UFO Returns to South Peace

In November 1967, the community of Chetwynd, British Columbia, experienced a recurring mystery involving an unidentified object in the sky. According to a report published in The Reporter on November 29, 1967, a large group of school students observed the object and alerted their teachers. Descriptions of the phenomenon varied among witnesses; some compared the object's size to an industrial hard hat, estimating it at 15 feet, while others described it as a shiny, high-altitude object moving at a fair speed. Reports on its trajectory were inconsistent, with some observers noting a north-east to south-west path and others reporting an east-to-west movement. The duration of the sighting was estimated at three to four minutes. Local speculation included a claim by the JayCees president that the object was a JayCees missile originating from Prince George. The newspaper investigated potential explanations by reviewing the schedules of Canadian Pacific Airlines and Pacific Western Airlines, but these inquiries yielded no solutions. The article concludes by discussing the possibility that the object could be one of the approximately 900 experimental space vehicles currently in orbit. It notes that these vehicles are often placed in east-to-west orbits to conserve fuel and can appear as silver objects at dawn when the sky is dark, potentially matching the descriptions provided by the witnesses.