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Final installment (pages 8401-8759) of Library and Archives Canada's 29-part consolidated UFO FOIA release, compiling RCMP detachment reports, National Research Council Meteor Centre telexes, and witness statements from a 1972 wave of Canadian UAP sightings.
Final installment (pages 8401-8759) of Library and Archives Canada's 29-part consolidated UFO FOIA release, compiling RCMP detachment reports, National Research Council Meteor Centre telexes, and witness statements from a 1972 wave of Canadian UAP sightings.
Part 29 closes out an 8,759-page Canadian government UFO file with RCMP UFO reports forwarded to the NRC Meteor Centre between March and May 1972. The records document sightings across New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, with witnesses including civilians, RCMP constables (Cst. Ferrel, W.J. Rideout, Le Ryll of Weyburn Detachment), and the Calgary McCall Field Control Tower, which ran a 30-mile radar sweep that came back negative during a Calgary sighting on 11 March 1972. Each report follows a standardized telex format (date, sky conditions, witness, location, description, duration, additional notes) routed per RCMP Operational Manual CO-Air 1195 paragraph 6, with the NRC Upper Atmosphere Research Section examining a Cape Forchu, Nova Scotia photograph and concluding the red speck was a scratch through the emulsion, not a real object. The file also contains a fireball sighting at Salt Pond, Newfoundland on 19 March 1972 where the caretaker estimated the object fell roughly 2,000 feet from his position but a ground search of the frozen pond produced no debris.
The object appeared to be blinking a distinctive red color and was observed for approximately twenty minutes , the object then disappear-- ing over the horizon. The object was described as being quite larse and when first observed, it appeared to have the shape of a cross moving vertically continio~p.1
OBJECT RUOUND APPROX 1'500 FT ~/HEN FIRST SIT ED APPEARED ABOUT HALF SIZE OF MOON DECREASED IN SIZE A S DISTANCE INCREASED FROM OBSERVERS NEVER OBSERVED FRO.~ DIRECTLY BELOW BR IGHTNESS VARIED FR0~1 DULL ORANGE TO BRIGT ORANGE ALMOST LIKE FIREp.3
CIRCULAR, GREENISH BLUE WITH BRIGHT LIGHT HALO. APP ROX 10' FROM GROUND. STA YED IN ONE SPOT NO HORIZ OR VERT MOVEMENT. TWO (2) APPROX. 4'' IN SIZE SIDE BY SIDE APPROX. 3'' AP4RTp.16
I could see a red ball corning f t om the North - West toward the School. It &.'J peared to be about 400 or 500 f •3~t up wh~n I first saw it and was about t • .o1o feet l.n d1ametFJr with a red tan about a te. foot long and a white streak about 100 feet long behind tt .p.19
COLOUR Sil.fi:LAR TO STAR BUT APPEARED YELLOW WITH BLUE FRINGES RANGING TO BRILLIANT WHITE WHEN VIEWED WITH 8x30 FIELD GLASSES . ALTITUDE APPROX. 5-6000FT , MOVEMENT SLOW AND WANDERING EXCEPT AT TIME OF DEPARTURE W HICH WAS VERY RAPIDp.22
A SEARCH OF AREA WITH RADAR OF 30 MILE RANGE FA ILED TO SHOW ANY OBJECT , CONTACT WITH COM- MI:RCIAL AIR CARRIER FLIOHT IN AREA SHOI'IED NEGATIVE RESULTS . NO AIRCRAFT REPORTED IN AREA AT TIME OF INITIAL SIGHTING .p.22
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RO'( AL CANADIAN MOUNTED POUCE · GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA tCM• 011<: ""' ICM• mt ltHIINCU• •u oos.sitr' oac.t c .. , .. V, I""'-6t 1 ~ 1111100 "J" J2o lilAY 72 ~ I'Uo •uiVIoluN • S.OU>·OIIIhovn 72-J-700- - ~ Fredericton 72- 700- 10 ~i ,.----~-=-=~~~-=-=-=~= ~ -~ -- ~ ~e·~ ·-··_·•~·c_~~--"_'~~~~7-p-· _c_ . _R_ . __ F_i_r_s_t_H_e_r_e __ _, ,. Fredericton ~~" ' - (l-Ira. - )-- Report of U . F.o. - - Maple Ridge, Carleton County, New Bruns ·.d.ck. 1 l-1AY 72 . It was brought to the attention of this Detachment via a local daily~The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, New Brunswick, that Mrs • ............, had reported observing an Unidentified Flying Objec~her home at Maple Ridge, Carleton County, New Brunswick. Mrs . 1111111 was contacted by thewriter and interviewed at length. She advised that the object was observed by herseli' and her · husband at approKimately l2sl; A.M., 1 MAY 72 , in the northwest sky . The object appeared to be blinking a distinctive red color and was observed for approximately twenty minutes , the object then disappear-- ing over the horizon. The object was described as being quite larse and when first observed, it appeared to have the shape of a cross moving vertically continio~ The altitude of the object could not be determined by Mrs. 111111J but she felt that it was flyi ng very high. There was oo apparent sound coming .from this objet!t. 2 . The night in question was clear with the moon shining in the eastern sky. The area in which this object was observed is an open area with no onstructions so a · very clear view of the object was had by Mrs.- and her husband. 3. ' Another sighting was made by the same two , pers6ns the .followin night, (2-MAY- 72) with the same conditions 0 revailing r' with the exception that the aighting began at 12 s40 :A.M. and ended at approximately ltOO A .M. 4. Radio-gram number 170 was forwarded from this point to NRC Meteor Centre on 4 MAY 72 as per R. C. M . P: Operational Manual - CO-Air ll95, paragraph number 6. There is no reason to believe that this sighting was not exactly as described by Mr . &: Mrs.- Both subjects appear to be very upstanding citizens in their community and ~ ources of good reliability. No further action being taken in :'i1~: e~gard :less otherwise instructed. g "~ , -(/. Cpl. ( ~· .a.) I gt . -1<(:0. HE ~m ) #21796. f~c Detachment . Fredericton Detachment. IUCt.11 Ott-AS27
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She &110 stated that there was a airen-type aound alone with the other noiaee. She stated 1hl aot out ot bed and opened the drapes to look out the window. She then sav a circular greenisb-blue light w1 th a bright li&ht balD, It was approx- illlately 10 teet ott ot the around and bad st110d in one spot and did not 110ve. There were two ot these objects about four inches in size aide by aide approxilllately three inches apart, The object vas seen for abo11t one aecond and it t hen disappeared. 3. Mr. previously 11111 up the entire area. did not see the object but did hear the s ound s Both atated the object gave ott a light which lit <4. People in the area we.re contacted in an attelllpt to ascertain what type ot people the are aDd troa our innstigation it vas learned they have never aD.Ythi.nc like this before and are botb quite sane. At the time they were i nterTieved they both seemed quite sincere and were genuinely interested in what this object Willi• 5. A telex vall sent out 23 APR 72 a.a per Operational Instructions. CONCLUDED i!Fll£1 ~ ft:f:H~) cpl. i/c Dot. (l Oat. (O.T. STEEVES) ~27763 . Peace River Detac.bment. c ,, t(V 1 ..........
C:AII..C AOOPCII ASTR 1 IYSICS BRANCII 40ftllll TCL IOf'A,.HIOUC AltCA"CH ' DIRECTION DIASTRO.PHYSIQUE ~I.e••• ouo1c ""' No M45-l-10l (Your Pile No,: HQ-400-Q-S V~ NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA CONSEIL NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES DU CANADA The Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, OttiJfa, Ontario. KlA OR2 Attention: Supt. A.T. McHaffie, Assistant Officer in Charge, Criminal Investigation BranCh Gentlemen: OTTAWA 7 KlA OR8 Ma.y 2' 1972. Ro: u •. f .O. Sighting· - Gape Porcllu, Yarmouth Co., N,S, 31 Mai~, 1972 With reference to tne recent telephone conversation between Sgt. P, V. Meyer and Mrs . McCall of our ~leteor Centre, and the letter from you, we have examined the colour print and the negative whic~ you mlliled to us. l!xamination of the original colour film Wl!le:r a microscope shows that the cause of the re'd speck on the print,, H1 inches to tne right of the lighthouse, is due to a small scratcll which completely penetrated the emulsion. We can find no evidence of any real oliject in the sky on the phot.ograph. The characteristics of the object described by Mr.~ correspond to those wbich a meteor fireball would have. It seems probable that with such a short-lived phenomena (5 seconds according to Mr.- description), the fireball had become invisible by the time he could have swung his camera into action. We are placing our copy of the report in our meteor fireball file, and are returning the negative and photographic print to you, I wish to thank the R.C.M.P. for bringing this report to our 7? attention and the cooperation of your staff fn sending the photograph 9~ ~to our Centre. (!_. '1.:,..v. J-. ;1 4 7" .w· (I. AGM:vp Yours truly, a/lm'll~~ A.G. McNamara, Head, Upper Atmosphere Research Section.
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• X KlA OR2 HQ-400-Q-5 v.6 April 28 , 1972. Meteor Centre, Rational Reoearch Counoil of Canada, Ottawa, O ntario. D.A ORB • .A.T!l'DTION : Mrs. McCall Dear Madam: Re: U.F . O. SightiDg - Cape Forchu, Y&rllouth Co., I.S. }1 MAR 72 ----··---- ·---- This bas reference to your recent t elephone conversation with Sgt. JJ .V. Meyer of this Headquarters, relating to the above sighting. Attached is a report !~om our Yarmouth Detaohaent, together with the photograph and negative referred to tor your information. We would appreciate the return o! the photograph and negative when their purpose has been served please. I ~\ 7th: f,r" Yours trul7, A.T. McHaffie, Supt., Assistant O fficer in Charge, Crtmtnal Investigation BraDOh.
.. . :J(/Zt./ tj/1~ ·~· 0'> ; ROYAL. Ci\loiAOIAN MOUNTED POLICI! GENOI\RMI!RII! ROYAL.!! OU CAIIAOA Halifaxi N.S. 25 Apri 72 II The Commissioner, R. C .M. Police , Ottawa, Ontario. Attention: Sgt . F. MEYER, C.I . B. General Section You" ,o, VOTAI: NO OVA HO, 72H-400-16 NOTftC NO Re: Report of Sighting of Unidentified Flying Object, Cape Forchu, Yarmouth Co . , N. S. (31 HAR 72) Reference telephone conversation between yourself and S/Sgt , J . O. HURRAY Chief Clerk, please find enclosed, report dated 19 A~r )(,CL with photo and negative supplied by M r ............... f- ... 2 . It is requested that the photograph and negative be returned after it has served its purposes . 3. Further advice will follow when the reliability of ~i r . - has been established . 4- . S . U.I. Encl.
ROYAL.CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE- GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA no "H " Halifax 72- 500-6 Report of Sighting of Unidentified Flying Object Cape · ~orchu, Yarmouth Co. , N.s. - 31 MAR 72 10 APR 72 1 . At U:l5 A. M. , (B: - ) of 21 Vancouver Street , Yarmouth, N. S. came ce and ~that he had seen an unidentified flying object on Friday, 31 MAR 72 . Between 1:00 P. M. anc 2130 P.M. on that date, he had been taking some photographs at Cape Forcht Yar. Co., N. S. The weather was clear and sunny at the t~me . He looked pp and saw an object travelling across the sky from east to west at a high rate of speed. The object appeared to be cylindrical in shape and it was trav~lling in a horizontal position but it changed to a perpendicu- lar position as it disappeared. When it first appeared, it was ,bluish l te in color but it turned to a red color just before it disap~ared. stated that this sighting lasted approximately five seconds and · • · ing that time he attempted to take a photograph of it. He felt that ' hf had missed the photograph and he did not say anything to anyone about the object because they would think he was havinghalluoinations . When his film came back from the developers, he noticed that the photograph he had taken had a red spot on it similar to what the object looked like just before it disappeared. He produced the color print but would not part with it . He stated that he would obtain a copy of it for us. 2. As per instructions , Yarmouth Message #68 was sent to the o.o. Halifax Sub- Division advising of the above report . 18 APR 72 3. - returned to this office and turped over a copy of the photo- graph and the negative o£ it . 0. 246 attached. The photo and negative arE being forwarded with this report as requested by Cpl . HYDE of C. I . B. Readers in telephone conversation of 13 APR 72 . The negative was damaged somewhat while at the developers resulting in the yellow scrape marks on the print . These do not appear on the~inal print in the possession of Mr.-. The object referred to by - appears as a red speck lt inches to the right of the light house on the print. 4. Further enquiries will be requ~red to establish the reliability of the person who reported this matter . He ~ppears to be sincere and in spite of his age, he appears to be alert and in control of all his faculties . s.u. r. D. D: 15 MAY 72 . 0~-------------------------------------------~---------------------------
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ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POUCE - GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA IIC.Iol' OJC- 01Hll •n.L •. IH .. NC llf. AUlUS DOUIU$1 IC.W t'1tl lttHttHCtS tt•. 001$1111 OIC.i c 2)7 ·~ ......... CALGARY P. C •. R. First 72- 700- 6 (Calgary) OU4(tfMfNT • OllACHI\\lHt CALGARY 11 MAR 72 1 . At approximately 10 : 50 PM, of 11111 B r axton Road S.W ., Calgary , Alberta- , contacted this office by telephone and advised that he and several other persons had observed what appeared to be a flying object in the sky to the west of his residence . The object was sighted at ~mately 10:10 PM and disappeared at a~proximately 10:45 PM. 111111Jadvised he then contacted the McCall Field Contr ol Tower who in turn advised nothing was evident on their radar for a dis- tance of 30 miles . The following embodied Telex was £orwar.ded . immediately to NRC Meteor CentreL Canforcehed , Commissioner R. O .M .P. Ottawa and to Prof, R.E. FOLINSB~E - Univer sity of Alberta, Edmonton ; RE: U.F .O. REPORT (a) ll MAR (b) IN WESTERN (B , BERTA (d) RESIDE AS NOTED BRAXTON RD . S. W. CALGARY 1 ALTA KERRYDATEl RD , S. W. CALCARYL ALTA BRAXTON RD, S.W . CALGARY , ALTA (f) AND SIMILAR TO LARGE STAR BUT ABOUT TEN TI~~S AS BRIGHT . COLOUR Sil.fi:LAR TO STAR BUT APPEARED YELLOW WITH BLUE FRINGES RANGING TO BRILLIANT WHITE WHEN VIEWED WITH 8x30 FIELD GLASSES . ALTITUDE APPROX. 5-6000FT , MOVEMENT SLOW AND WANDERING EXCEPT AT TIME OF DEPARTURE W HICH WAS VERY RAPID, OBJECT NOT ACCOMPANIED AT ANY TIME . PROCEEDED NW & FELL BELOW HORIZON RATHER THAN DISAPPEARING BY LOSS OF ALTITUDE. (g) OBSERVED 35 MINUTES (h) NO NOISE MADE . CALGARY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER CONTACTED AND THEY RELATED THAT - HAD CONTACTED THEt-1 AT 10:30 P.M . A T THAT TIME , A SEARCH OF AREA WITH RADAR OF 30 MILE RANGE FA ILED TO SHOW ANY OBJECT , CONTACT WITH COM- MI!:RCIAL AIR CARRIER FLIOHT IN AREA SHOI'IED NEGATIVE RESULTS . NO AIRCRAFT REPORTED IN AREA AT TIME OF INITIAL SIGHTING . CHECKS WITH CALGARY ARMED FORCES BASE SHOWED NO MILITARY EXCERISES BEING CONDUCTED IN AREA AT TIME11 • 2. All persons mentioned in the Telex were interviewed and their statements are attached hereto . It is felt that all per- sons are extremely r eliable . (CONT 1 D ON PAGE TWO) 1U0·21.0tto4.S27
CONIINU~OOH • StJtrl at CJll uv . ....... """ TWO - U.F.O . Sighting 11 MAR 72 (CONT 1 D FROM PAOE ONE) 3. Further investigations were conducted at the various residences of the noted persons at which time, it Nas learned the object had appeared in the western sky and slightly to the north. As will be noted in the statements, the description of altitude varies , however , all persons were consistent in s t ating that the object fell from sight . Taki ng the accumulated infor• mation John FINDLAY, Asst . Chief Technician of the Calgary Planetarium was contacted , He studied the available information and came to the solid conclusion that the object was in faot the star VENUS . He advised that .this star would appear in the exact location and has many times been mistaken for a U.F.O . The star has a magnitude of minus ) . 8 and moves at a speed of approximate- ly 15 degrees per hour, setting four hours after sunset . Sunset on the ll MAR 72 was 6:)6 PM; thus , the object would disappear at approximat ely betw een 10:)5 and 10: 45 PM. Mr . FINDLAY stated that due to the atmospheric conditions the star would appear to change colour and also to vary slightly in its movements . FINDLAY demonstrated to me the exact position of the star VENUS on the ll MAR 72 at 10:)0 PM utilizing the Planetarium Observatory. From what I learned at the various residences in regard to the sightings , I felt that the object was in fact i n identical proximity to the area indicated by the witnesses . 4. Further contact has been made with turn advise that they have sinoe observed same nosition and feel that it is in fact a lf .F·.o. all the t he witnesses who in same object in the star VEfruS and not 5. In is little view of the foregoing information, it is felt that doubt that the object is in fact' the star VENlfS . · , m ;B~«two c ••• (R. M . LEQUESNE ) 23542 HERE: there ~L-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ICMJI.OIC Mil ~ .. O aJn , P, . STATEMENT OF: CCH11 HUATIOH .. Sutll 0C C.zn UY , •• , ... ~~ lllll Braxton lj~:r-i -1--------------' §f ~~ ~~ 920 - 16 Avenue N. E. Calgary 1 _ Alben;a 15 MARCH 72. "At approximately 10:00 PM on the 11 MARCH 72. I waa at my home in Calgary. I came f rom my front room into the bath- room and upon entering the bathroom, I l ooked out of the window which falls west . I noticed a bright light that I at first thought was an aircraft with its l anding lights on. I looked again when I went to the k~ed that it was still t her e . My father-in- law, ............... of 4907 Ker rydale Road s.w. Calgary and I watched the light for some time . It did not appear t o be moving when we were watching it from the kitchen but when I went back into the bathroom, I could not see it f r om the same s pot1 . I telephoned of 11127 Braxton Road s.w . to t ell him of the li • looked at the light wi tb his field gl asses and told me t it appeared to be a multi-colow.ed thing and when it m oved it m oved fast . Whil e Mr.- was W jltching the object I went out side and took two photo~sing MANKYA SEKOR 35MM with telescopic l ens. Following this , I contacted the Calgary Airpor t Control Tower. They advised that t here were no objects on the radar so e .f' 30 mile radius . After this I called my neighbour, who came over . We talked about it and watched it pp o tely 15 minutes . I then contacted the R. O . M . P. em~l~oyed with REID I am a LTD. as - WIT: (R. M. LEQ UESNE) Cst . SOND: ·~-------------------------------------------------------------------
IL a.JfT, . STATEMENT OF: --- (B. of 11108 Braxto~ary , at l:JO P.M. 13 MARCH 72 n CQH11~110H • I UITI DC C:Z;J1 trv . . .....,. ,...,, ~~~ ~~ . · l:5r-- ~------------J ~ 13 11 At approxlmately 10:00 PM 11 playing bridge ~ ~ at our home . I was w1 th M.r. & Mrs. wife . ~ ~. I received a phone call from my nei He asked me to loo~ out my window and a loaking ~~ ~cz: "Sputnik" out to the west . My house faces west. I looked out my £ront .window and saw an extremely bright object travelling from the south to the north . Its position was approximately west-north-west from t he front window. The ob ject was a bright whitish • It was radiant much similar to a star . While I , the object appeared stationary. I then vent over to dence. We talked about it for awhile and lined it up us the kitchen window which also faces west . I used the center of the window to determine lateral flight and the cur- tain rod to determine vertical m ovem ent . While I watched , it appeared to move approximately one inch . I was unable to detect any vertical movemento' I didn' t notice any change in intensity or color. I observed the object for approximately ten minutes• ; • From my front window it is possible to see two distant lights . The object was approximately centered on these and slightly above . It was approximately 10:15 PM when it was first sighted and was gone at approximately 1:15 PM . I am employed by Shell Oil Canada Ltd. as a 111111111111111 - in field facilities for 18 years . I have al~ as a by the Dom i nion Government for five years . " WIT: (R. M . LEQ UESNE ) Cat . SGND: AL-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- . -·· KMP..OIC .. I I CONIINUAliON • Sl.htl 0( C!J7 tlV. , _. ... . ...... STATEMENT OF: of )607 Ke1~rvdaJLi PM ~~~ ~~~ .~:..· r--L--------J non the 11 MAR 72. I was visiting my son-in-law at lllll Braxton Rd, S,W, I was not sure of the time. saw s~ an extremely bright light out the kitchen window which faces the west. The light appeared to be coming in from the west at a low ~ !:!< altitude approximately 500 1 - 1000 1 feet. It appeared to be a ~ bright blotch of light, green, red and blue in color, The inten- ~ g sity of the light varied, however, was always bright, The object appeared like a star but the colors were different. I watched it for approximately 15 - 20 minutes. During this t i me, the course of the object moved both to the left and right muoh similar to weaving. It appeared to be hovering wit hout much forward speed. The altitude was being estimated by using the horizon. The object came in fast and then hovered. My son-in-law called the Calgary Airport Tower to find out what it was. They advised they had no sightings but were sending out an aircraft. - ·· .~ We saw the aircraft come £rom the south. As it approacheo 1 ' the object started to lose altitude and then dropped out of signt of the horizon. I am employed by O,M.P. as a here for 2.3 years." WIT: (R,M. LEQUESNE) Cst. and have been employed SOND: ' .
