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SUBJECT: UFO REPORTS GATHER DUST IN ARCHIVES FILE: UFO2442
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Here are some articles provided by David Thacker of AUFOSG in Alberta:
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UFO REPORTS GATHER DUST IN ARCHIVES
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Mystery too tough, scientist says
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MARK KENNEDY
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Ottawa Citizen
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November 27, 1993
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Somewhere in the bowels of the National Archives, there's a rather
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unusual three-page police report from rural Alberta that might as well
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not exist.
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In Ottawa, it seems, no one in government has paid it much heed. For
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although RCMP File No. 92-0653 is professionally prepared, it was headed
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straight for the dust-covered files the moment its subject matter was
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revealed at the top of the first page.
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"RE: UFO SIGHTING. Near Taber, Alberta, 92 JUL 06."
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Here are the highlights: A 15-year-old girL watching TV at 3:23 a.m., saw
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a large "sphere-shaped" object hovering outside the window. She ducked
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under the covers of the living room couch and blacked out. The next day,
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"fresh impressions" that were "roughly circular in shape" were discovered
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out in the field.
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The Mounties followed procedure. They sent the report to the National
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Research Council just a stone's throw from the prime minister's residence
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on Sussex Drive in Ottawa.
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Since 1968, the NRC's solar terrestrial physics section has been
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responsible for collecting all reports of unidentified flying objects. The
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federal agency receives about 100 such reports a year from police forces,
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the military and the transport department.
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Some are clearly just meteor sightings. Others are more intriguing.
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There's an amazing similarity to many descriptions: flying
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"triangular-shaped" objects that flash white, blue and red lights, and
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hover motionless.
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So what does the NRC do? Does it send out a squad of investigators? Does
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it track the sighting reports for trends?
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Nope. It tucks the reports in its own files, and after a year, ships them
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across town to the archives for posterity.
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Ron Burrows, who headed the NRC's solar terrestrial branch for 13 years
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until this fall, is a top-notch scientist with a reasoned explanation.
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The government simply doesn't have the money to investigate such a
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complex phenomenon as UFOs, he says.
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"I mean, does anybody ask the government of Canada to go out and prove
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that there is a God? It just isn't something that is amenable to the
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scientific method of investigation."
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Burrows says he doesn't doubt the sincerity of people who report UFOs,
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and the last thing he wants is for them to be told: "Go away and don't
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bother me, you're crazy."
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"Maybe they saw something and take comfort in feeling they've done the
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right thing in talking to the authorities. Part of the role of the
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policeman is to be adequately reassuring."
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Reassurance is fine, says Burrows, but answers are unreasonable.
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"I don't think you can expect the government to solve all the mysteries
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in life."
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MYSTERIOUS EVENTS FROM GOVERNMENT FILES
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MARK KENNEDY
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Ottawa Citizen
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November 27, 1993
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Some recent sightings of unidentified flying objects, from the files of
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the National Research Council:
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Hull, Que., Sept. 3, 1993
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Two witnesses saw a "blue ball, very clear and condensed, with halo"
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behind their house. "There was a power outage in the house, but the stereo
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kept on playing." Afterwards, Hull police reported computers in patrol
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cars were disabled for unknown reasons.
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Mission B.C., Aug. 2, 1993
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At 11:30 p.m., a woman was sitting by her backyard pool with her
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14-year-old daughter who "starting yelling to 'look at that' .... I looked
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up and all I could say was 'Oh my God' over and over. It was a triangular
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shape, darker than the night sky with round or oval dull, reddish brown
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lights. There was absolutely no sound at all ... it banked to the right and
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disappeared with the brightness of the moon." Duration: 15 seconds.
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Miquelon Lake, Alta., June 28, 1993
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Witness saw UFOs flying in a circle, then a straight line. "At one point,
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they formed a triangle shape. Color: Light orange." Witness said her
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animals seemed jittery and excited, the dogs barked and wanted in.
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Edmonton, May 11-12, 1993
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Between 11:35 p.m. and 6 a.m., several people in a backyard saw
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"triangular shaped" objects flying at high speed. Two other witnesses
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reported similar "shiplike objects."
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Williams Lake, B.C., Jan. 29, 1993
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About 11:45 p.m., a man and his wife went outside "and saw a large light
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. . . the shape of a moon, but it was too large. It sent a beam of light
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directly toward our house." RCMP found a tree with no snow on it knocked
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over in the area the light may have been coming from.
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Woodstock, N.B., Jan. 22, 1992
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Woman saw a UFO from her house and then borrowed a camcorder and
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"recorded nine to 10 minutes of the object . . . described as triangular in
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shape with a round, wide bottom and narrow at the top. On the film, the
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object can be seen from what appears to be different angles which seems to
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indicate it was moving."
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Over Alberta, Dec. 28, 1992
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A United Airlines 737 jet was heading west at 37,000 feet at a speed of
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460 knots. "Object was first sighted about five to six miles south at
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39,000 feet, speed 460 knots, heading east. Object had lights in front and
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strobe light in the middle. Edmonton air traffic control said there were no
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other aircraft in the area. Radars did not track the object."
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Taber, Alta., July 6, 1992
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At 3:23 a.m., a 15-year-old girl was watching TV at her grandfather's
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home. She looked out a window and saw "a series of red, white, yellow and
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blue lights slowly flashing on and off. She then went to the larger kitchen
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window and observed a compressed sphere shaped object, dull grey or black
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in color." The object was "huge" and hovering at treetop level. The RCMP
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report noted there was no crop growth beneath the area where the object is
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said to have hovered 10 minutes.
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