Canada UFO FOIA Release — Part 05 (Pages 1201–1500)

Brief

This volume captures UFO reports filed between August and October 1970, all routed through Canadian Forces channels to the National Research Council's Radio and Electrical Engineering Division in Ottawa under standing procedures set by CFAO 71-6. The most thoroughly investigated case is an RCMP inquiry into a blood-red fireball that crashed into the harbour mouth at Little Hearts Ease, Newfoundland — a boat patrol conducted that night and a follow-up search by local fishermen the next morning found no debris. Additional reports document a Vancouver object that outpaced a pursuing military aircraft, a Falconbridge power-station incident where the UAP departed at what a constable characterized as bullet speed, and a Moose Jaw case in which a second UAP joined the first before both vanished simultaneously.

Metadata

Agency

Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council

Release

2010-01-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

300 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED

Programs

CFAO 71-6

Tags

fireball, flashing-red-lights, hovering, rapid-departure, visual-1970, multi-witness, RCMP-investigation, Canada, NRC-RG77-Vol306, crash-no-debris, power-station-correlation, aircraft-pursuit, CFAO-71-6

Key points

• RCMP investigation at Little Hearts Ease, Newfoundland: a blood-red object roughly eight to ten feet long with a trailing tail crashed into the harbour mouth, cast distinct shadows across the settlement, shed pieces while exhibiting a hobbling motion; a subsequent boat patrol found nothing.p.14
• Vancouver civilian (Mrs. J. Templeton) observed a bright red ball estimated between 30,000 and 40,000 feet ASL; after the object hovered, a military aircraft appeared and seemed to follow it northward, but the UAP moved significantly faster and no sound was heard from either.p.26
• Falconbridge, Ontario: RCMP constables observed a UAP directly over the Loren Falls power station; when one constable went to investigate, the object departed at extreme speed.p.28
• The RCMP telex machine reportedly went offline to Loren Falls at the same time the UAP hovered over that power station on October 7, 1970.p.28
• Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: three small boys sighted a large bright beam of light west of Regina on two consecutive nights; on the second night a second UFO joined the first, and both disappeared simultaneously.p.10
• Prince George, BC: a round red flashing object at 45 degrees above the horizon moved slowly east to west, was almost stationary at times, and showed up-and-down movement; observed approximately one hour on first sighting and two hours on second.p.6
• Montreal, August 11, 1970: a bright object followed by a purple light moved very fast east to west with a ticking sound, observed by the same witness for the third time that evening.p.3
• Ottawa-area witnesses pursued a rotating red-lit object by car east on Montreal Road; it vanished at the NRC gate; a second identical object appeared on the return trip and appeared to descend into the Overbrook area.p.18
• Port Alberni, BC: an object initially assumed to be a jet broke into flames, shed a piece of material mid-descent, and reportedly came down near the south shore of Sproat Lake with no explosion; RCMP patrol found nothing at the site.p.25
• Every document in this volume carries the NRC archive stamp RG 77, Vol. 306, confirming all 1970 Canadian UFO correspondence was consolidated into a single National Research Council file series.p.1

Verbatim

• flashing occurred every five to seven minutes for entire period.

  p.17

• pieces seemed to fly off it

  p.14

• THE UFO VAS I JOI.NED BY •A SECOND UFO AT WHJCH TlME THEY DO TH DISAPPEARED

  p.10

• WHEN HE WENT TO INVIITI8ATE THE OBJECT TOOK OFF AT THE SPEtD O~ · A DULL ET

  p.28

Most interesting

• The standard routing chain for Canadian UAP reports in 1970 ran from Canadian Forces regional commands through CANFORCEHED to NRC's Radio and Electrical Engineering Division in Ottawa — a formally institutionalized pipeline that predates any publicly acknowledged Canadian UAP program.
• CFAO 71-6, the Canadian Forces Administrative Order governing UAP reporting, is cited across multiple sighting forms in this volume, confirming that a standing written protocol existed inside the Canadian military for documenting the phenomenon.
• The Little Hearts Ease fireball was independently corroborated by the local postmistress and her husband (Mr. and Mrs. William Robbins), whose description and timing matched the primary witness account in every detail, per the RCMP follow-up in the St. Jones Within area.
• Air Terminal Gander confirmed no aircraft were overdue or missing anywhere in Newfoundland on the night of the Little Hearts Ease crash, ruling out a conventional aircraft loss as the cause.
• A Canadian UFO Research (CUFOR) organization document appears in this volume (page 22), indicating that civilian UAP research groups were already active in Canada and operating in parallel with the government reporting chain.
• The Moose Jaw sightings were made entirely by three small boys observing west of Regina, yet were formally entered by CFB Moose Jaw Military Police into the NRC file without editorial dismissal or qualification.
• In the Vancouver case, the pursuing military aircraft could not be identified by the civilian observer as jet or propeller-driven, and no sound was heard from either the UAP or the aircraft — an absence consistent with high-altitude or anomalous propulsion.
• Reports in this volume originate from at least ten distinct locations across six provinces — Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland — all filed within a roughly 60-day window in the second half of 1970, suggesting a period of elevated activity or reporting awareness.
• The NRC's standard reply to witnesses (exemplified in the October 5, 1970 letter on page 1) stated only that the observation had been catalogued and that if 'we every do solve the puzzle, we will let you know' — a closing that simultaneously acknowledged ongoing investigation and deferred resolution indefinitely.
• Multiple teletype reports in this volume were marked UNCLAS at transmission, meaning contemporaneous Canadian military UAP traffic was not classified at source — a significant contrast with parallel U.S. Air Force reporting practices of the same era.