------ ·~ OIJIT1 STATEMENT OF: Calgary, Alta. CONfiNUATIOH • IUITI Ot C%17 IIV. 1.,•oM ,..,, of 11127 Braxton Rd . S. W., 16 MAR 72 ~~~ ~-j~-~ _.______ ______ ~ liOn the 11 MAR 72 I received a phone cal.l from at approximate~y 9:25 PM regarding a very brilliant o ct the skies directly west of my residence . My family and m~self pro- ceeded to watch the object, both visually and with 8x50 binoc~ars . The object appeared to be a brilliant, yellow and circular wi~h a black define poril'erye' An aurora of light blue surrounded it·• There was interjecting overlay of crimson. The object appeared to move in .an upward angular projection to left and right from the horizon. I assumed it was an aircraft on approach With its landing lights on. Having lived in the area, I am aware of the approach of aircraft at approximately 5 - 6 thousand feet. The object, taki ng a line sight from my house , appeared in the position. After observing the object sitting in a reasonably statio fashion, I c~ed the MoC~ Field Control Tower to see if they had a radar track or aircraft in the area, but was i nformed nega- tively. Approximately 10 - 12 minutes after my call a _light aircraft passed over and the ob j ect disappeared from sight·. I have subsequently checked with the P~anetarium and was in- formed that the object was the star VENUS. I have since observed the same object and have found it to be the same in appearance and location, only it was not as bright . u WIT: {R.M. LEQUESNE) Oat . SGND : E}(EMPTIONJEXcEPTION 1 ~ r 1"1 ACCESS TO INFOAMATIO~ LOI SUR L 'ACC~ A L'INFORMATION - .·RECORDS MANAGEMENT - C.I.B. CLASSIFICATION AND CHECK SHEET OESTION DES OOSSICRS - I'EUI LLE DE CLASSEMENT ET DE CONTRbLE DU SEJ l' I.MS IH JII\ ( ' LA~S IIIC:A ll,flll I N III AL ~ IN/ 1' 1111.1"~ Ul\11 ········ ················ ················ ················ ··· t I o t o 0 o o o 0 o t I o o 0 o 0 I t t 0 I I o o f o I o 0 • I I. • • • • • t o t I o o o o o o o o o o o o t o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ························· ········ ···· ··········· ············ ······· ·························· ············ .............. ....................................... .. ······· ··· ·· ········ ····· ····· ................... . I 0 0 I I I 0 I o o 0 0 o o 0 0 I o I o 0 0 o o o I 0 o o o o • o o o o 0 I o I o 0 o o o o o o o o o o o 0 0 o I o o o o 0 o o o o o 0 o o o o o 1 o 0 t 0 o 0 0 0 o t o 0 o o 0 o 1 o 1 o o I 0 o 1 I 1 •••••••• ••••••••••• • • ••••••••••••••• • ••• • •••••• • • • •• • ••••••••••••••••• ···········••ooo ... 0 •• 0 •••• ...... . ............. ooooootooloooo ···············••ooooo o o o oooooootooolooo••••••oo 0 I I I I I I o o o o 0 I t o 1 I o I I I o I I o 0 0 I I o o 0 o 0 o o o I o • • • I 0 I o 0 0 0 o o I o o o o o o o o o t o 0 1 o o o o o o o 0 0 o • • 1 •••• 0 •• 0 •••• 0 ••• o I 0 o o 0 o 0 o 0 0 I I I I I I 0 o I o 0 I o I I I I I I o I 0 I o t o o I 0 I o o o o ' o I I 0 o I 0 o o o 0 o I o I o I o 0 I o I 0 t 0 I o o o o o I 0 I 0 I o o o ...... H J/11 'SI .• V llA TI 1\Nill'l lll'i'rll 11111 111 /J I If h I I /r(J m· NAISSAN' 'r /lr!S,\11 11.1' . ~ C'IINs iJI, IY' II .. ... < 111 < Kt 11 1":11'1A1 S INIIM/.1,$ /.f -~ I 1'11 1 HII I.II I M' I' \ 11 1111·11 ~1n , 1'l'G 0 I o 0 o I o o o o t I o 0 I o I I o o o t o 0 o o o I o o o o o 1 I I I 1 0 o 0 I o 0 I I o o 0 o I I 0 I I 0 I o I o 0 o I I I o o o I I t o to I o o o 1 o o I o I t o 0 o o o o o o I o • 0 •• 0 t I I I I I 0 t- t ooooottolooooool • ••••••••••••••••• , ............... . I I I < I I I o I f I ~ ... J. . . . ',l r \ t\-"' (1.,. ' . . . . . . . • ) l•········· ••••t••••o•••·······l·········· ..... .. t-t.r t o o o o o o I t t • I o o o • I o o o I o o o o 1 I I I I I I 0 I' o o o o o 0 t t I I o ... : : : : : : . : : : : : : : : : : : : .: . : : : : . : :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ... · :. :. :.I· : : : : : : : : : . : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : . : : : : : : .. : : . : : : : ........ •••o·•• ••• •••• • ••••• • •••••• 0 o • • •••••••••••••••••• o •• • •••• , •••• ••o4 • • • • • t •• . ~ ....... . I I o I o ........ I 0 t I I I o o o o 0 I 0 I t t o o t I o I I 0 t I I I I o 0 0 t I I o I I t o t I I o t ...... .... . .... ••• , •••••••• •• ,o ..••••••••••••• . ··········0··· ·:························ .. ······· ·············· • ......... IOIOOOOOIItll'llooto o • • o•••••J• • •···· · ········ · ········ • . . OttltiO ttotolttttoooo · · ········•••o•••••··········· ·· , ••• • • •• ••• 0 ··· ·•o············ ....... . C 16A IIU V, 41711 fo13& !7630 1 1 0~ 0 ·~ 32 1
I .\ ~ - ' ()It l(l:I-JP 11 OTT 1-J PHIOHITY/DEFERHEV CGY MAR12 UNCLAS NHC METEOI! CEN1RE INFO CANFORCEHED IICMP COMMISSIONER OTTAWA -·-- ........ CDET284 HE UFO REPORT (A) 11-J-72 10:10-1n:45 PM MST (B) CLEAR bKY IN WESTERN AREA (C) (BORN 11111 BRAXTON RD SW CALGARY 14 ALTA PHONE 252- 6154 (D) RESIDENCE AS NOTED (E) 11108 BRAXTON RD SW CALGARY ALTA, 3607 KERRYDATE RD SW CALGARY ALTA ~~ 11127 BRAXTON RD SW CALGARY ALTA (F) DESCRIBED AS ~~CIIiCULAR AND SIMILAR TO LARGE STAR BUT ABOUT TEN TIMES AS ~~BRIGHT, COLOUR SIMILAR TO STAR BUT APPEARED YELLOW WITH BLUE FRINGES ~ -~IIANGING TO BRILLIANT WHITE WHEN VIEWED WITH 8 X JO FIELD GLASSE S i~ ALTITUDE APPROX 5-6000 FT. MOVEMENT SL OW AND WANDERING EXCEPT o. ii AT TINE OF DEPARTURE WHICH WAS VERY RAPID. OBJECT NOT ACCOMPANIED ~g AT ANY TINE. PROCEEDED NW AND FELL BELOW HORIZON RATtiER THAN DISAPPEARING BY LOSS OF ALTITUDE (G) OBSERVED 35 MINUTES (H) NO NOISE I~ADE. CALGAiiY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER CONTACTED AND THEY RELATED THAT - HAD CONTACTED THEM AT 10 :JCl P~1. AT ·THAT TIME A SEARCH OF AREA WITH RADAR OF JO MILE RANGE FAILED TO SHOW ANY OBJECT. CONTACT W ITH COMMERCIAL AIR CARRIER FLIGHT IN AREA SHOWED NEGATIVE RESULTS. NO AIRCRAFT REPORTED IN AREA AT TIME OF INITIAL SIGHTING. CHECKS WITH CALGARY ARMED FORCES BASE SHOWED NO MILITARY EXERCISES BEING CONDUCTED IN AREA AT TIME RCMPOLICE DETACHMENT CALGARY ALTA
liiO.I'•Oit• oltOI ACMP GP"C -6&97• 1 ~OVAL C ANAOtAN MOUNT 110 flO~ ICe - OetNDA,.M C:AI& kOYA~tr DU C~ N AOA A • 1&1• 1 TRANSMITTAL AND DIARY DATE REQUEST - FORMULE D' I!HVOI !T DEMAND£ DE LA DATE D' AGENDA A £v, I•&•U FROM - OU COfl'll• 1'0 - .011 u au OA 1\R c.o T)-41( COM~ I II IO N&A Le Co, ttun ll' t~llfft OIV, C,O, • 11.,__' ___ CoM~J~ondanr -;.;-- 1/0IY, O.C'. CCJA .. Mclrutt otv. o.c. l"n•~ttftl!dWnl IIC otn. lfC ---------- o~n. t:td Conn II "0,.1DI!:NC:R O A 1 VD Ct• JUIIH 1,. r~ppotr M Jot~ •IM ~d.&.{---z;? A 1'T o\C:M il0 Cld ~OnM ... TIO"' #<l'fl611t/.nf"'""'' 0 A C. T i ON .., ,11111'1 :J I£NC LOIUjitltt - f'i -UI Jt)llt lfll DIAIIY DATE REQUEST - DEIIANDE DE LA DATE D'ACI NDA 10 a e IDCTC.NOilO TO ffOft fltll4aOH IN01C4l CO '"'' f't'• IO"tCf'~~' t «.nqtt'uu l 1 but lu HJIIOAI tnJ/q.,;n ------- nN• " coa1t •••o ~lmt,tll! "' Jwu fWIY~it •u" rHeA l:t..,Q, r~ a;:o. -; l l;l'f',. " 'tht~t cltu t~u ll~• AW41l ltf\11NIT,,UC1'10fH,.. nu.tu l•ttttfilfl~ Jt. J(,C!tt/l'l"t '~1 4. 1.. o ... u:. NOT a11 ~'' c/1.1 prc.r"• ,.em /i~/tf a.oJOVRNIO 1"0 /hit I LJYJ• •;; nltii'OIIftOh or C.(,.lalt' IJt•pn•fh ott dftM pt«t"ff ft t'(liUff"U(l,_ u•u. 8l,.&_ £ X WCUT. """fit4 N1 i i i.I~\4:0N a l {lnpOHI.tiUI J'•-Aint~l 1,. ,.,.mrlc.u ' ,,.,...IIMtl ,_ '<NAITH .. G J• A VM&NT Of' tiNl a C0t1a.- /)C lrl•/' 4llrrltf' J., l:lilft'~•n t d" l'tJ-.f',.J• ~~ J,. j,uta 0 ftLIPOit'T OYC~OUI H,.,,,t«, ,.,. f'! I UfdROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE - GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA tCMA' c ,,., IUC ~ y ' , .. • Oll tl OlHU fiU.IIlFUl HC U~o t;(P AI/IIU DOU il.Ut OI VI"'ON Moncton Unident ified Flying Objects - Campbel l t on, N . B. 16 Aug to .30 Aug 71 JCM, f It( I[ FllE N C U; ti:(F. DOSSIU1 OIIC: 71-J- 71-msd-700- 7],..700-10 C ode 70 per 8 Sep 72 1. W ith reference t o the above and further to preVious correspondence submitted in the above regard may you please be advised t hat no further. eightings hue been reported since 30 Aug 71. In view or this plus the fact that only very vague descripti ons ooulrl be obtained this file 1e being consi ed as shown here1mder unleee instruotionn to thft contrary are is ed 0~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• \ - 2 - be: Sightings of Meteors or Fireballs THE COMMISSIONER , OTT AWA . FORWARDED 20-1- ?2 for your information • .-? 1- (,~.;-~.;r. · ' A/f"c . I , B. Offtce~ , "K' llivn.
" ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE • GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA ICP C JH o.c ••~ • . ptv. 1 Hil .. <ll t:ifli FlljiUfflfNCU IU, AU11 ) 005.\IIIS 0 1 \IIIJON JDI\Tt "K" 1'+ JAN 72 su ·-= , -= oo ::-: vt:-':$00!< :-. -. :-:: , ou"" a .~,).oH l ltC~P I Ill l UI IUHC.fS ltU QOS.S!flf1 GIJC, 72K- 4oo- . RED DEER lo.i~CHMI~T · o lr•"lr(olll;;;,,-----1 RD72- 4oO- vl 72-lf.oo-1. FORESTB URG SIGHTINGS OF METEORS OR FIREBALLS; 1 . Reference to the above , the following i s being reported. Statement of Regimental Number 19599 1 Cpl. ISN O R, M ·H ._iLo_FQr~s~b~~ ~e~~~nment~ _1~ ~~ 22~ __ _ . At approx. 2. 50 am , 7 NOV 71 I was on night patrol duties and d.ri ving the Pollee oar accompanied by Cst , YASKIW , We were proceed i ng north and at a point approx. 8 m .iles south ot Galahad, Alta. the sky in front of me suddenly lit up in a nlindi ng bluish/green light. The sky remained lit up in this manner for approx. 2-3 seconds . After this light f aded away I noticed some small white objects falling from the 2 oolook position to the earth in a north/east direc tion. Upon nearing the earth, these obj ects were leAvi ng a long streak of light which disappeared. Upon first seeing these small white objects it was my impression that an exPbsion had occurred in the atmosphere but I di d not hear any exPbsion. I have never s een the sky light up in such a bright colour , as described above , before . Sgd J M . W . lsnor . 2 , Statement of Cst. YASKIW attached heveto . 3· Also s ee Forestburg Det •1ohment message ;;30. CONCLUDED BERE I nn: CO " K" • ,·oNTON CONCT.U ED lJ,•;,;J 1 Opl . M.W . Ianor . #19 599 i/c Forestburg Detachment .
• • •• voun No, V()'f AI: H R"! I 3IG11TD!G OF FIREBALLS OR l<.ZTZOFIS I/21)J? Cat . J . •,.; . YASKII'I ThrP~ Hills , Alt~ . RCMP ThteP Htlls . 11 JA~ 72 " ~t '~!lorox . 2 : 4? Al-1 on ? N':'lV ?1 , I wns on general detaoh~ent dut1Ps w ~ th Cpl. :1 . W . rs:i<'R of Forestburg ret~ch111ent . ~/e w9re prooee~t~~ ~ort~ on a district ro~d ~opro x . S ~tles s?ut h of o~teh11d , Albert 9 when a fl11sh of bluish ~reen 11pht ltt no the- onttre northern El rea of the sky . I W!\" not the driv~r "t thla t1mP ~nd upon leanlne forward l~ the o~r ond lonktng UON'lrd , T saw a whtte oval shaped light surrl'lun1~d bv q bluish ar~en l1~ht , !te s1ze was aoorox , 1/8 that of 'l rutl moon at 2:00 o ' cl ock h1gh, and remained thrre for 'lo prox . 2 sooon~a . Then the l i ght Cell to the earth tn a we 3t t o ~ast ~Lrect1on le~vlng a long streak of lltht S9 lt deore'l"ed tn s1ze and rtnally dispersed . ~ o s?und woe he11rd . 'l'h1.s beltevad to be rtrebal1 t~as muc-h lnrRer 1n slze and unusual ln the above noted respects 1n oo~por1son to oommo~ f alling stnrs .
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- r t • • ' Unidentified Flying Object Report Harbour Grace, Nfld. 6 NOV 71 ·~ ' • ~ I 0 1 f • ' '" o- I o .. ••• "'I~ •• j • • I '· ,, J ~~- ... 6 NOV 71 ' . . .· 1. '.' --· Bear's Cove, Harbour Grace, Nfld. , .. reporte~ .to~this f ice that himself, illllllllllllll Carb9~ea~~ N!ld., and Shearstown .~ ployees wit'b Gul£ Oil Lt., . rbour race, N~ld. s:i. hted a U.F . O. at :00 PM .· this date. .It .was stated that saw the U 0 . . and he "watehed it for a while an then he told t -iJ • -~" '!e 1l~ :.~~+s~a ~ ~~m . ~n~s .A ~~ .ta~ped from ·.;.:~ -~ ~ !!!~ -~ ·are · • . a~tlic~ed,zc ~ ·· ~11" ' · •";<'.:·. '~·-. .. .~ ·-~~ --:- •• ~~«" /,.,. ;\id--nA" \1' •• · t. . .. • ~~.,...,.:.,. ... , .. • . . ,.!~ "f'< A • . ..,. ...... ~!:. "J0'i'NOV'":7l .and , it was .uuuiited ng in from fisnJLrur; around~:()() PM, .6 NOV 71 and they were out in Conception Nfld. quite close to Harbour Grace Island. They stated tha they .saw a large flock of birds, probably ducks, flying in an up and down direction, but gradually'·moving South into Conception-· Bay, Nfld. They stated that they were close enough to be certain • that what they saw was a flock of birds flying very close together . ~scribed the wai-!h!_birds were flying as the same way that IIIIIIIJ• llllllll and IIIIIJ described the way the U.F. O. was flying . . l '· ~\ : 3 . It appears definite that the U • .F .o. in this case .. was ,. .. i actually a flock of birds, therefore, it is felt that no further ·~ · · :~ : · action is necessary . )- ¥ ~ CONOLODED HERE: Fwd· JAJ~/Sgt. t('!~zs 1/c Det. I. .J.. ¥· Cst. , (R.L. TAYLOR)#27359, Harbour Grace Det. •ICMI•OIC ... , I I CIJil, U.F.O. Report - 71-400-47 STATEMENT OF: CONUNUAfiON • tUIT1 DC C1# ltv. 1· 4· M ~. Shearstown, Nfld. was standing near the door in the Gulf Branch Office at Harbour Grace, dfld. around 4:00 PM, 6 NOV 71 looking East out over Harbour Grace Island. He brought it to my attention that he saw an object directly over Harbour Oraoe Island that looked ~dd to him. It didn't change shape or anything. He said that he had been watching it for aboUt 10 minutes before he told me about it. The first time I saw it, it was over the north end of Harbour Grace Island and in comparison it looked like it was the width of the island above the island . It looked like it was a round disc with a bubble in the middle of it on the top. The object appeared to go down behind the island and the second time I saw it, it appeared in tbe sky about over the center of Harbour Grace Island. It stayed in sight for about four or five seconds and then it went down straight behind the island again. It was kind of black or dark grey. It appeared to go down at a speed that looked like it was falling. The third time I saw i t , it appeared over the South end of the island. It appeared to come up from behind and appeared to be a little higher in the sky than the two previous~ Bef'ore I saw it again I was talking to.__, Harbour Grace, Nfld. on the two-way radio and asked him where he was and if he could see Harbour Grace Island from where he was located. He said that he couldn't and that he would come right up to the plant . When he arrived we saw the object about over the end of Feather Point, Harbour Grace, South, Nfld. It appearad to be a bit higher i n the sky again this time than before and I did not see it rise that time. · I t just seemed to appear in the sky . After that it just disappeared as it appear- ed that some clouds drifted over it . We watched it for about 15 minutes. The weather that day was clear with clouds in the background out where the object appeared." Wit: Cst . R.L . TAYLOR Sgd. STATEMENT OF: (B. "Around 4:00 PM, 6 NOV 71 I was in the Gulf Bulk Plant Office at Harbour Grace, Nfld. I was looking approx- imately East out over Harbour Grace Island and I saw some- thing that looked like a round ball or diamond shape, over the North end of Harbour Grace Island. The object looked to be almost black in colour. The object appeared to be right over the island about two and a half miles away. At this 0~------------------------------------------~.~.~ . ~ . ~.~ .~. ~ .~ . ~.~ .~.~.~~-----------
~~~ ~~ m~~ CONtlt".'"TION • IUITI DC CU7 111v. l· • · u "' OtJll, U.F.O. Report - 71- 400- 47 STATEMENT OF: CONT'D: AT THIS the object still looked to be about four feet in diameter. I watched the object for about 20 minutes, The object appeared to cross the island towards the North about 10 feet above the island , The object went back and forth several times, but it gradually moved towards the South end of t he island and eventually disappeared off the end of Feather Point. It seemed to move in every direction at a quick rate of speed until it finally disappeared. I t was getting dark and the object disappeared the last time it went down. ..... The weather on that day was slightly hazy out over the island. There were some light coloured clouds out over the island in the background and this is why the object showed up so plain." Wit: Cst . R. L. TAYLOR Sgd . 2 oL---------------------------------------------------------------- •
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' .. • ' • . • . --· ,, ~ ... The OcaaiuJ.oner Royal Can.adian M ounted Police Ottawa 7, Ontario. • 10 t I • It .. V 2000-4 (0 Ope ) C&n&dian Forcea Headquarters Ottaw a 4 1 On~ a rio 7 Karch, 1968 Attention: Inspec t or W.R, Pilker !!)iiDUITD'Im !'LYING OBJECTS 1. Nagotiationa ar. Wlderw.;r tor the traneter ot UFO innst.i~tion tra. DND to NRC, Aa part and parcel or the t.ranater, OND will band over to KRC all tilea and in!orut.ioo on U10e , Since IMI17 ot your • reporte are or a eontidantial n&tlll'e the;y have bean r.oved !rc. our -1n til••· 2, Returned tor your retention been received by D Ope ainca 1966, -.de tra. NRC ehou.ld intor.ation on aa.e tuture date, are e.l.l RCI4P report• that have Appropriate rapreeentation will be a epecitio re port. be r&quired at J , The oollectioa ot, and poeeiblr investigation into, UFO e1ghtinge will still be a !Unction ot OND and theratore, all DNO •eeeagee on UFOe will be direotecl to CANFORCEHED and NRC, wi.Ut the latter ae the a ction addraea .. , ROMP UFO reports in t'llture ehould be d1rected t o NRO, 4 ...... ~~ r(I.~J d.Z'rurnar r- Colonel f or Chief or t he D efence Starr •
Mr. X, Consultiuy H<•flui"IJI>1 l Fot t <'lin l n Lllrn«L 101111 L H!'st-dcch Communications O(ftce, P.O. Box 1598 Kings ton , OnLar~o K7L 5<.:8 Dea r Mr. X: 84-002 !l711R- 1722 Sl'p t ~>mbcr 17, t9a7 This l1as reference Lo you r request. dated Augu st JJ, J9!l7. At.t.ac hod find a copy of lhe <Ht.icle cnt1LJcu "~1y l:l l l'tlous 1\er<lplanea And Ajn•ldpc; Seen Over ranadn DurJny W c.>r l d War One", us r <JqtJu s tcd. •r11e cos t (rH 1 c pro duct.lon ol 1 hIs artl elc 13 in tho amulllll o( $G . OO, lto wevt•r lhl·~ .:tJSL wLJl I.Je bor11P by tile Royal Canadi an Mounted Po l ice . Alae) altnc:hed Is youJ;" rece ip t. for t ho appli e t~L lo n rc •t..• ft• t the roque11 L. Yours truly, ORIGINAL SIGHeo ar ORIGINAL SIGNI PAA N .A. Doucette, Supt. DepurLmental Privacy and Acce ss to Information C<lOtdin.::tlnr• 1200 Alta Vlstn Dr l vl' Ottawa, OntarJ o KlA IJR2 (61 JI 993-'il 62 a L t . C . C . ; CO '110" 111 VC!liOII t\ tt . t\< <'!.:._ • l't J v '~~'L ro~'rd t n "' o..!.: . • 'J'It• Jt.LJC'Ic~-d Ul<lli•J ·J.11 tt'flrt!'t:' J; tS fil IIILtlet· ··'' r .. r uu -4 ou-o-s < v'" . 7 l. Can d •.. a a
• Mr. X Consultin1 Resolodst · Researcher, Writer 8t Inventor FORTE AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS OPFICF (FIR CO) P.O. Box 1598, Klnanon, Onlario, Canada K7l 5C8 !613) 5~~·654) "A ap•clr< movtnaln a I"Orld ol aprccrea'' -Thomas Culyle M y,.!ereacc 84-002 Yourre.fe,.nea H0-400-0-5 January 27, 1984 Th~ Commissioner The Royal Canadian Mo unted Police , Ottawa , Ontario KIA OR2 Re: UFOs Dear Sir, ... ·~ ' . .... - For your referenc t a nd perusal , 1 am enclos ing a draft copy of an arti c le on the 1ubject of UFOs which 1 am presently submitting to a publiaher in England. As the article involves the Royal Canadian Haunted Police and the Dominion Police, I thought a ~opy should be made available at Headquarters. And, as my request for information about the Secret Service of th e Domin i on Police has been only sparingly respon ded to, this should add to the ma te rial you ma y offer o t he r researchers on that subj~ct. I vas pleased to finally receive my copy of the above- noted file, and I was keenly i nterested in discovering that in 1979 &ome consideration was given to letting me have access to the file . As 1 nov have a copy , I would atill welcome the oppo rt unity to aesist you with information on this subject and would welcome any co-opera tion f rom the For ce in my atudy . Having now reviewed all major government fil e s on UFOs , I am ael ect i ng material for uae in 1 book about Can adian UFOs, and 1everal aightinga involve R.C.M.P. reports and witnesses. Any ~omment$ or auggestions you may offer would be welcome. Yours truly, r ---- 1 I , ! Mr. X , '
Mysterious Aeroplanes and Airships Seen Over Canada During the First World War by X ' The modern era of UFOs began in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen "flying saucers". The principle subject of debate since then has been the 'extra-terrestial hypothesis' which suggests UFOs are spacecraft piloted by beings from another world. Skeptics have often denounced this hypothesis as lacking any substantive evidence, whi le its proponents gather thousands of UFO reports which they claim cftnnot be satisfactorily explained as anything except alien craft . Before 1947, the appearance of 'foo-fighters' and 'ghost rockets' in Europe prompted suspicions of secret weapons deaiqned by German scientists in the last days of the Second World War . The advent of jet and rocket propulsion
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X in aviation witneaaed the development of many unconventional aircraft and weapons. And after the war into the 1950s, many people th6ught the UFOa seen in Europe and North America might be aircraft flown by the Soviet Union and designed by German scientists captured during the war. An earlier era in which mysterious 'aeroplanes and airships' were seen in the skies of the United States, Canada, England, and Denmark began in 18~6. The pioneering days of aviation also aroused suspicions of secretive inventors and military aviators invading their neighbours. Among these incidents, Charles Fort twice wrote of "three aeroplanes'' crossing the St . Lawrence River from the United States into Canada on the night of February 14th, 1915. This phantom invasion was undoubtedly the most publicized of a series of mysterious aeroplanes and airships seen over Canada during the First World War. This Canadian episode of early UFOs can be best understood by reviewing the circumstances under which Canada entered the Great War, the newspaper reports of these incidents, the files of the military and police agencies, and the explanations as to what the 'ae roplane~ and airships' could be and were. The newspapers of the Niagara Peninsula have been extensively researched by Dwight Whalen, and several files of intelligence reports have been obtained from the Department of National
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X When Great Britain joined into the First World War, her Empire followed. Though the Canadian government could determine her contribution to the Allied cause, the nation's foreign policies were decided upon by the powers in London. Canada provided men, arms, supplies, and training facilities in the war effort1 but, the general enthusiasm in supporting the Empire was accompanied by suspicions of foreign spies and fears of an invaaion from the neutral United States. Canada was not a military nation and was ill-prepared to defend herself if attacked. The onset of war came when the Permanent Force of the Canadian Army was less than 10,000 men, when its new Navy (formed in 1910) consisted of two Royal Navy cruisers (the Niobe based in Halifax and the Rainbow based in Esquimalt near Victoria), and when no air service exiated. An effective Militia force had been established with 57,000 men trained in drill and rifle practice in 19131 but, the first overseas contingent of troops consisted of men mustered in the first rush of recruiting. A major concern of the government was the loyalty of more than a half million of its population claiming German and Austro-Hungarian origina out of a t otal population of
