Hello, and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
And this episode we're talking about the Duncan incident.
That's correct, the Duncan incident.
This, of course, is a UFO encounter that happened up on
Vancouver Island back in 1970. We're going to get into that
whole encounter in just a bit here, some of the twists and
turns that this thing presents to us.
First of all, I just wanted to point out that there's recently
been a coin created by the real Canadian Men depicting this
encounter. I think this is the second UFO
coin they've done. Kind of a cool looking little
thing they've come together here with.
This article comes from cbc.ca. It says UFO sighting on
Vancouver Island featured on new collectible coin.
BC artist Patrick Bellinger designed coin for Royal Canadian
Mint depicting the 1970 Duncan incident.
Says this article's dated October 31st, 2023 has a picture
of the nurses. She looks out the window seeing
this flying saucer looks like a couple of aliens inside of it.
The unexplained sighting of a brightly lit object above a
Vancouver Island hospital by a group of nurses in 1970 has now
been immortalized on a special glow in the dark coin.
The latest collectible silver coin produced by the Royal
Canadian Mint features an eerie scene by BC artist Patrick
Bellinger showing a nurse pulling back curtains to reveal
a floating saucer shaped craft with a glass like Dome and two
shadowy figures inside. The $20 coin, which is
rectangular in shape, is the Six in immense Canada's Unexplained
Phenomena series which depict unexplained encounters from the
country's past. So I stands for Correct.
I thought there was only two but I guess there's six.
Like the other coins in the series, it comes with a black
light flashlight that activates glowing in the dark technology
and the coin sounds kind of cool.
It says. The so-called Duncan incident
happened on the morning of January 1st, 1970, when a nurse
at a hospital in Duncan, BC, claimed to have seen a UFO with
two humanoid figures inside. According to a news release by
the Mint, The nurse called over another colleague to witness the
object, just as it silently and swiftly moved away, though its
lights were still visible to two more witnesses who joined them
at the window. So we have a mass UFO sighting
here and the same release, Canadian UFO expert Christopher
Tasky said. The Duncan incident remains
shrouded in mystery. More than 50 years later, the
RCMP officer investigated the case, was puzzled and could not
explain the incident, said Rakowski.
The Mitt called on Bellinger, who runs the Drifter Studio at
Gabriella Island and BCS Golf Islands, to help create a coin
based on the siding. They sent out a brief and based
on what I did on my own research, he said, adding that
he found the story intriguing. Reading the reports, I could see
the scene in my head. Bellinger produced another coin
in the series in 2021 depicting the Montreal incident, which
shows a mysterious optic flooding by the city's Hotel
Bonaventure on the night of November 7th, 1990.
Yeah, we did a podcast on that. That's a really cool sighting
there, Another mass sighting. Other coins in the series
include scenes from the UFO crash at Shag Harbor in 1967 and
a giant UFO sighting in Yukon in 1996.
He says it takes about a year to produce a full coin such as
these. Bellinger said the process is
quite intense, but also a lot of fun.
Bellinger says he has been a graphic designer for 35 years,
but began illustrating coins more recently in 2017.
He worked on a three coin series for the minute called Norse
Figureheads in which he designed a Viking map.
Yeah, pretty neat little article and actually a pretty cool
looking coin. Now let's go take a look a
little bit into exactly what this sighting was all about and
we can find this article here from ufoevidence.org.
It stated January 1st, 1970 Location Duncan, BC Canada says
UFO and Occupancy near Cowhichin Hospital in BC, Canada, it
begins. It says Miss Doreen Kendall, a
practical nurse at the Coichin District Hospital in Vancouver
Island, was looking out the window of the ward when she saw
60 feet away and objects so big and bright.
I could see everything clearly. There were two male figures in
the object, one behind the other.
One of the men eventually looked right at Doreen and the craft
started to move away, but not before Freda Wilson, our
registered nurse, also saw the object.
So we have two witnesses, 2 nurses.
I witnessed this thing and they have a drawing here of this gal.
She's looking up this large hospital window and she sees
this flying saucer with two what she says men inside male figures
at least and has a picture here of Doreen Kendall.
