"Art by Lee Little

Doreen Kendall's UFO Story

The Cowichan Hospital UFO Events of 1970 Revisited

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Inspired by a UFO BC article (in Canadian UFO Report Vol. 1 No. 7) sent to her by UFO Digest editor, Robert Morningstar, and in the light of recent UFO sightings at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in November 2006, and those seen in Stephenville, Texas in January 2008, investigator Leanne Jones, a Canadian detective from Victoria, B.C. felt compelled to look in on the UFO sightings seen at Mill Bay and near the Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan, close to where she lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Jones thought it would be interesting to portray a "then and now story" that using much same methods used in solving a criminal case could validate the story of the past UFO incident(s), proving them in the present. With the assistance of Robert Morningstar, Jones decided to track down and to interview witnesses who had previously come forward with their own stories of what they saw during the rash of sightings in the Cowichan District of Duncan/Mill Bay in 1970, and, if possible, to find new ones.

To recapitulate the original stories, we will refer to two articles originally appearing in the Cowichan Leader newspaper. The first appeared on January 7, 1970, another on January 14th 1970 along with other articles with accounts about other witnesses. We will refer to the UFO BC report but rely on current information to present the information from then and now, demonstrating that, there was indeed a rash of sighting of UFOs in that area at that time according to the collaborative stories and witnessed by many more people who were reticent to speak then for fear of ridicule or of being classified mentally unbalanced (aka, "a nut").

Now, let's go back to the beginning of the Cowichan UFO story as it began on New Year's Day morning in 1970.

In the early morning hours of New Year's Day 1970, a Canadian nurse, Doreen Kendall, pulled open the curtain in a patient's room in the Cowichan District hospital, and according to a newspaper article (in the Cowichan Leader), she later reported what saw was during her night schedule at the hospital like this:

"At 5 a.m. I saw a flying saucer as low as the third floor of the hospital. There were two figures in the dome flying towards Victoria way. The bottom of the saucer was brilliantly lit and also the dome….New Year's morning."

The Monday after the flying saucer sighting, Doreen Kendall said that the experience had left her with a placid feeling and, regardless of what people said, she would never change her story about what she saw.

When she got to Duncan, Jones began by researching the original reports in the local newspaper, The Cowichan Leader.

This is what Kendall told the newspaper:

"There was a brilliantly lighted dome, occupied by two human-like men, which was stationary in the air about 60 feet away from CDH, above the second floor where I was working in the extended care unit. I was so taken with the flying saucer that I didn't call anyone. I felt mummified and fascinated and stood there for about five minutes watching before I called another nurse, Mrs. Freda Wilson.

The craft, which was slightly tipped downwards toward her was about 50 feet in diameter, or about the width of five hospital windows. While the craft hovered above her, she could see only the upper half of the figures, but when the vehicle tilted she saw their full profile. They had nice physiques, more than six-feet tall, and their hands were the same color and shape as ours. Their faces were covered and they wore dark suits, like a pilot's uniform, of soft-looking material.

Maybe because I'm so mechanically minded, but I suspect they were having mechanical trouble and had stopped to make repairs. She said one man stood over an instrument panel made of chrome, and the other stood behind him. There were stools for them to sit on. She described the saucer-shaped craft as silvery, metallic with a necklace of lights around the middle. It made no sound while it hovered above her or even later when it took off southward. While watching, one man turned and looked directly and put his hand on the back of the man sitting down.

The other man then pulled back 'a joystick' similar to those in a big airplane and the object tilted sideways giving her an even better view of the instrument panel and interior. She noticed that the dome seemed to be lit from below rather than from above. When it started to pull away, I realized no one would believe me and I ran and called Mrs. Wilson to come and look.

She asked 'What on earth it that?' and I said "It's a flying saucer."

By this time five other nurses ran to the window and watched as the craft circled about five times and then slowly disappeared in a southeasterly direction. I was completely oblivious to anything else and felt no fear. In fact I would have loved to have gone for a ride and, if the men had spoken to me, I would have answered quite naturally. The reason I was so terrifically interested was because I always believed there were unidentified flying objects but now I am absolutely convinced."

Following the end of that article in the Cowichan Leader was yet another small article entitled "SECOND SIGHTING":

On New Year's Day, 1970, Jim Drummond, age 22, and his wife Dianne, 18, reported studying a bright light in the sky at Mill Bay, through a telescope.