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X about seven million. T W.£ •• a :'ilitit'•iiiU··""*~siMICiiii , :Ji?ti!t s IIWUiWJili'iiiiii. At the start of the war, the Dominion Police had only 60 men in its force along with additional detectives working at the military bases in Halifax and Esquimalt . While the Dominion Police were charged with guarding against threats to the government, most of its men were involved in guarding government buildings and property. And by 1919, this force only grew to 14 0 men of all ranks. While military intelligence was largely handled by the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Department (in London) , foreign intelligence by M . I.6, and counterintelligence by M.I.S, the responsibility for counterintelligence in Canada fell upon Sir Arthur Percy Sherwood. He had been appointed the Superintendent of the Dominion Police in 1882 after serving as the Chief of Police in Ottawa. He was appointed Commissioner in 1885 and Chief Commissioner of Police in Canada in 1913. Although he had the Militia rank of Colonel, Sherwood reported directly to the M inister of Justice, the Prime Minister, and the Governor-General. When reports of spies were received , the information was passed on to Sherwood. The "Secret Service" of the Dominion Police was only a small part of the entire establishment with Inspector James Parkinson as its head. Yet, Sherwood held command and directed its investigations into any
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Before the Firat World War, the fears of an aerial attack had already been witnessed outside of canada. During the Anglo-Boer War, in 1899, the Boer government instructed its telegraph stations to send in any reports of the rumoured secret airship the British might be using. Nearly every station responded with a multitude of sighting&. From Vryheid, the following was sent: "Airship with powerful light plainly visible from here in far off distance towards Dundee. Telegraphist at Paulpietersburg also spied one, and at Amsterdam three in the direction of Zambaansland to the south-east." Orders were quickly issued to stop wasting ammunition upon stellar targets, and no such British airship had ever been sent aloft. In its rush to doom at Tsu-Shima, the Czar's Imperial Navy twice encountered "reconnaissance balloons" during the Russo-Japanese War. In October of 1904, shortly before the Dogger Bank Incident, the ironclad Navarin signalled its lookouta had spotted "two silvery shapes high in the sky 1110ving slowly from south-west to northeast" while steaming through from the Baltic to North Sea in the Skaw. Again, in March of 1905, while Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was anchored at Nossi-be on Madagascar, more "balloons" were seen by nervous crews. Neither Japanese agents nor any balloona were used to spy on the fleet in these locations.
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Canada also had prior experience with a strange light in January of 1865. Fearing the prospect of a Fenian attack across the United States border, Premier John A. Macdonald of the United Province of Canada appointed Gilbert McMicken as the director of the Western Frontier Constabulary in 1864. Secret agents were recruited to keep watch for Irish and American revolutionary spies from Toronto to Sarnia. On successive nights in January to the south of Windsor at Amherstburg, "No.4 Frontier Police" (William Black) reported: "a bri ght light appeared at an angle of fifteen degrees above the horizon .•• stationary about five minutes and descended in fifteen." Using a telescope, a "lantern attached to a kite" was observed; and, Colonel w. Osborne Smith, who was in command of the Militia at Amherstburg, believed it was a Fenian signal. The incident brought McMicken and two other Militia officers to investigate, but their conclusion was that the object was a star "happening to rise above and dip below the horizon for a few evenings". However one wishes to consider this rogue star, it had been seen by McMicken, who became the first Commissioner of the Dominion Police in 1868, n. A similar incident occurred on August 30th, 1914, at A militiaman guarding a military prison
Mysterious Aeroplanes/x claimed to have heard the whirring noise of an aeroplane shortly before dawn. Rumour spread through the city that a German flying machine might try to drop a bomb, and Lt. Saunders issued an order to fire upon any aircraft sighted. On the same night, a merchant in St. Catherine& claimed to have seen an airship passing over the east end of the city . The Canadian government soon advised the United States that it was forbidding any flights by Americans over Dominion territory. From September 8th to the 11th, soldiers guarding the Walland Canal had seen an airship flying so low theY. "could plainly discern the framework". The mystery invader carried red lights on its nocturnal visits and dropped a rocket "large enough to wreck a house". The Welland Canal was a sensitive link for shipping between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario; and, on April 21st, 1900, it had been dynamited by three Irishmen who were suspected members of a Fenian terrorist campaign. M ore citizens of St. Catherine& claimed to see clouds which looked like "biplanes", and fear spread that the mysterious German aviators would again try to attack Canada. On September 16th, the Canadian Aviation Corps was formed, but its budget of $5,000 was sufficient only to purchase one Burgess-Dunne tailless sweptwing biplane. The craft was shipped to Lake Champlain where E.L. Janney, commander of the Corps was to take possession. On September 21st, the American pilot
( ' . . Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Clifford Webster gave Janney his first flying lesson while transporting the biplane up the Richelieu River to Sorel. Unfortunately, when the aviators landed in search of gasoline, they were arrested by Canadian customs officers as suspected German spies. Not until orders were receive~ from Ottawa were they released. The Burgess-Dunne continued on to Quebec City where it was shipped to England, but its use was confined to training pilots on the Salisbury Plain. The Minister of Militia and Defence was sent a letter in Oc tober from J. Me~. Hunt of Slate River, Ontario, statings "Aeroplanes are undoubtedly hovering almost nightly in the vicinity.• Hunt was concerned that a German settlement in Minnesota might be used by the unknown aviators to launch a bombing raid upon the grain elevators of the Twin Cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, now known as Thunder Bay. While no action appears to have been taken to investigate the report, the information was brought to the attention of the Minister, the Chief of the General St aff, the Military Secretary of the Militi a Council, and to Sherwood of the Dominion Police. From Franklin Centre, Quebec, William J. Moe wrote to to the Hon. J.D. Hazen, Acting Minister of Militia, to advise him that in the two weeks before November 5th he had seen north" at night. He expresse~ his concern
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X they might be •connected with the German Secret Service", but he was assured by Hazen that they were probably aviators . who had strayed over the border with no menace intended. In the Fall of 1914, the fear of aeroplanes and airships prompted a brief panick one day in Ottawa. Some people visiting Parliament Hill thought they saw an airship with a bright light, but others were able to see it was no more than a bright star or planet. In late January of 191S, from the 27th through the 29th, and again on February 4th, Man aeroplane, carrying a green and red light, and flying low" was heard along the Niagara River between ll P.M. and 1 A.M. A sentry at the Armouries said he heard the hum of its engine and noticed "a grey shadow creeping across the sky". An officer inside was notified immediately but was unable to see anything above. Soldiers guarding the power plants also reported the same aircraft and heard its engines. On the 4th, Superintendent Alex Collins of the city waterworks saw a distant aeroplane without any lights around 10:30 P.M. flying over Victoria Park. These 'aeroplane' reports were being taken seriously, and police were asked on both sides of the border to help locate who owned this aeroplane and where it was coming from. Next, the headlines across the Dominion carried the news
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X of the incident at Brookville , Ontario, on the night of February 14th, 1915. In bold letters , the Toronto Globe announced: "Ottawa In Darkness Awaits Aeroplane Raida, "Several Aeroplanes Make a Raid into the Dominion of Canada", "Entir e City of Ottawa in Darkness, Fearing Bomb-Droppers", "Machines Crossed St. Lawrence River, Passing over Brookville--- Two Over Ganonoque---Seen by Many Citizens, Heading for the Capital--one Was Equipped with Powerful Searchlights-- Fire Balls Dropped". Terror had invaded the skies of Canada. About 9 : 15 P.M. on the 1 4th of February, lights were seen crossing the St . Lawrence River from the American side. As they approached the city of Brookville, the "unmistakable sounds of the whirring motor" could be heard. Three balls of fire descended to the river, but witnesses were unsure if these were incendiary bombs or flares dropped to help navigate through the darkness. Passing over the city, people were alarmed as an intense light illuminated an entire block . Mayor Donaldson was all)ong those claiming to have been caught in the glare of the aeroplane ' s most powerful searchlight. Altogether three aeroplanes were said to pass over the city and appeared headed in the direction of Ottawa. Police Chief Burke first asked Mayor Donaldson for any orders and then telephoned the Mayor of Ottawa and the
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X the Mayor of Ganonoque called Burke to report two unseen aeroplanes had been heard passing over his town. Mayor . Donaldson telephoned Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, warning that the aeroplanes were on their way towards Ottawa. Borden :notified the Chief of the General Staff of the Militia and suggested that Sherwood be notified, not knowing Burke had already done this. Sherwood feared the lights of the Parliament Buildings would shine like a beacon and ordered them extinguished. In the first black-out of any Canadian city, at 11:15 P.M., the lights of Parliament Hill went out along with those of the Royal Mint and Rideau Hall, the Governor-General's residence . Five minutes later the city lights of Ottawa were switched off, and an eerie darkness enveloped the capital where life continued behind drawn blinds and curtains. Soldiers being readied to be sent overseas were sent to the rooftops with orders to shoot down any aeroplanes that came into sight, but none came. While the morning newspapers raised the alarm of invasion, Constable Storey of the Brookville Police Department found the remains of a paper balloon near the Eastern Hospital. Soon afterwards, a second balloon was found to the east of the city. News spread quickly that the 'scaeroplanes' had been nothing more than hot air balloons armed with firecrackers and flares American pranksters . ~he hoax allowed the
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X afternoon newspapers to jeer the morning newspapers. In Parliament, Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Leader of the Opposition, asked Borden as to what action the government had taken in response to the proclaimed invasion of 'aeroplanes'. Officials were reluctant to admit they had been fooled with toy balloons. The Dominion Observatory claimed the wind was blowing in the wrong direction for the balloons to have been travelling towards Ottawa. Riflemen were summoned to spend a second night on the rooftops, and the capital spent a second night in darkness, just in case. As an early pioneer in Canadian aviation, J.A.O. McCurdy had been the first British subject to fly an aeroplane over the British Empire piloting the Silver Dart in 1909. He told the presst "It is a comparatively easy matter for a person to be deceived as to the sounds of the engines. Railway engines in blowing off steam make a purring sound which is almost identical with the noise made by an aeroplane." When asked as to the possibility of a night-time aerial raid, he replied, ~It is possible, but it is not at all probable." Government officials were careful not to publicize the previous aerial attacks which had taken place in Britain only a month before. on the night of January 19th, the German and LZ .6 lifted off from Fuhlsbuttel
. ( Mysterious Aeroplanes/X and Nordholz, but the LZ .6 had to turn back while over the North Sea due to engine trouble. The LZ.J and LZ.4 succeeded in bombing the Norfolk countryside attacking Yarmouth, King's Lyon, and Snettisham, killing four civilians. At the start of the war, both Antwerp and the fortresses of Liege were bombed by zeppel ins. Aeroplanes from Germany had flown to the British shores dropping a bomb at Dover on December 24th, 1914, and making only an appearance at Sheerness on December 25th. Yet, the description of the zeppelins first seen by witnesses in Norfolk was of "two bright stars moving along some thirty yards apart". Brookville and Ganonoque were not the only locations visited that night . In the early morning of the 15th, residents of Richmond Hill, Ontario, notified police of a strange aeropl ane hovering over their homes. And, about 4130 A.M., a resident in Guelph, Ontario, awoke the household to watch "three moving lights passing over the agricultural college". On the evening of the 15th, people re turning from the curling rink at Morden, Manitoba, heard a noise which drew their attention to a bright light moving at great speed in a northwestern direction. The light, they said, was undoubtedly an "aeroplane". Shortly after 8 A.M. on February 19th, thousands of people on their way to work in Buffalo were excited to aee
• ( Mysterious Aeroplanes/X an aeroplane flying towards the canadian border at an altitude between 2,500 and 3,000 feet. ~he aircraft approached fr~m Lake Erie, passed ~er Buffalo, but veered away before crossing to Fort Erie on the Canadian shore. The seriousness of 'aeroplanes ' invading Canadian territory is illustrated by the concern officials gave to a report from a farmer by the name of Cognac who thought he heard an aeroplane near Sabrevois, Quebec, on March 27th. Cognac thought of other aeroplane s rumoured and reported, but he did not mention the incident until prompted for any news by one of the storekeepers in town. The story was repeated t o Major Hector Bissonette and communi ca ted onto the Military Secretary in Ottawa. Op~ratives of the Thiel Detective Service, which assisted the Secret Service of the Dominion Police, were sent to Sabrevois to investigate the reports. The Assistant General Manager of the Montrea l office , F.G. Robinson, reported that Ma jor Bissonette wa s "an extremely nervous individual and apparently easily alarmed " who feared of German spies and secret bases of arms being placed along the Quebec border. On the other hand, Cognac •tas found to be "fairly intelligent'' and regretted having started any trouble with his story of an 'aeroplane'. M ost revealing vas the postscript from Robinson1 "Arrangements were .made to prevent any newspaper publicity in connection with this rumour, and also to prevent any despatches being
Mysterious Aeroplanes /X sent to outside newspapers -- this in order to avoid the unnecessary publicity which was given the recent aeroplane scare which occurred at Ottawa.• More toy balloons were sent aloft in Niagara Falls on the night of May 12th. Some people thought of hostile aeroplanes, but some young boys identified the person who had sent them up. The officer commanding the 21st Regiment of the Firat Division in Windsor reported an "alien aeroplane" hovering in the vicinity early i n the morning of July 2nd. A telegram wa s sent to the Military Secretary advising him of the sighting with a request that an "armoured aeroplane" be sent from Toronto to Windsor. No action appears to have been taken. A considerable amount of correspondence began in July of 1915 between va rious sections of the Department of Militia and Defence regarding the Montreal Flying School. The operators of the School claimed to have investigated rumours of aeroplanes flying in the area and concluded •at least two aeroplanes• were being flown "under the control o f experts". A secret base in the Laurentian Mountains was suggested along with a warning of the danger they posed to the "Vickers Works
• ( • Mysterious Aeroplanes/X and Brownsburg". The request for aid in obtaining a new biplane to trace these aviators "to their lair" was questioned . And, further inquiries by the military concluded the rumours had been started by the Montreal Flying School which was lac king in equipment. Over the next two years in Quebec, only one report of an aeroplane came from the officer commanding the 5th Division on July 20th, 1915, who said it had pa ssed over Quebec City between 10:55 and ll10S P.M. Between October l Oth, 1915, and February 6th , 1916 , several aeroplanes and airships were reported flying over the Niagara Peninsula. The Walland Canal was visited on the nights of October lOth and 19th by an aeroplane whose engines were easily heard, Niagara Falls was considerably alarmed by speculation as t o whether a eroplanes on the night of December 21st and the morning of the 23rd were from the Curtiss factory in Buffalo on their way to Toronto, were flown by a German spy, or were part of a p lot to dynamite the W e lland Canal1 but, the military authorities kept silent when questioned for information. An extraordinary "monoplane " vas seen over Stamford on January 13th with 27 red and white lights on its sides and a "headlight of great power'', Two aeroplanes were seen on the nights of the 3rd and 6th of February over Grantham Township and St. Catherines. The St. Catherines Standard of February 9th, 1916, stated in a dispatch from Ottawa: "Col. Sherwood, chief of
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Police, has investigated the report that three aeroplanes were sighted in the v icinity of Ottawa and St. Catherines, ~ut has heard no more of them." Sherwood was not amused by the number of reports he was receiving of mysterious aeroplanes. In April of 1916, J. McK. Hunt of Slate River again complained of more aeroplanes and suggested a "Secret Service ma.n • be sent to investigate. The Collector of Customs in Chatham, New Brunswick, stated that two reliable men had seen aerQplanes passing over the outskirts of the city on Hay 4th. One lady in ftilton 1 Ontario, (near Brighton), wrote to say she had seen S or 6 aeroplanes, including one on the 7th of "ay which was in view a full 20 minutes before heading for Peterborough . To Capt . F.E. Davis, Assistant Director of Military Intelligence, Sherwood wrote of the sightings at Hilton: •I am not disposed to treat (them) seriously." And, to Ma jor-General w. Gwatkin, Chief of the General Staff, Sherwood wrote : "I cannot conceive what advantage it would be to reconnoiter around Chatham. I rather think it is the same as 19 reports out of 20 that we have had of the same character, nothing to the.m." In August of 1916, residents of Niagara Falls again saw an aeroplane circling above the Falls. However, its American pilot was identified as Lt. w.s. Steele along with aviator
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Buffalo. Although Steel~ was flying aeroplanes close to the Falls, another airman was flying aeroplanes along the direction of the Grand Trunk Railroad past Niagara Falls, St. Catherine&, and Stamford. Victor Carlstrom of the Curtiss factory in Buffalo was busy shuttling aeroplanes to Toronto, and in September he established a record flight from Toronto to Camp Borden , near Barrie, at a speed o f 99 miles per hour. It ~ay be that the mysterious aeroplanes seen in l ate 1915 an~ early 1916 had been secret shipments of aircraft from the American factory to Toronto. These may have also been responsible for the aeroplane seen by a patrol at the Walland Canal on the night of January 13th, 1917, which disappeared in the d i rection of Buffalo and another sighting at Niagara Falls on August 12th, 1917. Provincial authorities in British Columbia had hoped t o lure the Curtiss company westwards to establish a manufacturing works there, as the province was thought to be an ideal center for a network of air routes across the islands and to the inland centers. And, 30 years before Xenneth Arnold's "flying saucers" were seen in neighbouring Washington state, the residents of British Columbia were also reporting "mysterious aeroplanes " . · On January 16th, 1917, at 11:45 A.M., F. Ashley Sparkes,
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X by the name of Hemming qall out, "Look at the aeroplane." Sparkes said the biplane was clearly visible, a bout half a mile to a mile away, and circled over Oak Bay for S minutes before heading off towards the American coast. Hemming was certain of its being an aeroplane having seen them before in England. At the same time, another resident of Oak Bay corroborated their description of the aeroplane and its movements. The District Intelligence Officer failed to find any further sightings or any leads which could account for the aircraft. Superintendent Colin s. Campbell of the B.C. Provincial Police was more certain of its origins, and telegraphed Sherwood: "On instruction from Attorney General, I beg to report that a biplane was seen circling over Oak Bay, Victoria, at noon on sixteenth instant. Came from direction of San Juan Island and disappeared going south. No air craft in British Columbia connected with this flight; there are at least five machines in Seattle, Wash., capable of making this flight.• A protest was made to the United States government by the British Ambassador in Washington of more aerial trespassing. A week later, a woman in Victoria claimed not only to see two aeroplanes between 1 and 2 A.M . but heard their pilots talking to each other in a foreign language. This claim was passed onto Sherwood without comment, but Captain Tweedale, the District Intelligence Officer, found it
