![]() ![]() The other figure then reached down to grab a lever, and the tilted craft began to spin in a counter-clockwise direction. She noticed one of the figures slowly turning to face in her direction. In information accompanying the coin’s release, the Royal Canadian Mint said the nurse was “absorbed by the sight,” and studied the craft and its occupants. Inside the object - estimated to be 15 metres in diameter and illuminated from the bottom - she saw two male-like figures clad in dark cloth standing in front of a large panel. She described seeing a large saucer-shaped craft with a glass-like dome top. A strong wind carried it to the hospital just as a nurse working on the fourth floor - the psychiatric ward - opened the curtains of a room while making her rounds. The Palmers were living in a house on Baker Road near the hospital when they let their contraption loose. So when the Royal Canadian Mint released the coin depicting the Duncan UFO sighting - the sixth in a series highlighting Canada’s tales of unexplained phenomena - to a national audience last week, Hughes figured it was time to tell the real story. Hughes, who turns 82 next month, said he’s coming clean on the story because Les and Renee Palmer - longtime friends and fellow musicians - have both since died, and he believes the nurse and other witnesses who described seeing the strange craft have also passed away. ![]() “There was no malice whatsoever … it was a playful party trick that got out of hand and created a kind of hysteria,” said Hughes. A “UFO encounter” at Cowichan District Hospital more than 50 years ago that’s now the subject of a collector coin from the Royal Canadian Mint was an elaborate “party trick” that took on a life of its own, says a Duncan man.ĭan Hughes said he knew the couple who created the so-called spaceship out of lightweight wood, candles and a dry-cleaning bag and let it float into the sky during a gathering of friends in the early hours of New Year’s Day in 1970. ![]()
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