year’s 2011 we were waiting for the clock to strike 12 and my husband shot off a flare or two. As we were watching flares out of different areas, these bright lights appeared again only this time there were 5.

Last night (24/01/2012) there were another sighting in Brackenfell area, only this time it was a friend of mine who has put it on Facebook.

Could you please let me know what this could be.

Kind regards.

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.

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Bright Red/Orange Lights Spotted From Kraaifontein Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  December 2011
Time:  Approx: Between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
 
A resident of Kraaifontein has seen them twice on different occasions. I cannot remember the exact dates, but also came from the north, 3 of them. They looked like micro-light planes (but very silent), the one was slight in front of others.
 
As they reached almost over our house the 2 back ones hovered for a while and the front one made a left turn and disappeared into thin air. and the others followed just as fast.
 
That was at about between 21h00 and 22h00 in December 2011.
 
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.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Face Of A Grey Alien Seen Outside Home At Elsiesriver Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  Between 1986-1988
 
Somewhere between 1986-1988 I was at home in Elsiesriver along with my brother and 2 cousins. We were aged between about 7-10. It was around Easter time and we were all lying in the same bed. My brother looked up at the window and stopped talking.
 
We all looked at the window and saw what appeared to be the face of a "Grey" alien as portrayed today just staring at us.  

Now we had no idea what it was since we never saw anything like it on TV, movies etc., at the time, but we all agreed on what we saw and that image especially those eyes remains in my mind like it was yesterday.
 
We still talk about it after all this time.

Call us crazy or delusional, but I know what I saw and the chances of all 4 of us seeing the same thing at the same time is fairly slim right?

Anyway good luck in your search for answers and if you do get any feel free to let me know.
 
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.

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Police Officers Observe Orange Object Over Hout Bay Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  December 21, 2011
Time:  Approx: 11:00 p.m.
 
Hi I'm a police officer and I noticed a similar flying object in Hout Bay on 21 December 2011. I was in the harbour and saw an object going up into the air in the Hangberg area at about 23h00. I thought it was a flare at first and showed it to my 2 colleagues who also thought it was a flare.
 
We then noticed that it had no tale and that it never arched and came down. It continued upward like an airplane lifting off traveling towards Simons town and disappeared into the clouds. It also made no real or noticeable sound or noise.
 
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.

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5 Orange Lights Observed Over Somerset West Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  January 7, 2012
Time:  Approx: 10:10 p.m.
 
At about 22:10 p.m. on 7 January 2012 a friend and I were driving in Somerset West Cape Town, when we saw 5 orange lights moving in the sky in a funny manner.
 
We were astounded, and saw other people also noticing these objects. What a hair raising experience.
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.

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Friday, January 6, 2012

Orange Lights Seen On Different Days Over Hout Bay Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  January 1, 2012
Time:  Between 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
 
Hi Brian, glad to see others coming forward regarding these bright orange objects in the skies over Cape Town. My brother-in-law saw four or 5 of these objects over Hout Bay the other night, and I saw one in Plumstead while at my mother-in-laws anniversary.
 
He was there and also and witnessed it with me, and said that was similar to what he saw over Hout Bay. Unfortunately I don’t have too much details.
Not sure when first occurrence was (maybe a week prior) and my sighting was on 1 January 2012 between 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
 
Love to know what these are, personally I don’t think its aliens, but also don’t think they were flares or any manned craft. Could be celebratory as it was that time of the year.
 
Witness is affiliated with SAUFOR. http://saufor.com/
 
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.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Fireball Over Old Town Albuquerque New Mexico

 
Date:  December 31, 2011
Time:  8:156 p.m.
 
My family of 4 also saw it at the same time (8:15 p.m.). We were leaving Old Town, facing west at stoplight. The object appeared to be low altitude, and heading west to northwest.
 
The altitude appeared level, and it was visible for maybe 5 seconds. There was no sound. The speed seemed consistent with a firework, or other projectile, but was definitely faster than a helicopter or propeller driven aircraft.
 
A jet could have possibly traveled at that speed, but there was no sound. I am retired military and airline jet pilot and have not seen anything like this before.
 
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.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Bright Red/Orange Lights Spotted Over Camps Bay Cape Town South Africa

 
Date: December 31, 2011 and January 1, 2012 (Various other dates and times for sightings as well in report)
 
The Vike Factor Note: The witness provided other sightings he and his family have been witness to, which are in the below report.
 