I •• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X This peculiar report is somewhat similar to another cited by Charles Fort in Lol While walking near the Caerphilly Mountains in Wales, on the evening of May 18th, 1909, a man by the name of Lithbridge claimed to see a large tube-shaped construction in which were two men dressed in fur coats. When these men spotted him, they spoke excitedly in a foreign language and sailed away in this strange flying machine. Yet, to hear human voices over the roar of an aeroplane engine or to converse between aeroplanes would be a task most difficult to believe. Although he had seen nothing, the lighthouse-keeper on Discovery Island heard an aeroplane engine passing over his house on the night of February 5th-6th , 1917. The direction of it a flight appeared southward. And by now, Tweedale had discovered "some 20 (flying) machines of various kinds are registered in Seattle". On February 11th, a mysterious aeroplane paid another visit to Vancouver Island and convinced Tweedale that some mischief was afoot. At 7 P.M., a resident by the name of Jones reported t o Provincial Police that he had seen an aircraft with lights flying over the water off Qualicum Beach descending from a considerable height . At 8 P . M., the driver o f a motor stage. P.O. Reid, and several of his passengers
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X road in front of their car•. They stopped and got out to watch and listen for its engines. The aeroplane was about a quarter of a mile away and 400 to 500 feet above . It sped over the Metchosin Road at a speed of 60 to 70 miles an hour and displayed "lights of some kind". It moved eastward across Happy Valley Road in the direction of Esquimalt . At 8:30 P .M., one of the guards at the Esquimalt Navy Yards saw •some kind of aircraft having lights aboard". The aeroplane circled over the harbour and then turned southward making for the American coast and the Olympic Range to the west of Puget Sound. According to Tweedale, " ••• it would be easy to take aeroplane parts and explosives into some secluded spot in the (Olympic) mountains, after landing them in some port on the West Coast as mining machinery and put them together in some secluded spot, and when this was done and they have a sufficient quantity of explosives ready, to fly over our harbour and destroy the ships therein, besides the powder works on James Island, chemical works in Victoria, Parliament Buildings, etc. As we have no means of defending ourselves should this be carried out, these German agents who are certainly informed of this fact would be taking little risk .. •• The only other theory is, that these strange machines come from Seattle in the pay of German agents unknown to the United States
t I • { '\ - Mysterious Aeroplanes/X As far - fetched as this line of conjecture may appear to • us today, about 20 years earlier, the United States government had the same fears regarding the activities of the Spanish Consulate in British Columbia during the Spanish-American War. One Spaniard completely unnerved American agents by openly asking Canadians about hiring ships and by sending coded telegrams to Madrid. The American officials in Victoria thought that a fleet of these ships would begin to raid ports along the Pacific Coast, and the cryptologists in Washington spent frustrating weeks trying to decipher the intercepted cables without success. In 1917, the British Ambassador in Washington again protested to the State Department of the invasion of Canadian territory by unidentified aviators from the United States. The reply he received referred only to the reports of aeroplanes in the area around Buffalo and completely ignored the situation developing on the West Coast. Sherwood was aware of these events but seems not to have given them much serious attention. A further report of an aeroplane heard by ths guard at Esquimalt on March Sth was investigated by the Dominion Police Sergeant at the Esquimalt Dock Yard. •The guard at Esquimalt, upon whose report the information was based, admitted the following day that nothing.• Rumours of aeroplanes in the areaI •• • ( • Mysterious Aeroplanes/X abounded, and the use of 'intoxicants' by the Naval Volunteer guards was suspected. While this quard was visiting a constable . at the jetty, they heard somethinq flying overhead. The call of geese was heard, and the quard cracked, "There goes the air craft ." Thus, Sherwood concluded1 • •.• all of them may be put down to a wild goose story." On the 24th of December, 1917, a private living at St. Felicite, Quebec, wrote to Ottawa to mention t hat somethinq that looked like a zeppelin was seen the previous night at 8:30 P.H. travelling in the direction of Whale Cape at 15 to 20 miles an hour. The letter arrived in Ottawa on the 27th alonq with a telegram from the teleqraph operator at Newport Point, Quebec . "Stranqe lights in t he air these three nights l ooks very much like an aeroplane. Please let me know what to do,• was the messaqe sent on the night of the 26th. Some object appears to have been f lying over the St. Lawrence River; and, though investigations were to be made, its identity remains undiscovered. The many fears and suspicions Canadians felt reqardinq the neutrality of the United States were allayed by t he declaration of war against Germany on April 6th, 1917. With the exception of the Quebec aiqhtings in December of 1917, the last known reports of mysterious aeroplanes were those
My~ terious Aeroplanes/X flying aeroplanes from bases in a hostile United States began to appear highly unlikely. Though strange aircraft may have continued to be seen, they no longer attracted any serious attent ion from the Canadian authorities. Although Canada was quite distant from the European theater of war, the German Secret Service was actively seeking to cripple the country ' s ability to wage war. The German Fore ign Minister Arthur Zimmerman sent a cipher telegram to the German Ambassador in Washington, Count Johann von Bernstorff, on January Jrd, 1915, instructing: "Secret: Reference my 357. General Staff anxious vigorous measures should be taken to destroy Canadian Pacific for purpose causing lengthy interruptions of traffic. Acquaint military attache with above and furnish sums required for enterprise ." The Military Attache was Captain Franz von Papen, who later distinguished himself by becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and Vice-Chancellor under Hitler in 1933. The attempt to disrupt Canada's railways surfaced when Deputy German Consul Wilhelm von Brincken in San Francis co tried to recruit a Dutch-Canadian R.J. van ~oolbergen to dynamite the Selkirk tunnel near Revelstoke, British Columbia. However, van Koolbergen advised the Br itish Consul, A. Carnegie Ross, of the scheme t and, Ross advi sed the Canadian authorities. Sherwood was the principle force in laying a trap by having a false newspaper story published of
' ••• Mysterious Aeropl~nes/X San Francisco to assist u.s. officials in the arrest of von Brincken for attempted sabotage was Capt. Tweedale. Throughout the First World War, Canada was only twice attacked by agents of the German Secret Service . An earlier dynamiting of a railway bridge on the border near vanceboro, Maine, on New Year's Day, 1915, produced only superficial damage. And, the only successful attack was the destruction of an overalls factory making uniforms in Walkerville, Ontario, on June 22nd, 1915. The combined efforts of Sherwood in Canada and Sir William Wiseman, the chief agent of the British Secret Service in the United States, managed to foil a multitude of schemes to invade or cripple Canada by German agents. Fortunately, no attempt to launch an aerial attack, such as suggested by Capt. Tweedale, seems ever to have been begun. The Canadian episode during the First World War cannot be entirely dismissed as a matter of war hysteria or 'scaeroplanes'. While no such aircraft were involved in the Anglo-Boer War or the Russo~Japanese War, Canadians were prompted to report real aircraft, such as the Burgess-Dunne and the secret shipments of aircraft from Buffalo to Toronto. Some civilian witnesses appear to have been victims of war paranoia, but many of the sightings came from responsible members of the military and civilian authorities. Without
•• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X that strange lights an~ , soun~s in the skies might be aeroplanes flown by German spies and saboteurs seemed a l ogical explanation at that time. The threat of an aerial attack was gi ven serious consideration b y the Prime Minister, the Acting M inis ter of Militia, the Chief of the General Staff , the Military Secretary of the Militia Council, and the Commissioner of the Dominion Police. Sherwood may have given little credence to reports following the incident at Brookville, but as t he head of Canadian co~nterintelligence, he was the person t o whom all •aeroplane' reports were forwar~ed, rather t han to the Militia. Thus, because of the popular belief as to the origins of the 'mysterious aeroplanes', the bu lk of the sightings and reports were accumulated in t he files of t he Secret Service of the Dominion Police . ... tn, -;"~ . . oo.natoa ' 8ttee~r. 6~~a iito - . ~y F"t:ea t•rai force, t.he 110ya1 "'bana41an 11DW\tea Poli.Ger and, l9iiP oOull~Jatell~ opera't1aua of u. -.o~•t .. nio• ,tHtfJ;i . "\"he ~~n.Y !...~~1 .119~~ _kanoh, .J.at.er k"t!L'!:~ .. ·~--,.q ~ ~"'.t/ Bits of metal and rubber f ound at the sites of forest fires in t he Yukon and British Columbia i n 19 59 reminded the Security and Intel l igence Branch of the incendiary balloons launched by Japan in the las t year of the Second W orld War . In a file entitled• "Military and Other Devices of Unknown Origin, Canada - General ", Seouri.ty and Intelligence once a gain revived suspicions of foreign
• ' . Mysterious Aeroplanes/X • sabotage in Canada from , the skies. However, the character of the file was changed into one dealing with U FOs by two subsequent cases. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada received letters from Davenport, Iowa, in 1960, claiming that a spac ecraft had crashed in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia . 0 ' "*'"!.Jif,~Jl'lf .~~~~·ft· IJP&Hiitiy ¥U!!!t4il~ .:~!!!'f!!~t- 'Ual'ql~~DlYidOI\ tDf theJa,c:a.?. : More serious attention was given to the observed crash of a strange object i nto Clan Lake , Northwest Territories , on June 22nd , 1965. Whether the object was a meteorite , satellite, or flying saucer, tll~.aOoee.tul ~_«forE ' t.o ~eoover lt. -r~ :~:" .-uh ·elte vae 4lrecte4 by p.a. ltelly, ·Dinoto&' Of Seovl~.f ~ IDtelliCJuoe for ~ ... C.M.P., and by Group Captain L.C. Dilworth , Director of Air I ntelligence for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Af ter this report, the file took in those UFO reports sent to R.C.H.P . Headquarters and took on the new title: KUnidentified Flying Objects, Sightings of". Therefore, it can be said that Canada ' s counterintelligence agencies have expressed an interest in UFOs for a century from 1865 to 1965 , although the period of greatest interest was du.ring the First World War. The historical importance of the mysterious aeropl anes and airships of years past comes i n recognizing the phenomena of UFOs as the perception of unusual occurrences which can have a real existence and the dominance of interpretations on those
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X perceptions. From before the First World War until several ' years following the Second World War, the belief that the observed phenomena might be hostile aircraft flown by foreign powers was the dominant interpretation. It was felt no other explanation could account for the origins or activities of strange lights and noises in the skies. In wartime, this belief surfaced in Canada as a serious concern demanding the attention of its counterintelligence agency, the Secret Service of the Do.minion Police. And, apart from hoaxes and sightings involving known aircraft, the Canadian episode distinguishes itself from others of the same period by the knowledge that no suoh hostile aircraft existed and in the availability of intelligence files which reveal numerous sightings and the concerns of the responsible government officials . The era of UFOs as 'mysterious aeroplanes and airships' has come to an end. The biplane s and zeppelins of yesteryear have vanished only to be replaced by jumbo jets and space shuttles. Strange lights and sounds are still reported as UFOs, but now they appear in the form of 'flying saucers' and alien visitors from another world. The dominance of the extra-terreatial hypothesis in shaping the popular perception of OFOs has created a new era. Yet, as mankind reaches out to his neighbouring planets only to find them lacking of any sign of intelligent civilization, a re-evaluation of the hypothesis will be demanded seeking visitors from
I •• • Mysterious Aeroplanes/X rather than interplanet~ry space. The reasoning which only ~inds 'alien aircraft' as the remaining solution when all other expianations of UFOs fail is faulty deduction. The skeptics who reject most UFOs as illusion and misinterpreted observations of ordinary phenomena fare no better by trusting in generalities. R6searchers into the UFO phenomena would benefit by examining the unexplained sightings offering the best descriptions and the most substantive evidence available and then comparing them with the explanations of identified UFO&. Strange phenomena, such as 'angel hair', which have been associated with ' flying saucers' might be found to be nothing more than an exotic phenomenon, such as ball-lightning, but their occurrence need not imply the existence of alien craft. If the study of UFOs is to rise above the realm of pseudo-science and a new era is to begin, the gathering and examination of UFO sighting& must concentrate on the observed phenomena and not depend upon any single explanation when the answer remains unknown. - End -
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[ RCMP GRCj D Cnmmen~t Commentaies D P.,.u,.l and P.A. tiro 11 c:IIBSW TRANSIT SLIP FICHE PESERVICE D Atlion Donner 60htl D Prouam Rflt)ly Rldlgwuno r~ponsu - 0£ /.~ 8 . 1'1~ ... :J D Ptctpltre Brksf Pr~poffN un o>PQsl D M3~• FUu(ol Ouwit UtJ dosstot D Autum with <A! trUtH FIIIJ Rotournflt ,;.,e.c It dossf•r actull D Chi!C~ RUCll<d• V#riffot los dossfttrs SUBJECT SUJET /U./:0..4 · )7u . X, ..e;:, ,.4.. ~~ ~ ~~~ . ...f~~r~ ·- ~~~~?t~ ~~.>~ ~ ...... I 1.. (A_ t.. t~ /, - t /...._. C"t--'\.1. ,_~ ,., '_, _, 1. (.t ,l_ 1 /, ct ....... l(l t--f .;). "-'""' ... .. ( ,(' ~ • ,,. t' d. c (_ tf" t< ~; h _,.()..<#' _..... .... -i. L. ._ p <- ~t. @>l.. c=- ?il l" 2 r t] RIC!MO I REQJ t.! Olllco nf ~· ·lluroiKI cfu FU 9 1904 I> < (.....The Commissioner Le Commlssalre ·r,c , .. _,. 1 1~,? ~'1 Mr. X Fortean International Research Communicat ions Off i ce P.O . Bo x 1 598 Kingston, Ontar io Our file: HQ 400-0- 5 Your file: 8 4 -002 Kn. see Dear Mr. X: ~, .c..... ,,_t./ "'d .:;.. /..._ ~ ... -.:. ....... .:.. v-.. J. ::ll'hank yoli f or your letter (1ated January 27, 1984, and the attached draft copy o f ~r artic le on Unidentified Flying Obje c ts .~PUI).. <tM. ¥gwr art:iele hee baeo read with t utetest eud we do ftet £e&l I assume from r letter, ~in you state~at this draft copy is for our ~efer e ceand perusal, ~i: wa s inten ~ ed~ that we a i n the c · : therefore, I ~not returnin~ same. Shoul ou, howeve , wish this copy returned, p l ease do not hes ate t o let me know. Yours truly, R. H • . ~ n ds C~sioner Canada ~ u..v.- - ·-- r '-"'-.._"- t- --...- ;;._ l...-,· ,a...,_ '-t-e-1- .... --<~- t:t-j- joA- u:.. .... r< .c. ....... ~ .j) t ·~ ..... .;. t. )t ............. <1 < <~ LA <1- ._... < ':: /.. 1~ - /. .._ 1c ~ P. A. - A C. .); Z. ,, / r 1 d .4. .• / o't;j (o {I ... '' Ci c; ._ t ,, f" ( ~ ~I' & ,. ( (. ,. .,1'., (f:(. J , :.~.,- o "'' r, 'll,, t;;:. ~ " ... ICT"e- .. <' ' '- I l),..,f o, -z t.D Comments Commimtlflffu D Peru .. l and PA l.lrt1 et dtJssor SUBJECT - SWIT TRANSIT SLIP FICHE DE SERVICE D Acd011 Donnt1r suite D Propeie Reply RUifw """ r6pons• - DE D Prepero Briel Pt~PMer 1m - xpos6 D Mol<e Fllo{a) OUvdr un dossitvMr. X Con~llltlng Resologjst · Resea rcher, Writer & Inventor FORTBI\N JNTllRNATIONAL R llS I ! ARCII COMM IJNICATIONS OI'I'ICB (I' IRCO) P.O. !lox I 598, Kln&l iOil, Onlfttlo, CnnndA K71 . SC8 • (6 13) 544·65 43 "A spectre moving in u world or •P•ctr.s" - Thomas Curlylo M y roferen•"' 84-002 Yowrererence H0-400-0-S January 27 , 1984 The Commissioner The Royal Canadian M ounted Police, Ottawa , Ontario KLA OR2 Re : trFOs .. Dear Sir, For your reference and perusal, 1 am enclosing a draft copy of an article on lhe subject of UFOs whi c h I am pre sent ly submitting lo a publisher in England. As the ar t icle involves the Royal Canadian Mounted Police • ' a nd the Dominion Police, I t hou ght a copy s hould be made available at Headq uar t ers . And , as my ~equ~~t f or in fo rm ation about the Se c r et Service of the Dominion Police has been only sparing l y responded to , this should add to the material you may offer other researchers on that subjecl. 1 was pleased to finally re ce ive my copy of the above - noted file, and 1 was keenly interes ted ln discove r ing that in 1979 some cons ideration was giv en to l otting me have access to the file. As 1 now have a copy , 1 would still welcome the oppor t unity to assist you with information on thla subject and would wel co me any co -operation from the Force in my stu dy. Having now raviowcd all major government files on UFOs , ! am selec tin g material for use in a book about Ca na d ian UFOs , and several slghtlngs Lnvotve R.C.M.P. reports and witnesses. Any comments or suggestlonR you may offer wou ld be welcome. Yours truly , H: ... ·I ~ \ ::z:. l uJ·~ M r . 1C ~ .,. L. IS
Mysterious Aeroplanes and Airships seen Over Canada During the First World War by X The modern era of UFOs began in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen "flying saucers" . •rhe principle subject of debate since then has been the ' extra-terrestial hypothesis' which suggests UFOs are spacecraft piloted by beinge from another world . Skeptics have often denounced this hypothesis as lacki ng any substantive evidence, while its proponents gather thousands of UFO reports which they claim cannot be satisfactorily explained as anything except alien craft. Before 1947, the appearance of ' foe - fighters ' and ' ghost rockets' in Europe prompted suspicions of secret weapons designed by German scientists in the last days of the Second World War . The advent of jet and rocket propulsion 1 2 9 J.~ , ~. SEPO 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X • in aviation witnessed the development of many unconventional aircraft and weapons. And after the war into the 1950s, many people thought the UFOs seen in Europe and North America might be aircraft flown by the Soviet Union and designed by German scientists captured during the war. An earlier era in which mysterious ' aeroplanes and airships ' were seen in the skies of the United States , Canada, England, and Denmark began in 18~6. The pioneering days of aviation also aroused suspicions of secretive inventors and military aviators invading their neighbours. Among these incidents, Charles Fort twice wrote of ''three aeroplanes" crossing the St. Lawrence River from the United States into Canada on the night of February 14th, 1915 . This phantom invasion was undoubtedly the most publicized of a series of mysterious aeroplanes and airships seen over Canada during the First World war . This Canadian episode of early UFOs can be best understood by reviewing the circumstances under which Canada entered the Great War, the newspaper reports of these incidents, the files of the military and police agencies, and the explanations as to what the 'aeroplanes and airships' could be and were. The newspapers of the Niagara Peninsula have been extensively researched by Dwight Whalen, and several files of intelligence reports have been obtained from the Department of National 2 17 28;;. ,tt:EPfl7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Defence and the Royal Canad i a n Mounted Pol ice in Ottawa, When Great Britain joined into the First World War, her Empire followed. Though the Canadian government could determine her contribution to the Allied cause, the nation's foreign policies were decided upon by the powers in London. Canada provided men, arms, suppl ies, and training facilities in the war effort1 but, the general enthusiasm in supporting the Empire was accompanied by suspicions of foreign spies and fears of an invasion from the neutral United States . Canada was not a military nation and was ill-prepared to defend herself if attacked. The onset of war came when the Permanent For.ce of the Canadian Army was less than 10,000 men , when its new Navy (formed in 1910) consisted of t w o Royal Navy cruisers (the Niobe based in Halifax and the Rainbow based in Esquimalt near Victoria) , and when no air service existed. An effective Militia force had been established with 57,000 men trained in drill and rifle practice in 1913: but , the first overseas cont,ingent of troops consisted of men mustered in the first rush of recruiting. A major concern of the government was the loyalty of more than a half million of its population claiming German and Austro-Hungarian origin s out of a total popul ati on of 3 ~7 27 ~ .4.SEPB7
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X about seven million. The Royal North-West Mounted Police hired up to 25 secret aqants with funds provided by the Dominion Police . At the start of the war, the Dominion Police had only 60 men in its force alonq with additional detectives workinq at the military bases in Halifax and Bsquimalt . While the Dominion Police were charged with guardinq against threats to the government, most of its men were involved in guarding government buildings and property. And by 1919, this !orce only grew to 140 men of all ra.nks. While military intelligence was largely handled by the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Department (in London), foreign intelligence by M.I.6, and counterintelligence by M.I . S, the responsibility for counterintelligence in Canada fell upon Sir Arthur Percy Sherwood. He had been appointed the Superintendent of the Dominion Police in 1882 after serving a s the Chief of Police in Ottawa . He was appointed Commissioner in 188 5 and Chief Commissioner of Police in Canada in 1913. Although he had the Militia rank of Colonel, Sherwood reported directly to the Minister of Justice , the Prime Minister, and the Governor-General . When reports of spies were received, the information was passed on to Sherwood. The "Secret Service" of the Dominion Police was only a small part of the enti re establishment with Inspector James Parkinson as its head . Yet, Sherwood held command and directed its investigations into any threats to Canada . ;7 26~.4.SEP87 4
