We know Chilliwack is the buckle on the BC Bible Belt so “faith” is pretty easy to find there. But usually it’s faith in a supreme being, not faith that the lights they saw in the sky were aliens and not anything more rational or likely. The ridiculous statements in this article by the people who saw something demand a tearing apart.
“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.”
Firstly, of course it was a UFO — you just don’t know what that means. UFO is an acronym for “Unidentified Flying Object”, and this was certainly that. Of course what Francis really meant was “I really think it was alien visitors from another planet” which when you put it that way is at best ridiculously hopeful. His statement that he doesn’t care if anybody else believes him shows that it’s not a rational belief but a hope.
The problem is that “alien visitors” is just as likely as a nearly infinite number of “out-there” explanations: faeries, the spirit of ancient flying dinosaurs, flying redneck monster-trucks from the future, or a magical illusion created by the world’s secret Archmage… I could go on all day.
But instead of these nearly-impossible (and utterly unprovable) explanations our story’s heroes are offered a more rational explanation:
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.
Perfectly reasonable, and explains the shape and quality in the sky, right? But no, it’s not good enough for our intrepid believers!
“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.”
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What?
It wasn’t birds because when it got closer it broke apart? Is he even listening to what he’s saying?
Seriously McDonald, try saying this: “It wasn’t a triangular flock of, oh about 20 birds that appeared at a distance as a single object BECAUSE when it got closer I saw about 20 different objects making it up.” That’s your argument? Are you HIGH?
Oh wait, Chilliwack. They probably are.
“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.
For those not in the know, Promonotory is a less urban area up on a mountain. Less urban, less lights to reflect off of bird bellies.
But no, no, no, IT WAS ALIENS.
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