Vancouver Island Sightings Of Lights – January 22, 2011 (Case Solved Flares)

Paraglider Injured In Crash

The plane dropped six flares to illuminate the area and rescuers got the man to an ambulance by about 8:00 p.m.

To read the full story: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Paraglider+injured+Duncan+area+crash/4151392/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canwest/F227+(Times+Colonist+-+News)

At 10:30am on January 24, 2011 I received a reply by way of telephone from the Canadian Coast Guard. They confirmed that a Paraglider had crashed and there was a rescue underway. It was illumination flares that a lot of folks saw that evening. Brian Vike – The Vike Factor.

Below are the sighting reports I received for the January 2011 British Columbia strange light sightings. We know now that flares were dropped from an aircraft to illuminate for searchers.

Bright Glowing Balls Of Light Looked Like A Bonfire Over Chemainus British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-glowing-balls-of-light-looked.html

Bright Orange Ball Of Light Looked Like Flames Hanging In The Sky Over Ladysmith B.C. http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-orange-ball-of-light-looked-like.html

Unusual Blinding Brilliant Orange Lights Over Cobble Hill British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/unusual-blinding-brilliant-orange.html

Bright Orange Light Hovering Over Ladysmith Harbour Ladysmith British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-orange-light-hovering-over.html

UFO Makes Strange Maneuvers Over Mudge Island Seen From Brickyard Beach Gabriola B.C.
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/ufo-makes-strange-maneuvers-over-mudge.html

Bright Orange Object Seen From Nanaimo To Chemainus British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/bright-orange-object-seen-from-nanaimo.html

Orange Luminous Object Seen From Ladysmith British Columbia
http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/orange-luminous-object-seen-from.html

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Glowing Balls Of Light Looked Like A Bonfire Over Chemainus British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

I saw the light you are talking about, but it happened 3 times. I also saw a red light circling around the 3 bright light. No sound. Looked like a bonfire in the sky.

Additional Information:

Hi Brian, so glad you are following through on this kind of stuff. I live in Victoria, and was visiting my friend who lives on (street name removed) Street in Chemainus (across from the Elementary School). The lights were due south, above the tree line of the Elementary School, very close and visible.

I saw one glowing ball, like a bonfire in the sky. It lit up the clouds around it, or the clouds were smoke coming from the fire. It glowed for about 4 minuets then just slowly faded. Another light just like it lit up about a minute later, about 100 metres from the first one.

Same thing, like a bonfire in the sky for about 4 minutes, then it faded. About a minute passed and a third light lit up the sky, about 100 metres from where the second light was. This time, though, I noticed a red light circling around the flaming ball, like it was monitoring it. I thought, is that an airplane, but when I went outside, there was no sound.

Just a circling red light around a bonfire in the sky. Then, the third light slowly extinguished.

Would love to hear what you find out. I can't believe more people didn't see it. It was so bright!

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Orange Ball Of Light Looked Like Flames Hanging In The Sky Over Ladysmith British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

(Vike Factor Note) I have received a number of reports on this sighting of a orange ball of light over a part of Vancouver Island here in British Columbia. Trying to figure it out and come up with an answer for the folks who sent reports in.

Hi Brian, I saw your other postings on the orange ball near Ladysmith and thought I'd share ours. We were driving down to Victoria from Nanaimo at around 7:00pm on January 22rd, 2011, along the Trans Canada highway when we saw a bright orange light that looked to me to be flames hanging in the sky. We were close to the Nanaimo airport at the time, so initially we thought it was a plane making an emergency landing that was on fire.

It seemed to move across the sky west to east. It was very bright and orange. There also seemed to be some flashes on the clouds above. We drove on and it was intermittently disappearing and than lighting up again. We've done some digging around and we found out there is a type of flare that releases a small parachute that slowly carries it down, so this would probably make sense, including the flashes on the clouds above when it dropped to the cloud.

There was also something about a paraglider rescue at the time. Can you confirm this? Anyways, I took a short video of it with my camera before the battery died, but its 200mb, so I can't send it to you. Looks like a round ball of light in the video.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Unusual Blinding Brilliant Orange Lights Over Cobble Hill British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Time:

Hi there Brian, I live in Cobble Hill and last night, night of 22nd January 2011 I went outside and I saw some brilliant orange lights in the sky. Could not get a good look as they were obscured by trees, but it appeared to dip down and then up again and possibly divided and rejoined.

Anyway, they were very bright, so bright that I had to look away at one point for fear of burning my eyes like a welding arc, but orangey and appeared to be mobile to some degree.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Orange Light Hovering Over Ladysmith Harbour Ladysmith British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:35 p.m.