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Before the First World War, the fears of an aerial attack had already been witnessed outside of Canada. During the Anglo-Boer War, in 1899, the Boer government instructed its telegraph stations to send in any reports of the rumoured secret airship the British might be using. Nearly every station responded with a multitude of sightings. From Vryheid, the following was sent: "Airship with powerful light plainly visible from here in far off distance towards Dundee. Telegraphist at Paulpietersburg also spied one, and at Amsterdam three in the direction of Zambaansland to the south-east." Orders were quickly issued to stop wasting ammunition upon stellar targets, and no such British airship had ever been sent aloft. In its rush to doom at Tsu-Shima, the Czar ' s Imperial Navy twice encountered "reconnaissance balloons" during the Russo-Japanese W ar . In October of 1904, shortly before the Dogger Bank Incident, the ironclad Navarin signalled its lookouts had spotted "two silvery shapes high in the sky moving slowly from south-west to northeast" while steaming through from the Baltic to North Sea in the Skaw. Ag·ain, in March of 1905, while Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was anchored at Nossi-be on Madagascar, more "balloons" were seen by nervous crews. Neither Japanese agents nor any balloons were used to spy on the fleet in these locations. 5 r.17 2 5 ~ .tSEPB7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Canad.a also had prior experience with a strange light in January of 1865 . Fearing the prospect of a Fenian attack across the United States border, Premier John A. Macdonald of the United Province of Canada appointed Gilbert McMioken as the director of the Western Frontier Constabulary in 1864. Secret agents were recruited to keep watch for Irish and Ameri can revolutionary spies from Toronto to Sarnia. On successive nights in January to the south of Windsor at Amherstburg, "No.4 Frontier Police" (William Black) reportedr "a bright light appeared at an angle of fifteen degrees above the horizon • •• stationary about five minutes and descended in fifteen." Using a telescope, a "lantern attached to a kite" was observed1 and, Colonel w. Osborne Smith , who was in command of the Militia at Amherstburg, believed it was a Fenian signal. The incident brought McMicken and two other Militia officers to i nvestigate, but their conclusion was that the object was a star "happening to rise above and dip below the horizon for a few evenings". However one wishes to consider this rogue star , it had been seen by McMicken, who became the first Commissioner of the Dominion Police in 1868, and by Smith, who became the first Commissioner o1 the North-West Mounted Police in 1873. A similar incident occurred on August 30th, 1914 , at Niagara Falls . A militiaman quarding a military prison 6 '17 24 T" OJA .l:.SEP8 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X claimed to have heard the whirring noise of an aeroplane shortly before dawn. Rumour spread through the city that a German flying machine might try to drop a bomb, and Lt. Saunders issued an order to fire upon any aircraft sighted. On the same night, a merchant in St . Catherine& claimed to have seen an airship passing over the east end of the city. The Canadian government soon advised the United States that it was forbidding any flights by Americans over Dominion territory. From Septe.mber 8th to the 11th, sol diers guarding the Walland Canal had seen an airship flying so low theY. "could plainly discern the framework" . The mystery invader carried red lights on its nocturnal visits and dropped a rocket "large enough to wreck a house". The Walland Canal was a sensitive link for shipping between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario1 and, on April 21st, 1900, it had been dynamited by t hree Irishmen who were suspected members of a Fenian terrorist campaign. More citizens of St . Catherines claimed to see clouds which looked like "biplanes", and fear spread that the mysterious German aviators would again try to attack Canada. On September 16th , the canadian Aviation Corps was formed , but its budget of $5,000 was sufficient only to purchase one Burgess-Dunne tailless sweptwing biplane . The craft was shipped to Lake Champlain where E. L. Janney , commander of the Corps was to take possession. On Sept ember 21st, the American pilot 7 17 23 ;r.~ .tSEP0 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Clifford Webster gave Janney his first flying lesson while transporting the biplane up the Riohelieu River to Sorel. Unfortunately, when the aviators landed in search of gasoline, they were arrested by Canadian customs officers as suspected German spies. Not until orders were received from Ottawa were they released. The Burgess-Dunne continued on to Quebec City where it was shipped to England, but its use was confined to training pilots on the Salisbury Plain. The Minister of Militia and Defence was sent a letter in October from J. McK. Hunt of Slate River, Ontario, stating : "Aeroplanes are undoubtedly hovering almost nightly in the vicinity." Hunt was concerned that a German settlement in Minnesota might be used by the unknown aviators to launch a bombing raid upon the grain elevators of the Twin Cities of Fort W illiam and Port Arthur, now known as •rhunder Bay. While no action appears to have been taken to investigate the report, the information was brought lo the attention of the Minister, the Chief of the General Staff, the Military Secretary of the Militia Council, and to Sherwood of the Dominion Police. From Franklin Centre , Quebec, William J. Moe wrote to to the Hon. J.D . Hazen, Acting Minister of Militia, to advise him that i n the two weeks before November 5th he had seen "two airships going north" at night. He expressed his concern 8 ~7 2 2 ;;~ . 4.SEPO 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X they might be "connected with the German Secret Service", but he was assured by Hazen that they were probably aviators who had strayed over the border with no menace intended. In the Fall of 1914, the fear of aeroplanes and airships prompted a brief panick one day in Ottawa . Some people visiting Pa.rliament Hill thought they saw an airship with a bright light, but others were able to see it was no more than a bright star or planet. In late January of 1915, from the 27th through the 29th, and again on February 4th, "an aeroplane, carrying a green and red light, and flying 1Qw" was heard along the Niagara River between 11 P . M. and 1 A.M. A sentry at the Armouries said he heard the hum of its engine and 11oticed "a grey shadow creeping across the sky" . An officer inside was notified immediately but was unable to see anything above. Soldiers guarding the power plants also reported the same aircraft and heard its engines . On the 4th, Superintendent Alex Collins of the city waterworks saw a distant aeroplane without any lights around 10:30 P.M. flying over Victoria Park. These 'aeroplane' reports were being taken seriously, and police were asked on both sides of the border to help locate who owned this aeroplane and where it was coming from . Next, the headlines across the Dominion carried the news 17 9
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X of the incident at Brookville, Ontario, on the night of February 14th, 1915. In bold letters, the Toronto Globe announced: "Ottawa In Darkness Awaits Aeroplane Raid", "Several Aeroplanes Make a Raid into the Dominion of Canada" , "Entire City of Ottawa in Darkness, Fearing Bomb-Droppers", "Machines Crossed St. Lawrence River, Passing Over Brookville- Two Over Ganonoque-seen by Many Citizens, Heading for the Capital-one Was Equipped with Powerful Searchlights- Fire Balls Dropped" . Terror had invaded the skies of Canada. About 9:15 P.M . on the 14th of February, lights were seen crossing the St. Lawrence River from the American side . As they approached the city of Brookville, the "unmistakable sounds of the whirring motor" could be heard. Three balls of fire descended to the river , but witnesses were unsure if these were incendiary bombs or flares dropped to help navigate through the darkness. Passing over the city, people were alarmed as an intense light illuminated an entire block. Mayor Donaldson was among those claiming to have been caught in the glare of the aeroplane ' s most powerful searchlight . Altogether three aeroplanes were said to pass over the city and appeared headed in the direction of Ottawa. Police Chief Burke first asked Mayor Donaldson for any orders and then telephoned the Mayor of Ottawa and the Commissioner of the Dominion Police, Sherwood. About 9:30P.M., 10 ~7 20 ~ ,!,.SEP3 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X the Mayor of Ganonoque called Burke to report two unseen aeroplanes had been heard passing over his town. Mayor Donaldson telephoned Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, warning that the aeroplanes were on their way towards Ottawa. Borden notified the Chief of the General Staff of the Militia and suggested that Sherwood be notified, not knowing Burke had already done this. Sherwood feared the lights of the Parliament Buildings would shine like a beacon and ordered them extinguished. In the first blaok-out of any Canadian city, at lltlS P. M., the lights of Parliament Hill went out along with those of the Royal Mint and Rideau Hall, the Governor-General's residence. Five minutes later the city lights of Ottawa were switched off, and an eerie darkness enveloped the capital where life continued behind drawn blinds and curtains. Soldiers being readied to be sent overseas were sent to the rooftops with orders to shoot down any aeroplanes that came into sight , but none came. While the morning newspapers raised the alarm of invasion, Constable Storey of the Brookville Police Department found the remains of a paper balloon near the Eastern Hospital. Soon afterwards, a second balloon was found to the east of the city. News spread quickly that the 'scaeroplanes ' had been nothing more than hot air balloons armed with firecrackers and flares sent aloft by American pranksters . The hoax allowed the ll 19 tit~ .4.<JEP97
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X afternoon newspapers to jeer the morning newspapers. In Parliament, Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Leader of the Opposition, asked Borden as to what action the government had taken in response to the proclaimed invasion of 'aeroplanes'. Officials were reluctant to admit they had been fooled with toy balloons . The Dominion Observatory claimed the wind was blowing i n the wrong direction for the balloons to have been travelling towards Ottawa. Riflemen were summoned to spend a second night on the rooftops, and the capital spent a second night in darkness, just in case . As an early pioneer in Canadian aviation, J.A.D. McCurdy had been the first British subject to fly an aeroplane over the British Empire piloting the Silver Dart in 1909. He told the press: "It is a comparatively easy matter for a person to be deceived as to the sounds of the engines . Railway engines in blowing off steam make a purring sound which is almost identical with the noise made by an aeroplane." When asked as to the possibility of a night-time aerial raid, he replied, "It is possible, but it is not a t all probable . " Government officials were careful not to publicize the previous aerial attacks which had taken place in Britain only a month before. On the night of January 19th, the German zeppelins LZ.J, LZ.4, and LZ . 6 lifted off from Fuhlsbuttel 12 17 18 o';,tSEP87
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X and Nordholz, but the LZ.6 had to turn back while over the North Sea due to engine trouble . The LZ.3 and LZ . 4 succeeded in bombing the Norfolk countryside attacking Yarmouth, King ' s Lyon, and Snettisham, killing four civilians. At the start of the war, both Antwerp and the fortresses of Liege were bombed by zeppelins. Aeroplanes from Germany had flown to the British shores dropping a bomb at Dover on December 24th, 1914, and making only an appearance at Sheerness on December 25th. Yet, the description of the zeppelins first seen by witnesses in Norfolk was of "two bright stars moving along some thirty yards apart". Brookville and Ganonoque were not the only l ocations visited that night. In the early morning of the 15th, residents of Richmond Hill, Ontario, notified police of a strange aeroplane hovering over their homes. And, about 4130 A.M., a resident in Guelph, Ontario, awoke the household to watch "thr ee moving lights passing over the agricultural college". On the evening of the 15th, people returning from the curling rink at Morden, Manitoba, heard a noi se which drew their attention to a bright light movi ng at great speed in a northwestern direction. The light, they said, was undoubtedly an "aeroplane". Shortly after 8 A.M. on February 19th, thousands of people on their way to work in Buffalo were e.xcited to see 13 rQ7 17 J; :tSEPB 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X an aeroplane flying towards the Canadian border at an ' altitude between 2,500 and 3, 000 feet. The aircraft approached from Lake Erie, passed 0111er Buffalo, but veered away before crossing to Fort Erie on the Canadian shore . The seriousness of ' aeroplanes' invading Canadian territory is illustrated by the concern officials gave to a report from a farmer by the name of Cognac who thought he heard an aeroplane near Sabrevois, Quebec , on March 27th . Cognac thought of other aeroplanes rumoured and reported , but he did not mention the incident until prompted for any news by one of the storekeepers in town. The story was repeated to Major Hector Bissonette and communicated onto the Military Secretary in Ottawa . Operatives of the Thiel Detective Service , which assisted the Secret Service of the Dominion Police, were sent to Sabrevois to investigate the reports. The Assistant General M anager of the M ontreal office, F.G. Robinson , reported that Major Bissonette was "an extremely nervous individual and apparently easily alarmed" who fe ared of German spies and secret bases of arms being placed along the Quebec border. On the other hand, Cognac was found to be "fairly intelligent" and regretted having started any trouble with his story of an 'aeroplane'. Most revealing was the postscript from Robinson: "Arrangements were made to prevent any newspaper publicity in connection with this rumour, and also to pr event any despatches being 14 '2 7 16 ;:;;. • 4. SEPB 7
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X sent to outside newspapers -- this in order to avoid the unnecessary publicity which was given the recent aeroplane scare which occurred at Ottawa." More toy balloons were sent aloft in Niagara Falls on the night of May 12th. Some people thought of hostile aeroplanes, but some young boys identified the person who had sent them up. The officer commanding the 21st Regiment of the First Division in Windsor reported an "alien aeroplane" hovering in the vicinity early in the morning of July 2nd . A telegram was sent to the Military Secretary advising him of the sighting with a request that an "armoured aeroplane" be sent from Toronto to Windsor. No action appears to have been taken. A considerable amount of correspondence began in July of 1915 between various sections of the Department of Militia and Defence regarding the M .ontreal Flying School. The operators of the School claimed to have investigated rumours of aeroplanes flying in the area and concluded "at least two aeroplanes• were being flown "under the control of experts" . A secret base in the Laurentian Mountains was suggested along with a warning of the danger they posed to the "Vickers Works and the various Powder Plants at Beloeil, Vaudreuil, Dragon, 17 15 ;;~ .tSEPB 7 15
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X and Brownsburg". The request for aid in obtaining a new biplane to trace these aviators "to their lair" was questioned . And, further i .nquiries by the military concluded the rumours had been started by the Montreal Flying School which was lacking in equipment. Over the next two years in Quebec, only one report of an aeroplane came from the officer commanding the 5th Division on July 20th, 1915, who said it had passed over Quebec City between 10:55 and 11:05 P. M. Between October lOth , 1915, and February 6th , 1916, several aeroplanes and airships were reported flying over the Niagara Peninsula. The Welland Canal was visited on the nights of October lOth and 19th by an aeroplane whose engines were easily heard . Niagara Falls was considerably alarmed by speculation as to whether aeroplanes on the night of December 21st and the morning of the 23rd were from the Curtiss factory in Buffalo on their way to Toronto, were flown by a German spy, or were part of a plot to dynamite the Walland Canalt but, the military authorities kept si1ent when questioned for information . An extraordinary "monoplane" was seen over Stamford on January 13th with 27 red and white lights on its sides and a "headlight of great power". Two aeroplanes were seen on the nights of the 3rd and 6th of February over Grantham Township and St . Catherines. The St. Catherines Standard of February 9th, 1916, stated in a dispatch from Ottawa: "Col. Sherwood, chief of the Dominion 16 li1 7 14 o~;. .4.SEP87
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Police, has investigated the report that three aeroplanes were sighted in the vicinity of Ottawa and St. Catherines , but haa heard no more of them . " Sherwood was not amused by the number of reports he was receiving of mysterious aeroplanes. In April of 1916, J. McK . Hunt o~ Slate River again complained of more aeroplanes and suggested a "Secret Service man" be sent to investigate. The Collec~or of Customs in Chatham, New Brunswick, stated that t wo reliable men had seen aerGplanes passing over the outskirts of the city on May 4th. One lady in Hilton, Ontario, (near Brighton), wrote to say she had seen 5 or 6 aeroplanes, including one on the 7th of May which was in view a full 20 minutes before heading for Peterborough. To Capt. F . E. Davis, Assistant Director of Military Intelligence, Sherwood wrote of the aightings at ~Uton: "I am not disposed to treat (them) seriously.'' And, to Major-General W. Gwatkin, Chief of the General Staff, Sherwood wrote: "I cannot conceive what advantage it 'l<{ould be to reconnoiter around Chatham. I rather think it is the same as 19 reports out of 20 that we have had of the same character, nothing to them." In August of 1916, residents of Niagara Falls again saw an aeroplane circling above the Fails. fiowever 1 ita American pilot was identified as Lt. w.s. Steele along with aviator Oliver Ashton who accompanied him in a training flight from ~7 13 ;;~ .4.SEP8 7Mysterious Aeroplanes/X Buffalo. Although Steel~ was flying aeroplanes close to the Falls, another airman was flying aeroplanes along the direction of the Grand Trunk Railroad past Niagara Falls, St. Catherines, and Stamford . Victor Carlstrom of the Curtiss f actory in Bu'ffalo was busy shuttling aeroplanes to Toronto, and in September he e stablished a record flight from Toronto to Camp Borden, near Barrie, a t a speed of 99 miles per hour. It may be that the mysterious aeroplanes seen in late 1915 and early 1916 had been secret shipments of aircraft from the American factory to Toronto. These may have also been responsible for the aeroplane seen by a patrol at the Walland Canal on the night of January 13th, 1917, which disappeared in the direction of Buffalo and another sighting at Niagara Falls on August 12th, 1917. Provincial authoriti e s in British Columbia had hoped to lure the curtiss company westwards to establish a manufacturing works there, as the province was thought to be an ideal center for a network of air routes across the islands and to the inland centers. And, 30 years before Kenneth Arnold's "flying saucers" were seen i n neighbouring Washington state, the residents of British Columbia were also reporting "mysterious aeroplanes". · On Janua.ry 16th, 1917, at 11:45 A. M . , F . Ashley Sparkes, the Headmaster of the Victoria Preparatory School, heard a boy 18 ~7 12 ;.~ .~.SEP87
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X by the name of Hemming <~all out, "Look at the aeroplane." Sparkes said the biplane was clearly visible, about half a mile to a mile away, and circled over Oak Bay for 5 minutes before heading off towards the American coast. Hemming was certain of its being an aeroplane having seen them before in England. At the same time, another resident of Oak Bay corroborated their description of the aeroplane and its movements. The District Intelligence Officer failed to find any further sightings or any leads which could account for the aircraft. Superintendent Colin S. Campbell of the B. C. Provincial Police was more certain of its origins, and telegraphed Sherwood: "On instruction from Attorney General, I beg to report that a biplane was seen circling over Oak Bay, Victoria, at noon on sixteenth instant. Came from direction of San Juan Island and disappeared going south. No air craft in British Columbia connected with this flight; there are at least five machines in Seattle, Wash., capable of making this flight . • A protest was made to the United States government by the British Ambassador in Washington of more aerial trespassing. A week later, a woman in Victoria claimed not only to see two aeroplanes between 1 and 2 A.M. but heard their pilots talking to each other in a foreign lan guage. This claim was passed onto Sherwood without comment , but Captain Tweedale, the District Intelligence Officer, found it "so absurd and impossible that no credence can be placed in it". 19 ~7 11 ~~ lt SEPB7
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X This peculiar report is somewhat similar to another cited by Charles Fort in Lol While walking near the Caerphilly Mountains in Wales, on the evening of May 18th, 1909, a man by the name of Lithbridge claimed to see a large tube-shaped construction in which were two men dressed in fur coats. When these men spotted him, they spoke excitedly in a foreign language and sailed away in this strange flying machine. Yet, to hear human voices over the roar of an aeroplane engine or to converse between aeroplanes would be a task most difficult to believe . Although he had seen nothing, the lighthouse- keeper on Discovery Island heard an aeroplane engine passing over his house on the night of February 5th-.6th, 1917. The direction of its flight appeared southward. And by now, Tweedale had discovered "some 20 (flying) machines of various kinds are registered in Seattle" . On February 11th, a mysterious aeroplane paid another visit to Vancouver Island and convinced Tweedale that some mischief was afoot. At 7 P.M., a resident by the name of Jones reported to Provincial Police that he had seen an aircraft with lights flying over the water off Qualicum Beach descending from a considerable height. At 8 P.M., the driver of a motor st.age . P.O . Reid, and several of his passengers "distinctly saw a flying machine of some sort crossing the 17 20 10;; .4.SEP87
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X road in front of their car" . They stopped and got out to watch and listen for its engines. The aeroplane was about a quarter of a mile away and 400 to 500 feet above. It sped over the Metchosin Road at a speed of 60 to 70 miles an hour and displayed "lights of some kind". It moved eastward across Happy Valley Road in the direction of Esquimalt. At 8:30P . M., one of the guards at the Esquimalt Navy Yards saw "some kind of aircraft having lights aboard". The aeroplane circled over the harbour and then turned southward making for the American coast and the Olympic Range to the west of Puget Sound . According to Tweedale, " ••. it would be easy to take aeroplane parts and explosives into some secluded spot in the (Olympic) mountains, after landing them in some port on the W est Coast as mining machinery and put them togethe1· in some secluded spot, and when this was done and they have a sufficient quantity of explosives ready, to fly over our harbour and destroy the ships therein, besides the powder works on James Island, chemical works in Victori a, Parliament Buildings , etc . As we have no means of defending ourselves should this be carried out, these German agents who are certainly informed of this fact would be taking l ittle risk . •.. The only other theory is, that these strange machines come from ~eattle in the pay of German agents unknown to the United States Authorities. " i27 9 D~~ .4.SEP07 21
