Two Lynn Valley Boys Startled By "Saucers"

On July 11, 1967, at approximately 11:40 a.m., two youths, 15-year-old Robert McNicol and 14-year-old Doug Miller, observed two unidentified flying objects in the back yard of the McNicol residence at 4011 Lynn Valley Road in Lynn Valley, British Columbia. According to the account published in the North Vancouver Citizen on August 10, 1967, the boys were in the process of taking photographs with a 1916 model Kodak box camera when the objects appeared from behind trees. The witnesses described the objects as metallic-colored and observed them spinning. The objects reportedly hovered or stopped as if watching the boys before spinning away at high speed and disappearing. The encounter lasted for approximately one and a half minutes. During this time, Robert McNicol took six photographs, four of which were successful. The boys explicitly rejected the possibility that the objects were logging balloons from nearby Seymour Mountain, noting that the balloons were located to the east while they were facing west, and that the balloons were significantly larger than the objects they observed. Robert McNicol, who possessed a collection of literature regarding flying saucers, stated that his father intended to report the sighting to the United States Pentagon. The article also references related correspondence between NICAP and the University of Colorado UFO Project.