Brian, I was heading west on Cedar Road, ready to turn right onto the Highway near Cassidy airport on Vancouver Island. In the corner of my eye I saw this orange light that appeared to be hovering over Ladysmith Harbour; this was approximately 19:35 hrs. I have seen these lights before.

My whole family witnessed what were explained as flares over the North Shore Mountains January 21, 1990. I stayed for about 20 minutes watching lights appear, then move horizontally east. Then they moved south and disappeared.

They dimmed then became bright, then faded but still appeared visible as somewhat red and round. I'm wondering what military or coast guard action was going on in this area at that time as they must have been flares?

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

UFO Makes Strange Maneuvers Over Mudge Island Seen From Brickyard Beach Gabriola British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:30 p.m.

I stopped at the brickyard beach on Gabriola 01/22/2011 at about 7:30 pm and looking south over Mudge Island, when we saw what looked like a fire on Mudge. We then noticed it was moving south, very slowly and it started to fade. We got into our car and drove south, it appeared in the sky over Mudge again, so we stopped on the side of the road to watch.

The light slowly moved, what looked like southeast and it was pulsing and lighting up the clouds above it. It then faded from sight, ten seconds later it appeared in the same spot over Mudge. Wow kind of freaked us out. It went in the same direction as before then faded out, that was about 7:45 pm.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Orange Object Seen From Nanaimo To Chemainus British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011
Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

While driving home from Nanaimo around 7:00pm I saw it as well, and by the time I got home to Chemainus it disappeared. Weird stuff.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Orange Luminous Object Seen From Ladysmith British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: 7:20 - 7:37 p.m.

Good evening, today is January 22, 2011 at 7:20-7:37 pm and there has been an orange light in the sky almost flashing at random (reminiscent of a meteor)! What is it?

Additional Information:

Hello again, this was on the #1 Highway on Vancouver Island, starting approximately at the 49th Parallel (Ladysmith, BC). The object appeared to be orange in colour, quite luminous in the night sky, with as I said before bright bursts of light.

This object appeared and re-appeared in the sky due to the cloud formation. This object fell out of sight behind the front approximately 20kms further down the highway (Chemainus, B.C).

I would appreciate any answers you may provide.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

7 Orange Lights Moving In The Sky Over North Vancouver British Columbia

Date: January 8, 2011

Time: 7:15 p.m.

Hi. My name is (name removed), and I am emailing in regards to this post: http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2011/01/formation-of-floating-lights-over-inter.html

My friend called me at 7:15pm on January 8th, 2011. He told me to "look outside, there's UFOs!" Naturally, I looked. I was expecting to see something kind of weird, but what I saw was 7ish orange kind of twinkling lights moving slowly upwards, not in any particular formations.

As they got higher in the air, they got a little bit faster. They eventually disappeared, moving not with the wind, going faster than any wind-carried object. Needless to say, I was very weirded out. My mother, who was with me, also saw and thought of it as very strange.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Triangle Formation Of Lights Over Dewdney Trunk And 228th Street Maple Ridge British Columbia

Date: January 9, 2011

Time: Approx: 5:30 p.m.

Hi there, my friend and I witnessed whatever that was last night as well.

We were stopped at the lights on Dewdney Trunk and 228th street, it was about 5:30pm. We looked over to see what looked like a giant meteor flying right above my truck. It was unreal, it was so close you could almost feel the flames.

It looked like a picture out of a text book. No sound though. Then it shot up back into the sky. We pulled over, found my camera and started video taping it. By this time there were two, then a third one appeared. They were in a triangle formation. It was unlike anything I have ever seen, like something out of a movie!

I have the video if you are interested in seeing it, I contacted CTV but they haven’t replied. Thanks.

The film I requested and the witness is trying to get it to me.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Formation Of Floating Lights Over Inter River Park North Vancouver British Columbia

Date: January 8, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:15 p.m.

Tonight, January 8, 2011, at approximately 7:15 pm my neighbor and I saw strange unidentified objects in the sky about Inter River Park in North Vancouver, British Columbia. There were six objects flying/floating in formation equal distance apart with a larger object trailing behind them all.

The objects were like nothing we have ever seen before and there was no sound of engines or power. The objects were like lanterns and they flickered. My neighbor said there was, like a flickering flame. The eventually flew (slowly) up behind the cloud cover and we could not see them.

The sighting was approximately 4 minutes. Very strange, I have no idea what we saw. The longer we stared at them the more startled/confused we were.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Three Orange Unknown Lights Flew Over East Maple Ridge British Columbia

Date: January 9, 2011

Time: Approx: 5:48 p.m.

