Daniela Giordano
June 19, 2007
In the year 1967, an Italian immigrant (L.R.) was living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He lived in a little room in 92nd Street, rented from a Ukraine family. The room, about mt.3 x 2,70, was beneath the roof and had a window looking towards the North-East. And it was this window that gave him the chance to witness a strange phenomenon. It was a cold Saturday of November 4th, 1967, but the weather was otherwise quite good. And it was about 11.30 p.m. when L.R. came back home after spending the evening with some Italian friends living in 95th Street.
As soon as he was in his spartanly furnished room, he started to prepare a cup of coffee before going to bed. He placed the coffee machine on the gas-ring and waiting for the coffee to come through, smoking a cigarette, and looking out of his window. He could see the sky and part of the Saskatchewan river, at that moment iced-up, running alongside the Riverside Municipal Golf Course far from the window – about 1500 meters as the crow flies. Just a few minutes of contemplation of the landscape…then, suddenly, L.R. spotted a brilliant light in the dark sky.
It came from the East headed fast towards the North and moving on, perpendicular to his point of observation. At first, he thought it was an aeroplane because the airport was not far away, but its path and its behavior attracted his attention.
In fact, the brilliant dot started to become lower. Then it stopped, starting to emit intense pulsating light. He noticed now its globular shape. The size was double that of a car’s headlight. The light was now fixed in the dark sky emanating a pulsating reddish light. Suddenly the light went off. And the object was no longer visible. But in the position where the object should have been, a bright blue ring appeared, becoming bigger and bigger while it was directed towards the ground until it disappeared. This phenomenon of the rings was repeated 3 times. Then the object re-appeared with its reddish pulsating light.
It remained there for about 10 minutes. It was about 11.45 p.m. when another extremely faint light came away from the main object and rapidly moved towards the ground in an oblique path. At this point, L.R. switched off the light in his room, turned off the gas-ring, and full of fear and curiosity, took his place again at the window.
The little object was now at about the level of 500 meters. It started to slow down, almost stopping, then started again to slow down, still headed towards the ground. Now L.R. could see it clearly. It was round, terribly squashed at the poles. It was a silver color. It emanated a soft violet light. It rotated slowly on itself and emitted a buzzing sound like an electric transformer.
It flew over the Saskatchewan River and landed on the grass of the Riverside Municipal Golf Course – far from his window – about 1.500 meters as the crow flies. There, the light of the object went out. It remained extinguished for about 5 minutes. Then it lit up again and took off towards the main object, still fixed in the same point as before. When the little object reached the main object, it was literally swallowed by the main object. Then, it started to move slowly, then fast, at the same time that light became more brilliant and pulsating, then it disappeared towards the North.
The day after, November 5th, Sunday, L.R. woke up early and looked in the newspaper for some news about the phenomenon. He couldn’t find any news, so he decided to look at the location of the landing. He needed about half an hour to find, on the grass, the traces of the landing: a ring of 5 meters of squashed grass.
At a distance of about two meters from the ring’s edge, there were some holes in the ground of about 10 cm. in diameter. He was leaving the spot when a twinkling on the grass attracted his attention. A piece of metal peeped out among the blades of grass. It was a square plate-like copper, with strange characters and writing engraved on it. The size of the plate was cm. 17,3 wide by cm. 12,5 high. Thickness: mm 1 about. He took the plate home with him.