View From New Westminster Drive-In Theater

This document is a letter dated February 12, 1969, from Mrs. Sally S. Say of Coquitlam, New Westminster, B.C., to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (A.P.R.O.) in Tucson, Arizona. The purpose of the letter is to submit an application for membership in the organization, accompanied by a $4.00 money order. In the letter, Mrs. Say recounts a UFO sighting that occurred during the summer of 1967. She was accompanied by her husband, Charles S. Say, a bank manager, and her mother, Mrs. S. Lavigne. According to the report, the object was larger than a star but shared its color and brightness. It remained stationary for a period before hovering upward and to the left, eventually accelerating at a high speed while leaving a trail of sparks. The witnesses were at a drive-in theater facing southwest of Vancouver, B.C. at the time. The viewing lasted approximately one to two minutes. Mrs. Say also describes a second, later experience at a drive-in theater where she and her husband observed an object that wavered like a balloon and began to burn out. She notes that this second event was later attributed by radio reports to individuals using plastic bags with lighted candles, leading her to conclude that the second sighting was a hoax, while maintaining that the first sighting was a genuine UFO.