Red Lights Seen From Port Alberni

This document is a correspondence dated July 10, 1968, from Jean and Blake Reesor of Port Alberni, British Columbia, to APRO regarding a UFO sighting. The sighting occurred on the evening of July 7, 1968, at approximately 9:45 PM PDT. Jean Reesor first observed a swiftly moving red light while sky watching, prompting her husband, Blake Reesor—a former army artillery observer with a background in trigonometry and higher mathematics—to observe the object through 7x35 binoculars. Through the binoculars, the light resolved into three red lights arranged in a triangle with the apex leading. The object moved in a straight line, traversing approximately 60 degrees of the sky in under 30 seconds. The observers noted that the sky was clear and the stars were bright, yet there was no audible jet noise or significant background noise. Blake Reesor provided a technical analysis of the event, estimating the object's velocity to be between 3,000 and 6,000 miles per hour, based on the assumption that the lights represented multiple objects at a considerable distance. The report was submitted to APRO in the context of other reported sightings over Seattle that had been covered in the Vancouver Sun.