Archive story from August 17, 2010 CLICK HERE TO VIEW IMAGES VANCOUVER -- Reports have been flying in of an unidentified flying object hovering over Cultus Lake in Chilliwack, B.C. on Tuesday night. The story broke on The Fox's Jeff O'Neil Show Wednesday morning during their Open Phones segment. 'Dallas' called into the show to report that his girlfriend spotted some eerie lights flooding the pitch-black sky [insert Twilight Zone music here]. "At around 2 a.m., she saw some crazy-ass lights hovering over the lake," Captain Scotty of the Jeff O'Neil Show recalled to The Sun. Then, the radio show received a text from 'Wally' in Chilliwack, saying he also saw the lights Tuesday night. Since posting this article to the Sun's website, further reports have been coming in about sightings. Alick e-mailed us to say he snapped photos of the "really bright object." "I thought I noticed something odd with a really bright object in the eastern south sky towards Chilliwack," said Alick. "I thought at first it was a star or satellite but it was way too big and way too bright and it moved too fast and steady to be a helicopter spotlight." -------------- OTHER RECENT UFO SIGHTINGS * Kreuger and his partner, who live on Salt Spring Island, saw a UFO at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning. "I went to bed really early, then woke up around 3 a.m. I remembered the meteor showers were on, so I went out to my deck to watch. I saw about seven meteors. The night sky was clear. Then I see this really super bright star moving in an erratic fashion. Just a single bright dot of light, going NE, but in a zig-zaggy way. I woke my partner up so she could witness. She saw it too, until it disappeared behind trees..." * Odessa of Vancouver e-mailed us to say she and four others witnessed a UFO on July 13 while visiting a sheep ranch between Zion Canyon and Navajo Lake area in Utah. She writes: "It was at 9:30 pm and not only was there a UFO in the sky that we could see for 15 minutes above us but there was also another small ball of light separately going back and forth... very close to us. The sheep ranch is very isolated and is five miles from the next cabin that has power. There were no other power sources near us and we turned all of our cabin lights off once we saw the UFO. There is no possible way that this ball of light floating in our trees in our back yard could have come from any other power source. This experience was real and amazing and this is not a hoax. This 100% was an unidentified flying object and 100% was not a plane or jet. It was a massive round circle brightly lit with white light and threw the binoculars I could actually make out the very strange shell..." * Larry comments: "I'm a retired Canadian military and government magazine reporter. I was not surprised to see the insert "(Play Twilight Zone theme here)" in the Sun article headed "Eerie UFO Sightings reported over B.C. lake." There is an unwritten rule amongst publishers, editors and reporters in most publications that one should always make light of UFO reports. Orders are followed. This applies to nocturnal light reports in particular. They're too far away from the observer and/or photographer to make any definitive statement about their origin. I have some trusted sources who know that some UFOs are non-terrestrial and others are made here, using knowledge gained from crashed alien craft that were retrieved as far back as the mid-1930's in Germany. Operation Paperclip in 1946 brought Wernher von Braun and other German scientists plus craft components to the U.S.A. They've been made here iin Canada and in several locations in the U.S.A. ever since."