Hello, I just read the December 31, 2011 and January 1, 2012 posts from Australia, the UK, and Fourways Johannesburg. What a pleasure to have confirmation from others of the sightings of multiple bright orange lights that my wife and I saw last night between 8:40 p.m. December 31, 2011 and 12:45 am January 1, 2012 in Camps Bay, a suburb of Cape Town where we live. 
 
We have seen these bright orange lights several times before over the past few years, but this is the first time I've visited your site to seek confirmation that we are not alone in seeing these UFOs. We were at a restaurant last night, December 31, 2011 located near the Camps Bay beach when at 8:45 p.m. my wife and I saw a  bright orange light slowly passing above the beach at maybe 1,000 feet.
 
Then it quickly moved in a northerly direction up the coast and disappeared. It wasn't a flare, and fireworks hadn't yet started. No one else in the restaurant seemed interested. When my wife and I returned home, our house is located high up the hill in Camps Bay with sweeping views of the sea north and south, we sat on our veranda to watch the fireworks, and hopefully see the orange lights again appear.
 
We weren't disappointed. At 12:01, January 1, 2012 we saw another bright orange object to the north of us, just to the left of the top of Signal Hill in the direction of Cape Town's northern suburbs, which are probably 20 miles up the coast from Camps Bay. 
 
The bright orange reddish object appeared out of nowhere and then became very bright and headed south towards Camps Bay. It was at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. The sky was clear and filled with stars and there was perfect viewing.
 
I had my binoculars with me and got a clear view of this object high in the sky, and  it was emitting bright orange reddish flames (similar to the flames you would see from the tail of a rocket blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida) and seemed to have a jelly fish halo like glow around it.
 
It soon turned and quickly headed north again at great speed until we could not see it anymore. Then about 45 minutes later, at 12:45 am on January 1, 2012, three more of these bright orange lights appeared in the sky just to the south of Camps Bay, and maybe two miles from the coast over the sea (there were ships passing way out on the horizon with their lights on which gave us perspective as to how close the orange object were to the coast)  each one stacked above the other, with considerable distance in between them.
 
With my binoculars, I looked at each of these objects and all three had the same signature of the one I described earlier, bright orange reddish flames with a jelly fish (man of war) halo like glow around them. They hovered in the sky for about a minute and then quickly headed south east towards the horizon, and soon looked liked tiny far away stars until they disappeared. What a beautiful experience, and a great way to start the New Year.
 
On April 9th 2011 about 9:20 pm my wife, my mother- in - law and I were driving north from Camps Bay on High Level Road towards Fresnaye, and just as we rounded the corner by Ellerman House, above us to our right, and just to the left of Signal Hill, at about 700 feet altitude, my wife, who was next to me in the front seat, and I saw a very big bright orange object that was shaped like a giant coke can  maybe 70 yards long, moving slowly in the sky above us. It was incredible.
 
We stopped the car and opened the  back car door for my mother-in-law to get out and all three of us watched this bright orange object pick up pace and then at super quick speed race off into the sky above us, where it soon became a tiny dot in the sky and disappeared. Several cars passed us headed in the opposite direction towards Camps Bay and we pointed towards this incredible sight in the sky but no one bothered to stop. 
 
Also, about three years ago in February, 2009, my wife and I were sitting on our veranda in Camps Bay and about sunset (7:00 p.m.), when the first stars show up in the sky, we saw the same bright orange light described in our sightings of December 31, 2011 and January 1, 2012, moving at fast speed from the distant horizon on the sea directly towards Camps Bay at less than 2,000 feet altitude. 
 
As it approached Camps Bay beach, maybe a mile away, it then started to gain altitude and quickly darted north at fast speed, and remained very bright and visible, and then a second bright orange object appeared on the horizon and it followed the same path as the first towards Camps Bay beach and also a mile out darted off north to follow the first bright orange object, and then incredibly a third bright orange object followed in the same direction towards Camps Bay beach and then darted north in the same flight path as the first two.
 
All three of the bright orange objects could be seen heading north, one behind the other, until they disappeared. Wow!
 
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.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Lights Separate And Come Together Over Mouillie Point Cape Town South Africa

 
Date:  June 13, 2008
Time:  Approx: 7:00 p.m. 
 
Hi, this is the same person that reported the sighting over Milnerton/Somerset West a couple of weeks ago.

