Round Thing As Big As A Car

This document is a report originally published in The Martlet, the student newspaper of the University of Victoria, in February 1965. It details a sighting experienced by Mr. Albert Wilson and his wife, Margaret, at their farm near Mount Newton Junior High in Pat Bay, British Columbia. According to the account, the couple returned home around 11:30 p.m. on a night in late February. While walking back to his house from his barn, Mr. Wilson heard a sound described as a quiet, hushed, huge fan blower. Upon investigating with a flashlight, he observed a round, whitish object roughly the size of a car. He reported that the object made a sharp crack or explosion sound before swooping upward like a helicopter—though he noted it lacked propellers—and departing to the west within seconds. Following the incident, Mr. Wilson attempted to report the event to the Pat Bay airfield, a local radio station, and local newspapers, but received no interest or follow-up. Later, a local part-time prospector named John Kerlew visited the site with a geiger counter, which reportedly detected distinct signs of radioactivity on the ground where the object had been. The report concludes by noting that the Army declined an invitation to investigate the site.