* Corinne emailed us an explanation on Friday, August 20, for what she thinks some of the "UFO" sightings might actually be -- and they're dangerous in this dry weather! She writes: "I had witnessed a UFO sighting at a lake last year. It was a round bright light travelling erratically in the night sky. It was spooky to say the least. Then with my binoculars I could make out it was a warm light, shapped like an upright cylinder. With the prevailing winds, it came closer to me and then I could make out that it was not alien, but man made. These "Home made" UFO's are made from drycleaning bags and candles. I wanted to ring the neck of the person(s) who did that because the winds did carry over the lake for a while but then changed direction and the bag ventured into the backwoods. EXTREME FIRE HAZARD. Check out the web for drycleaning bag hot air ballons. This had been going on for decades." * Clayton wrote in: "Hi, I saw your recent video on the UFO in B.C. Not sure if you are aware, but on Facebook, in the game Mafia Wars -- if you play the game -- on Friday night blew up a armored vehicle in the Nevada desert. If you watch the show from the beginning, the camera panned up in the air. My friend said "what is that?" I said it looks like two UFOs. He's a skeptic. One object stayed stationary, the other one moved around. Now he's rethinking what people are saying about UFOs. The video I saw on here appears to be the same as in the Nevada desert video. Check it out for yourself, on Facebook they now only show SnoopDog blowing up the armored vehicle, but in order to see the UFOs you have to watch the video from the beginning." * Sidney S. wrote in from Lillooet, B.C. on Saturday, August 21, 2010: "Last night I was out for a drive through Lillooet. As I was just locking my car up before going inside my home, I happened to look up and see two objects flying close together in the sky moving from West to East. One of them I know was a satellite, since it was moving straight but the second object, which was close to the satellite, lit up bright, then dimmed before it changed direction and started moving southward. iIt lit up bright again before it disappeared over one of the nearby mountains. I've seen this before, but was during the early evening on July 1st: We were having a BBQ for my birthday, and there was about six of us out in the backyard. The sun was setting over the mountain. We looked up since we heard an eagle overhead. When we looked up, we saw a bright dot flying northwest in the sky. We thought it was a satellite at first, since sometimes we can see them at that time of day when the sun is setting and the light bounces off the shell. But this object went really bright, then dimmed down to where we couldn't see it, then went bright again, and before it dimmed, it changed direction and began going southeast then changed direction again to southwest. It dimmed again for a few seconds and went bright one last time before it dimmed and disappeared. We didn't know what it was."

* Penny B. emailed this story: "On Aug 14th , my mother was at the cottage and got up about 3:00 in morning to use the washroom, and she couldn't believe her eyes -- coming across the water but in the sky was a light [like a spotlight] and it was slowly moving and eventually reflected off the patio glass table in the yard. She went outside, as she thought it wa perhaps a helicopter, although it didn't sound like one -- but she did hear a motor. Then it turned at a right angle and went East as if it were following the buoys in the water and was gone (but lasted awhile.) We are not sure what she saw but in all the years at the cottage we'd never seen it before. This was in Miramichi Bay, New Brunswick. * Parminder N. wrote: "Me and my friends sighted the same UFO in Surrey, B.C. around 11:30 p.m. At first we thought it was a meteor; however it was really bright and traveled in a zigzag. We were stunned at what we just saw. The light lasted for 5 minutes and faded. We have never seen anything like this before and thought it was a UFO." * In response to Odessa's email (posted six bullets back), Rob M. wrote the following: "Several years ago on a Wednesday in May I was still doing the Calgary to Red Deer run in my 1 ton truck and had to leave Calgary at about 4:30ish in the morning. We were opening a new branch in Red Deer soon so this would be one of my last runs. When on the highway near the Olds turn off (about half way I guess) in the early morning I looked to my left and almost put my truck into the ditch. I was on the highway so I couldn't slow down much but I saw something low in the sky. It was a huge round ball with multicolored lights all over it. The ball was so vivid you could almost make out rectangular shapes on the hull. This thing was no small object. As it travelled south at a high rate of speed I watched it with astonishment when suddenly three small balls of bright white light (like in your video), travelling exceptionally fast, followed behind the huge ball. The smaller balls seemed to be going faster after the larger one. They all pulled away from me quickly . . . .my own truck was probably doing only 75 going North at this point . . . .until I could no longer see them. I regret not pulling over in the dark and not whipping out my cell phone to take some pictures of something . . . ..although what I could have got would have been little . . . still for sanity's sake . . . .." * Abhishek writes: "I just saw your article on yahoo and was very excited. Well i am from India and i just migrated to Nanaimo (British Columbia). I just want to tell you that i have seen these types of sightings in India many times but failed to make video. It was like a star but moving very slowly and disappearing in between and appearing from other sides. Well according to me i feel that they might come from different galaxies or may be stars. According to me i think they can be attracted with flashy lights."