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Now it goes on here, it says. It was turning 5 in the morning
on New Year's Day 1970, when Doreen Kendall, a practical
nurse at the Kuichen District Hospital on Vancouver Island,
noticed that one of the elderly patients in her ward was
restless. Deciding the patient was too
warm, she went to a window and parted the drapes to let in a
little air. Just as I pulled the drapes, a
brilliant light hit me in the eye, she said.
It was still dark outside, but about 60 feet away, right above
the children's ward to my left, there was this object, so big
and bright I could see everything clearly.
The object was circular and had what I guess you would call a
top and bottom. The bottom was silvery like
metal and was shaped like a bowl.
There was a string of bright lights around it, like a
necklace. The top was a Dome made of
something like glass. It was lit up from inside and I
could see right into it. Continuing her account and
question and answer form, Miss Kendall told me there were two
male like figures in the craft, one behind the other, facing to
her right away from the hospital.
The one in front appeared taller or perhaps was positioned higher
than the other. Their heads were encased in
close fitting dark material. Obviously these things are
picking some kind of a reason why they are assuring themselves
to people in this form. I just don't get it.
As she watched with intense curiosity yet completely
unfrightened, I never felt so peaceful in all my life.
I wish I could have talked to them.
She became aware of seeing more of the interior of the craft and
realized it was tilting. In a moment she could see she
could see to a point just below their knees and noticed they
were standing in front of what looked like stools.
They look like fine, tall, well built men, she said.
They were dressed in tight fitting suits of the same
material that covered their heads, but their hands were bare
and I noticed how human they looked.
Their flesh seemed just like ours.
Intrigued as she was by the appearance of the two figures,
Miss Kendall found her interest centered on what looked like an
instrument panel facing the one in front.
The man in front was staring at the panel as if something very
important was going on, and I wondered if they might have had
mechanical trouble. I even thought they might have
landed on the roof of the hospital and then had trouble
getting and then had trouble taking off.
She described the panel as a very large one, taking up almost
half the interior of the object and reaching nearly to the top
of the Dome. The instruments, if that is what
they wore, seem to be inset in the Chrome like metal of the
panel, and there was a variety of sizes.
The total was so absorbing that at first Miss Kendall's thoughts
were lost to everything else, and for a moment she forgot
Missus. Freda Wilson, a registered
nurse, was in the same room. Then.
When I did think of it, I guess I hesitated.
I felt I mustn't make a noise or do anything that would break the
trend of what was happening. At this point, almost as if her
thoughts were being read, she saw the figure in the rear turn
slowly and face squarely in her direction.
He seemed to look right at me, but I couldn't see his face.
It was covered with a darkish material that looks softer than
the rest of his suit. I'm sure he saw me because then
he touched the other man on the back.
When he did this, the man in front reached down and took hold
of something like a lever beside him.
I'll never forget how deliberately he did it.
He pushed it back and forth and the saucer or whatever you call
it, started to circle slowly, still close to the building in
an Ant in an anti clockwise direction.
The motion seemed to break the spell for Miss Kendall, for then
she remembered Missus Wilson was there and called her over.
Later I spoke separately to Missus Wilson, who said I
noticed Miss Kendall standing at the window and wondered what she
was looking at. In fact, I was just going to see
when she beckoned to me. And when I saw this great big
light over the patio outside the Children's Ward, I'd say it was
quite a bit larger than a car. By the estimate of both
witnesses, the objects banded width of about 5 windows of the
Children's ward. This gave it a diameter of at
least 50 feet. It looks circular in shape and
the far side seemed to be higher than the side near us.
It was moving around slowly and then it started to move away.
I didn't really see any top or bottom to it.
It was all just tremendously bright.
Wow, what a case. Now that, like I said, comes
from youhoevidence.org. Now I want to go ahead and take
a look at this next article. Now there's another article
here. I think it's pretty good.
This is from theblackvault.com. It says UFO Duncan, BC 1970.
Of course, this is John Greenwald's site.
The date on this is August 18th, 2015.
What he has here is a transcript from the Henry McKay archives.
It says that this is used with permission from them.
We'll just take a look at some of the highlights here, it says.
A number of years ago, a nurse and an intensive care ward at
the District Hospital in Cowichon on Vancouver Island
observed an intense light shining in out in the hall from
a patient's room. Now the patient at the time
should have been resting with the lights off, and the nurse
thought that somebody had left the lights on and she went down
to the room to turn the lights off.
