The Kelowna Missing Hour

Corina Saebels turned her torch towards the dark and it picked out five sets of eyes about forty-five feet away. She and a friend had driven out to stargaze around midnight on 31 July 2003, on a back road near the landfill outside Kelowna. In the account the archive holds, the traffic on the road vanished. Three triangular lights in the sky merged into a neon-green craft shaped like an egg. Saebels felt held in place as if by quicksand. Coyotes and dogs went wild, a cold musty smell came down over them and the car would not start.

When they finally got away they found that about an hour was missing. The green craft followed them and became three before it left.

What is on the record

Two claimants are resolved: Corina Saebels and her friend, who is not named in any source. Both reach the archive through a single telling on one channel, and the friend's experience is told only through Saebels.

Beyond the archive there is only Saebels herself. The case survives in television retellings of her own account, among them a 2006 Creepy Canada episode titled Missing Time in Kelowna. No investigator's report has been found and no official body was involved. No explanation has been offered.

The telling also lists an aftermath of bruises, a burn she likened to radiation, nosebleeds and years of medical problems. Those are her reports and no medical record of them is in the archive.

Saebels also describes a separate experience at Aldergrove in British Columbia in July 1991. That is a different event and is not part of this page. One place detail in the archive's transcripts, a road heading towards a place called Fernand, could not be confirmed and is left out.

Why it sits where it does

This case grades L3 on the archive's count of two claimants. Both stand behind one woman's telling, and the public record is that telling repeated on television. What the two women met on the road outside Kelowna is not resolved here.