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).

Click on the 'NEXT' arrow for page page

Share this article with: