| Ontario, Canada June 3, 1967, 10:00 PM Shortly after 10:00 PM, a Lake Kipissing buoy tender observed green and white lights between two small islands. Thinking another boatman might be in trouble, the buoy tender headed toward the lights. He was about 100 feet away when the lights rose up from the water "with a whoosh" and sped off into the night. Thanks To NICAP Iles des Allumette A farmer witnessed the landing of a strange looking craft on his farm near the village of Chapeau on les Iles de Allumette in the Ottawa River west of Ottawa. The UFO sighting took place on May 11, 1969. As Yurko Bondarchunk reported in UFO: Sightings, Landings and Abductions (1979), farmer Leo Paul Chaput was awakened by the barking of his dog about 2:00 AM. He noticed a brilliant light shinning through on of the windows. Looking out, he was astonished to see a dome like object on the ground, not more than five hundred feet away from his farmhouse. The craft was approximately thirty feet in width, and vaguely resembled the military helmets worn by the French army during World War II. The craft seemed to vanish, as a soft hum receded into the night. The next morning Chaput explored the landing area. He discovered a large circular imprint in the ground that had not been there on the previous day. The deep doughnut shaped marking of dehydrated soil and vegetation was thirty two feet in diameter and three feet wide. Inside the circle, the vegetation had not been damaged but there were three circular depressions which looked as if they had been arranged in a perfect triangular pattern, fifteen feet in width. These imprints, presumably caused by some form of landing apparatus, measured about eight inches in diameter and three inches deep. Their depth clearly suggested an object of considerable weight. Elsewhere Chaput found two more doughnut like markings. The traditional explanation of the formation of such rings is a form of fungi known as fairy grass, but such rings do not leave symmetrical depressions in the soil. Ottawa NCR's UFOs Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) apparently buzzed the National Capital Region (NCR) the evening of March 4, 1969. UFOs were spotted directly above the Parliament Buildings on Parliament Hill and Rideau Hall. Yurko Bondarchuk in UFO: Sightings, Landings and Abductions (1979) quoted the testimony of an RCMP constable stationed near the Privy Council entrance the evening of March 4. At 7:45 PM, an object was seen from Parliament Hill, going through the sky at a terrific rate of speed, heading from south to north. This object stopped and appeared to hover in the sky over Hull. It gradually moved in a northwest direction and at 9:34 PM disappeared from view. It appeared to be round in shape and much smaller than the moon in size. The object was seen by six other RCMP officers at various locations on Parliament Hill. Later that evening an RCMP constable patrolling the part of Sussex Drive between Rideau Hall, the Governor General's residence, and 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister's Residence, observed flashing red lights: At approximately 10:00 PM, while on foot patrol from the police lodge at Government House to the prime minister's residence, I noticed two rather bright flashing red lights in the sky. At first glance, I assumed they were aircraft but could hear no sounds of engines. One of these lights proceeded east and was lost from view within a minute or less, while the other one traveled in a westerly direction. These lights were first seen directly overhead at a point slightly inside the gates to Government House and were very bright red. No definite shape could be distinguished nor was there any type of trail visible behind these lights. Three months later, on June 5, at 10:12 PM, three RCMP constables and three tourists on Parliament Hill were surprised to see luminous craft hovering over the Ottawa River behind the Parliament Buildings. Bondarchuk noted, "They watched as the vessel emitted a dazzling array of lights, changing from red to green to red to white." At 10:10 PM, "all the lights on Parliament Hill - East, West and Center Blocks - went out... Ontario Hydro was notified, but... the cause could not be ascertained at the time." Then the UFO moved eastward "with an up and down ping pong ball like trajectory," finally settling above eastern Hull and Pointe Gatineau across the river. It proceeded west then disappeared from sight behind high buildings. Bondarchuk commented on the lack of official interest in the incidents which he found disturbing. "It is equally disturbing that neither the sighting nor the blackout received noticeable press coverage. A check of subsequent editions of the Ottawa Journal and the Ottawa citizen failed to reveal any reference to either event. Whether this omission was intentional or accidental does not alter the fact that while two potentially explosive events were taking place, the public was left virtually in the dark." Ottawa - Project Magnet With a view toward discovering new technologies in unusual magnetic phenomena, Wilbert B. Smith of the Broadcast and Measurements Section, telecommunications Division of the Ministry of Transport, sent a memorandum to Commander C.P. Edwards, Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Services. The memorandum suggested that a study of "geo-magnetics" could explain the extraordinary flight patterns observers claimed for flying saucers. Smith had learned on a visit to Washington, D.C., from a Defense Research Board liaison officer at the Canadian Embassy, that the Americans knew "flying saucers exist" and were studying them under the strictest secrecy. Smith's memorandum to Commander Edwards' "go ahead" on December 2. Instead of building a "pilot power plant" for extracting energy from the Earth's magnetic field, as he expected to do, Smith spent a great deal of time collecting reports of flying saucer sightings and gathering surplus equipment for a flying saucer observatory at Shirley's Bay. Smith was instrumental in gathering reports from Department of Transport officials across Canada. He summarized the most interesting twenty five sightings for the project Magnet Report. The conclusion that Smith came to was that "the vehicles are probably extra terrestrial." Such a conclusion from a private individual merited no particular attention, but coming in a government report required some explanation. As if that was not enough, there was the publicity that followed his announcement that a flying saucer had been