Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The object was just a very bright dot, high up, so I could not see its shape. The color was white. Most peculiar was the large, perfectly circular hole in the cloud which I suspect it caused. It must have trevelled very fast because after I took my attention off it and walked about 5 paces, it was gone. The circle of cloud was then no longer so smooth.

Size of Object(s)

Just a bright speck.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Very high

Description of Area / Surroundings

The sighting occurred on a street called Vulcan Avenue, which is a semi urban street that has open stretches along its north side. At that time there was a steel plant with coke ovens about a mile away.

Full Description & Details

This is an old report that occurred months before UFOs were even talked about, during the spring of, I think, 1947. I was a young boy walking home from school with four young friends, along a lonely street on the edge of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Suddenly one of my friends pointed to the sky directly overhead, to a very bright dot that was obviously high up. We all marveled at how bright it was, and reasoned that it must have been a balloon with the sun shining on it. This was about 4:00 in the afternoon. Since my friends thought they had it figured out they did not give it much further attention and walked off, but to me it was too bright to be a balloon and I kept staring at it, alone. Then I noticed that this bright dot was sitting in the middle of a very large, perfectly circular hole in the clouds. Moving clouds would approach the perimeter of this circle and drift around it. The inside of the circle was not at all ragged, as one would expect with clouds. My neck was getting kinked, as the bright dot was directly overhead, and I reasoned there was nothing I could do about it, so I walked a few steps forward with my attention on where I was going but could not resist a look up again. The bright dot was then gone, and the circle of cloud was just beginning to close in. I did not see it fly off. Months later reports of UFOs appeared, and I put the two together but mentioned my thoughts to no one. Mine is the only case I know of where a UFO was seen influencing a second object, the clouds. No conventional phenomena can explain that in a form so perfect.

As a corollary to this story, years later I became interested in neutralizing gravity, and came up with a theory that you can read on http://www.magneticdisclevitator.com. Although this theory went through many permutations, I am struck by how much the final product resembles the popular concept of a UFO.

Wayne Macleod

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

The bright dot could possily be a natural object, except that it must have moved very fast. We originally thought it was a balloon with the sun shinning on it. But nothing can explain that perfectly circular hole in the clouds, that became ragged when the dot was no longer there.

Witness Background

Mechanical draftsman / technologist with diploma in mechanical technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. I have worked on hydro electric and pulp and paper projects. I am now retired.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

After reflecting on this experience in later years I believe there could be some truth behind alien visitors to Earth, but exaggerated. This sighting was before there were any reports of UFOs.

Other Comments

I can remember the name of ony one of my companions at the sighting. His last name was Toben.

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