"It was brighter in the middle and I could see four distinct lights of the same color that looked like tips of candles only a bit bigger." The couple said they observed the object for about five minutes before it disappeared. Drummond said he had no idea what the object could have been but believed it was not an aircraft because there were no colored navigation lights. "I have never heard of anything that could manoeuvre that slow and fast without making some sort of noise," he said.

Drummond's mother, Mrs. B. Drummond, said she also spotted the bright orange and yellow object in the sky about 7 p.m."

Prior to her trip to Duncan, Leanne spoke to Fran Drummond by telephone in Mill Bay. Fran Drummond told her that her mother and brother had seen the UFO on January 1st 1970. Fran said her mother had passed away last year in 2007, but she had seen the UFO and kept closed-mouthed about it, as in those days she did not want to appear to be "a nut."

However Fran said her brother, Jim Drummond, had had an intense UFO sighting along with his wife who lived together with him on a boat in Mill Bay and so she gave her Jim's telephone number to the investigator.

When the investigator spoke to him on April 14th, 2008, he told her the reason he had such a good sighting was he and his wife Dianne were on the boat at the time and looked at it through a telescope.

In the Cowichan Leader article, he said, the object was a very bright light, brighter in the middle, and he could see four distinct lights of the same color that looked like tips of candles only bigger. They looked at it for about five minutes before it disappeared. There were no navigational lights like on an airplane it moved very fast without noise. He told the investigator he was a pilot and a shipwright and was used to taking bearings he thought it was at 500 feet, and one very interesting thing was that a stream like a neon tube thing carrying bits of flashing light in pieces like Morse code coming out from the object. Refer to Canada UFO drawing for further reference.

Later, Jim Drummond told the investigator that he was visited by a military man from Nevada. The investigator wondered if that man could have been from hanger 51 or Norad.

Later, Jones called and left a message for him to call her. She had read the January 7th, 1970 article from the Cowichan Leader and on April 17th 2008, Leanne Jones talked again with Jim Drummond.

Jones asked him if the article was accurate and Jim replied:

"Yes, but the part about the neon tube-like thing that came out of the object, carrying along the tube flashing 'pieces of light' much like a Morse code was not in it."

Then Drummond said that that element of the story was particularly interesting to the military man who visited him after the sighting. The investigator asked Drummond if the milirary man might have been from Area 51 or NORAD. Drummond replied:

The investigator asked Drummond if it was the "Blue Book Project" and he replied, "That's it."

(Editor's note: Project Blue Book had officially ended in December 1969 after the release of the Condon Committee Report, but continued "unofficially" through January 1970, indicating that although "officially" closed in December, Project Blue continued "unofficially" for another month, making the Cowichan UFO investigation one of the last "Blue Book" UFO investigations or the FIRST ONE in the continuation of Project Blue Book unofficially, i.e. sub rosa, "behind closed doors."

It is also possible that Mr. Drummond's "USAF military man" was using Project Blue Book as a cover for his true association, most likely, AFOSI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which was then beginning another UFO investigation project, as many UFOlogists suspect, but under a code name that we still do not know.)

While Leanne Jones was investigating the case, Morningstar sent her a link to the famous "Guardian" UFO video tape of a purported saucer landing in Canada released sometime in the early 1990s:

Jim Drummond's email reply after seeing the tape is noteworthy:

"Yes, that is very similar to what we viewed, even to the lights at the rear. Certainly was not a helicopter.

Cheers

Jim"

Detective Jones knew that Project Blue Book had been designed by the U.S. Air Force to study particularly interesting UFO sightings. Ms. Jones inquired of Drummond whether or not he would let her take a picture of him and Jim said "Yes, but not until the following week."

The day before the phone conversation with Jim Drummond, on April 16th, she drove to Duncan and met with the curator manager of the museum, Kathryn Gagnon, who in turn sent her to the archivist Priscilla Lowe, at one time a curator who now worked at the archives kept in the Duncan City hall.

The investigator prior to going to Duncan had sent the UFO BC article to Kathryn Gagnon who in turn sent it to Priscilla Lowe.

Priscilla Lowe said she was grateful for the news article because when she went into her file entitled "Natural Disasters and Strange Phenomena," where the UFO articles had been filed, she found that they had disappeared. The only thing to do was to go on the Microfische machine where the original newspaper article had appeared in the January 7th, 1970 edition of the Cowichan Leader Newspaper, written by Sharon Currie, entitled:

Jones noted that it contained extra details not reported in previous articles, which is one of the beauties of articles written as close to the event as possible. Following the end of the article, there appeared another smaller one (previously mentioned) entitled "Second Sighting"

When the investigator spoke personally to Jim she read that article asking him if it was a true account of the UFO events, to which he answered, "Yes."

