Declassified UFO / UAP Document
New Westminster Youths Spot UFO
AI-Generated Summary
This document is a press report detailing a 1967 UFO sighting in New Westminster, BC, involving two youths and an orange disc-shaped object. It is significant for the official police acknowledgement of the quality of witness documentation.
On the evening of April 1, 1967, at approximately 8:00 p.m., police in New Westminster, British Columbia, were summoned to the 900 block of Laurel Street following reports of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The sighting took place in the rear of a property owned by Dr. J.S. Kennedy. Two youths, 12-year-old Terry Bradley and 14-year-old Blaine Kennedy, reported observing an orange disc-shaped object. According to the witnesses, the object, estimated to be no more than three feet in diameter, hovered for approximately three minutes at an altitude of 60 feet. Blaine Kennedy further described the object as ejecting an orange flame before ascending at a high speed and hovering again at an altitude of 200 feet prior to departing the area. Deputy police chief Peter Mehan noted the significance of the event, stating that it was one of the most well-documented sightings in the local area.
Deputy police chief Peter Mehan commented that no other local sighting has been as well documented by witnesses.
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Official Assessment
Police were called to a sighting of an orange disc in the 900 block of Laurel Street, New Westminster, on April 1, 1967.
Witnesses
Key Persons
- Dr. J.S. KennedyHomeowner
- Peter MehanDeputy police chief