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X As far-fetched as t;his line of conjecture may appear to us today, about 20 years earlier, the United States government had the same fears regarding the activities of the Spanish Consulate in British Col umbia during the Spanish-American War. One Spaniard completely unnerved American agents by openly asking Canadians about hiring ships and by sending coded telegrams to Madrid. The American officials in Victoria thought that a fleet of these ships would begin to raid ports along the Pacific Coast, and the cryptologists in Washington spent frustrating weeks trying to decipher the intercepted cables without success . In 1917, the British Ambassador in Washington again protested to the State Department of the invasion of Canadian territory by unidentified aviators from the United States. The reply he received referred only to the reports of aeroplanes in the area around Buffalo and completely ignored the situation developing on the West coast. Sherwood was aware of these events but seems not to have given them much serious attention. A further report of an aeroplane heard by the guard at Esquimalt on M arch 5th was investigated by the Dominion Police sergeant at the Esquimalt Dock Yard . "The guard at Esquimalt, upon whose report the information was based, admitted the following day that he had seen nothing . " Rumou r s of aeroplanes in the area 22 ~ 7 B ~~ .~.S E P87
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X abounded, and the use of 'intoxicants ' by the Naval Volunteer guards was suspected. While this guard was visiting a constable at the jetty, they heard something flying overhead. The call of geese was heard, and the guard cracked, "There goes the air craft." Thus, Sherwood concluded! " •• • all of them may be put down to a wild goose story . " On the 24th of December , 1917 , a private living at St. Felicite, Quebec, wrote to ottawa to mention that something that looked like a zeppe l in was seen the previous night at 8:30 P.M. travelling in the direction of Whale Cape at 1S to 20 miles an hour. The letter arrived in Ottawa on the 27th along with a telegram from the telegraph operator at Newport Point, Quebec . "Strange lights in the air these three nights looks very much like an aeroplane. Please let me know what to do," was the message sent on the night of the 26th. Some object appears to have been flying over the St. Lawrence River; and, though investigations were to be made, its identity remains undiscovered. The many fears and suspicions Canadians felt regarding the neutrality of the United States were allayed by the declaration of war against Germany on April 6th, 1917. With the exception of the Quebec sightings in December of 1917, the last known reports of mysterious aeroplanes were those recorded i n March of 1917 . The prospect of German spies 23 ~ 7 7 ~"' .~.SEP0 7
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X flying aeroplanes from bases in a hostile United States began to appear highly unlikely. Though strange aircraft may have continued to be seen, they no longer attracted any serious attention from the Canadian authorities . Although Canada was quite distant from the European theater of war, the German Secret Service was actively seeking to cripple the country ' s ability to wage war. The German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman sent a cipher telegram to the German Ambassador in Washington, Count Johann von Bernstorff, on January 3rd, 1915, instructing: "Secret: Reference my 357. General Staff anxious vigorous measures should be taken to destroy Canadian Pacific for purpose causing lengthy interruptions of traffic . Acquaint military attache with above and furnish sums required for enterprise." The Military Attache was Captain Franz von Papen, who later distinguished himself by becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and Vice-Chancellor under Hitler in 1933. The attempt to disrupt Canada's railways surfaced when Deputy German Consul Wilhelm von Brincken in san Francisco tried to recruit a Dutch-canadian R.J. van ~oolbergen to dynamite the Selkirk tunnel near Revelstoke , British Columbia. However, van Koolbergen advised the British Consul, A. carnegie Ross, of the soheme1 and, Ross advised the Canadian authorities. Sherwood was the principle force in laying a trap by having a false newspaper story published of a railway tunnel explosion , and the agent he dispatched to ~ 7 6~. L .S EPB7 24
• Mysterious Aeropl~nes/X San Francisco to assist u.s. officials in the arrest of von Brincken for attempted sabotage was Capt. Tweedale. Throughout the First world war, Canada was only twice attacked by agents of the German Secret Service. An earlier dynamiting of a railway bridge on the border near Vanceboro, Maine, on New Year's Day, 1915, produced only superficial damage. And, the only successful attack was the destruction of an overalls factory making uniforms in Walkerville, Ontario, on June 22nd, 1915. The combined efforts of Sherwood in Canada and Sir William Wiseman, the chief agent of the British Secret Service in the United States, managed to foil a multitude of schemes to invade or cripple Canada by German agents . Fortunately, no attempt to launch an aerial attack, s uch as suggested by Capt. Tweedale, seems ever to have been begun. The Canadian episode during the First World War cannot be entirely dismissed as a matter of war hysteria or 'soaeroplanes' . While no such aircraft were involved in the Anglo-Boer War or the Russo-Japanese War, Canadians were prompted to report real aircraft, such as the Burgess-Dunne and the secret shipments of aircraft from Buffalo to Toronto . Some c ivilian witnesses appear to have been v ictims of war paranoia, but many of the sightings came from responsible members of the military and civilian authorities. W ithout knowing the capabilities of existing aircraft, the belief ~ 7 5 ~;;, .tSEP8 7 25
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X that strange lights and ,sounds in the skies might be aeroplanes flown by German spies and saboteurs seemed a logical explanation at that time. The threat of an aerial attack was given serious consideration by the Prime Minister, the Acting Minister of Militia, the Chief of the General Staff, the Military Secretary of the Militia Council, and the Commissioner of the Dominion Police. Sherwood may have given little credence to reports following the incident at Brookville, but as the head of Canadian co~nterintelligence, he was the person to whom all 'aeroplane' reports were forwarded, rather than to the Militia. Thus, because of the popular belief as to the origins of the 'mysterious aeroplanes•, the bulk of the sightings and reports were accumulated in the files of the Secret Service of the Dominion Police . In 1920 , the Dominion Police were absorbed into a newly- created federal force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police1 and, the counterintelligence operations of the Secret Service were taken over by the Security and Intelligence Branch, later known as the 'Security Service '. Bits of meta1 and rubber found at the sites of forest fires in the Yukon and British Columbia i n 1959 reminded the Security and Intelligence Branch of the incendiary balloons launched by Japan in the last year of the Second World war. In a file entitledt "Military and Other Devices of Unknown Origin , Canada- General", Security and Intelligence once again revived suspicions of foreign '16 1117 4 ;;; ,L.SEP87
• Mysterious Aeroplanes/X sabotage in Canada from , the skies . However, the character of the file was changed into one dealing with UFOs by two subsequent cases. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada received letters from Davenport, Iowa, in 1960, claiming that a spacecraft had crashed in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. This hoax was extremely crude, but it apparently warranted a disclaimer by the Chilliwack Sub- Division of the R. C. M. P . More serious attention was g i ven to the observed crash of a strange object into Clan Lake, Northwest Territories, on June 22nd, 1965. Whether the object was a meteorite, satellite, or flying saucer, the unsuccessful effort to recover it from the crash site was directed by W. H. Kelly, Di rect or of Security and Intelligence for the R. C.M. P., and by Group Captain L . C. Dilworth, Director of Air Intelligence for the Royal Canadian Air Force. After this report, the file took in those UFO reports sent to R.C.M.P. Headquarters and took on the new title: "Unidentified Flying Objects, Sightings of". Therefore, it can be said that Canada's counterintelligence agencies have expressed an i nterest in UPOs for a century from 1865 to 1965, although the period of greatest interest was during the First World War. The historical importance of the mysterious aeroplanes and airships of years past comes in recognizing the phenomena of UFOs as the perception of unusual occurrences which can have a real existence and the dominance of interpretations on those 27 ~7 3 lrR .L.S£P87
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X perceptions. From before the First World War until several I years following the Second World War, the belief that the observed phenomena might be hostile aircraft flown by foreign powers was the dominant inte.rpretation. It was felt no other explanation could account for the origins or activities of strange lights and noises in the skies. In wartime , this belief surfaced in Canada as a serious concern demanding the attent ion of its counterintelligence agency, the secret Service of the Dominion Police. And, apart from hoaxes and sightings involving known aircraft, the Canadian episode distinguishes itse~f from others of the same period by the knowledge that no such hostile a i rcraft existed and in the availabil ity of intelligence files which reveal nume rous sightings and the concerns of the responsible government officials. The era of UFOs as 'mysterious aeroplanes and airships' has come to an end. The biplanes and zeppelins of yesteryear have vanished only to be replaced by jumbo jets and space shuttles . Strange lights and sounds are s t ill reported as UFOs, but now they appear in the form of 'flying saucers' and alien visitors from another world. 'l'he dominance of the extra-terrestial hypothesis in shaping the popular perception of UFOs has created a new era . Yet, as mankind reaches out to his neighbouring planets only to find them lacking of any sign of intelligent civilization, a re-evaluation of the hypothesis will be demanded seeking visitors from interstellar 28 li17 2 ~ ;~.S EPB7
Mysterious Aeroplanes/X rather than interplabet~ry space. The reasoning which only ~inds 'alien aircraft ' as ~he r'maining solution when all other explanations of UFOs fail is. faulty deduction. The skeptics who reject most UFOs as illusion and misinterpreted observations of ordinary phenomena fare no better by trusting in generalities . Researchers into the UFO phenomena would benefit by examining the u.nexplained sightings offering the beat descriptions and the most substantive evidence available and then comparing them with the expl anations of identified UFOs. Strange phenomena, such as 'angel hair ' , which have been aaeociated with 'flying saucers' might be found to be nothing mor e than an exotic phenomenon, such as ball-lightning, but their occurrence need not imply the existence of alien craft. If the study of UFOs is to rise above the realm of pseudo- science and a new era is to begin, the gathering and e~aminatio n of UFO sightings must concentrate on the observed phenomena and not depend upon any single explanation when the answer remains unknown. - End - i17 1 u~~ ;4.SEP8 78$1: 29
• .. 83.!2.23 Hr. X Box 1598 Kingston, Ontario K7L 5C8 Dear Hr. X: Our f1Jt NOtre re1•enc:• 83HR-1056 and 1295 This will acknowledge receipt of your money order for the sum of $176.75, as the balance of payment for the cost of photo- copying our File HQ- 400-Q- 5, U.F.O. Report. Attached please f i nd copies of all the accessible records you requested under th e Acc ess to Information Act. Pl~ase note that a number o f complete documents and portions of other doc - uments have been severed, pursuant to Section 25 of the Act. The sectlons severed qualify for exemption under Sections 13(1)(a), l6(1)(b)(ll) and 19(1) of the Act. Copies of the applicable Sections of the Act are attached for your Informa- tion. Please be advised that you are entitled to bring a complaint regarding the withholding of the severed lnformatlon ln the records you hove requested, to the Information Commissioner . Notice of c omplain t s should be addressed to: tnformatlon Commissioner Tower "8" Place de Vllle 112 Kent Street, Ottawa, On tar lo KIA I H3 C.anarm 14th f'loor I I I /2
• - 2 - Our l'llea: 83HR- l056 and 129~ With reference to paragraph two of your letter dated December 16, 1983 l don't feel 1 should reply to your complaint at thls time. You previously addressed a slmllar complaint to the Information Commissioner, and an lnvestlgatlon is presently being conducted by that o{flce• They will be corresponding to you with the results of the investigation ln the near future. Yours t ruly, P~ . Banning, C Departmental Pollc and Ac cess to tnC o~ atlon Coordinator atta • ' c .c. Information Commissioner " C" Directorate ALtn1 Acccsa/Prlvacy CoordinAtor ~ttoc h c 1 d are t he seven volumes of HQ -400•Q-5 rolcnsod to Hr. x. ~xompt ons wot c applied to n number of complaints documcnts 1 and port ions of other documents.78-07-27 Nr . X Consulting Resoloaist ot the Res Bureaux Box 1598 Kingston, Ontario K7L 5C8 Dear Sir1 Receipt of your letter dated 79-07-03 is aoknowledaed. Detore giving turther consideration to your reques t tor access to our tiles on U.F.O . s1Mhtinga, additional information will be required , As stated in your last paraaraph, you are willing to provide further identification. It is requested that your date ot birth, plaoo ot birth and places you have resided be provided. Aa tar as "credentials'' are oonoerned, I assume you have had to provide some type ot doo~entation to other government departments prior to their releasing intormatio.n contained on their tiles. I am i nterested in ao~ething tangible to indionta you are a qualified researcher into this subj ect and any correspondence you might have trom other government depa.rtmenta acc rediting you with thie dietinot1on would be appreciated. Upon receipt ot thia additional information, turther oonaideration vlll bo &ivon to your ...,quoot. \a\~~~ t~ r ~ lN'/ ~~o D. Chi Inapeotor Actina Ottioor in Ohar~e Federal Policing Branch 1200 Alta Vista Ottawa, Ontario f6(_ \\ ~~ ~~J C:>~ ARJF/dl . •
ACCESS SEcriON I SECTION DE L 1 ACCES 00ctlMENT REMOVED FROM FII,E I DQW!(tHT RETIRE DU OOSS:rER ' RG !?! Volume 317{ Nature ot docwpent/ . w &/ dt Descripti.on du d.ocumen No. ot Pages/ I Nbra de pages Exempt/Exception, /9(/) d i1 {/)d Access To Information Act/ Reason ,tor Removal/ L9i sur 1 1 acces a 1 1 intor;ation Retrait en vertu de Review Officer/,~ · Agent(e) d'examen/" .iil:t 6 1~ )tlcp - .-; vrJ - rp. ~ qtonsulting l\esolog1 ~ of tbe ~u ~ureaux ~ox 1598, 1\ing&ton, entario it71. sqrs ~anaba ~ abl e: l\Qf~18Wll\Qf~UHt July) , 1979 D. Chiarot , Inspector , Acting Officer in Charge Feder al Policing Branch , Royal Canadian Mounted Police , 1200 Alta Vist a Drive , Ottawa , Ontario KlA OR2 Dear Sir, I wish to t hank you for your letter of June 27th , replying to my lengthy inquiry of May )Oth , which was received this morning . As my inquiry into UFOs and my signature are not the Force • s nor mal far e, I would not doubt that it may have elicited some strong scepticism and probably some chuckles ; however , m y study is most ser ious , otherwise I would be more than satisfied with t he many files available at the National Re search Council . As an illustration of my needs , (as perceived by me) , I have since l ast w riting (in May ) discovered , located , and examined previously oonfiden t i al files on Project Magnet he ld by the Department of Communications . My e xamination revealed ei ghteen U FO reports which had never been transferred to the National Research Counc i l , including one as recent as 1972 . Altho I have not indexed t he Pro ject Second Storey files , (released i n March of 1978 by the D. N. D. ) , a t least eighty- nine UFO r epor ts were f ound ther e which had never been transfer red to the N ational Research Council ; and , with regard t o those files , I was the individual responsible f or drawing attention t o their e xistence ·~o the r~eteor Centre s o that t hey might obtain a copy for their f i l es . Of ten it is a lack of clear communication between government depart ments and a lack of departmental r esponsibility being designated to a single agency that has s cattered UFO r epor ts into the archives of several mtnietries . Yet , each l1FO r epor·t is of impor tance , for the number of UFO reports ls not as large as some enthusiasts would hol d. For example , of the eighteen reports I noted in Pro j ect Magnet file no , 5010-4 one dealt with a visual ly conf irmed radar contact , and these seldom occur more than t wo or three t imes each year , The se new repor ts m ay repr esent only one per cent of those in government f iles , but that one case may represent three per cent of r adar- vis ual cases in the whole of Canada . I know the Force has more fi l es , and a cce s s to any of them w ould a dd to my study ,
• ... )'2 I D. Chiarot/RCMP/July J ' 79 I can also well appreciate tne position of the Force with regard to UFO reports received from ' both members of the Force and the general public . I have been advi sed that my inquiries could in all probability come to naught in obtaining access to R.C.M . P. files pertaining to Project Second Storey . However , I fear the Force has had to adapt itself without benefit of clear responsibility to the receipt of UFO reports and has received little support from other agencies in clearing the identity of UFOS or passing their investigation over to others with the knowledge and resources to deal with their analysis . No government agency appears to have ever been given r esponsibility to investigate the phenomena of UFOs other than in the collection of reports, No analysis of the data collected outside of twenty-five reports in Project Magnet ever appears to have been attempted nor sought . I'd hope with my study to establish some analysis which wi l~ allow for a due assessment of what is being reported , by whom , to whom, where, and under what circumstances . As you'll not see any results of this effort until I begin compiling my computer data-bank , I'd ask your patience before I can supply you with examples of these ambitious undertakings . With them in hand, you can better assess their value and determine if the Force would find it in their interest to assist me , I shall soon be consulting with other UFO researchers in Washington , D. C. , in early August on establishing a reporting form for UFO sightings which would enhance data which might otherwise go unnoticed and unmentioned in UFO reports now going to the National Research Council . By the end of August , I hope to be aQle to previde you with a draft copy of a new comprehensive sightin~ form , (as mentioned in question 4 of my letter of May JOth) , and with a rough breakdown of UFO repo~ts received over the past year in Canada. Lastly , with regards to my i dentity and credentials, I would point out that my true and legal name is "X" and enjoy its recognition as such by Canada, the United Kingdom , and the United States of America , Its adoption was one of precedent foi• patent and copyright purposes, but, for more mundane i matters , I still use my former Christian name as circumstances dictate . For your convenience , I ' m enclosing a photocopy of a ~ certified copy of the court order changing my name1 and, I am quite willing to provide :fUrther identification if' so required , As to what "credentials" you may require of me , I would ask for some clarification . After you've had an opportunity to examine the draft of a new sighting form and an example of one year's analysis of UFO activity, we might arrange to discuss my study and possible co-operation with the Force in September. Yours truly, ~ Mr . X