When they go to the Duncan City Hall, the investigator and Priscilla went through the obituaries and found that the teacher at the Alexander Elementary School, Edith Bieling (McLennon), who was mentioned in the UFO BC as also having seen the UFO sighting at the same time period, was now deceased.

The investigator received copies of the obituaries of Edith Bieling (McLennan) and also Freda Wilson, and another couple Judge and Mrs. Hallett who lived just behind Jim Drummond in Mill Bay, also reported seeing the same UFO that the Drummonds had seen (and this was verified by Jim).

An interesting detail that was disclosed in the UFO BC report was the fact that Mayor of Duncan at the time, James Quaife, said that he and his wife and other neighbors watched a light much brighter than a star perform manoeuvres in the sky, including dead stops and reversals of direction, as reported in the UFO Canada review. The investigator copied down the telephone number of the ex-mayor and made plans to call him. Below is a picture she took of James Quaife's photo on "The Duncan Roster of Mayors."

Jones then she drove to the Cowichan District Hospital to get a picture of the hospital as it looked then…

Next, Jones drove to the Alexander Elementary School whereupon she realized that the timeline, the sequence and directional flow of sightings, would indicate that the UFO followed a northeasterly direction toward the Mill Bay area.

Alexander Elementary School

Now, all of the pieces of the original story were proving themselves and fitting into place. The archivist also told her about a man named Vernon Stanley-Jones, found in an article from the Jan.14th local paper titled "Local Witnesses Claim U.F.O.'s Eject Fireballs".

Vernon Stanley-Jones, now interred in the local graveyard, had apparently built a tower from which to view the skies.

The archivist sent a copy of that story to the investigator and was able to reach his son who said he would send pictures later.

Since the Stanley-Jones' house still stands, the investigator telephoned her friend Wilma Wood an ex-curator living in Cowichan Lake, who offered to go with her to track down Mr. Stanley-Jones' house once the archivist could obtain the correct address.

The investigator spoke again with Fran Drummond, April 16th 2008, she said she thought her brother was starting boating season and was away but that he would get the message for a request to meet with him.

In the meantime, she gave several other names of people who had seen the sightings at the time. At this point the investigator realized how all of this important information had been buried for many years and she felt the excitement of any detective finding the supporting evidence of credible proof of an event.

Now the missing piece of the puzzle was to find out about Doreen Kendall, the nurse who had seen the UFO in such close proximity and in good detail.

So next Jones telephoned the hospital foundation and was given a name of Myrtle Haslam who told the investigator that the Alumni nurses where having a dinner in May and asked if she would consider coming to speak to them since they were the ones who had worked with Doreen at the time.

How could the investigator resist such an invitation?

Perhaps the piece of this puzzle would be answered then. While the detective had been visiting Priscilla at the city hall, they also gave her his telephone number.

Leanne Jones next decided to telephone Duncan's ex-Mayor, Jim Quaife, and arrange to take a picture of him.

On April 19, 2008 she spoke to ex-Mayor Quaife and he told a story that was fascinating, and touched on only briefly in the previous articles.

Jim Quaife's UFO account went like this:

It was sometime just before 1969 that, one night, he heard a turbine sound and got up and looked out the window of his house on Coronation Street, in Duncan. Jim said that his whole back yard was bathed in pure white light and there was a doe in his orchard staring and standing still like a statue. He said he grabbed his rifle (he didn't know why) and went out side.

As soon as he stepped out into the yard, he said the light went off but he could see a large UFO craft that sped off silently at a terrific speed toward the Victoria area!

Then Mr. Quaife told her that one night in 1969 (or 1970), when he arrived home after a city council meeting in Duncan, he saw his neighbor staring at something in the sky. Then Quaife noticed a large unknown craft above, pulsating a purplish, reddish glow.

Jim Quaife immediately went and got his binoculars and he and his now ex-wife and the neighbor watched it for at least 10 minutes.

After the 10 minutes of watching it, the craft took off at high speed toward Mt. Provost to the North and then turned at a 90-degree angle and went straight up. Jim said that the next day an article had come out about Vernon Stanley-Jones, who had seen the UFO from a tower he had built to watch the stars.

