Early article on NWT UFO sightings
Darkseid
northern Canada. If you'd like more information on this, check out the
following:
P.J. Harston, Editor Deh Cho Drum Box 435 Fort Simpson, NT X1A 0N0 Phone: (403)
695-3786 Fax: (403) 695-3766
http://www.internorth.com:80/~langford/newsnrth.html (write them to post info on
the sightings)
Alberta UFO Research Association http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/~watanabe/ufo.html
(they're investigating the sightings)
or write me - Blaine Wasylkiw - at webc...@internorth.com
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"ELDER SEES MYSTER LIGHTS" - UFO sightings abound across Western NWT
by P.J. Harston
Deh Cho Drum (Fort Simpson) - January 11, 1996
Liidli Ke elder Leo Norwegian's mind is finally at ease after weeks of wondering
what he saw the night of Nov.13. He still doesn't know what the unexplained
flashes of blue, red, green and bright white lights were, but he now knows he
wasn't the only one who saw them. Norweigian's revelation came on the heels of
similar sightings over the last week in Fort Resolution. Residents there said
they saw lights that seemingly hovered and then sped away faster than anything
known on this planet - unmistakable lights of an unidentified flying object.
"What I saw bothered me for a long time, but now I've been getting phone calls
from peole who say they saw the same thing," Norwegian said Monday after his
story was aired on radio.
On Nov.13, just after 5 p.m., he and an eight-year old boy were driving out of
Fort Simpson toward the Wild Rose Acres, subdivision when they both spotted what
he first thought was the red light of a radio tower. "But we could see
the radio
tower lights and this one wasn't part of it," Norwegian said. The light hovered
in one spot over the Mackenzie River and began to change color: red, then blue,
then a bright white, flashing green and then red again. After about a
minute and
a half, the light sped away faster than any aircraft he had ever seen
before - so
fast, it left a trail of brilliant light behind it. "At first, I thought it
might be a plane or helicopter, but then I knew it couldn't be because it went
away so fast and because the colours of lights changed," Norwegian said.
There are only two things Norwegian can compare this sighting to: UFO television
shows and another unexplained light he saw in 1968 while spending New Year's Eve
at a cabin on Willow Lake. Back then, he saw a blueish-green ball of fire
travel
across the sky. He thought it was a burning airplane. "I got back to town a
week or 10 days later and reported it to the RCMP because I thought it was a
plane crash," Norwegian said. To this day, that first sighting remains just as
mysterious as what he saw on Nov. 13 and what Fort Resolution residents
have been
seeing over the last week.