Sightings From Gibsons Landing

This document is a letter dated January 24, 1968, from Eleanor R. East to Mrs. Coral Lorenzen of APRO. The author recounts her personal experiences with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in Gibsons Landing, British Columbia, during the summer of 1967. Ms. East describes being awakened on the night of June 27, 1967, by a bumping noise in her kitchen. Upon investigating, she observed a glowing light drifting southward over the village toward the Georgia Strait. Approximately five minutes later, she witnessed a 'whiplash' of luminous green and dark blue light that fell from the sky and struck the water near a local beacon on Keats Island. She describes the beam as being about a yard wide and visible along its entire length, noting that the experience caused her physical discomfort and shock. Ms. East further reports observing a cluster of four or five UFOs on July 1, 1967, near the constellation Ursa Major, one of which ejected a glowing discharge before moving toward Vancouver Island. She claims to have observed UFO activity in the area at least eighteen times between June and October 1967. The letter concludes with the author expressing her desire to share these observations despite the potential for disbelief.