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The UFO situation in Canada began with UFO recovery operations that began since the 1940s. In the mid 1970s, the United Nations addressed the UFO phenomenon. The UN “adopted a resolution in 1978 asking all nations to pay close attention to the UFO problem.”[1]

Canada’s UFO craft recovery operations involve (1) securing UFO craft, its occupants, and materiels (2) “scrubbing” and incorporating protection of the Landing zones (LZs), and (3) drafting an assessment of the UFO situation for the Minister of National Defence on UFO phenomena.

The Shag Harbour UFO incident on October 4, 1967, is considered to be one of the UFO craft recovery operations.

Assessment of the UFO situation[]

In 1992, considered ‘the international year of space’, the United Nations had again brought up the UFO issue, following the address: “It has been reported that so far some 400,000 people over the world have claimed to have witnessed UFOs.”[1] While the UK Ministry of Defence relied on Nick Pope, and the United States relied on Robert Bigelow (NIDS) to conduct private sector studies in “unexplained phenomenon”,[2] the Canadian government relied on Chris Rutkowski, of Ufology Research of Manitoba, for his UFO research expertise. In a Canadian UFO Survey published by Ufology Research of Manitoba, Toronto had the largest number of sightings with 34, followed by Vancouver with 31 and Terrace, B.C. with 25 reports in 2002.[3] Some UFO sightings were said to have lasted approximately 15 minutes that year.[4]

However by 2007, the Canadian federal government closed its UFO research sector, in the process of declassifying its UFO files from 1947 to 2007/8. Canada allowed Rutkowski to continue his research, but independently from the federal government, and had directed all UFO sightings to him.[3][5]

Independent UFO research[]

Canadian UFO researchers have investigated UFO phenomena since the 1950s, when Canadian engineer Wilbert B. Smith learned that the existence of flying saucers “is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.” Since then, UFO researchers have documented more than 25,000 Canadian UFO reports, and many scientific studies have been published on the phenomenon in the country. From UFO investigations to abduction research, Canadian ufologists are asking, “What’s really going on?” It is hoped that Canadian studies could serve as a model for research projects elsewhere, helping to lead to a better understanding of the nature of the UFO phenomenon.[6]

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Global News-UFO sightings in Canada increasing

On July 15, 2018, a Canadian news site mentioned a new study conducted by Ufology Research of Manitoba, stating there were more than 1,000 UFO sightings reported in Canada in 2017.[7]

In 2019, Chris Rutkowski donated a collection of 30,000 UFO documents to the University of Manitoba in Canada. Rutkowski's collection includes more than 20,000 UFO reports filed over the past 30 years, plus more than 10,000 UFO-related documents from the Canadian government, according to a statement from the University of Manitoba. Many of these documents concern an infamous UFO encounter known as the Falcon Lake incident — an encounter that Rutkowski calls Canada's "best-documented UFO case."[8]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 CIA.gov, China UFO Society meets; to continue scientific study, [unclassified, Aug 1997]
  2. ↑ Dorio, Mark (2005). Ufology: A Very Short Introduction. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford. ISBN 1-4120-6473-2. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ufology Research of Manitoba". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012160901/http://www.ufon.org/uforom/. Retrieved 2007-12-31. 
  4. ↑ Wikipedia, UFO sightings in Canada#Canadian UFO survey results
  5. ↑ "Bio: Chris Rutkowski (Ufology Research of Manitoba)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20071018230036/http://www.ufon.org/uforom/mybio.html. Retrieved 2007-12-31. 
  6. ↑ International UFO Congress, Chris Rutkowski
  7. ↑ Timmins News, Sports, Entertainment, Business, Life & Opinion
  8. ↑ Thousands of Government UFO Reports Now Available at Canadian University By Brandon Specktor, December 14, 2019
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