UFO 'not from here,' says local deejay

Robert Freeman
June 1, 2007
Chilliwack Progress

Believe it or not, Dave Francis and his girlfriend Kelly McDonald saw
something otherworldly Sunday night.
And their story backs up the report of neighbour Lisa McCubbin, who saw
a large triangular-shaped object appear just after midnight in the
skies over the UCFV campus in Chilliwack.
But unlike McCubbin, who's holding out for a rational explanation,
Francis, 29, and McDonald, 30, are sold on the belief they saw
something not of this world.
"I really think it was a UFO," says Francis, a local deejay. "I don't
really care if anybody else believes me ... it was the craziest thing I
ever saw."
"I know that I saw something that wasn't from here," says McDonald.
"I've never seen anything move that way."
UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews doesn't dismiss what all three
Chilliwack residents saw, but he believes that city lights reflecting
off the bellies of a flock of birds is a more "reasonable" explanation.
He says flocks of birds do take off at night, and the light reflecting
off their bellies can give the appearance of a single translucent
object.
Unlike our ancestors, he says, people today are "spending less and less
time looking up at the night sky ... and there's a lot of stuff that
happens up there on a regular basis that looks weird."
But all three Chilliwack witnesses insist what they saw did not move
anything like birds.
"It wasn't birds," McDonald says flatly. When the triangular-shaped
object came closer, she says, "it broke apart into 20 or more of these
little spheres ... birds don't dive-bomb in at each other."
Francis agrees that what he saw could be explained as a bunch of birds
flocking together into a triangular shape, but frankly he simply
prefers the UFO explanation.
"I want to believe what I saw," he says, adding that birds don't
"shimmer" and they don't change shape.
"Whatever it was, they were moving from place to place as a unit," he
says, and then "just faded away" in the skies over the Promontory area.