SIGHTING: FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK (CANADA)

Witness Testimony

"Hello. My name is Andrew Maxwell and I am making this report to MUFON on behalf of my mother, Carla Linton, 44, who described the details of her UFO encounter to me in person and over the phone. The encounter occurred at some date in late May 2006 (possibly the 31st), at approximately 10:30 p.m. Atlantic Canadian Time, as descibed in the above form.My mother lives in St. Andrews, NB, about an hour and a half from where the ecounter occured. My brother Rory Linton, 14 years of age at the time of the encounter, is a hockey player on the AAA team the Saint John Seadogs (Saint John is about an hour away from St. Andrews). The Seadogs play games and in tournaments all over the Eastern Seaboard of Canada, and occasionally as far south as Boston. To say that my mother and brother travel a lot is an understatement. On the night of their encounter, their travels had taken them to my home city of Fredericton. They were leaving the city at the time of the encounter and first saw the UFO while driving back to St. Andrews on the Hanwell Road just outside Fredericton. The Hanwell has little lighting and the skys are very clear at night, especially on nights where the moon is in the early stages of its cycle.My mother noted the object and my brother saw it as well. According to her description, the object first appeared "like a star," "a defined circle" and "glowing"; it quickly became apparent, however, that it was not a normal heavenly body. My mother still insists upon a distinctly circular shape, even when I asked her if she meant instead that it was eliptical. It was glowing very brightly; when she told me this, she put emphasis on the words. It was quite clear that the glow was an abnormal sort of glow. It "moved eratically," in a manor dissimilar to that of an aircraft of normal origin. When asked how long the UFO was witnessed, she says for a very long time, at least 20 minutes, during which it could be viewed at all times. "We saw [the UFO] for 20 minutes or more--a long time!--and it stayed with us, in front of us," she says. There are few cars on the Hanwell at night so it's quite possible that my mother was alone on the road for miles. Eventually their trip just took them away from the UFO's location and it wasn't seen again once out of sight.Both my mother and I are aware that NB has very busy skys, perhaps amongst the busiest in North America, but it was clearly not a commercial plane of any sort. It was raised by my girlfriend that sattelites can move erratically in the fashion that is associated with UFOs, but this was distinctly too close to the earth to be such an object. It is also of interest that Fredericton is near the CFB Gagetown military base, a notable Canadian military base. However, my mother's account can still be taken quite at face value--she was an army brat, the daughter of an artillery commander, and growing up on numerous bases around North America. Not only is she familar with standard military aircraft, but she has actually seen firsthand a secret military aircraft that she thought was a UFO but then learned of its true identity when it was revealed to her by her father after the project associated with it was declassified. She knows that what she saw was not of any known earthly origin.Thank you for reading this. If you have any questions, contact me, and I can contact my mother for you and return your call."