Flying Saucers Are Here

This document is a newspaper report from The Penticton Herald, dated March 23, 1950, detailing a UFO sighting in the Okanagan Falls area of British Columbia, Canada. The primary witness, Basil Flynn, a resident of Penticton who previously expressed skepticism regarding such phenomena, reported observing a strange object while driving along the main street of Okanagan Falls at approximately 7:30 p.m. on the date of the report. Flynn described the object as phosphorescent-green in color and noted that it appeared to be composed of two saucers joined together. He estimated the object was flying at an altitude of 2,000 feet above Okanagan Lake, moving in a west-to-east trajectory, and oriented in a vertical position relative to the lake's surface. Flynn attempted to alert other passengers in his vehicle to the sighting; however, only one other individual, a local public health nurse named Ruth Adams, was able to observe the object before it disappeared from view. The article notes that this sighting occurred amidst a series of recent reports of unusual objects in the sky by other Penticton residents, though no formal explanations for these phenomena were provided, with witnesses often describing the events simply as 'mighty strange.'