Joan Hieta remembers the first hours of 1970 like they were just yesterday.
Hieta was the patient in a room at the Cowichan District Hospital where a nurse opened the curtain of a window early on New Year’s Day and saw a UFO hovering outside.
She said she was sleeping after giving birth to her third son and was awakened when the nurse called for her colleagues to come and see the UFO some time after midnight.
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