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P.E.I. UFO Not Taken Seriously Man Says 5

P.E.I. Man Says His

Sighting Of UFO Hovering

Above Sturgeon Wasn't

Taken Seriously

Tony Davis

STURGEON, P.E.I. - 2018-10-30 - Jim Bruce
stepped out on his deck the last day of
September around 11 p.m. just to check how
cold it was. As he looked to the sky, he noted
there was no moon and he could see the stars
perfectly.
Then, something came from the west.
Bruce has seen a lot of satellites in the
sky near his home in Sturgeon, but this object
was not like any he’d seen before.
“Must be a plane,” he thought.
The object with flashing lights just
stopped dead. Then, it shot in a 90-degree angle
towards Bruce’s home and stopped once again.
“Then it continued again toward the east,
stopped, dropped, sort of moving towards Nova there were eight in P.E.I. check out the capital while on a cosmic vacation.
Scotia.” “He (Bruce) is certainly not alone if that It was parachuters practicing for their landing at
Next, it flew in a circle and hovered, is any comfort.” the Florida State-Clemson game, according to
Bruce said. There are a number of ways to make FSU officials.
“It shot off and disappeared over the UFO reports online, and there are Facebook There was a UFO reported in
horizon faster than any satellite I had ever seen.” groups specific to regions. Jacksonville Friday night. "Object appearing in
The next day, Bruce was getting some “So, that would be a way to do it in a corner of eye, traveling at speeds greater than
paint at Stewart and Beck’s in Montague and passive way if you don’t want to attract attention mach 1," the observer reported to MUFON, a
couple of people were talking about what they to yourself, or you don’t want to be on the front site that keeps track of sightings.
had seen in the sky. page of The Guardian tomorrow.” Alleged UFO sightings aren't new to
The same thing. In the same part of the Rutkowski says between one and three Tallahassee. The first one was reportedly in
sky, a few weeks ago. per cent of cases can’t be explained, but most 1973 when pilot Captain R.C. Cook and his
Bruce wanted to know what it was he people do get an answer when they ask about crew took off for Atlanta. They reported seeing
saw, so he began making calls. what they’ve seen. a spherical light that traveled with them almost
He got some numbers for the Royal “I want people to understand that UFOs the whole way to Atlanta, according to Alien
Canadian Air Force, hoping they could tell him can be studied in a scientific way. We can Abductions Exposed.
something. No one took him seriously. He called explain most UFO reports.” It was just parachuters this time. But
Air Canada, who hung up. Then he called NAV keep your eyes to the sky; who knows what's
Canada, who also hung up. Finally, the RCMP
Canadian Metropolitan areas with lurking out there. []
told him it wasn’t something they dealt with.
most UFO reports
So, who do you phone when you think DID YOU KNOW...
you’ve seen an unidentified flying object?
Montreal 74
Since 1989, Ufology Research of
Toronto 57 - Head’s up! It’s not unusual for porcupines
Manitoba (UFORM) has been taking reported
Vancouver 46 to fall out of trees.
sightings in Canada and compiles them into an
Edmonton 29
annual Canadian UFO Survey.
Chris Rutkowski, who manages the Hamilton 28 - Since the 17702, there has been a global
Ottawa 26 flu pandemic about every 20 years.
survey, says sightings are no longer being
Calgary 24
managed by any military or police groups.
Winnipeg 9 - Unlike most big cats, which go for the
“At one point the RCMP were
investigating UFOs on behalf of the National throat, jaguars kill their prey by biting
Source: Canadian UFO report, 2017 through the skull.
Research Council of Canada (NRC). They did it
for several decades,” Rutkowski said in a phone
interview. UFO In Tallahassee? No, It - You can eat ‘em, but only once. More than
The idea was some of the things seen in Was Parachuters Practicing 2,000 plant species contain cyanide.
the sky could be meteorites, which the research
council wanted to follow. For The Florida State Game - The Nile River has only frozen twice in
recorded history.
“That program with the NRC finished in
the ‘90s and so the RCMP had no commitment Ashley White
to continue,” he said. - Okapi, a species of antelope, are the only
Still, Rutkowski is saddened Bruce’s It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...UFO? mammals whose females are taller than the
claim was not taken seriously. Some Twitter users reported seeing a males.
“Polls have shown about 10 per cent of mysterious floating light zig-zagging across the
all Canadians believe they’ve seen UFOs, which Tallahassee sky Friday night. The Tallahassee - When the Price of Wales visited the White
is a fairly significant number when you think Soccer Club account posted a video of a ball of House in 1860, he brought so many guests
about it.” light with a small trail above downtown. At the that president Buchannan had to sleep in the
Every year in Canada there are about end of the 30-second video, the light disappears. hall.
1,000 UFO reports, Rutkowski said. Last year But it wasn't space creatures coming to