UFO Startles Ferry Crowd

This document details a UFO sighting that occurred in September 1952 near Kelowna, British Columbia, on Lake Okanagan. The report, published in the Canadian UFO Report in August 1969, recounts the experience of three witnesses: Stewart Sanborn, his cousin Dorothy Sanborn, and her late husband, Gordon. While waiting for a ferry, the witnesses observed an object they initially mistook for a boat. The craft was described as having a smooth, round design, appearing like a 'round hard hat sitting on a platter,' and was approximately 30 feet in diameter. The object exhibited a translucent, hazy quality and created a wake on the water as it moved. Suddenly, the wake disappeared, and the object rose into the air, moving toward the ferry dock before stopping silently about 50 feet above the water. Stewart Sanborn, who observed the object through binoculars provided by an American tourist, noted that it hovered for about a minute, giving the witnesses a feeling that they were being watched. The object then traveled across the lake at a speed of approximately 20 m.p.h. before flying parallel to a trail and shooting upward to disappear. The witnesses reported feeling shocked and reluctant to discuss the event afterward. The document also includes a diagram illustrating the flight path of the object relative to the ferry dock and surrounding landmarks.