tose encounters of the North Shore Nine sightings in past year prompt UFO researchers to look for LOCAL UFO researchers will attempt to make con- tact with alien life forms later this year on the North Shore mountains. By Michae! Becker News Reporter Said Lorne Goldfader director of the UFO Research Institute of Canada (UFORIC), ‘‘We intend to go to UFO hot spots with very powerful halogen lights, strobe lights and sound frequencies, and we're going {0 try to attract, vee- tor in, these spacecraft’ or objects or whatever they are. “We're going to make several attempts, not only us but several hundred working groups across the world. ‘We're all going to make at- tempts, and one of us will get something. NASA is spending mil- lions of dollars with dishes to get signals from space. This is really not that much different from what NASA’ is doing but it's Earth- based,’’ Goldfader said. Of 56° UFO sighting reports compiled by UFORIC last year, nine were based in North and West Vancouver, Two of the nine North Shore incidents involved ‘‘close en- “ counters.”’ According to Goldfader, some time between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m., on Aug. 29, 1992, a police officer living with his family in a Blueridge-area’ neighborhood of North Vancouver walked to a window and saw what appeared to be a shooting star. He went into the bathroom of the house. Through an open win- dow he saw reflected in the bathroom mirror three red and white pulsating cylindrical lights. An alarm sensor located in the patio of the house was activated. Ministry says Van Wharves improving its environmental performance THE B.C. Environment Ministry has said it is happy with the work North Van- couver-based Vancouver Wharves Lid. is doing to keep within the guidelines of its pollution-control permit. Ministry spokesman Mark Stefanson was reacting to a comment made this week by Environment’ Minister John Cashore, who said he gets angry when he sees offenders turn up repeatedly on the pollution violation lists com- piled by his ministry. His comment came after his ministry released a list of 147 charges laid under en- vironmental prctection legis- lation against 100 operations and individuals for the six- month period covering April 1 to Sept. 30, 1992. The ministry press’ release noted that significant fines included ‘a $50,000 fine against Vancouver Wharves. : But on Thursday, Stefan- son said Cashore was not re- ferring to Vancouver Wharves when he mentioned the repeat offenders. He added that Wharves had been on the ministry’s pollution hit list four times in the past but has not been on the last two tists. “We're very happy with the work Vancouver Wharves has been doing,” said Stefan- son. |. Vancouver ery LORNE GOLDFADER, director of the UFO Research Institute of Canada (UFORIC), believes contact with aliens would ‘‘change the course of history, so it’s worth it.”’ A light illuminating the lane near- by went out. He heard one of his dogs out- side whining. The man attempted to wake his wife. Said Goldfader, ‘‘He tried to wake up his wife in a panic. It took ali his effort, and she only woke up for a brief moment fall- ing back into sleep like a rag doll.” Meanwhile, Goldfader added, “The child (nine months old) was giggling. in the other ‘room, another very unusual event.’’ The man subsequently discovered a scorched area of * grass by the lane near his home. The dog that had been whining outside during the incident fost “mas ~» amounts of fur and lost much ht, suggesting radiation City sinks East 23rd duplex Seventh development pian for courthouse area nixed THE LONG-RUNNING controversy over the devel- opment of former North Vancouver senior school property in the courthouse neighborhood .of North Vancouver took another twist Monday night as city councillors blocked a pro- posal for five duplexes. By Stephen Wisenthal Contributing Writer Neighbors of the proposed de- velopment condemned the practice of ‘‘spot zoning,”’ saying special planning changes for the scheme would be a signal to developers, who would destroy the neighbor- hood in the hope of gaining simi- lar zoning changes. It was the seventh time a plan for the five-lot block between Si. Georges and St. Andrew’s avenues.on the south side of the 200-block of East 23rd Street had come before council since 1987. ~ Last year, council rejected a 40-unit' retirement apartment complex proposed for the site and told the developers it, would only consider proposals that fit in with the Official Community Plan des- ignation of singie-family homes on the site. so A sheaf of letters and a long list of speakers presented a strong exposure."” About a month earlier, on July 19, 3992, a: West Vancouver mother and son experienced a close encounter of a different kind. Goldfader said he talked to the 16-year-old West Vancouver malic after the youth had contacted the police. . “He and his mother saw an ob- ject in the sky, but that’s all the mother remembers."’ Both mother atid child observed a conical object, fluorescent and opaque. The object zig-zagged at a distance from their house. **But the young fellow remembers these biological entities enter through the closed door in his bedroom, lift him off the bed and he freaked out — he resisted. Then he ran into his parent’s ‘message to council Monday night that residents of the area were still against anything but single-family development on the site. They also complained about the area’s parking problems, par- ticularly on Sundays when the Al- liance Church, which covers the western half of the former school site, holds its services. Said nearby resident Carol ‘Hale, ‘‘In the year and a half I’ve been in this house, there have only been three months that we haven’t had an application before us (for developing the school site), “ft spoke to the city before we bought this home, and I was assured that this was a_single- family neighborhood. | find it really really disturbing to be con- tinually going through this.’’ Another neighbor, Stephen Torrence, accused the developers of ‘the purest form of greed possible. These people are sitting on (over) $1 million of property as single-family dwellings. How much money do these developers want to make?” Added Neii Crocker: ‘Any rezoning of this ‘site will provide a message to developers that they can gradually wear down the will of neighborhoods to resist change. “Rezoning is, in effect, a gift to the developer at the expense of disruption to our neighborhood."' The five-lot site on which the duplexes would have been built is Sunday, February 21, 1993 - North Shore News - 3 2 NEWS photo Nell Lucente room, but there was about 15 minutes to half an hour of missing time,'’ Goldfader said. A second incident at the home involved a circular ball of light entering through a window. A third incident’ involved a physical reaction. “It's a phenomenon that I’m beginning to recognize. He's (the teen) beginning to feel these elec- trical voltages under the skin in areas where the surface of the skin feels numb. : “{ have other people where the same thing has happened to them. I've identified four people so far who have this anomaly,’’ Goldfader said. The UFO researcher believes the hydro power lines near the home are somehow connected to the bizarre incident. currently being used as a parking lot by churchgoers, and some res- idents proposed it should be bought by the city and still used for parking. lt took two votes for council to decide against amending the Of- ficial Community Plan to allow the duplexes. A proposal from Coun. John Braithwaite to reject the applica- uon .was defeated in a 4-3 vote, with Couns. Braithwaite and Bill Bell and Mayor Jack Loucks voting iu favor. A subsequent motion to ap- prove the planning changes was defeated when Coun. Rod Clark “switched sides’? and voted with the three councillors who favored rejection, During debate on the second motion, Coun. Barbara Sharp, who favored that the neighborhood’s parking problems were caused by buildings the changes, said . ind alien hot spots 44 These visitors ... are doing some kind of genetic testing of the people ... 99 “ve developed a theory. from the data that [’ve read — the clec- tro-magnetic radiation: is coming from these power grids and is harmful to skin cells. “These, visitors, whoever they are, are concerned and doing some kind of genetic testing of the people in these areas.”’ Added Goldfader, ‘‘Based on magnetic maps, over a period of time [I’ve begun to recognize mag- netic anomalies where these UFO sightings are taking place. “T's speculation, but 1 feel there is a possibility that a mag- netic anomaly point could be an entry point: for these objects to come through. [t could be a disturbance caused by UFO activi- ty." Goldfader’s group is affiliated with the Texas-based Centre for the Study of Extraterrestrial tn- telligence (CSETI). He said the two organizations are committed to acting . upon UFO data compiled. ° . “There are several different kinds of UFO groups. They range. from the bizarre religious people who are trying to put their point of view across, to ex-CIA people: We're not fence-sitters,"’ he said. “If there is even a 1% chance that I’m successful or somebody else is successful (in the bid for contac!) it will change the course of history, so it’s worth it.”? proposal | NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL that already existed. me “I don’t believe that the com- munity as a whole would agree that’ parking is a good use for property in this area,’’ she said. Bell said he might have voted for the proposal, but the devel- oper was not offering any ameni- ties to the community to compen- sate for the “‘increased’’ zoning. /“This developer isn’t doing anything for the community but increasing his profit margin,’ he said. Coun, Stella Jo Dean said that the duplexes would be ‘‘more af- fordable than a_ single-family home could be in that area.”’ If the rezoaing had been ap- proved, the duplexes would have been allowed less than 10%. more floor area than the existing single-family zoning allowed. index & Cocktails & Caviar .....29 2 Comics .. SY Fashion..... High Profiles ....... & Horoscopes Lifestyles. % Sports ....... i Travel......... & Vintage Years . Monday mostly cloudy with showers, high 4°C. Canadian Publications Mail Sates Product Agreement Number 00872398