At that time Vernon Stanley-Jones lived on Richard's Trail road in Duncan.

Jim Quaife

Ex-Mayor of Duncan, BC

There is a large power station in the Duncan area, and Mayor Quaife felt that the UFO was refueling by sucking up the power from that power grid, and Stanley-Jones figured that this was what caused the pulsations of light around the craft.

The time came for the investigator Leanne Jones' meeting with her friend, "Wilma," who had offered to search for Richards Trail road and help Jones look for the power grid.

So, as agreed, she met her friend on April 26th at the Dog House Restaurant in Duncan and they set off to look for the power grid UFO site and take pictures of one more part of a still developing mystery.

The investigator felt it was important to highlight the work of Stanley-Vernon Jones, who was ahead of his time in gathering scientific evidence of the rash of UFO sightings taking place in the area during the 1970s.

This begs the questions:

For reference further to Jim Quaife's account, she turned to an article that appeared on January 14, 1970 (entitled "Local Witnesses Claim U.F.O.'s Eject Fireballs") written by the same reporter, Sharon Currie. Sharon's story went like this:

"Fire-balls ejected from an UFO hovering over Maple Bay and Crofton area last week could mark the return of "the beepers." Vern Stanley-Jones, President of the Cowichan-Chemainus UFO Club, advocated. Stanley-Jones considered an expert on UFOs for more than a decade, mooted such a possibility after he, his wife and several other people in the area witnessed a large bright, yellow-orange craft cruising over the area Tuesday January 6th 1970.

Many of the individual reports made at the time substantiated his theory that the vehicle appeared to drop off a number of "fireballs" as it continued on a northerly course from Genoa Bay towards Crofton.

Stanley-Jones and wife of Richards Trail road, Duncan, said they watched the craft for eight minutes about 11 p.m. after stopping their car on Lakes Road.

He turned off the headlights and shut off the motor and saw this bright yellow-orange object at 500 to 1,000 feet above the ground. He said the craft looked like a disc and was the biggest thing he'd ever seen. It made no sound as it slowly travelled over Lakes Road hill.

'When it reached the bottom of the hill, it paused briefly and then turned right and flew over Duncan. When it was over the centre of Duncan it stopped again and we watched it just hanging there for awhile and then it moved off due west more rapidly.'

The couple rushed to a friend's home on Lakes road and borrowed a pair of binoculars but by that time the object was disappearing.

Stanley-Jones who has sighted several UFOs said it could not have been a plane because of its peculiar maneuvers. "Why it made me wonder if we were going to hear the beepers again" he said and explained that two years before in the area people heard a "beeping sounds but couldn't see anything," he said the noise had also occurred in other parts of the world.

Stanley-Jones said the beepers were heard around the Cowichan Lake Road area and were picked up on an 80-meter band by a ham radio operator.

< Editor note: For details, read Regan Lee's "Beeping Creatures"

The area of Cowichan Lake Road, and Richards Trail where Stanley-Jones lived was only 3 kilometers from the giant power grid mentioned by Jim Quaife in his account, proposing that the spacecraft was possibly "sucking up energy" from the grid.

The investigator found the site of the power grid, slipped in close to the restricted areas, climbed over ditches and had a snake run over her shoe, in order to take pictures of the area where the UFO was seen by the Mayor of Duncan, apparently tapping the electrical energy grid for power.

Jones returned to Duncan, copied down the address and found the telephone number of the neighbor living directly opposite Stanley-Jones, now deceased, and decided that along with the invitation to the nurses dinner, and taking an up to date picture of Jim Drummond, she would telephone that number, but already she had enough proof in articles, obituaries and living interviews to prove the existence of the phenomena appearing at that time. Jones felt elated with the help she had received in looking in on a very interesting time in the Cowichan District for a story that is as exciting now as it was then.

The authors earlier asked the question "Why Duncan?"

We posed the question, not facetiously, but in earnest. Every UFO or Flying Saucer has a purpose and a reason for its actions. Studying enough cases and comparing them, we may have discovered one of the purposes underlying their activities and what reason is revealed by their actions.

In the Duncan UFO events, we have encountered a pattern once again that we have heard about for many years, i.e. Flying Saucers and UFOs repeatedly appear around hydroelectric and atomic power plants around the world. Single craft, as well as, fleets of UFOs have regularly caused blackouts in areas of their apparitions and activities. Dr. James McDonald testified before the US Congress that on the evening of November 9 hundreds of UFO sightings were reported throughout the northeast. In New York State luminous objects were seen hovering over 3 very significant locations.

• A Niagara Falls power plant

• A [Syracuse] relay station

• and in the heart of New York City

The great New York City Blackout of 1965 was immediately preceded by a UFO event near a power station near Niagara, New York and a relay station near Syracuse, NY. Immediately, the Federal Power Commission announced that the problem had been caused by a broken relay in a Canadian power plant. This answer was accepted by the press and public and the UFO angle was quickly forgotten. But, the official explanation was untrue.

Major Donald Keyhoe (NICAP) reported that a private investigation by the utilities industry concluded later that the relay had NOT broken, but had been triggereded by a huge, unexplainable surge of power.

That night, over a totally blacked out Gotham City, a huge UFO was photographed and the photo appeared in New York Daily Newsthe next day. It was a stunning photograph, which showed the silhouette of the blacked out metropolis with only the Moon and a large luminous object floating over the city.

In November-December 1978, before, during and after the Great National Blackout in France, an extremely high number of UFO incidents occurred in and around Fountainbleu Forest, as recorded in UFO Digest by French UFOlogist, Christian Macé.

Read: The Great French Blackout of December 1978

www.ufodigest.com/news/1106/fontainbleau2.html

On July 24th, 1984, as reported by Dr. Allen j. Hynek, Philip Imbrogno and Bob Pratt in "Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings", a black triangular craft of immense size (between 900 and 1,000 feet long) hovered for 10 minutes over the Indian Point Nuclear Facility on the Hudson River, NY and was captured on video by the plant's surveillance cameras. The craft was so large that no one camera could capture the entire craft. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) investigation has never been released and the surveillance tapes of the craft confiscated by the NRC have never been seen publicly. The event was reported to Dr. Hynek and his team by 6 brave technicians of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station.

What would be of greater importance in understanding the purpose behind the Indian Point UFO event lies the data regarding the operational status of the nuclear power station and power production during the UFO's 10-minute long hover to determine what nuclear or electromagnetic effects (if any) the Black Triangle UFO had on energy levels in the nuclear plant, nuclear reactor, or on its electrical output during that period that night of July 24th, 1984.

Indian Point Nuclear Reactor Facility provides a large proportion of New York City's electrical power, as well as supplying Westchester and the surrounding region, including New Jersey and Connecticut.

As we can see from the Duncan, BC incident, these activities are in no way limited to large cities. Many rural areas across the United States and Canada have experienced "tapping" of their electrical energy by UFOs, sometimes causing power slumps and/or local blackouts. The following is one of the most significant cases in memory for the many details that it revealed.

Ashland Deputy Sheriff, Herbert Schirmer, was cruising on a night patrol through Nebraska when he encountered what he thought was a broken down truck on a rural road around 2:30 in the morning.

As he drew closer he was shocked to see that it was UFO hovering 6-8 feet about above the roadbed. Schrimer flashed his high beams at the dull silver object, which shot up and away rapidly. Schirmer noted it in his police log, but there was a temporal anomaly. Schirmer logged the time as 3 a.m. but only recalled seeing the craft for about 10 minutes. 20 minutes were missing from Schirmer's memory of the event that would later be recalled.

Later, Herb Schirmer realized he had experienced "missing time", and a red welt appeared on his neck. Furthermore, he showed signs of sunburn on his left arm and the left side of his face, but not his right arm or right side of his face.

Hypnotic regression sessions, conducted by Dr. Leo Sprinkle and Brad Steiger, revealed that the occupants of the landed craft had abducted him and taken Schirmer aboard, while communicated with him through some form of mental telepathy. They told him that they would visit him twice more and that some day he would "see the universe".

Ralph Blum's "Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs" contained many details revealed by the aliens to Schirmer. The alien leader, who literally seized the policeman from his car by the neck after the shocked Schirmer asked him:

That was Schirmer's answer to the alien's question:

The grey-white alien told Schirmer telepathically that they occasionally stopped to take water or replenish their energy source by tapping electrical energy. Furthermore, he informed Schirmer that they had bases, underground and undersea, with large bases off the coasts of Florida and California. The alien said a rather unusual thing to Schirmer:

"We want you to believe in us, but only a little."