• ~es ~ureaux 1iulletin May 1979 ISSN 0383·6150 Bulletin No.4 7 Conducted by Mr. X Address mall to Printed in Canada ® Res Bureaux 1979 Box I 598, Kingston, Ontario K7l SCB CANADA MICROBES AS MI:SSI:.NGLRS "The somowlwl r.oru p h ~nom u n o n ul J fotll of guidon yellow snow oceurrud In thu mldll of J suvcrc stor m on the aft(!rnuon of tho 27 th of fobru•ry at Pc~kcloh , In Germdny. A sprcimcn of tho w~ t cr mclt•d from this soow, dftcr being ~•PI .. few days, was mlcroseoplcally ex~.mincd by Weber, wh<> dc,"rbcs It in Klein's WOCHE:NSCHRIFT; he found thll h euntrincd prinelpally lour different ~ ind~ ol g~rms "' otg.~n· rsms. shaped respectively like arrows, coffee bo•ns, horns .rnd dar~ Oa t dises."' (MONTHLY WEATHER RI:VILW, U.S., Ma1 1877, p. 11 ). "Thuy may hnvo bcun symbols. They rn"y huve been u~fuotlvc hieroglyphics. . • "Mere p.uslng I dnty .. . let It ~;o . • " (BOOK OF ntE DAMN£D, th.3, p.1S, IIult/ Du•or "d.) "Scientists •~•mine tiny viruses for mo>>otgcs from Outer Sp.eo," (NEW YORK TIMES. May 7. 1979, p.DI3 ). Sixty years JK<l Fort W~> searching lor communle.Hlons from other worlds Which o nlght fall from .obtwc In rnotcm itu> of nn artlllclnl origin. l'odnv, j.tpnncso lcluntlmurc lcuklng u mcsuge from Ull utlv.onc<Jd clvllllottlon In ol vl o u~ which m.Jy Infect bacteria found In hum,on Intestines. rhc vhus I> known ·•s Ph1X· I74 In 1977, British sclent1m succeeded In unra•cl ingthc DNA code of the virus Into 5375 word>. nr .tmlnu ~cid combinlliom. Wh~t bothers tho seicnllsu Is the mc;wge is overlapping ~nd ean be "oead In three dllfcocnt w•vs, depend· log on where tho rcadlnR bogan." " II Is quito dltrlcult to cxplaon the origin '""I cvolll tlon ol <>Vorlapplhg gunos In torm1 of rnolcoular evolut ion,'' 1ay tho ).tpuno>o sclcntlm, llirornll~u Yoltuu .md 'l •ho Oshlm.t. Thus they bullcvu tho todo tu be Jrtlliclal In origin .1nd .tn ox.unplo of "Directed Pamporrnla". This messenger virus mt~ht be used to Infect plane~ from JfJr, Jnd If J wltablo cnvtronmont "ere found, 'bloluglc~l mcssJ~cs can bo autom.tlcJIIV eopicd •nd cover tho ontlr~ pl~not. ' Dr. F.H.C Cri c ~ . co-dl~<.ovcr~r ol the structure ot ONA (dco~yrl b unuclelc •dd) w~~&c>tcd such .r prospect b•tk In 1973; but, this i> thr n"t time ~<.t~ntlst> >com to think they h,rvc d nW>IJgu from beyond "Unfortun.uoly, •10 llsnl flc,tnt 11~ 11 urn wai IJbsorvctl, " they say uftor ox~mlnlng color todcd dlspluy1 ul v.rrlnu• sequences of Ph iX · I11f's DNA coda. Mult iple prime turmbur~ ha\IU been found, 1\trJyS of I I by II thrce·leuer ww d' •nd 7 by 13 lcuers hd•o been examined Jlrudy, .ond pl.o n' ~r• underway to oxdmlno 13 by ~I lellor •rr•v• bvco ll no"'~' s..ge " found, the selcntlsts consider "thh exercise a prototype for future such effort s." They fi lled to note Fort's earlier cons i dor~tlon> uf rni"obcs•s 'obJective Hieroglyphics'. EXTRAORDINARY METEORS' On the morning of Fcbrudfy 17th, a newspaper delivery buy <occs • "l,11tlng star" crash Into an automobile, knock over a mailbox on J post, Jod sculo in Its own >moke. From h~r< on the story becomes strange. A car drives up and its driver tells the buy to delivery the rest of his papers. W hen he return• to the >ito, both the object and tho smashed automo· bile h.wc dlsuppeurcd as has the str••ngo mun. Tnc rn;ri lbox and the tire nf th ~ dumrrNccJ .\Ulunoubllo .uo mute Witnesses. Ccn.tlnly thu dt1gs o il the r1cMby house b.rrked moro than usu· •I, bul three counselors who patrolled the Jroa for the news· paper 's delivery ~ ISO claim to have seen the "falling star". A unl•crlil\ astronomer listens to lhc story Jnd uyslt doesn't sound like It wds d meteorite. The Air Force denl•s "'Y know· ledge <>I the obit~:t or lhc incident And APRO < Imply says it sounds ll ~c or UFO c.•sc reported In the 1960s. No one doubts 10mething fe ll trurn the sky, no une denies the mailbox and lire wcoo there, no one connives to place tho Incident In the boy 's lmagiMtlon but no ono Is willing to J nvostlgato or sUg· gcst wh(lt tho oblcct described as lhc sl~o of ,r microwave nvon Wds uo who the strange drlvor who nppc.rrs o~n d dls•ppudrs wllh the objctt might be, (ARIZONA DAII.Y STAR, Febru· ar1 2 1, CR: Ul 0 Ncwsclipping Sor,Jte, No. 116 & L Farish). Might I SU!IliC\1 it was • delivery of sorne ottlcr goods which w•> supposed tube ln<:onspicuous but wasn't . About rnltlnlght, between February 25 th •nd 26th, unoUtcr 'slo1gul.u phenomenon WJI oxporlenc;od by • deal lilnhor who uw sumo rod lights explode In a bright c.>r~ngo Ro~lh .rrod then hoord the explosion. l'ollcc In Porterville Collllornl.t, wore rather mystified by the somi·Gohcrcnl nra~ who >Poke to them ol tho fldlh no one else reported •nd then compl~lncd of the noises from typewriters •nd ,, hculng unit down the hall . It "·" .r while before It dawned upon them all th•t the IJnilnr had rc,ove.cd his hc•rlnx lost to spinal mcntn· &hh when he wJ\ three ycors <Jid , However, no sooner were thr nwdoul c~pcrts Jl • loss to expl,un wh~l. "meteOr" ur lither , h•d rostorcd his hearing than ho h~d lost his hearing flvr dJy\ lillUr JIIIJ Wdl .tg.tln dc.tf, (DALLAS MO ~N I N O NEW S, F~b11111ry 28 & M ~rdt 2: CR: T Adam>; WASHING· '!'ON Sl AR, I ebruotry '28 & M .orch 2: CR: R Manners: KING· STON \IIIIIG·S I1\NDARO , Foluu.u y 28). In tho llULLiiTIN (39: 4) , I cited the source of some of Greg's loth•l meteorites .t> bclna ATHENAEUM of 1836,
and here followlna 1 would reproduce the paro~graph from the l11ue of November 2. 1836, (p.803): "Acrollles, A short time since an Jltempt was made t() provo that .tmo11gs1 dll the dlfforerH desccna uf .wrolhos, thor~ wa• not J 1lnNiu ux.1 mplo or JM)' on~ bcln~ Killu<.l by th~m. Slntc then, M. B.1binet, son·ln·l•w to Professtlr Lo~ugler, h•\ sent 4 note un this subject to the French Academy ot Sciences, with a fragment of an aerolite, belonging to the collection of M. Lo~ugler, which fell ncar Roquefort, In Amurl· ca, aud, making J hole n,c feet In size, crulhcd two men in a cottolge, by the falling In of the roof M. Eyries 01ho sutes, th•l Olaus Eric10n W illman, a Swedl~h s.~ilor,ln tlw ~rvlce of tho Dutch Em Indies Co1npany, In 1647, had declared, that whilst at sea, .tnd tho vessel under press of sail, D stone, weigh· lng eight pounds, fell on deck, and killed two men . Mr. W~rdcn has communicated to the Academy, that an event of the li ke nature took place In Georgia, In 1826, Jnd occ.sionud the death of scvcr•l per<ons; and, moreover, thJt In July, 1829, an lndl•n, named Allk•, lost his lifo In the same man· ner" After innumerable ''flying saucer'' reports ancJ probably alter being shaken by aerial detonations alon11 1hc coast, the New Jersey State Murine Pollee were not very rccuru lve to tho story of a I S·yoar·old who clo imed to have suun u "sllvory object. . . JS big as a true~" spldsh in to BJrnugut llity. About 9:45PM, on April 18th, rronk r ork• w"' wJiklnll with hlsdoM Jlong the hooch whun the objcd o.mo flying In low frt~m the ust It wn JtcompJnlcd by 1 "low rumbling noise" until it hit the w•tcr whereupon It produced "J hissing sound as It ,.ent beneath the wJves". Then other people swtcd to phone In to report seeing a "burning object f.llllrom the sky Into the bay". Now, the pollee becamo Interested, Jnd th~ Co•>t Guard sent a crew to look for the object, Nothing w,as found. Then six days later, 10mu o ther pcupl~ IOI)klng lor t lams found a "roc~·· 1tbout tho "N1mu place 1hc "mutcor" sank. A \Crgcan t bolo1111lng to tloo State Marina Pollee dove anti oxam· lncd the 8 foot by 2 foot rock. "No algae wore growing on It, Jn Indication thJt tho ro'k h ~d not been In the w.ater long," The rock also hnd d "pined'' appearance. The C<Mit Gu•rd marked Its location with buoys twice, but before • recovery ancmpt could be org.lnlted, the huo¥~ And the "rock" "ere lost W ithout the ·•rock" o r • piec:l! of It as proof, and chcml· CAl •nalvsis, the Smlthsono•n Institute Is not wllllnN to con· sldcr the fallin11 objctt to be a "moteorilo", I( It did not rnll lrorn tho sky, lho "rock" m•y ha\lc fallen off a bnrge hauling construction rnntcrlal s oxplnln the authorities. It was not a native boulder. The slHhtlng of a "sllvery obJect •. . as big as a truck'' was strictly colncldon t~lln location whcl"ll•n unknown barge haullnK conuruttlon rnat•rfal happened to drop •" 8 fool by '2 foot pin ed rocll., •nd had done ~ <tulle retently ai there w•s no •lgae upon it. Tha "Oylngs•uccr" suggestion h much more likely to be bcllev•blc. Had G.T. Symons been un thr scene, we might Ond a search to learn the Identity of any barges bringing mato!lnl to nearby construction shes •nd lnq u lrlc~ a~ to whether ~ny pieces had bucn loll ovcrbo•rd. llowever, tho Smhh~nian prefers to "damn" tho "rock" Jnd Lhc ''slivery obJect", Dr. l~ay 5. Clfukc ''luas bcun Issuing perlodit disclaimers noting that • mctcorltu th•t silo would have provided a 'spuct.atular' dlspi•Y In the night sky, not the >Oft silvery glow Fr•nk Forka reported, " says Martin WJidron, writing for tho NEW YORK TIMES, (May S, p. 26; CR: T Dickinson & L Farflh, UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE, No. I 18). "There would have been sonic booms and a bright nrcball over a large orca,'' says Dr. Clarke. No one seems to care to Investigate by searching any· further for th~ck " from a sclcntiOc >tandpuint, tho local authorities w:111't to ~•k out the obJect when cfrcumst;tnces allow. It also doesn 't seem to mallcr When "sonic booms" and "an intense globular· shaped light" arc seen on December 20th, 1977, al Toms River, about 1 0 miles away from Lanok.l H.ubor where the search for the "rock" is based. B•ck In 1977, no meteoric debrh was to be found, and the boornlng noises were eventU• Jlly blamed on "•coostlc phenomena" gcner.ttcd by diStant supcrsonk Jlrc,.ft. Of cou~ . then they had to Ignore the "Orcball" and the triggering of banery powered smoke alamns In .t half do1.cn homes, (soc RBB 28: 2, 9 10; EDMONTON JOURNAL, hnuary 7, 1978). For tho number or "metco· rites" which havo been dug out of Indian burial mounu,, IIHn c~ up by a plow, or In tho case of thu Okcchobeo meteor· Ito brought to light from a fishing nut, •nal "acccptc:d" asuuo meteoric maturlal by the National Muwum, one muSt wonder how lacking In curiosity and cno'lly the mlncralogim .tnd meteorltlclsu there must be to IKnorc the opportuni ty to ~arch for the Barnegat Bay "rock". To l11ue disclaimers that the object cannot be a meteorite because it lacks sufn· clent a11cndlng phenomena when ono has conducted o11c 's entire Investigation by long·dlmncc telephone Is ludicrou\ to \ay th o lc.ast. When the now rCSilUiotolblo study or meteors and meteorites Is so shdbbily treatod by tho U.S . National Museum, c.uo O ne doubt tho subject o r "flylns >aucors" or UFOs. with their spurious reputation, have not enjoyed a proper exam ina· tlon by motcorltlclsts, astronomers, Jnd the sclcntinc com· munlly ill • whole! NEWS FROM NASA : Drs. Bldlr D. Savage and Klt~as S. de Boor, of the Univcr· lilY of W lsco r1sln, have succeeded with the uso of the EJrth· orbiting lntorn3tlonal Ultraviolet Explmur satellite In discover· lng J gnl.ictlc coronn or h,do o&roun~ tho Milky \Vay Galaxy. Tlw gaseous coron.a w:u predicted In 1956 by Dr, Lyml\n 5phtcr Jr., uf Princeton; and, now thu one has been tound around our gala~y. the "discovery lends support 1 0 the idea thu such coronas dre acommon astronomlt.ll phenomena" and may help explain objects such Js "stran~e ~uasars and quasi· stellar objcc\1", The "gaseous glllctlc coron•• >urround~ the galaxy IO a distance of 25,000 light•)•CM> •nd il said tO be 100,000 do~re"' Contlgrade; yet, Its rn•ss amountS to no more lhan uno pur con i ur the gal•~y . ruling out ~ now solution 1 0 thu "rnls.lng ill,tss", an<.l thus rne;1surln~ ~ ~on s i ty "a million tirrouslc1s than tho bGst vacuums over recorded on the Eorth ". Very tenuous Indeed! Spoculatlon now .abounds as to whether or not tho gases forming the corona arc tho outnowlng of de· brl1 and g•scs I rom nova and supernov.a or tho lnOowlng of the intcr·galactic medium Thuslar, obwrvnlons of tho corona •te only possible abo•u the ultr.t•lolet·absorblng atmosphere •nd h•v~ be<:n deduced from the speetr. or hot stars In tWO neighboring galaxies and the Magellanlc Clouds. liow correct the size or tho corona Is und ltslntcr.lctlon with tho intergalac· tic medium Me exalting prospuots we can look lorward to fro future NASA mbslons with orblllnK ob,orvatorfes, (NASA News Release No, 79·83). STELLAR MYSTERIES: Perh•pl we don't understand the physics of neutron
U.r! ~~ ~II." commcnls Dr. David J. ~lelf•nd of Col umbi~ Unlve"hy. A lUrvey or the celestial sky by rhe Molongo Radi o Obsorvarory In 1\usualla reaped n harvcsr of I SS new pulsars which more rhan doubled rho number of known pulsars. The radio utronomcrs calcu l~tc that J million pul\us probably exist In tho Milky Way Galaxy, but rhoy don't see how there can be such an abundance of neutron stars. From the time a star experiences • supernova explosion • nd rorna a rast· spinning pulsar, or neutron s~a r ,lt h not o•pected to last more than • million )'Cars. The last supernova seen from Earth rn 1604 .nd the fewer th•n • doren seen In rec.orded history ore but • small portion or these events which arc "predicted" to tJkt pl~cc every 20 or 30 ye.lrs. For there to be ~ million puls•rs. their formation by supcrnov• explosion would ull for such events every yc.~ r 10 cvory nve years. With about live times •s m•ny pulsars round a> would be expected, Anthony Hcwl\h, who wor• ,1 Nobel Prl ~t for his part In th eir dlscuvcry, \,lys, "It's a real difficulty •r,at can't bo swept under the c.1rpct. " Perhaps gi a ntst~rscan become noutrnn lt;ors with ~ut J supernova cxpl6ilon, but how ? (KINGS"rON IVHIG ·STAND· ARD, FcbnlMy 7, p. S.) An even more intriguing problem arises In the recent dlscov~ry that 001 •II super nova explosions p1oducu pulurs. Dr. l lelfand repOrted to tho American Phyilcal Society that the c~amlnation of 10 supernova remnants revealed only 2 pulsm Only the Crab Nebula •nd Veil Nebula emlncd X ro~ys as w.u c•pectod. Tho I~EA0 ·2 ~atclllte wo11 used also to sun 2S puls• n to prove th~l older pulurs, -.hich ho~ve slowed down their raprd spin, were too cool to emit X·nys. Wherea< the numbor or pulsars arc nve time\ too numcrnu< 111 nr current models of their formation In supernova explosions, It ~lso appears pulsan and neutron stars might not bo formed In much mor~ than a fifth of the supernova cxplosltms. Thus, thu current uxt> lanutioros sivon by ,lilfononlors oJccounl for little moro thnn 4 or S per cen t of tho pul sMs In tho gal .. xy, If no netJtron >t•lt Is found In supernova remnants, one might ~uppoll! the nar collapsed further thon •>< J) ~Ctcd and bcCJmc a 'blutk hole': or, tho supernova might have resulted In th~ 'ompletc dhlntel!ldtlon of the H•r lc1111ng lll.lthlng behind but Jn e~pondlng cloud of gaseous debris. Another problem Dr. llelf•nd discussed was the occur~encc ol a supernova onl~ 11,000 liglu·ye""> •w•y th•t Apparently c>taped every· one's nullcc 280 ycar1 ago. An expanding g;n cloud In Caulo· polo~ would Indicate such an c•cnl lOOk place. but it .also lacks ·' pulldr or neutron >tar, (NEW YORK TIMt:S, April 30, p.AlS). W ere the sk le• obscured by clouds In 17 1 9, 01 1120, or 17 18, or whenever this neorby objcet hcf.1<111 expanding? As11 l' ortonn, tho thO \IHht or n r•ovu sugHOitS a trombllnjl of tho t:•rtlt. Might th e expanding cloud In Casslopotn havo stdftod 224 yours •Ko we mJght associate It> orroct with the great uarthqunko at Lisbon. Of course, I am assuming tho uffoct ul the dl>turb•ncc crrcctcd by. supernova 01 J nov• h tell 1\'hon light from th•t evonr roaches the oanh. Does gr~v l ty have • vel"'lty equal to th~ t of light, or does It h~ve any 1cloclty at •II' If the offe•t wds not depcndcnl upon such,, velocity, the o•p•ndlna cloud would ha•c 11~md dbout 9,000 B.C.; Jnd, th~ only geologlco~l dlsturb•nco ol note Jt thdl time might h. vc been the wnklng of Atl.ntl1. Mere p•s\lng f•ncy .. ,lot lt iiO .... EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION: On May 7th, ro~ldunts of S•n Francisco, Callfornl•, re· ported m~ny of their pets wore acllng mangely prior to an carth<1u,1ku which measured 4,8 on the Richter scale. OogJ growled .md took to running about their homos as much as two hours before tho quake. l'nrakceU screeched and started labburlng; ,tnd, c.u r•n orr from home. La. st November, t11c U.S. Geological Survey sent a team to Willits, California, to invostlgare "an abnormal o~mount of animal misbeh•viour at the epiconue, and within a 1 O·kllometer radius of the epl. centre" of an earthquake on November 22nd, measured at 5.0 on the Richter sc•le. Sclcntim .rc now considering more seriously the matter or precursors In animal behaviour but still lack • ciNr explanation as to what factor triggers the chiln&c In behaviour, (MONTREAL GAZETTE, May 9, p. 38). MISSING LINKS AND ABSMs: Th e discovery of 1 :\w fragmonL\ l)f a primate believed 10 have lived 40 mllllton yom dgu In Burma has pushed back tho wpposcd •go or tho higher primates {such a.s monkeys, apes, .md man) by 10 million years. The four new specimens ort• $<Idly Incomplete, but three of them have been ldcn ti Oed whh fossils previously discovered In Burma In 1914 and 1923. Comparisons of the fossils "identify" one lS bolonslns to 1\mphiphhecus, two ~~ belonging to Pong:aungla, and one which has not been Identified. Some scien1i111 arc reluctant to consider the find •• dcOnltive until more than a jaw fragment can be round. rhoy need the upper jaw and preferably a aood portion of a skull, (NEW YORK TIMES, May 8, pp. C 1 & C4; OTTAWA JOURNAL, May 9, p, 14; MONTREAL GI\LETTE. May 9, p. tOO). Natlonnl Geographic hal boon able to resurrect tho 1tory of Or, Mary D. Loakoy 's discovery or footprints .11 Laetolll In Tant.anla, Few newspapers rccognlztd tho "news" as the s.omu reponed " year before: but, the explanation that early man·llke creatures left tracks In volcanic ash moro lhan 3.5 million year\ 1go wu readily acceptable, (CALGARY tiER· ALO, Febru•ry 2S, 1978). On the other h•nd, whon someone claims not only to hav~ fresh footprints mouurlng 16 Inches In length by 9 Inches In width near Dunn L~kc and Barriere, B.C., but to have seen dnd ~hot at the tteJturc, then nuw;papers tend tu doubt the story. On April 28th, two teenagers heard a screaming noise while rtshiorg, Then they spottod tho Sasquatch 270 motor• dWJY un the siltoro before h dlsappo.rcd lntu the WllOds. Beaching thoh boat lookln~ ror rho S•squntch, they found a deer with ,, crushed nook covered by "B blanket of hranchel, twi~s. nnd lu;tvos". Then M April 30th, ro~r teenagers went orr I~ t>Ur<Uil of the Sosquateh and appiltcntly camo CIOM!r than they hdd bnrgalncd fur. " It stood there gluing dt mo for at least three ~econds. II wa> SO foot •way so cloM> I could smell II. 1 don 't even know why I ihOI I wJS Just scared, really scared," say' Tim M eissner, who h.d seen II .11 • distance bJioro. H ~ further dc~eribed It Jl h4vlng • >qu~rlsh f~ce. standing 9 feet tall, and l o~tgel y covered by curly brown hair, excepting ~ barechest Ill! friend< found him trembling •Iter he 1.1ld ht had \ltht , , thr hc•<l. It ho~d f.tllon lo onr knee but fled Into the bUih Track\ "ere found, Jnd piJIICr <J>IS were mJdc or th em. Y~ l the loc.ol wildlife uiOcer dl~el.tlrm the l n~ldonl "s fltllb.tbly "'' ~ n coun1cr with .on "elderly bruwrt bc.u whh gi\IY ·IIt1KC~ lur th.tl I<IA!Oiimc> w<ilk) upri~hl hcO JUIC II hrtl ''" lrt lurcd !runt puw", <~I lor tho tr'ittkl no c•pl.tn•tiQn I• ~lvcn fh< •rc:.t Wdl 100n uvcr-run with SJiqUJ"h hunter\ o~nd curious tourill~ who h••e r.ucd to lind Jn)' further """'or the crMutc, (KAMLOOPS DAILY SENTINEL, M1y 4; ST CATHERINES STANDARD, \lay 5; HAMILTON SPEC· TATOR, M•y 101. In early March , three Sa\C(uatch were spotted on tho Sunchlld·O'Chlese Rosorvc ncar Rocky Mountain !louse, Alberta. ScvorJI residents claimed to have seen one "half as Ioiii Jl a big lfee" wllh IYIO smaller ones. Two scp.trtllc groups uf skiers h4d seen them; ~nd when Chief Peter O'Chiuse went 10 look ror the leg~ndd r y treatures, he round 113tks measurtng •b<1u1 1wo feet In length, (EDMONTON SUN, Marth 16, p. 6; CR· I Musgnvc). In the llimai•Y •II, Lord Hunt photagraphcd footprints measuring 14 lnthos In length in the snow ~t hh camp ian vc•r. He thinks they wotu produced by ~o mo glnnt hominid bounding 1hru tho snow, (TORONTO STAR, May 31). How· ever, the Chinese claim to have round tho Yell nnd pu1 him 10 good usc. Chinese 1ruops tdPIUrcd one of the ereamres In Yunnan province In 1962: uo(onunalely. I he Chinese scient If· it journ.l e~plalns the troops "ate" the evidence, (TORONTO STAR, M•v 6). ZOOLOGICAL NEWS: AI a dopth or 8,000 foot below tJ1o surface or the ocean .trllidst hoi springs In tho sea rill Ooors, glunt worms measuring up to I 0 feet lcJng have been found. As the worms lack eyes. mouth, or MUI, they ..re being con•idercd ntcn1bof\ u( a new phylum in the anlm~l world. The worm• live 10 lwd cases, ~pp•rcnlly formed by exuded secretions, \nd thrun out ~ futhery reddish plumo th~t appev$ to absorb both oxygen ~nd nu1rlen11 directly from the sca·walcr. Tho colony or creature; ls localllcd to the warm aru whurc wlfor ,;om- pounds 4ro vented from the sea noor. The environment I\ rich with bacteria which feed upon hydro~o n ~ulndc .tnd c.trbon d lo~id c In 1ha llhsoncc 11f >Unllgh l. Sovor.tl ,puc!<>) of ~i•nl cldmS drc dlso said 10 live in the roglon. Suvcral o ther IP<Cimcns of d slmll.r worm have been tounu orr Californl~. but lhe~e had been classlncd as "pogonophores" 1nd will probably be re·examlncd 10 dcwrminc whether or nol they arr akin 10 tho now gt1n1s, (NEW YORK TIMlS, Mmh 31 , o. 26: BALTIMORE NI:.WS AMERICAN, April 18, p. SA , CR: C 84ilcy; MONTR(AL GAZETTE, May 10, p. 80). UI-Os: If you were Intrigued by the New 7.cdiollld UFO nap this l;~t December dnd J•nu•ry, .trt excellent review or proposed solutions as to whal wa• Rimed I\ given by John Pry II In the fohru1ry luuc of the A.C.O.S. Bulletin, (P .0 . Box 546, Gos- rord, N.S.W. 2250 Austulla). Explanations include: Venus, jupiter, reflected Moonlight, sldrs, meteorites, b•ll lightning, ~ b•lloon, .1n unscheduiM aircr•fl, o~,helltopter , • ~run e aircraft, btrd~, reflected light frum J dj)otllOIC squ!:Y~• Jl well •I reflections, rnlrat~cs, .md dlstorllofls or other natural phepomonu" Had lhc UFO not boon filmed, th~ Incident migh t h,tvu rom.1inod unexplained : bul , It appears oneo the lnlcrnolllonal news focuses upon such un incldenl might be 'o•er·cxplalnod' by mcdla-orlcnled scicntlus. RECENT UFO REPORTS : April 18th · Yellowknife & Furl Rae, NT • An obJect described ~s the slto of a "harvest moor1" was seen by nn RCMP corpor.1l In Fort Rao and by a lady in Yellowknllc al tho umo limo. The obJect would appear to be ~ bright Ore· ball: however, what proves moll bothersome Is that the object "appeared for a few seconds, dluppe.tred, reappeared, and then dlsappured". Whatever h wo1~, w"' lou to view In a "clc.r 1ky" unlike bright lircb.llh Oumlon of the sighting W41 also KiVCn 01 "less lh4n ~ mlnUI~" by both witnesses, (M79/025). Aprtl 15th • Parkdalr, NS A "light resembling a blow torch" was scrn 10 slowly cross the sky over a period of 30 seconds. II WdS described 111 "quito small" •nd noise· less, (M79/023). April 8th • 131cnfalt, SK · A ,Ingle btlghl light was said to have risen In ilia ,ky ;md romainud swlunJry. An lnvosllgnllng RCMP c<>n>tablu nlsu s11w It .md consl~orod 11 likel y ,, bright sw The locJI weather station suggested 1lw It wa; Venus but f.,llcd to note It wu a mornln~ star fnv.,lble around 10 PM. Tho It would appear 10 be Jupiter or S•lurn, tho RCMP constable note~ tho event wa.s simllu to some UFOs seen by Torquay Delllchmcnl tn the pa$t, (N79/ 029) March 26th · New Waterford, NS · An ob;ect described as having lho shape or .. parallelogram, J grey Gellour, dnd so red •nd whllu lights w:u seen to move thru tho sky for 30 \CCOnds before it was "out or sl~ht" . Someone at the NRC commented In tho margin, ''Wow!" (M79/018). M~rch 2ht North Bay, Ol Four people reporlod a red and blue UFO revolving In tho sky 45 degrees from the horlton In the edSiern sky. It was seen for 3 minutes In • clcu sky; yet, NORAD Hcdd<tU•rters In NnMh Bay c•nnot furnish any relevant In· formation nur tlues as to wh~t It was, (N79/027). March 13th · B obcaygeon, OT · An obJect high In 1hc sky wu seen for upwards of 20 minutes and wu described Js resemblin& Christ m01s lreo lights. lis shape could no1 be determined , but its colour changed from rod 10 pink wllh xreen, (N79/026) Molfch lsi St. Agalhc, PQ · A largo oval object w,u seen Ia chnngc colour~ from blue to white to rod for ,, period ~f 2 to 3 minutes before disappearing bohlnd mmrnlo~lns , (N79/025) . Februnry 26th • Poin te Calumet, PQ • While ~riving home In the MOd < lf Munt OkJ ir1 Deux M ont<~snes County, a wnman saw o~n object heading towards her CJr which turned aw1y sh•rply when nearly upon her. "Ob(cCI had 1wo big white lights In front, two big white liilhll and one red ilghl ln rear." 1 he obleCI hCided off In the dirc<tlon of Mont Oka, and when lhc womo~n reached home hor husband also could see h In the distanc~. The obJect wa; dhll !>did 1 0 have a round o!ppc•rnnce und "·• series of ~mailer IIKhn''. It was In view less than ,., hour bul l'bvlously uvur suverll minu tes time, (N79/ 024) j.tnu,uy 28th Scnnevlllo, I'Q • A rlnH·shapcd obJect w.ts leon emitting ~ bright whho ll~hl which illuminated the Inside of o1 house, but lho wllncss l.tllcd 10 wake her husband before the ll11ht went ou1 Howc•cr, he did hear~ lo~< puho~t · fn& hum which la11cd ~bout 4 second; dller lh• ll~ht w.:nl out, (U ~O tanad~. Box 145, Chomedy, PQ H7W 4K2; N79/ 021).
