| The Baker Farm, New Norway, Alberta, Canada, August 29, 1968
 Star Trails By James H. Baker | I was thirteen years old and had a keen interest in astronomy. It was just after sunset, on a warm, summer evening, August 29, 1968. I took an old Kodak brownie box camera out to the middle of a field on our farm and prepared to set it up. Pointing the camera to the North Star, I intended to lock the shutter open overnight in order to photograph star trails. As I was preparing my homemade tripod, I noticed some bright lights flickering through the trees at the far end of the field towards the northeast. Thinking that dad must have gone out to work the fields with his big, new tractor, I continued to set up the camera and planned my exposure times. I suddenly had this very strange feeling that I was being watched and a cold shiver ran down my spine. I turned just in time to see three, glowing, silver, disk-shaped objects coming around the far end of the trees. They were traveling in a triangular formation, moving slowly back and forth in an S-shaped pattern. I was terrified and could not move as I watched them slowly heading south. Then it hit me like a bolt of lightning. The camera! I had to get some pictures.
| B&W Photo of UFO August 29, 1968
Photo By James H. Baker
| I grabbed the camera on the tripod, turned it around and snapped several frames. Suddenly, the disk-shaped objects started to come back to the northeast, straight towards me! There was a haystack a few hundred feet away from me and I ran like hell for it. Climbing up on top, I buried myself in the hay. I watched as the disks moved closer. Every now and then, a beam of red light would come down; as it did, fog would travel up it.  Computer Drawing By James H. Baker
| Each disk had five, big, blue-white, dome-shaped lights on the bottom that went off and on from time to time. The lights were so bright that they lit up the ground like a flash. At one point, the disks were just about over top of me. I held my head and did not dare to look up until some time later when the hum and the static, that caused little pieces of hay to cling to me, was gone. (It felt like static electricity). When I looked up again, they had turned southeast. When they were almost at the road, they suddenly went straight up, over, and down the other side. It was as if they had deliberately gone out of their way to miss the power lines. This maneuver was very fast. Pencel Drawing By James H. Baker | It was only when they shot up that I saw there was a fourth object--a black, triangular shadow high in the sky. It was a much bigger than the three disks and did not glow. I estimate that the disks were about 35-40 feet in diameter but the big, triangular object must have been as big, if not bigger, than a football field. The dome and underside of the three disks seemed to remain stationary, but the middle portion of each disk was spinning very fast. All four moved away to the east, going over an oil well using the same maneuver as they did over the power lines. They then disappeared over the horizon.
| "Estimated Size" Computer Drawing By James H. Baker 
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