Then she realized on entering the room that the intense light
was coming in the window. And then basically it says she
walks over to the drapes. She goes to open them up and she
looks at the window and then they're like 80 feet away or
something. She sees this flying saucer,
this UFO hovering. Now it goes on, It says she
reported that she stared at amazement, was mesmerized.
She said This object was hovering there and it contained
2 creatures and she said one sitting behind the other.
She said the one sitting in the rear turned slowly and looked
directly at her. Then that the creature reached
forward, places hand on the creature sitting in front, and
the creature in turn reached down and moved lever just like
she said in the account we read earlier.
She's looking at these things. It seems like that they observe
her and in response to observing her, they're not really trying
to make contact with her so much as they're just trying to get
out of there. That's what's where.
There's definitely some kind of observer effect going on back
and forth between these two. It says she was questioning
closely about this, and she said she could see the interior of
the craft and when he reached out and moved, that lever of the
vehicle tilted and she could see a greater area of this craft.
She said inside she could see some sort of control panel, and
these two humanoids were sitting on tall stools like the child's
seat. So oftentimes when we get these
detailed observations of what these craft look like on the
inside, I wonder if that's just not the part, you know, part of
the observer effect. If that's not the experience,
you're just kind of kind of projecting what they think it
should look like into this craft.
Because obviously if these things are as advanced as we
think they are you have to wonder if they would even be
using mechanical things like levers and steering wheels and
that sort of thing that we think of as as a mechanical craft.
It almost you almost wonder if these things wouldn't just be
totally fly by wire at this point.
Now it says the craft started moving further away and she
realized she could get the other witness And of course that's
when she talks about having the the nurse come look out the
window that who also saw this you know flying saucer.
It goes on it says unfortunately the one just saw the light
moving off the distance and the and and another nurse ran down I
believe it was in A to a small washroom that had a window that
had a view of the area where the object was disappearing and she
saw the lights disappearing in the distance also.
So you've got 3 nurses involved in this.
You've got the first nurse that walked over and actually got the
full view of the flying sauce or the craft, the two beings
inside, the second nurse who when she calls her over, she
sees the light as it disappears and then the third nurse who
sees her from another vantage point.
So this is definitely a mass or a multiple UFO sighting.
It goes on and says this is 1 case that's happened to BC and
other cases have been reported across Canada.
Well, we know there's been lots and lots of cases reported
across Canada. I just think it's a fascinating
case. It's just this short little
incident that happened where this nurse, you know, back in
1970, reports seeing this UFO right outside of this large
hospital window. She gives us all the details of
how she sees the two creatures, which she describes as men
inside the control panel, the lever, how the sink interacted
with her, how these two beings seemed to almost make contact
with her. Not really to give her a
message, but they definitely saw her there.
It's weird how she sees them first and they're kind of
operating, they're just doing their own thing.
And then when she forms this idea in her mind about Wow, I
wonder what'll happen when they see me.
It's almost as if that's a telepathic message to them to
look up. And when they do see her, it's
like, wow, they're going to skedaddle out of there.
So it has all the elements of these up close and personal
encounters we see, especially when the UFO involves occupants
inside. These are some of the most
fascinating ones I think where the person sees the UFO, they
see like a window or a Dome into the into the craft and they
actually look inside and see creatures walking around.
And so often times they'll say, oh it was a female or hey, it
was a male. I mean, how do they know this
really? But they just seem to
intuitively know that these things have two genders, male
and female. We have to wonder, is that even
possible? So you kind of get into this
whole area of how much of this stuff is being projected by the
observer and how much of this stuff?
Or is this like just some sort of thing that's actually there?
I almost feel like this is more like this.
Interdimensional phenomena happens and sometimes we we just
project our own ideas or we see it in the way that our mind
allows us to see it. You notice how the one nurse,
she saw this completely developed craft creatures
walking around inside is almost like she's missing out in
contact with them. And the other nurse simply sees
this blue flash of light take off.
So it's What I like about this case is you have the detail of
the one nurse, but then you also have this intentionally personal
experience that we so often see in these UFO encounters.
Until next time, this is UFO Morning over now.