CIRVIS Canada — Pilot and ATC UFO Reports (2010–2019)

Brief

These 169-page ATIA-released shift logs from Canada's Air Defence Sector (CADS) document the operational handling of UAP reports under the CIRVIS protocol across Canada from 2010 to 2019. Each daily log was originally classified SECRET; reports from NAV CANADA shift supervisors were relayed to CANR, forwarded by checklist to Transport Canada, and copied to civilian UFO researcher Chris Rutowski by name. The procedurally most significant entry — March 31, 2013 — records four commercial crews at FL350 simultaneously reporting a rapidly descending, light-emitting object near Stephenville, Newfoundland, one pilot describing it as a 'space launch vehicle' moving 'slower than a meteor but faster than an airplane.' Physical-trace investigation was conducted in at least one case: Repentigny, Quebec police responded to a close-approach red disk in July 2010 and found no ground burn, no noise, and no odor.

Metadata

Agency

Transport Canada / NAV CANADA

Release

2020-01-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

169 pages

Classification

Originally SECRET (exemptions 5.15(1) and 5.19(1)); released UNCLASSIFIED under ATIA

Programs

CIRVIS

Tags

multiple lights, fireball, red disk, blue ring, space launch vehicle, light array, St. Lawrence River, Stephenville NL, Repentigny QC, Vancouver YVR, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Ontario, FL350, FL360-380, close approach, eastbound formation, V-shaped formation, CIRVIS protocol

Key points

• CIRVIS reports route through NAV CANADA shift supervisors to CADS, then CANR, then Transport Canada by fax — a formal multi-agency relay chain for aerial UAP sightings documented consistently across the decade.p.1
• Civilian UFO researcher Chris Rutowski is named as a routine fax recipient of CIRVIS reports, appearing across 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 entries without any regulatory explanation in the logs.p.10
• March 31, 2013: four commercial aircraft at FL350 near Stephenville, NL reported a rapidly descending, light-emitting object that 'appeared to be breaking up' within an approximately ten-minute window; the event was passed to CANR DDT with no recorded interception.p.22
• Jazz Air 886 separately characterized the same Stephenville object as resembling a 'space launch vehicle' moving 'slower than a meteor but faster than an airplane' and reported it appeared to have impacted near Stephenville.p.22
• July 12, 2010: Repentigny, QC police conducted a physical ground investigation at the reported descent point of a red disk and found no burning, no noise, and no odor, despite multiple police and civilian witnesses observing the object descend to approximately 50 meters.p.6
• December 26, 2019: commercial pilot JZA731 reported approximately 40 unidentified lights traveling eastbound in groups of 15 over the St. Lawrence River at 48:37:48N, 068:37:39W — filed using the same CIRVIS template as 2010 entries.p.1
• October 9, 2012: three separate airline crews at FL360–380 near Sault Lookout described the same event differently — one as a shooting star, one as ground-based, one as above the aircraft — a perceptual divergence pattern that recurs across the collection.p.20
• April 22, 2013: a Cornwall, Ontario civilian reported 8 pulsating multi-colored lights rotating around a stationary red light near constellation Orion over Lac St. François, at an altitude estimated at 'approx 40K' above aircraft flying below.p.24
• An August 2014 entry records that CANR explicitly 'did not want information' on a UAP report, which was then rerouted to the Ops MWO and Transport Canada — one of several entries showing inconsistent criteria application.p.39
• At least two reports were logged despite being assessed as not meeting formal CIRVIS criteria, indicating CADS operators erred toward documentation when in doubt.p.4

Verbatim

• JZA 731 reported seeing approximately 40 lights in the sky at 48:37:48N, 068:37:39W, over the St. Lawrence River.

  p.1

• 40 lights, unknown alt and speed, traveling in groups of 15.

  p.1

• A red disk with a bleu ring was observed by several people and policemen doing their patrol. The disk decent about 50 meter from the ground and split in several direction.

  p.6

• The policemen did and investigation of the ground and they discover no burning of the ground, the object was not making any noise and they could not smell anything like gas burning or any other smell.

  p.6

• 4 Different AlC operating @ FL 350 reported similar sightings of a rapidly descending large object emitting bright lights in the vicinity of Stephenville. Said object appeared to be 'breaking up' and the Hi-Level pilots were unable to determine its colour and/or other specifics except that it resembled 'a large vehicle' and appeared to be travelling much faster than a normal AlC.

  p.22

• Jazz Air 886 reported that an object appeared to have impacted somewhere in the vicinity of Stephenville, however, indicated the speed of the object was 'slower than a meteor but faster than an airplane.' The low level AlC also reported that the object resembled a 'space launch vehicle.'

  p.22

• 8 pulsating lights (yellow, green and red) rotating around a stationary red light was was observed in the night sky around the constallation ORION, over Lac St. Francois.

  p.24

• saw 4 lights orange in colour and V in Shape 4nm north of Winnipeg Airport (YWPG). The observation was made at 02SIz 28 September 2013. The lights were moving NNW at an estimated speed of 100 - 120 knots, at an altitude of 1-2 thousand feet. No AlC Beacon was observed.

  p.30

Most interesting

• Civilian UFO researcher Chris Rutowski received government-faxed CIRVIS reports as a named, routine recipient across at least four calendar years — a formal information-sharing arrangement whose legal basis is not explained anywhere in the logs.
• The Repentigny, QC event (July 2010) is one of the rare entries in this collection with documented physical-trace investigation: police searched the ground beneath the reported descent point and found no burn marks, no odor, and no debris.
• The March 2013 Stephenville event is simultaneously the most multi-witness and the most anomalous in the provided pages — four commercial crews at cruise altitude plus one low-level crew, all reporting the same object, with one characterizing it as a 'space launch vehicle' — yet no radar track or identification action appears in the log.
• CANR on at least one occasion explicitly declined to receive information on a UAP report, signaling that institutional interest in these events was neither uniform nor mandated at the NORAD-Canada level.
• The logs were originally classified SECRET under exemptions 5.15(1) and 5.19(1) — national security and personal privacy — yet the UAP content occupies only a few lines in each multi-page shift log, embedded between COMSEC destruction notices and runway condition reports.
• All events in the provided pages are visual-only; no radar tracks, no electronic sensor data, and no intercept attempts are documented for any of the UAP entries, making independent corroboration impossible from this record alone.
• The CIRVIS reporting format used in 2019 is structurally identical to the one used in 2010, suggesting the protocol saw no revision in response to a decade of accumulated sighting data.