detected over Shirley's Bay on August 8, 1954. Neither the conclusion of his report nor the announced sighting pleased the Ministry of Transport. Project Magnet, which was largely a part time activity of Smith's, was officially ended in 1954 after running for four years. Although Smith was permitted to continue his work on flying saucers, he would henceforth do it in an unofficial capacity and on his own time. The work continued until his death in 1962. Douglas Point/ UFO Sighting The Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station, located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron between Port Elgin and Kincardine, began producing nuclear energy in August 1967. The following press story about UFO sightings near the Generating Station appeared in the Toronto Telegram, 18th September 1967, and was quoted by Yurko Bondarchuk in UFO: Sightings, Landings and Abductions (1979). Port Elgin, Ontario - This village has a fully-fledged flying saucer mystery on its hands but nobody wants to talk about it. At least seventeen people have seen a UFO over Lake Huron in the past week here in Bruce County, about 180 miles northwest of Toronto. One sighting rated an entry in the official log of the Douglas Point Nuclear generating Station of Ontario Hydro. Samuel Horton, superintendent of the Hydro Station about ten miles south of Port Elgin, said between six and thirteen people at the plant sighted a saucer-shaped object last Monday September 11. The log entry reads: "On Monday, September 11, at 15.30 hours, (3.30 p.m.) a UFO was observed passing over the station in an easterly direction." Witnesses said they thought the object was part of an orbiting spacecraft until it seemed to hover over the lake about one mile and a half out and then dropped something into the water. One plant employee said he and others saw a similar craft return two nights later and for the next five nights search for the dropped object. One witness said he saw the craft hover near the station. Two others said they saw sparks coming from it over the lake. Selfridge Air Force Base (across the lake) did not investigate and made no radar contacts. As Bondarchuk noted, "While reports of UFOs ejecting small objects are not uncommon, this case is unique in that the craft returned in an apparent effort to retrieve the object. This suspected attempt may indicate that the object was some form of device designed to gauge the emissions from the nuclear plant." Walkerton/The Nocturnal Light Case The Walkerton Nocturnal Light Case is the well documented account of the curious movements of a highly luminous object. It ranged across the countryside and then hovered around a large tree which it appeared to examine. The movements were observed and the case was reported by a professional astronomer and his brother. The sighting occurred on a country road outside the town of Walkerton in western Ontario. It lasted about an hour, ending around 2:00 a.m. on a summer morning in 1960. The case was considered in detail by J. Allen Hynek in The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (1971). What Hynek as a veteran UFOlogist found unusual about the case was "the small estimated linear size" of the light. The report that follows was made eleven years after the event. "The reporter, who today is a professional astronomer, did not wish to report it earlier because he was unwilling to expose himself to ridicule. The tree was about 100 yards distant and about 120 feet high. The object, which subtended an angle of about 1/4 degrees (giving it a physical diameter of less than 3 feet), appeared circular in shape and was thus probably a spheroid. It was highly luminous against the dark sky background and changed color through the whole visible spectral range with a period of 2 seconds (rather an irregular period). Because it was rather bright, I may have slightly overestimated the angular size, and 1/4 degrees should perhaps be considered an upper limit. A lower limit would certainly be 1/8 degrees. The object appeared to be examining the tree rather closely. It circled the upper branches, ranging from 50 to 100 feet off the ground, passing in front of the tree, then clearly visible through the branches on passing behind the tree again. It continued this apparent "observation" of the tree for several minutes while we watched. Then, anxious for a picture, we climbed the perimeter fence and started slowly toward the tree facing due west. We had not gone more than 10 feet before it "noticed" us and noiselessly accelerating at a very high rate, headed almost directly south, disappearing over the horizon (on a slightly rising trajectory) in about 2-1/2 seconds. (I consider my length and time estimates to be quite reliable as I was actively engaged in track and field at the time and thus quite competent at this type of estimation. Even under such exceptional circumstances, these figures are most probably within more or less 20 percent.) Several observations about the object: 1. It was certainly too small to contain human life. 2. It had no apparent physical surface features apart from the circular shape it presented - possibly because the "surface" was highly luminous; 3. It moved deliberately and purposefully in its "inspection" of the tree, pausing slightly at apparent "points of interest" and giving the distinct impression of possessing "intelligent" behavior. 4. Its motion was completely silent, even the final rapid acceleration; 5. It was definitely not any natural physical phenomenon I have ever encountered or read about (I'm sure you are familiar with what I refer to -- "marsh gas" and the like); 6. It was definitely not a distant astronomical object. It was clearly visible alternately through the branches of the tree and obscuring the branches of the tree, fixing its distance quite exactly; 7. It was definitely seen by competent witnesses (including several police officers) besides myself; and 8. On acceleration from the tree it almost certainly should have exceeded the speed of sound. There was no acoustical disturbance whatever. (My uncle attempted to take a picture of it as it accelerated but the result was not good enough to publish due to our excessive distance from the object and its rapid motion, which combined to produce a very faint blurred image._ The salient points to consider are these: the object appeared to be governed by some intelligence, and it did not behave as would a physical phenomenon as we understand it. |
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