First of all, it's things like this that make me love the internet!

Yes, I saw three lights this evening, at 12 minutes before 6:00pm. They came from roughly the North East sky, (I suck at directions!), and flew almost directly overhead of East Maple Ridge. They seemed to be travelling at different altitudes, and appeared to be fairly far apart, but when I first saw all three, they seemed to be flying in line, then they separated.

They all headed more or less Southwest, and we watched them fade from view about 15 seconds apart, probably because they were so distant.

I saw one alone at first, and I thought that it was weird, I've never seen an aircraft with a single orange light. Then two more came into view. There was no sound whatsoever, but they moved pretty damned fast, we only saw them for perhaps two minutes in total. Very odd, and my first sighting of a "UFO"! Cheers, hope this helps.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Two Bright Orange Lights Joining Up Over Maple Ridge British Columbia

Date: January 9, 2011

Time: 5:49 p.m.

I saw what looked to me like UFOs and did a search online, and found an almost identical description of what I saw, in the same town. January 9th 5:49pm 2011 Maple Ridge. 2 Orange lights, travelling fairly close together, but the lights split apart. Low flying it looked like, but no sound.

My roommate pointed them out to me, and asked if he was nuts or if i saw them too. Some kids on the sidewalk (we were on the balcony) saw them as well. They flew over my apartment, they weren’t 2 solid lights, they would split apart and join up again.

Bright orange, kind of looked like flares or roman candle balls, but they flew at a consistent slow speed, over my apartment. This is the link to the other description that matched mine. Just needed to tell someone. http://britishcolumbiaufos.blogspot.com/2009/04/maple-ridge-british-columbia-canada.html

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Large Bright Bulbous Light Over Coquitlam British Columbia

Date: January 2, 2011

Time: Approx: 8:00 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Coquitlam British Columbia.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 1

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Last night me and my husband witnessed what appeared to be a large bright bulbous light moving in the sky (around 8:00pm. It moved further away from us and then disappeared. It was as bright as Jupiter, and looked just as big!

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Two Oval UFOs Over Black Mountain/Rutland Kelowna British Columbia

Date: Between September and December 2001

Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m., give or take an hour.

Location of Sighting: Black Mountain/Rutland Kelowna British Columbia.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of Objects: 2
Shape of Objects: Oval.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: These details might not be completely accurate because it was quite a while ago. Two of my friends and I were walking along a pathway near the corner of Cactus Rd and Camelia Rd and seen these two white lights hovering about 1000 feet above the ridge, a little North of Black Mountain.

There was a big one and a small one to the right of it, neither of them moving. After 30 seconds, the small one moves horizontally away from the big one about 200 feet and stops. After pausing there for a few moments, it returned back to where it started. Then it went straight up about 200 feet, stops, and returns again. All of these movements were fairly slow. They then started moving in our direction at I think would be about 500km an hour, still at 1000 feet.

They flew right over us and I can remember thinking that from the bottom, they had the same shape as a silhouette of an underside of a turtle, with its feet sticking out would have. Just no head or tail. The bottom also looked reflective. It headed off towards Westbank staying the same speed the whole time. I can't remember for sure if it made noise, but I don't think it did. The whole thing lasted around 3 minutes.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Orange Light Over Vancouver British Columbia

Date: December 31, 2010

Time: 11:50 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Vancouver BC (south).
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Round.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Me, my girlfriend and her mother were sitting in my van grabbing stuff from shopping when we saw an orange light that was round and hovering for a few moments and then starts moving easterly over the horizon, where it had started to fade and then disappeared completely. Left us wondering what it was.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Bright Red Light Seen Over White Rock British Columbia

Date: January 2, 2011

Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m.

Hi, It is 9:00pm in British Columbia Canada over White Rock. Tonight we spotted a bright red light moving rapidly up into the sky and disappearing?

Any explanation for this? Thanks.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Brilliant Orange Fire Coloured Object Over Abbotsford British Columbia

Date: January 2, 2011

Time: Approx: 8:30 p.m.

Last night, January 2nd, 2011 at approximately 8:30pm Pacific Standard time, my husband called me to come out on our back deck as he had witnessed an extremely bright orange ball moving across the sky, from north to south, quite slowly.

I managed to see some of it too, before it was obscured by buildings. It was quite amazing and a brilliant orange fire colour. It didn't look like a meteor or space debris entering the earth's atmosphere, which we've seen many times as there was no "tail" on this object, very silent and it was moving slowly. We are in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/