It was nearly 5 AM on New Year's Day 1970, when Miss Doreen Kendall, a practical nurse at the Cowichan District Hospital on Vancouver Island, began her usual morning rounds in a four-bed ward. She noticed that one of the elderly patients in her ward was restless. Deciding that the patient was too warm, she went to a window and parted the drapes to let in a little air.

Doreen, a practical nurse, worked on the second floor of the hospital at Duncan, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. She lived in Nanaimo and commuted the twenty-six miles to Duncan.

As she pulled back the drapes a brilliant light hit her in the eyes. It was still dark outside, but about 60 feet away, above the children's ward to her left, there was a bright, giant object that she saw very clearly.

The object was circular. She described the object in terms of sections. 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 she could see right into it.

Miss Kendall said that there was 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.

As she watched with intense curiosity, yet completely fearless – she claimed that she never felt so peaceful in all of her life. She even wished that she could have talked to them. She became aware of seeing more of the interior of the craft and realized that it was tilting. In a moment she could see to a point just below their knees and noticed they were standing in front of what looked like stools.

They appeared to look like fine, tall, well-built men. They were dressed in tight-fitting suits of the same material that covered their heads but their hands were bare and she noticed how human they looked.

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 she wondered if they might have had mechanical trouble. She even thought they might have landed on the roof of the hospital 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 were, seemed to be inset in the chrome-like metal of the panel and there were a variety of sizes.

The total sight was so absorbing that at first Miss Kendall's thoughts were lost to everything else, and for a moment she forgot Mrs. Frieda Wilson, a registered nurse, was in the same room. When she did think of it, she hesitated. She felt that she 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 her but she couldn't see his face. His face appeared to be covered by a darkish material that looked softer than the rest of his suit. She was certain that he saw her 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. He deliberately pushed it back and forth and the craft started to circle slowly, still close to the building, in an anticlockwise direction.

The motion seemed to break the spell for Miss Kendall, for then she remembered Mrs. Wilson was there and called her over.

Mrs. Wilson had noticed that Miss Kendall was standing at the window and wondered what she was looking at. In fact, she was going over to see for herself just as Miss Kendall beckoned to her when she saw this great big light over the patio outside the children's ward. She said that it was quite a bit larger than a car. (By the estimate of both witnesses, the object spanned a width of about five windows of the children's ward. This gave it a diameter of at least 50 feet.) It looked circular in shape and the far side seemed to be higher than the side nearest the nurses. It was moving around slowly and then it started to move away. They didn't really see any top or bottom to it as it was all just tremendously bright.

The two then ran to the nurses station and told three other nurses, who reached the window in time to see the object, although it was some distance away by then. The object circled several times and then vanished to the northeast at high speed.

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