Canada UFO FOIA Release — Part 10 (Pages 2701–3000)

Brief

This section of the Library and Archives Canada consolidated UFO series is drawn from NRC Record Group 77, Vol. 308 and consists primarily of RCMP-to-NRC radio communications and standardized sighting forms from May–June 1976, covering locations including Napierreville, Quebec; Sydney, Nova Scotia; near Thomasburg, Ontario; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; and a Victoria-area site in British Columbia. Reported shapes include an inverted-pail with red and green lights flying in circular movements without sound; an object shaped like four round discs joined together, stationary at altitude and surrounded by grey mist, that departed straight up when an aircraft approached; an aluminum disc with a central ball that tipped back and forth and changed colour; and a pulsating red-then-green object hovering near ground level for 20 minutes. All radio messages were routed through NDHQ Ottawa to the NRC's Radio and Electrical Engineering Division, indicating a standardized national intake protocol operative by 1976. Radar was checked in at least two Sydney-area reports, yielding negative returns.

Metadata

Agency

Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council

Release

2010-01-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

300 pages

Classification

UNCLAS

Tags

inverted-pail, four-joined-discs, aluminum-disc, blue-oval, pulsating-lights, colour-change, reaction-to-aircraft, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, 1976, NRC RG 77 Vol.308, CFS Sydney

Key points

• RCMP Dorval relayed a report for 15 May 1976, 20:15 EDT: Miss Rachel Pilon observed an inverted-pail-shaped object, red and green, flying in circular movements at approximately 5,000 feet without noise for 20 minutes before heading south toward the US border.p.7
• An 18 May 1976 CFS Sydney message describes four round discs joined, stationary at altitude and surrounded by grey mist; the object went straight up when an aircraft approached.p.9
• A second 18 May 1976 Sydney report with four named witnesses describes an aluminum disc with a ball in the middle that tipped back and forth, then changed to orange colour before reverting over five minutes.p.11
• A June 1976 CFB Trenton message covers a silvery, Piper Cub-sized object near Thomasburg, Ontario, crossing the witness's full field of vision in 35 seconds at low altitude with no sound and no exhaust trails.p.20
• A June 1976 CFB Moose Jaw report describes an object with pulsating red lights on top and bottom that turned green and moved very slowly near ground level for 20 minutes with no known aircraft in the vicinity.p.24
• Three Sydney-area observers reported a blue oval approximately 10 feet across above Gillis Lake, 16 miles east of Sydney, Nova Scotia, flashing on and off for roughly 90 minutes in June 1976.p.25
• All visible reports were uniformly formatted for NRC's Radio and Electrical Engineering Division at Ottawa with NDHQ as routing authority, confirming a standardized national collection protocol operative by 1976.p.9
• Radar was checked for at least one June 1976 Sydney-area sighting of a star-like object moving north to south; the report records no radar return at the time of observation.p.26

Verbatim

• DESO or SIOHTINO - SHAPE DESC AS INVERTED PAIL R£D AND OREEH IN COLOUR APP'X riVE THOUSAND rEET IN THE AIR AND P'LYING IN CIRCULAR MOVEMENTS WITHOUT Dt ITT I NO ANY NOISE

  p.7

• DURATION or OBSERVATION - APPROX 20 MIN

  p.7

• SHAPED LIKE P'OUR ROUND DISCS JOINED TOGETHER. BLACK. VERY HIGH let SKY IN STATIONARY POSITION. ONLY ONE OBJECT

  p.9

• GREY MliT AROUND OBJECT. WHEN AIRCRN'T CME CLOSE OBJECT WENT STRA I OHT UP

  p.9

• ALUMINUM DISC. BALL IN MIDDLE 0,. OBJECT• STAYED STATIONARY IN AIR. TIPPED BACIC AND PORTH THEN ~T IN STRAIGHT DIRECTION

  p.11

• STOPPED· CAR AHD LI STENED BUT HEARD NO NOISE FROM OBJECT AHD NCI TRAILS BEH IND OBJECT

  p.20

• O.JECT WITH RED LIGHT ON TOP AND. BOTTOM. THE LIGHTS PULSATED. CBECAME BRIGHTER) THEN TURNED GREEN

  p.24

Most interesting

• The NRC's Radio and Electrical Engineering Division — a telecommunications research body — served as Canada's primary institutional repository for civilian UAP data in the 1970s, not a dedicated aerospace or intelligence unit.
• The four-joined-discs object over Sydney, Nova Scotia departed straight up when an aircraft approached; this reactive behavior was recorded without editorial comment in a routine military radio message.
• The Napierreville, Quebec witness described the shape as an 'inverted pail' — a descriptor not commonly found in declassified US UAP records of the same period, suggesting independent observational vocabulary.
• Sydney, Nova Scotia generated at least three separately filed UFO reports within a single 24-hour window on 18 May 1976, a concentration possibly aided by CFS Sydney's established radio-relay infrastructure.
• A report apparently originating from a Lincoln Park, US-area correspondent (pages 13–14) was submitted to NRC regarding a disc-type object over Lake Erie, suggesting cross-border civilian reporting to a Canadian government body was routine.
• Multiple geographically distant reports in the same volume independently describe colour changes in observed objects (red-to-green, aluminum-to-orange), a recurring characteristic with no proposed explanation in the source material.
• The NRC standardized eight-field UFO report form (fields A–H: date/time, sky conditions, observer ID, location, additional witnesses, shape/colour/altitude, duration, other information) mirrors the structured collection formats used by US Air Force investigations of the same era.