I saw the lights again last night (13 June 2008)at approximately 7:00 p.m. from my mothers home in Mouillie Point, Cape Town, South Africa which looks directly onto/over the ocean. The lights were above the ocean, I'd say about a mile away from where I was positioned. There was slight fog, which obscured my view slightly.

This time there was a lot of movement going on with the lights! Both my mother and myself grabbed the binoculars to get a better look. The lights (three of them: blue, red and white) were doing strange movements in the air.
 
It's hard to explain. My best description would be to compare it to that of those small flies that can hover in a single place and jolt to an angle when interfered with. It was like they were communicating with each other and every few minutes (this whole sighting went on for approximately 20 minutes) one of the lights would disappear completely and re-appear in a different section of the sky (but still within close proximity of each other!)
 
They kept separating from each other only to band together again to form a small triangle. The lights were pulsing/flashing very slowly in sequence, again in complete silence!

The most incredible part was that once they had finished doing whatever they were doing between themselves, they banded into a final pyramid position (the white light being the top and the blue and red positioned in the corners)and proceeded to slowly fly right over our building!
 
I moved through to my brothers room (which is on the opposite side of the building) to continue watching their flight path as they silently flew over the city!

It left us speechless and quite excited! I did try to take photo's through one of the binoculars lens' but my digital cam wasn't able to pick up anything. I'm taking my telescope through to her place tomorrow, in the hope that the next time I'm there for dinner I'll get a better look if it happens again!

This is the third such sighting of these lights, (I've seen them twice and my brother has seen them on a separate occasion).
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.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Glowing Orange Objects Over Antrim Town UK (Power Failure)

 
Date:  October 29, 2011
Time:  Beginning at 8:10 p.m.
 
Hi, this evening (29th October 2011) there was a power failure in Antrim town for around 2 hours beginning at 20:10. Whilst outside to look at the sky because there was no light pollution, I saw 2 glowing orange objects in the distance moving in formation to the north of Antrim.

Around 30-40 minutes later I saw the same thing moving from south -> north at very high speed before slowing down once it got to the far right of my vision. This repeated 3 more times, each time I saw it, my sister saw it too.

I am aware that there were alot of fireworks this evening because it's Halloween. However, I have a pilots license and know what an aircraft of any kind looks like.
This was not an aircraft:
  • It's speed was too high, given the distance;
  • Its speed was also too varied;
  • It didn't make a sound
  • It was bright orange - an aircraft has a strobe and a red light on its left wingtip, green on the right wingtip (which by law must be on at all times)
I called the PSNI non-emergency and asked them if they had aircraft in the area, they said no. I then called Aldergrove and spoke to ATC there - they said there was nothing in the area and the only traffic had been a jet landing shortly after 22:00. I can't think of what it may have been, but I'd have known if it was an aircraft.

Thought you may like to know.
 
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.

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Orange Glow From Unknown Object Zig Zags Across The Sky Over Belhar Cape Town South Africa

Date: July 22, 2011
Time: Approx: 7:15 p.m.

Hi, I live in Belhar, just near the airport. Naturally, I witness aircrafts all the time and we're quite used to it here.

The date was 22/07/2011, around 7:15pm, I was in the back fetching the clothes from the washing line when I happened to look up. The sun had set a while ago, so the orangey glow was almost done. The stars were out, no clouds. perfect form mapping constellations.

That was then I noticed a moving star from the horizon. Of course, there being no clouds, there was no possibility of it being cloud movement distorting vision.

This star was seriously moving. So I chalked it down to perhaps a satellite, since aircrafts are distinct.

Then it wobbled, satellites have fixed orbits. It started zigzagging in its trajectory, zooming forwards, then back disappearing then reappearing. You have to understand, this 'star' was quite high up, so when it shone a light, like a beacon of sorts, as though it were a flashlight just inches from my eyes, it was understandingly fascinating.

The 'star' did one of its disappearing act and didn't reappear again.

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.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

4 Very Bright Orange Lights Over Table Bay Cape Town South Africa

Date: May 3, 2011
Time: Evening.

Hi there, I was sitting on my balcony last night, working on my computer, when I saw 4 very bright and distinct orange lights in the sky over Table Bay. They were in an L formation. Three slowly faded away, while the fourth remained for approximately 10 minutes, moved in a single direction across the sky, and then disappeared from view.

I think observed another bright orange light moving across my view coming from the east and moving west across Table Bay, this moved very slowly, and I observed it for approximately 15 minutes before it vanished from view. Regards.

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.

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