| UFO Sightings Center On New Brunswick Village SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Star gazers near New Brunswick’s Acadian peninsula may want to take a second look at the sky the next time they’re outdoors. Since mid-January, Fredericton UFO expert Stanton Friedman has received more than 15 accounts of strange sightings over the village of Inkerman, a community about 20 kilometres southwest of Shippagan. “These certainly seem to be real. Definitely an unidentifiable flying object,” Friedman said. Most of the sightings were of an event in Inkerman at about 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, he said. The sightings were all within about 20 kilometres of each other. Chris Rutkowski, a UFO researcher in Manitoba, passed on a report from the original witness of the Jan. 12 event to Friedman. Freidman said a man witnessing the event got out of his car and watched the silent object, described as less than 30-metres long and shaped like a diamond without a tip. The witness said the object descended above a utility pole alongside a country road and took about five seconds to hover across to the other side. It continued over to a house and then, right over it, the object made a rapid 90-degree turn before speeding out of sight. In 2000, there were no reported sightings of UFOs in New Brunswick, but in the annual CIRVIS report Rutkowski is compiling for 2001, there were five sightings. • Story originally published by: Halifax Daily News via canada.com / NB - Feb 18.02 N.B. Stargazers Spot Strange Sights In Sky By Broadcast News Monday, February 18, 2002 SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Stargazers near New Brunswick's Acadian peninsula may want to take a second look at the sky the next time they're outdoors. Since mid-January, Fredericton UFO expert Stanton Friedman has received more than 15 accounts of strange sightings over the village of Inkerman, near Shippagan. Friedman says many of the callers report seeing the same type of flying object, and all were within about 20 kilometres of each other. One man reported seeing a diamond-shaped object hover above a road for a few seconds, then speed away. Copyright 2002 Broadcast News UFOs SIGHTED BY MANY IN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA "It was a crisp, clear January (2002) night, and 22-year-old Mathieu Robichaud was at the wheel of his Chevy Cavalier, his girlfriend next to him holding his hand, headed for the video store the next town over." "They were looking forward to a quiet Saturday night- just the two of them nestled together, watching movies back at the apartment they shared in the basement of her mother's house." "The conversation between the two had fallen to silence. The familiarity of the road, the music on the radio and the tranquilizing hiss of the car heater had lulled them into a quiet comfort." "Then...'Jesus!' he exclaimed, 'What's that?'" "Two lights low in the sky." "Jenny Laplante noticed them just at that moment, too. It's a plane, the 17-year-old high school student thought, and it's about to crash! "But as they drove closer, the details became clearer--two lights morphed into four white lights-translucent, like lights spilling through a distant window. Smaller blue lights were set between the white." "There was no way, they thought, that this was an airplane. It wasn't the right shape, and it moved too slowly." "Craning his neck to follow it as it approached, Mr. Robichaud also noticed white lights on the bottom. He quickly pulled into the nearest driveway and jumped out of the car." "He figured it was only 15 metres (50 feet) above him. He couldn't see the body of it in the dark, but the arrangement of lights made it appear as if it was shaped like a diamond. It looked to be about twice the width of his car and four times the length." "He was struck by the silence--the thing made no noise. He watched as it banked into a sharp turn over the house to his right and floated off toward a neighbouring thicket of forest." "He jumped back into his car. His girlfriend was frightened, crying. He raced down the road, trying to follow it. He lost it over the woods." "He remains convinced that what he saw that night at 9:30 p.m." near Inkerman, New Brunswick, Canada "was not an earthly invention but a spacecraft from another planet. A genuine alien-owned-and-operated Unidentified Flying Object." "'I'm sure it was,' he says, driving the same two-lane stretch of mottled road weeks later. He is a confident young man, square of jaw, unassuming, earnest. He earns his living outdoors, cutting back trees that encroach upon Hydro (Quebec power) lines. A black leather jacket hides the athletic build of his six-foot-plus (1.7 meter tall) frame. His hair is short and ink-black, his small eyes framed by small, metal-rimmed glasses." "He has come without his girlfriend. She would like to forget it all. She went to bed that January night and dreamed about coming face-to-face with a big-headed alien with red eyes that chased her through a neighbour's yard." (Editor's Comment: Let's all hope that was only a dream!) "He is not alone. There have been more than 15 other reports of similar objects in the sky over this stretch of northern New Brunswick," about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of Fredericton, the provincial capital, "making Inkerman, a fishing village of 900 souls on the Acadian Peninsula the new UFO capital of Canada." "Like Mr. Robichaud, most folks who are reported to have witnessed a UFO in the skies above the village will not talk about it if their real identities are revealed. Either that or they flat-out refuse to discuss it." "I don't want to talk about that,' briskly declared one witness when called at home." "Those who weren't eyewitnesses themselves do not mind chatting about it." "My brother saw it three months before Christmas (in September 2001--J.T.),' says Nicole Gagnon, a 27-year-old who works at the 30-bed nursing home in the village, 'He saw it with two of his friends." "A friend of hers also saw it, she says. It came in low and falling as if it were about to crash. 'It's strange,' Ms. Gagnon says, 'Very strange." "Declared a New Brunswick newspaper in its dispatch on the Inkerman, N.B. sightings, 'If an extraterrestrial explorer wanted to check out the planet Earth without attracting a lot of attention, this is a pretty good place to do it." "Indeed, the folks in the village--unfailingly polite and friendly--go about life without seeming to care for the reason behind their new notoriety. If this spacecraft has indeed been hovering in their area, it doesn't bother them. Their reaction is neither excited nor scornful. Life meanders along as usual." "The UFO was supposed to have sailed right over Cyrus Robichaud's farm." "'It could be,' says the 68-year-old (farmer), his face heavily creased, weathered by all those years working the (Canadian National) railway. 'If I had seen it, I'd tell you the truth. But I didn't see it." "A mother who lives the next farm over seems unfazed." "I can't say I don't believe it,' she says, standing in the doorway of her well-kept farmhouse as three children do homework at the kitchen table. 'I can't say I believe it, either. I'll have to see it." "The village started attracting attention after L'Acadie Nouvelle, the province's French language daily newspaper, wrote about the first eyewitness account. Others started coming forward, saying they had seen the same thing." "Gaotane Caissie read the newspaper report and called over her 11-year-old daughter, Janick. 'That's what I saw,' the girl said." Janick Caissie "was outside the hockey arena in Baie-Sainte-Anne," a fishing village on the south shore of New Brunswick's Miramichi Bay, "roughly 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Inkerman--with a girlfriend on (Sunday) January 13 (2002), the day after the first reported sighting. Their brothers were playing a bantam (hockey) game inside, their folks cheering from the bleachers." "The girls were bored with the game and went outside to grab some fresh air. It was about 3:30 p.m. Janick noticed a black diamond-shaped craft in the sky. It looked bigger than a car. She watched it as it cleared the arena rooftop. It made no noise--she could not hear it." "The girls ran back to get their parents and convinced them to come outside. They made it out in time to see it sail out over the mouth of Miramichi Bay." "I watched it until it disappeared,' Ms. Caissie, a 41 year-old mom and part-time tree worker says from her home in Neguac, N.B., a coastal community roughly halfway between Baie-Sainte-Anne and Inkerman. 'It was weird." (See the Ottawa Citizen for February 24, 2002, "The X-Files come to Inkerman." Many thanks to Gerry Lovell for forwarding this newspaper article.) (Editor's Comment: Welcome to Canada, Front and Center Week at UFO Roundup. There's a lot of UFO activity in the USA's neighbor to the north.) Thanks To UFO Round-Up |
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