SUBJECT: WOMAN HAS CLOSE ENCOUNTER                           FILE: UFO630


TRIBUNE, Williams Lake, B.C., Canada-June 27, 1990
CR:  M. Strainic

WOMAN HAS CLOSE ENCOUNTER

     Debbie Meldrum is convinced she saw a flying saucer Friday night.
     The beer and wine store salesclerk was on her way home from work just after midnight when an object came up from Meldrum Creek and hovered over some trees.
     Meldrum describes it as large, gtight-orange and saucer-shaped.  She claims it was a U.F.O.
     "I couldn't believe it when I saw it.  The light was as bright," Meldrum says.  "I was so scared."
     Meldrum says the bottom of the saucer was lighter than the rest, with small holes that she believes could have been windows.
     She tried to take pictures with the camera she carries in her truck, but says the light coming from the object set the light meter in her camera off the scale so she couldn't get a photo.
     "It was so bright, it blinded me when I looked through the camera."
     Meldrum says her right arm, followed by her left, then started to get numb.  Soon her face felt numb too.  That  was when she decided to leave.
     "After that it started to move.  I didn't know, but I thought it was coming towards me."
     The object followed the river that parpllels the road, keeping pace with Meldrum, who ldft in a hurry.  She lost sight of it where the river and the road start to move away from one another.
     "I was so scared that I almost lost a few corners on the way home."
     When she got to her house she says the moon was a bright orange.  She went next door and woke her mother-in-law and when they came outside the moon had returned to its silvery sheen.
     "I don't know anything that can change the color of the moon that quickly.  He must have went up towards the moon."
     "What I seen was remarkable.  I was scared, but it was a nice experience," she says.

        
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