Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Balloon Sighted Near Hazelton 2, BC
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AI-Generated Summary
A 1896 report from an Indian Agent in Hazelton, BC, documents a sighting of an object identified by the author as the Andre balloon. The document provides context regarding the Swedish government's planned North Pole expedition.
This document consists of a report from the Indian Office in Hazelton, British Columbia, dated July 10, 1896, authored by Indian Agent R.E. Loring. The report details a sighting of an object described as having the shape of a balloon, observed by a boy at 7:55 P.M. on that same day. The sighting occurred approximately four miles west of Hazelton at coordinates 55° 15' N, 127° 40' W. According to the report, the object emerged from a heavy bank of white clouds during a NNW wind, moved in a semi-circular line through a clear space, and disappeared at an altitude of about four hundred feet above the mountain's timber line. The object appeared black against the setting sun. R.E. Loring expresses confidence in the boy's account and concludes that the object was the Andre balloon, which had been expected to depart Spitzbergen for the North Pole around the 1st of July. A note provided by UFO*BC clarifies that the Swedish government had informed Canada in May 1896 of their intent to send a balloon to the North Pole, though the actual departure was delayed until 1897, at which point it crashed on pack ice far from Canada.
The boy's description of the balloon and its actions, leaves me no doubt as to its reality, and is no doubt, the Andre balloon expected to have left Spitzbergen for the North Pole on, or about the 1st Inst.
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Official Assessment
The boy's description of the balloon and its actions, leaves me no doubt as to its reality, and is no doubt, the Andre balloon
The author concludes that the object sighted was the Andre balloon, which was expected to have departed Spitzbergen for the North Pole around the 1st of July, 1896.
Witnesses
Key Persons
- A.W.PowellSuperintendent of Indian Affairs
- AndreExplorer associated with the balloon