“It was a smaller craft with a large military helicopter following it,” Hicks said. “It flew over two or three times.”
He said he saw the craft, which he described as a ball of light, fly over his neighborhood toward Vancouver Lake at about 10 p.m. or 10:30 p.m.
Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said there were some military exercises on Wednesday night for the Oregon National Guard, but they involved F-15s and not helicopters, as far as he knows.
“We have no reports of any UFOs,” Kenitzer said. “But there has been some military activity.”
Sure, living on the corner of Northwest 78th Street means tolerating lots of nearby traffic. But it was still an improvement for the Baye family, with children ages 3, 7 and 12. Baye said they mostly love the neighborhood and their proximity to parks, churches and public schools.
What they don’t love is the house directly across 78th from their cul de sac. Given the behaviors she’s seen over there — and, occasionally, right on her front porch and even coming through her doorway — Baye said she thought it must be a group home for people who are mentally ill or struggling with addiction.
She’s almost right.
He allegedly mistook granddaughter’s friends for an intruder
A Battle Ground man is accused of illegally firing a gun inside his residence when some friends of his 18-year-old granddaughter attempted to leave early Sunday.
Billy F. Bicknell, 67, apparently thought the teenagers were an intruder, according to court papers.
Bicknell appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree assault. Judge David Gregerson held him in lieu of $25,000 bail and advised him to hire a defense attorney. He’s scheduled to be arraigned May 23 on the charge.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies responded around 1 a.m. Sunday to a report of shots fired at a residence at 17414 N.E. 280th St. in the Heisson area.
Bicknell said he heard noises on the roof of his home and thought it might be an intruder, according to the sheriff’s office.
“He went outside and observed a male that he didn’t recognize enter the upstairs bedroom of his grand-children,” wrote sheriff’s Detective Fred Neiman in a court affidavit.
The school is one of many throughout Clark County’s small cities that has already run out of space as projections show continuous growth in student enrollment over the next several years. The trend has forced district officials to carefully weigh their options: build more schools or expand existing facilities where there’s still room to grow.
