Two men (“George” and Jim Conacher) and their wives were doing some recreational boating in separate boats on Tagish Lake circa 1970. Tagish Lake is a large glacial lake about 100km (60 miles) south of Whitehorse, the Territory’s capital.
George’s boat was enclosed and large enough to travel in the middle of the lake. At the time the photos were taken he and his wife were about 5 to 8 kilometres back from Jim.
Jim’s boat was smaller and open, so to stay out of the roughest water he and his wife traveled close to the shoreline.
While traveling along the edge of the lake, Jim and his wife saw seven strange glowing orbs. There are four closer objects and three more further up the mountainside. Jim estimated that they were 3 to 4 feet in diameter. They moved about slowly for the estimated 15 minutes that they watched them as he and his wife traveled down the lake. The four closer objects eventually made their way up the mountain to join the other objects. George was too far back to notice the objects and didn’t even have sight of Jim’s boat. His concentration was devoted to the rough water.
Neither Jim nor his wife ever mentioned anything to George until the film was developed, about a week later. We can speculate that this may have been because of the fear of ridicule or disbelief. That is until Jim had the slide in hand.
As far as George knows this was the only photo of the objects that Jim took.
Jim used slide film and made a couple of slide duplicates for George. George submitted one to the Weather Office who then submitted it the Department of National Defence in Ottawa. About a year later George was curious to find out what the department found from their analysis so he asked the person at the Weather Office to look into it. The answer he got back was that that information was classified.
Jim Conacher, photographer of Tagish Lake orbs
“Following his retirement after 35 years with the Government of Canada, Jim Conacher took up temporary residence near Tagish Lake in the Yukon. For many years prior to his retirement Jim was Chief of the Inspection Division of the Canadian Grain Commission. In that capacity he and his department of some 400 people were responsible for ensuring that Canadian grain met the high standards set by the commission.
Jim represented Canada, along with Chief Chemist, Dr. J. Anderson, in several trips to China and Russia when Canada first began selling its grain to those countries.
Jim was a highly intelligent, analytical man of scientific bent and solid integrity.
I do recall him showing me the photograph of the strange objects over Tagish Lake. He found them very perplexing. Although he showed the photo to various experts, he was not satisfied with the explanations that he received.”[ref]UFO BC, UFO Casebook[/ref]
-Lenore Conacher (daughter)
January 29, 1999