Finally, applying Grey Alien Mind-Control (MK-Grey), the alien leader sought to silence Schirmer by embedding a verbal posthypnotic command subliminally (Neurolinguistic Programming) by sternly warning him ("We will visit you twice more") and admonishing the stricken Deputy Scheriff:

How eloquently the alien expressed his threat.

Permit me to translate the threat:

"We're coming back to see you. Play dumb until then."

This brings to the fore one of the great secrets of the alien presence:

The alien presence may be affecting world events by leeching our electrical energy globally and stealing our most valuable resource, water, in huge quantities worldwide.

Since the 1950s, UFOs have been seen around the world tapping electricity from electric utility poles, antennas, cables, electrical relays, around dams, power-generating stations, both hydroelectric and nuclear, particularly in Canada, the United States, France, Russia and many other countries around the world.

Question: Who is paying for it?

As noted above, throughout the history of UFOlogy there have been repeated instances of what has been described as electronic interference from UFOs around the world. This disruption has been assumed to be an inadvertent event or a consequence of electromagnetic anomalies resulting from UFO power sources.

However, this is simply an assumption, speculation. It has occurred to the authors that the draining of electricity from power sources and power lines would be indistinguishable from "interference" or "brownouts." History shows that UFOs have been seen taking not only electricity out of power lines but also stealing water from reservoirs. A 30-foot lake disappeared in Argentina overnight after a UFO event there recently. Electrical sparks and vorticular colums of water rising up into UFOs have been reported around the world.

Perhaps, we have been too naïve to realized until now that this pirating, i.e. theft of Earth's energy resources may be one of the major reasons for UFO activities around Earth. The possibility that an Alien Presence is leeching energy (as well as human and animal biological material) may be one of the most closely guarded secrets of the world's governments.

Imagine for a moment, if a large proportion of the electrical power losses, power surges, blackouts and brownouts, "power cuts" as they are called in England, are the result of UFO piracy, a leeching of the power produced by industrialized nations as well as 3rd World countries global on global scale. The rolling power blackouts associated with UFO overflights could well be refueling or re-charging operations for their crafts, stealing energy resources, which, of course, must be paid for by "the consumer." Are Californians alone really to blame for the power crises that they are experiencing and which are growing worse and worse every year?

We cannot be sure yet, but officialdom's maintenance of UFO denial and UFO secrecy, thus, very easily shifts the burden of the cost for such power resource exploitation from the UFO pirates to the private citizen.

Are we secretly paying an "energy tax" to and unseen alien presence?

It could very well be that such a strategy, an instrument of energy exploitation, is being employed by the "Overlords of the UFOs" to manipulate world events in order to drive world affairs to maintain humanity in conflict, thereby, controlling human affairs and human behavior. Are UFOs tapping the world's electrical output to their advantage by driving the clash of civilizations and international competition (including wars) for control of oil, coal, nuclear fuels and water, the main resources of terrestrial, electrical energy production?

As the world edges toward the brink of an apparent Armageddon over oil in the Middle East, should we not pause to consider whether or not mankind is being duped, driven toward cataclysmic events and self-destruction by design?

Is it possible that the trend towards greater warfare and depopulation of mankind may be directed by intentions of a often glimpsed but veiled presence, driving world affairs from the shadows of concealment and by a race of beings who are more concerned with Earth's water and energy resources than its inhabitants, whom they view merely as a source of biological material for their breeding purposes?

One of the most important insights to emerge from the reopening and reinvestigation of the Cowichan District Hospital and Mill Bay UFO events of New Year's morning 1970 is to be found in the testimony of Mayor Jim Quaife and his insight into the purpose and activities of the UFOs that he sighted on their "fuel stops" in Duncan, BC.

Mayor Quaife told Vernon Stanley-Jones about this after reading the newspaper article. Jim Quaife clarified this in an email to investigator Leanne Jones:

"Actually I didn't talk with Vern until after I spotted his report about the event in the Times Colonist a day or so later.

When I called and advised him that I thought the craft was over his neck of the woods he stated that he thought it was over Duncan.

At this point I suggested that it was neither, it had to be somewhere in-between which would have placed it over or near, the AC/DC substation on the Island Highway, I then suggested that the craft may have been "refueling" by tapping into the energy field of the substation.

Vernon immediately questioned why I thought they needed to draw on electric energy and I related the story of my first incident on Riverside Road a few years earlier, that I distinctly heard a "turbine like" sound.

He then agreed, saying that they have to refuel somewhere, and maybe that is how and where! … Jim"