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48 “U” Is For UFOs In Ottawa, Ontario
U is for UFOs in Ottawa: Canadians spotted 3 UFOs Canada’s UFO capital
The truth is (still) out per day in 2017: survey While plenty of UFO sightings come from rural
there locations, a number of city-dwellers spotted
CTV News UFOs in urban areas last year. In 2017, Montreal
was the country’s UFO-sighting capital.
Continued from Page 45 September, 10, 2016, campers in Quebec say
• Montreal - 74
they watched as a glowing, pyramid-shaped
Only days later, Project Magnet was disbanded. object floated above their trailer and came to a • Toronto - 57
“Scientists,” wrote the Ottawa Journal, “say halt mid-air. • Vancouver - 46
there is no proof flying saucers exist but they The group says the unusual object • Edmonton - 29
honorably admit there is no proof that all the hovered above the campsite and emitted an • Hamilton - 28
strange and wandering objects reported in the intense red light. A moment later, the light • Ottawa - 26
sky are freaks of imagination or atmosphere.” flickered and it flew out of sight. • Calgary - 24
It was, Smith explained in a 1957 The unexplained encounter is one of the • Winnipeg - 9
Weekend Magazine article on UFOs, all a matter best-documented UFO sightings reported in
of perspective: “If a stock promoter told you that Canada in 2017. Last year, 1,101 people Nearly half of all UFO sightings in 2017
there was a 60-per-cent probability that a certain reported seeing unusual lights and shapes in came from Quebec, which had a record year.
stock would go up, I don’t think you’d invest Canada’s skies, according to the annual Many of those were linked to a series of fireballs
with him. But if the weatherman told you there Canadian UFO Survey released by UFOlogy seen crossing the sky in the fall.
was a 60-per-cent probability that a hurricane Research of Manitoba. “It was in fact pieces of comet entering
was going to hit your area, I think you’d hurry That amounts to about three UFO the atmosphere,” Rutkowski said.
up and bring in the lawn furniture.” sightings in Canada each day. It was the fifth-
In 2017, there were approximately 1,100 highest number of sightings since the survey • Quebec – 518
UFO sightings reported in Canada, including 31 began in 1989, says science writer Chris • Ontario – 241
in the Ottawa area. The truth remains out there, Rutkowski, who spearheaded the project. • British Columbia – 128
somewhere. [] “UFOs still seem to be thing. They • New Brunswick – 27
• Nova Scotia – 27
haven’t gone away. And they don’t seem to be
• Yukon - 3
declining in any numbers,” Rutkowski told
• Nunavut – 2
CTVNews.ca
The report collects and analyzes UFO
sightings across the country each year. A team The sightings themselves were generally quite
then analyzes the reports, including photographs long, with the average UFO sighting lasting 15
and other evidence, for their reliability and minutes in 2017.
The purpose of the study is not to prove
strangeness factor.
that extra-terrestrial life exists, but rather, to
About one-third of last year’s cases had
document and investigate unidentified flying
a logical explanation, such as a solar flare, drone
objects in Canada’s skies. More often than not,
or shooting star. Another third of cases didn’t
the report debunks what a witness may have
include enough information to be sufficiently
initially considered unexplainable.
studied.
But 10 cases had a high degree of both “In fact, none of these cases are proof
reliability and strangeness, and are what the that aliens are visiting us,” Rutkowski said.
UFO researchers describe as “high quality “What it does say, what our report overall says is
that people continue to see UFOs in significant
unknowns.”
numbers and Canadians are certainly reporting
“It’s not just an average person seeing a
them in very significant numbers.”
light in the sky. It’s someone with a good
Since the report began 29 years ago,
background of observing the sky … who sees
19,138 Canadian UFO reports have been
something a bit more structured,” Rutkowski
catalogued. []
said.
The Quebec campsite case is among last
year’s small list of high-quality unknowns, Most Notable UFO
which account for just one per cent of all
sightings. Sightings In Canada
Other examples include a spinning,
donut-shaped object spotted around 5 a.m. in
• 1960, Clan Lake, Northwest Territories
Rimouski, Quebec; a university physicist who,
• 1967, Falcon Lake, Manitoba incident
along with two other witnesses, saw an
illuminated “V”-shaped object on a condo • 1967, Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
rooftop in downtown Montreal; and a cigar- incident
shaped object that darted across the Ottawa sky • 1969, Prince George, B.C. UFO
This cartoon ran in the Ottawa Journal in on an April morning. • 1975-1976, Southern Manitoba
April 1961, accompanying an article about One of the more frightening encounters • 1978, Clarenville, Newfoundland and
Wilbert Smith’s interest in flying saucers occurred on Jan. 5 in Ontario’s French River, Labrador
and alien technology. It depicts then-prime where two witnesses saw several coloured orbs • 1986, Munros Point, Nova Scotia
minister John Diefenbaker surrounded by float toward them and hover before moving Sighting
saucers outside the Parliament Buildings. away. • 1989, Marieville, Quebec
Postmedia Among the less reliable cases: someone
• 1990, Montreal aerial phenomenon
said a three-foot-tall alien was seen last June in
Dare to Believe, Dare to Be Heard Rothesay, N.B. crouching and “poking at some • 2006, Ajax, Ontario
Join Rob McConnell on bushes.” In Toronto, someone said they were • 2010, Harbour Mille incident
The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show watching lights flashing in the sky when • 2014, Kensington, PEI Sighting
on suddenly a group of aliens appeared beside their • 2014, Multiple reports of UFO
The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network car. sightings over Toronto, Ontario []
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