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The Guardian UFO Case |

A Hoax with a Positive

Impact

While no one ever outright
admitted the video was faked,
the Canadian chapter of

MUFON determined the
Guardian UFO Case to be an
elaborate hoax.

I remember watching the Guardian UFO video
on the television show Unsolved Mysteries
when I was about 15 years old. While Unsolved Guardian went silent for a couple years, but then nuclear attack on Canada.
Mysteries had featured other UFO sightings, in 1991, a series of 4 packages arrived at The safety of its nuclear roof would
this one really captured my attention. The video CUFORN all postmarked from Ottawa. allow the Canadian government to operate
itself was spectacular. A secretive man, known The first package contained documents. safely underground for 30 days in order to assist
only as “Guardian”, providing the information The documents stated that an alliance had been with the governance and rebuilding of the
made it even more intriguing. formed between the Chinese government and country. A series of Emergency Government
Was Guardian a deep government aliens. The Chinese were planning to take over Headquarters bunkers were built across Canada
informant? Was he a highly-cleared official the world together with the alien invaders. The and, as the largest, the federal government
trying to expose information he thought should second package contained a Polaroid photo of a bunker would come to be known as the Central
be public? No. Guardian was most likely a man UFO and the third package contained an alleged Emergency Government Headquarters (CEGHQ
by the name of Bobby Charlebois, a local UFO picture of an alien being. Carp).
buff who actually used the Guardian name for It was the fourth delivery that made the When building began in 1959, it was a
years. It was later confirmed that Charlebois case the infamous mystery it became. The top-secret operation under the code name
also had access to the location and knew many package contained a VHS tape with the word Project Emergency Army Signals Establishment
of the witnesses personally. “GUARDIAN” printed on the label. There was (EASE). The former Montgomery farm in Carp
Unfortunately, the spectacular video is also a thumb-print on it along with some was chosen as the perfect site for a 75 foot
most likely a hoax. Normally, hoaxes are a huge playing cards and a photo-copied map showing underground bunker: it was within evacuation
damage to the credibility of the very idea of the landing area. distance of downtown Ottawa, it was in a natural
alien visitation. This case is different. While the valley, and it had the ideal geological conditions
Guardian UFO case does nothing to provide Hoaxed Out for protection.
The bunker was designed and
proof of aliens, its prime-time featuring on
network television sparked a mainstream The Guardian UFO case, as elaborate as it was, engineered by the Foundation Company of
interest in UFO research. Many researchers was actually a very sloppy hoax. I’m surprised Canada, and the project was led by LCol Ed
today in their 30’s & 40’s had their interest by the fact it was even investigated and not just Churchill. The entire construction process took
initially peaked by this case. tossed off into the pile of UFO hoaxes. One less than 18 months, and was the first recorded
must assume the investigation was more about use of critical path construction methodology in
The Guardian Video calling out the perpetrators than proving the Canada. The bunker is 100,000 square feet over
video and documents were fakes. four levels. It is made of 32,000 cubic yards of

When it was aired on Unsolved Mysteries in Aside from the general idiocy around hand –poured concrete and 5,000 tons of steel. It
is an extraordinary marvel of engineering, and
1992, anything UFO-related being on prime the idea that aliens would need the help of the built to withstand a 5 megaton nuclear blast
time TV was a rarity. The show itself helped Chinese government to take over the world, the from 1.8 kilometers away.
bring sightings like this into the mainstream. enclosed documents were clearly forgeries. The site was completed and began
While no one ever outright admitted the There were also documents stating that
video was faked, the Canadian chapter of the flares in the video were put there so the UFO operation in 1961, and remained in continuous
MUFON determined it to be an elaborate hoax. would know where to land. An advanced operation until it was decommissioned in 1994.
Interestingly enough, much of the evidence they spacecraft would definitely not need flares to During those 32 years, it was also Canadian
Forces Station (CFS) Carp, with a staff of 100-
used only came to light as a result of attention know where to land. 150 people and a 24-hour shift rotation. It was
garnered by the airing on Unsolved Mysteries. CUFORN fully investigated the event the site of some of Canada’s most top-secret
Here’s how it went down… and interviewed witnesses. They went to the
location and assessed the physical evidence. communications throughout the Cold War. At all
The Canadian UFO Research Their determination? Hoax. times during its operation, the cupboards and
pantries were stocked with enough fresh food
Network Deliveries – 1989 and rations to feed 535 people for 30 days and

The Diefenbaker Bunker, the building was prepared to go into lockdown at
The first packages from Guardian any moment.
actually began arriving at CUFORN in 1989. Carp, Ontario. The Diefenbunker was given National
The packages contained stories about UFO Historic Site status in 1994, and CFS Carp was
crashes and photocopied pictures of alleged closed the same year. The building remained
alien beings. After a thorough investigation, What UFOlogists do not tell you about Carp, empty until the foundation of the museum in
CUFORN was unable to corroborate the Ontario, is that it is the location of the 1997.
information nor find any physical evidence at Diefenbaker Bunker. Taking a look at the video footage,
the crash site. The case was filed away as a The Diefenbunker was commissioned itlooks like a helicopter to many people with
probable hoax. by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1959, as front search light on, and other helicopter
part of his government’s reaction to escalating
lighting. Unsolved Mysteries are for
tensions in the Cold War. The purpose of the
entertainment only as well as TV rating, and are
The Guardian UFO Video Shows up at bunker was to house key members of the not a valid part of reality.[]
government and military in the event of a
CUFORN – 1991