
Watch Spaceman on CBC Docs POV.People have seen intriguing or confounding objects in the sky for as long as we've been looking up.
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If you’ve spotted a UFO, here’s how to report it a sighting to Ufology Research. The RCMP were called to investigate, but the source of the lights and strange markings remains unknown. Two days later, a perfect circle, about 20 metres in diameter, was found outside of the home of one of the witnesses. Witnesses also reported seeing an intense blue light shining outside their windows. In 1989, several people in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir reported being awakened in the middle of the night by a noise that sounded similar to an electric generator. To this day, Shag Harbour holds an annual festival dedicated to the strange incident. Since no planes were reported missing, the case was classified as a UFO sighting. Divers searched the sea floor but also came up empty. The RCMP, thinking a plane had crashed, organized a rescue effort, but were unable to recover an object. Eyewitnesses claimed they watched as a large, orange-glowing object sank into the water. The incident was commemorated by a glow-in-the-dark coin released by the Canadian Mint in 2018.ĭuring the same year as the Falcon Lake sighting, people reported that the night skies over Shag Harbour were glowing with four lights that flashed off and on before crashing into the harbour. Michalak said that he became ill in the following weeks, and a photograph of his chest eight months later showed burn marks in a pattern of dots. He claimed that one of the aircraft hovered only 45 metres away from him, landed and, as he approached, emitted a beam of light that knocked him to the ground as it lifted off. In May 1967, Stefan Michalak reported seeing two flying saucers near Falcon Lake. Here are a few of Canada’s most famous UFO sightings: “There’s no incontrovertible evidence that aliens are visiting us, although it’s a wonderful theory,” Rutkowski told The Canadian Press, but adds that “there is a real phenomenon I think is worth scientific study.”

Still, about eight per cent of all UFO reports in 2017 remain unexplained - but this doesn’t mean that they are proof of alien visitation.

The survey also showed that there was an average of two witnesses per UFO sighting and that the sightings lasted about 15 minutes each. Their 2017 survey showed that a total of 1,101 sightings were reported across the country, at a rate of roughly three per day - the fifth highest number since the group began collecting data in 1989.

Ufology Research, an organization Rutkowski belongs to, has collected and analyzed Canadian UFO report data since 1989. “There are about 1,000 UFO reports filed in Canada every year, and the number remains high.” Rutkowski says that UFO sightings in Canada are more common than we think. “It was unlike anything I’d ever seen.”Īnother CBC documentary, UFO Town, tells the story of strange sightings near Ottawa in the 1980's. “It just did a 90-degree turn and went straight up and just disappeared,” she recalls. Lisa Nydahl was a teenager in 1980 when she saw a boomerang-shaped object in the sky over the town, gliding toward the mountains. Taylor, who became obsessed with space travel, left a note telling his family he could communicate with extraterrestrials and was going on an interstellar journey - and then vanished.īut Taylor wasn’t only one who reported a strange encounter in Duncan. He recently travelled to Duncan, B.C., a small town on Vancouver Island that was home to Granger Taylor, whose story is told in CBC Docs POV documentary, Spaceman. Acclaimed Canadian ufologist Christopher Rutkowski can be best described as Canada’s Fox Mulder.
