The mystical fog. Canada

Location. Near Tracy Quebec Canada
Date: November 18 1973
Time: 1800
4 girls 14-24 year old were accompanied as they drove from Tracy toward Montreal by a luminous white ball perhaps the size of a watermelon, which was sometimes ahead of them and sometimes behind them, at a considerable distance. They passed through a cloud of red dust that obscured their vision; shortly after emerging from this, they had to swerve to avoid a man wearing dark clothing and a lappet helmet, who was standing on the white line in the middle of the road, apparently sweeping it with a brush-room. He was short of stature; they could not see his face. After passing the “sweeper” they saw a car and 3 dark clad people beside the road. There were many UFO sightings in this region of Quebec that same evening.
Nov. 18, 1973: near Tracy, Quebec, and November 21/22, 1973: Joliette, Quebec, Canada
6:00 PM. These are two CE3 [Humanoid] cases embedded in the big Quebec wave of UFO cases that peaked in November 1973. [readers can refer to the October St. Mathias-de-Chambly CE3 listed earlier for another example of this wave]. The Tracy event began when four women [ages 24 to 14] drove out of town toward Montreal. Shortly, they noticed a luminous ball ahead of them. It flew over the St. Lawrence River just to the right of the road. It sparkled with a yellowish-white tint. The ball seemed to pulse: now larger and shining; now smaller and non-luminous. It then seemed to follow their car. It would come nearer when the countryside was less populated; further when it was built-up. Its altitude changed but it was often at telephone pole height. This was understandably scaring the heck out of the witnesses. At one point they were passed by a car at great speed. The UFO went to great height at that event. The UFO descended and hovered over a roadside field. All of a sudden they entered slow-moving traffic. Weirdly, the cars had to enter into and pass through a “pink cloud” which was lying across the road. The cloud’s length was about the distance of four cars back-to-back. At this odd thing, the girls were so astonished they essentially forgot the UFO parked in the roadside field. Within the cloud “everything was very quiet and silent”. They drove through without any apparent incident, and the driver accelerated back up [to about 40mph]. Then, almost immediately, she had to brake again as the “fast car” that had passed them awhile ago was wrecked in the ditch. Passing this latest congestion point, she sped up , and immediately slammed on the brakes again to avoid hitting a “little man” sweeping in the road. This little man was slim and 5 feet or less tall. He wore dark clothing and a cap “that could hide his face”. The tool that he was using gave the impression that he was “brushing” the road. The young ladies never looked at the UFO in the field again as they went on their way to Montreal, but said on the return journey the pink cloud was still there. Commentary: [Michael Swords] there may be less in this case or more. The excited girls could have overinterpreted a roadside accident and roadside flares, and a somewhat careless clean-up crewman. Or, it may be as weird as they felt. Either way, that element of the case does not diminish the lengthy and elaborate “stalker” aspect of the case.This event became the first of a series of UFO encounters in this area that very evening. At least 11 more encounters were recorded with luminous ovals or balls in the region prior to 1am.
Source: Claude MacDuff, Marc Leduc