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79-06-27 "Mr. X" Consulting Rcsologist ot the Rea Bureaux Box 1688 Kingston, Ontario K7L !iC8 Dear Sir& Receipt of your letter dated 7i-05-30 to the Commissioner ia acknowledged. Your requeet tor information on our tiles will not be considered on the basis ot your letter. It is not telt that we can otter too much additional information beyond what can be obtained throuah the National Research Council. However, tor turther consideration to be given to four request, you would be required to appear at this Headquarters to establish that this information will be utilized tor a eorious, bona-fide study as well as produce your or•dentiala and eetablieh your identity. Should we agree to aaaiat you, it would be necessary to have the approval or all eubJeote mentioned in our tilee prior to releasing any information concerning their participation in these sightings. I truat you oan appreciate why these steps are necessary and why it ia necessary to eetabl lah your identity. Should you wish to pursue thia matter any further, you may direct all tuture correspondence to me. Yours truly, , Inapector Officer in Charge Policing Branch \
• HANDWRITE – ÉCRIRE À LA MAIN
TO: Aviation Branch
Supt. Bentham
O/i/c Fed. Pol. Br.
CPK. FORD
FROM: O/i/C Fed. Pol. Br. DATE: JUN 13 1979
File No: 70-400-0-51.7
H/PRO
O/C 79/66/15
SUBJECT: U.F.O.s
REMARKS – COMMENTAIRES:
attached is corresp
from a Mr. X who
would like access
to our files on
U.F.O.s.
Although not in
agreement with corresponding
with an anonymous
person on matters
such as this, it is
felt if Mr. X is
serious about conducting
a bona-fide study
then he should present
himself at this Headquarters
and outline what he
wants exactly and
establish his credentials
upon receiving on
this matter are solicited.
For action suggested. Indulge to come
as suggested. I would have to do that I agree
if we hope to [ILLEGIBLE] that
[ILLEGIBLE] permit too long
REPLY – RÉPONSE:
I concur with your
views, however
when replying to Mr. X
it should be mentioned
that we do not really
have any information
of interest and I am
having this opinion
on the contents of
this file.
In any event, we
should not release
the names of persons
reporting sightings
to no unless the
person agrees.
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FEDERAL POLICING
BRANCH
79-06-18
SOUS-SECTION DE
L'APPLICATION DES LOIS
FEDERALES
.00430[ILLEGIBLE]4 197Y Qton&ulting 3Re&ologi&t of tbt ~u •ureaux •ox \598. lting&ton. entario Jt71. 5QtS Qtanaba Qtable: ~~~•tu!B.~~1!)E May JO, 1979 The Commissioner , Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1200 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario KlA OR2 Dear Sir , fEDEr.Al P""l.: :lNG · S~ AI,.._H 7-Cf-o~ -(} S SOUS·DIRE CTION DE I L'APPUC4TION DeS LOIS FEDERALES " - I am writing to you directly with regard to an effort I have been involved with for the past five years , being a comprehensive study of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) in and about Canada. Since my return to Canada from university in the United States , in 1974, I have made inquiries of various government departments including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as to their involvement in any reporting of UFOs and any holdings they may have had of UFO reports. I learned most UFO reports are forwarded to the National Research Council's Meteor Centre , but their holdings were obviously not complete and showed many reports received by the Department of National Defence and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were not forwarded nor transferred when UFO reports were first received by the Meteor Centre . I have been successful in tracing many of the missing UFO reports compiled under the Defence Research Board's Project Second Storey which were held by the Directorate of History of the Department of National Defence , As I had been ill-advised between 1974 and 1977 that they had no such reports and had determined they did possess them in late 1977 (which they later admitted to) , I asked them if "all" the r eports had been released , They told me that they had not made all the reports available as any reports "involving R.C .M.P. personnel and reports" could not be opened to public scrutiny at that time nor without the permission of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , Since then, I have learned a list of UFO reports running four pages in length were withheld from transfer to the Meteor Centre and allegedly retained by the Force , In order to pursue my study of UFOs I should very much like to examine these reports pereonnally and sse them made available to serious investigators of UFO phenomena , As you are probably aware , I have submitted briefs to the Royal Commission of Inquiry Concerning Cer tain Activi ties of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police both in January of 1978 and January o;f 1979
. ../2 Commissioner/RCMP/May JO '79 with regard to the involvement of the Force with UFO investigations . I have raised questions concerning the legitimacy with which the Force has become involved in investigating UFO sightings and holding any recorda or files of UFO reports . Quite basically, though I can well appreciate and many times applaud the reports of UFOs made and transmitted by members af the Force, there appears to be no legal sanction for this activity . In fact, UFOs would appear to be more of a matter concerning the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of National Defence , Both of these ministries have been involved in studying UFO reports as demonstrated by the reports of Project Magnet and Project Second Storey, yet , the Force is not mentioned or recommended as a participant in gathering and in the investigation of UFO reports . Obviously , the Force did become involved in gathering reports under Project Second Storey and as far as I can tell probably still retains a considerable number of those r eports . Over the past few years, I have occasionally written to various detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police asking if copies of UFO reports originating from their detachment might be obtained as a photocopy . The responses, when a response was received, have varied from refusal to forward any information as it was against "policy" to other responses which forwarded drafted reports and unsolicited photographs . It would appear that the 'policy • of whether or not copies of UFO reports might be obtained is often determined not by any Force, Division, nor Sub-Divison commander but merely the Detachment commander or officer-in-charge . As I have access to most of these reports already at the Meteor Centre , I cannot see what objections of breach of confidentiality of the identity of the names of UFO witnesses can be claimed , It is not my intention nor desire to identify UFO witnesses without their expressed permission (which I seldom seek and then only that other serious investigators might know who to contact regarding a report) . As I find the UFO reports held at the Meteor Centre incomplete {sometimes consisting only of a telex message) , I would prefer to obtain complete copies of Occurr ence Reports and Memoranda made by investigating members of the Force for my own files and study , As I have been reading UFO reports made bY or t~ansmitted by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the last five years, I have gained considerable insight into the difficulties arising and confronting investigating members who are not experienced in UFO investigations . Many reports are of admirable quality and most professional, whereas others are ~egretfully lacking in the most basic of details and full of erroneous data , It is a pity so few members of the Force cannot distinguish between Venus, Jupiter , Saturn, and Mars nor the stars . They might thus be able to r e-assure confused witnesses and readily determine the identity of the UFO in many instances . one cannot expect members of the Force to be knowledgable in astronomy considering their many tasks1 but , I suspect they might benefit by having access to information on celestial phenomena , which I am aware is not always forthcoming from astronomers at the National Research Council ... • .. /3 Commissioner/ROMP/May JO ' 79 At the present time , I have been able to maintain a fairly comprehensive review of UFO reports of recent date in my small RES BUREAUX BULLETIN, (copies of which are enclosed for your perusal and for deposit in the Force's library) . I n the next few months, I shall begin amassing a computer data-bank upon UFO reports in Canada from my own files , reports copied from the National Research Council , Project Magnet and Project Second Storey files , and from reports received from UFO investigators and publications in Canada, A proper survey of UFO reports with the availability of statistical analysis may thus be made possible whereas the National Research Council finds such an effort too time-consuming and expensive for their undertaking. Needless to say, even old reports gathered by the Force before 1968 would prove of considerable value to such a survey, and , with the co-operation of the Force , I could provide reviews of UFO reports according to region , dates , and descriptions as gathered by members of the Force and other parties as well . Thus, I would ask you for some response to the following questions . (1) Will you disclose how many and what UFO reports the Force has gathered under the auspices of Project Second Storey which have not been transferred to the National Research Council? (2) Could I be given permission to review and/or copy any of these UFO reports which have not been transferred to the National Research Council? (3) Could I be advised if there is any •policy' prohibiting my obtaining copies of UFO reports from originating and reporting detachments of the Foroe1 and , could I obtain your permission to obtain copies of UFO reports held by originating and reporting detachments of the Force? (4) Would it be possible to distribute a supplementary questionaire to all detachments , which would provide more detailed data (5) than currently asked for by the ~leteor Centre 1 and , could a telephone number (available at night) be supplied to the Force ' s detachments where they might be advised of celestial phenomena currently visible , if I fUrnished such a number? Would it be possible to provide a liason through information on UFO reports received by the Force made available to serious investigators? which might be I would appreciate your earliest reply and your co-operation , Yours truly , % Mr . X
Aes 18ureaux 18ullettn Bulletin No. 43 January 1979 ISSN 0383-6150 Conducted by Mr. X Printed In Canada ® Res Bureaux 1979 Address mall to: Box 1S98, Kingston, Ontario K7L SC8 CANADA SUNSPOTS: A report deservin& of the cover of SCIENCE {202: 1079·1081; D~mber 8, 1978) raises some intrlculna ques· tlons about the possible ae~leri!lon of the sun's rotation In historical time. Richard B. Herr of the University of Dela· ware went over the solu ch&rts drawn by Thomas Harriot between 1611 and 1613 and compared these with charu drawn by Scheiner (1625 • 1626) and Hevellus (1642 • 1644). From 690 observations taken of 146 sunspot.s (with an average 4.7 observations per sunspot), Herr now feels c;onfldcnt In revealing the solar rotation prior to the Maunder minimum (from 1645 to 1715 when no sunwots were reported) was only 12.92 to 13.76 degrees per diy and then sped up to 14.2to 14.9 degrees within a period of 32 years. "It Is dlffl· cult to cscipc the conclusion !hill the sun's rotation, u de· fined by sunwots, wu truly slow at the time Hmlot observed It, lind that It was acceler~ting between then and the Incept· ion of the Maunder minimum," lilY I Herr. One ml&ht also wonder of the effect sunspots may have played In a sudden slowln& of the earth's speed of rotation after the solar storm of Au&ull 4th, 1972. The change In 'PCCd of rotation may have only been measurable In mill! · seconds, but the belief our planet keeps splnnlna Is that Its had only aravltatlonal friction affecting It since It formed II hl&hly suspect. The encrsy Involved Is affectlna the carth'i spin would suucst sunspots and rnaanetlc storms c;ould be major fo~otors in eatamophlsi aeology yet to be recognized. An excellent book containing many fo~sclnatlna references of the effects of the sun and planets ;md stars Is ntE CYC l ES OF HEAVEN by Guy Lyon Playfair and Scott Hill (Souvenir Press, 1978). If one pardons their scant knowledae of For· tean.~, appuently skimmed from W lllla.m Corliss' Sourcebook series, a nd fallrna to note such minor trivia of the death of some scientist\ like Vlo~dmlr Gavrcau, {"He docs not seem to hive published anythln& lately."), the Lin of References alone Is worth the price of the book. (Also see cited In this lnstan~ from their book: Gribbin, }. & Plaaemann, S., 'Disc;ontlnuous ehanae In Earth's spin rate followlna arut solar 11orm of Auaust 1972,' NATURE, 243,26-27, 1973.) AN ECLIPSE: News of the solar eclipse of February 26th will draw considerable media attention In the eomlna month. It Is the last total solar eclipse to be visible In North America In this century and will thus call forth mo~ny scientific eKperlments from Oreaon to the Northwen Territories. For example, there will be so many rocket flrinas taklna place at Red Lake, Ontario, thn all the resident trappers ue to be kept off their trills for fear of filllna rocket pans, tho they will bt eompenAted for this Inconvenience. One uperlment I have suucstcd to Dr. John B. Rice of Brandon University, the Canldlin co-ordiNtor for professional observations, Is to watch for any thanaes In the swine of a tOBion pendu· tum. In 1970, the solar "llpse of Mardi 7th wu "seen" by such a pendulum at Harv&rd, Massachusew, by Erwin ) . Saxl and Mildred Allen, (see PHYSICAL REV IEW D3 {4), 823 . 82S, 1971 ). Even when all ~lculat lons were finished and corrections made they found the vulatlon In lf'1Yity was 100,000 times as sre.~t as expected, "It Is further to be noted that the srutest change occurs between the onset of the eclipse and IU midpoint," they add. "These Volriatlons are too great t.o be explained, 011 the basis of classical aravl· utlonal theory, by the relative ehanse In position of the moon with respect to the eanh and sun. " If the classical theory cannot explain It, do we fear Einstein's theories are wrong or simply mlslnterpreted7 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES : "Prediction confirmed! " A pulw In the Aquila constcl· Inion was detected In 1974 by the radlo·tclescope at Are· celbo, Puerto Rico; but, It was found to be In orbit around some other obJect whose nature we do not know . Some speculate It may be another neutron star and perhaps even one of those elusive black holes, but such details shall not pre· vent any doubts as to the precise measureme"ts which will confirm Elnstein'sgeneul theory of relativity of 1915. What · ever th~ pulsar Is orbiting, It Is quite sm1ll. The pulsar and the unknown orbit nch other about every clsht hours, and the pulsar li said to travel about Its companion at 1.06 million kilometers per hour. It Is the fact that they ato mutually attracted and comlna together wherein aravltatlonal waves ue emitted. Althoush none of the aravltallonal waves them· selves have been detected, It would be expected their orbit would be Shortened by one ten-thoulindth of a second each year. Since 1974, they have noted a slowdown In the orbit of the puiSir of four ten ·thousandths of a second. Joseph H. Taylor of the University of Mallilchusett.s lilys, "We don't c~lm to have detected aravltatloMI waves themselves, but simply proved they exist." We must ilwait verification; but, I cannot help but wonder, as Edwin tfolmu probibly would, the confidence of accuracy they put Into the "new; extremely semltlve computerized clocking device" capable of musure· monts of orbits at 15,000 llaht·years to within one fifty· millionth of a sec:ond, (TIME, December 25, p.3S; KITCHENER·WATERLOO RECORD, Dec. 14; HAMILTON SPECTATOR, Dec. 16). GLOWS UPON VENUS: Only a few ncw'Papers noted a mOll intrlaulna mystery cited In RBB 42, for as they descended Into the clouds on the dark side of Venu1 they detected aalowlns IIcht. The clow was first notlc:ed as the probes ruched an altitude of 7.5 miles and becolme brlahter u the probes approached the &ur·hceA. Donald Hunten of the University of ArlzoN specu· l~lcJ!II'I think w ~ were seeins the red slow of the surface rocks, which sot brighter as the probes ne.~rcd the surface. II doesn't make any difference whal tho composition of the rocks might be, It's hot enough on the surface of Venus to l(lt them aflre." Another scicntill thought the atmosphere miaht be so hot that the atmospheric pses miaht burn "spon· uneously", and yet another lhought the Venusian mountalm themselves mlaht be phosphorescent. Dr. Thomas DOnahue of tho Unlvtrsity of Michi&an was a little more honest; "I think we were looking at the Ores of hell." And tho the WINNIPEG TRIBUNE of Oetember 15th headlined Its review as "Spaceships detect f<~int glow never before seen on Venus", Professor A. Schafuik's list of twenty·two observations prior to 1872 should provide a good compubon of explana· tloM, (TORONTO STAR, p. A18 ; and, EDMONTON JOUR- NAL ;both December IS). NEW§ FROM NASA: The year 1978 saw many successful mlsslonJ launched by NASA. All twenty launches were successful, and the only real failure appears to have been a short-ci"uit In SEASAT ·A (which proved the feasibility for future SEASAT projects). The Pioneer Venus and HEA0·1 projects led the field of d l sco~erles, and the testing of the Space Shuule systems previewed lhe excitement 1hat awaits a new era of space exploralion In 1979. Of the sixteen laundles for 1979, the most exciting will undoubt.edly be the first Space Shuttle launch now scheduled for November 9th and to be piloted by John Young and Roben Crippen. In March and July, the Voyageur 1 a:nd 2 ~acceraft will make their closest approaches to the planet jupiter: aild later in September, the Pioneer 11 spacecraft will make lu closest approach to Saturn. Little attention was given In the preu to the monu· mental discoveries made by tho HEA0 ·1 minion which has ended after seventeen monlhl and slx active months of space exploration. II hu surveyed the enUre sky for X-ray sources. The catalog of X-ray sources has now been Increased from 350 to ncuty 1 500; a now 'black hole' may be found In the Con· stellatlon Scorplus (thus lncreulna the number of suspeCts to four); and, a "univerwl hot plasma constitutlna a maJor fraclion of the m;us of the universe was discovered, as well 11 a cloud of dun and ps with a mass equal to a million billion SuM enveloping a super-cluster of plaxles" now suuem enough man may be aboul to "close" the universe wllh aravllatlonal collapse. "Sclentlm bellcvc that this lmporunt new knowledge mily bring fundamental changes In concepts of tho universe," wys the NASA News Release. Surely, It Is also one of the most undematcd discoveries made by NASA In recent years. (OR: NASA, ;and TORONTO STAR, January 21,p. A11) . LETHAL METEORITES: My last note In RBB 32:6 seems to have p ined a follow· Ina u threats of a half-combusted Skyl1b have been c~mpued to the chanas beina killed by 1 meteorite. Some NASA ..clentlst may have believed the orthodox myth that no one has been known to be killed by a meteorite: but, the comparison was • poor one to make . As Arago discovered with uses of lethal llahtnlns, meteorites may no1 be n trul y credited with *' much destruction u has been thought. In Arago's day, II was thouahl thai the number of people killed by ,llahtnln' was thought to be no more than one or two per century 1 but, In our enllahtcned aae, one can find an accoun1 of such a death In tho newspaper nearly every week. While meteoric deaths may not be u numerous nor IS likely to arow In number, they should not be similarly l&nored and considered Octltlous. Alona with several accounts of animal de11hs and human Injuries, a few new acc:ounu of lethal meteorites have come to my mention. On january 14th, 616 A.D., (how accurate the date claims to be I cannot say), '' .... .a stone fe ll In ChiN, shatterlna dlariots and killins 10 rnen," sutes an ucount credltf'd to E. Blot. The death of a Franciscan friar at Crema, luly, on September 14th, lSSl. Is credited as one death from a fall of a thouwnd stones ac:c:ordlna to T.F. Phlpson, whom I suspect took II from Humboldt. The death of two sailors between japan and Sicily Is alven u "164 7 • 1654" (evidently still confused), but the souru of 1 now account I~ cited as Captain Olaus·Erlcson Willmann. And , a new case dated January 16, 1825, claims a man at Orlang (Malwate) , British India, wu killed and ;a woman seriously Injured according to S. Meunier. All these Incidents were among a list complied by Lincoln LaPu, In connection to the ;account or an Injury caused by the Aba, Japan, meteorite, In 1927, (POPU LAR ASTRONOMY, 59, 431-435, Oct. 1951; CR: R. Dobbins). A correspondent writes to the WASHING· TON STAR of January 2nd (CR: R. Manners) to cite Frht Heide's book, METEORITES, as the wurce of one such case. The correspondent also did h is own resc.vch Into the case of General T. Catllllanus who was wid to have been killed by a meteorite In 1906 while In a mlllury camp. Un · fortunately, little else was to be found about the aenefill even with a search throuah the Library of Conaress; but, It adds ilnother case to a growing caulog which hn yet to be published as a whole. The perpetuation of the orthodox myth of human Immunity to meteoric deaths (or Ill flctl· tlousncu) Is probably due to the in. ordinatc attention paid to the meteorite Itself and not the circumstances under which It fell . A recent check of the forty-six known meteorites found In Canada revealed the one dted by Fort IS falling at Lachine, Quebec, on july 7th, 1883, was nol upon the llu, (Fort & ives the MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW of july 1883 ;u his source In chapter 8 of tho BOOK OF THE DAMNED); thus, a review of pall records may not only reveal more deaths due to meteorites but more spccimcm which m;ay have been overlooked by the c:.ataloas. FLASHES AND THUMPS: On October 31st, a red and yellow flash was seen to cross the sky of Fairbanks, Aluka. Some described h as yellow with a blue name, ~nd others Insist It had a red tall. Everyone would have probably agreed that It was only a meteor. However, the fact that the •nash I wu seen at 6: 1S PM and that at 6:16 PM 1here wa.s a "sllaht earth tremor" has suned a lot of speculation. The tremor measured be· tween 1.S and 2.0 on tho Richter scale at the University or Alaska and ccn1ored In an area to the south of Fairbanks where tho flash was .c:en. The Federal Aviation Authority wid no plllnes were missing, and the selsmologln was unwllllns to COMet I the tremor with the fall of the meteor, even sup· poslna It was a meteor and not a case of earthquake IIRhU, (TEMPE DAILY NEWS , AZ: CR: R. Dobblns;and, SOUTH DAKOTA EVENING TRIBUNE , CR: J. Musarave; both November ht) .
• Apolller iart of 011h dCSCfibed 1s "like lishtnlns, txccp-perfcctly Slrll&ht" Will KCOmplnled by • "sch. mpf" type of thumping sound • t Columbus, Nebr~ · Skl, on No vember 9th. A group of youths S~w three Oalhes In the cloudlcu sky which wore slmull•neou5 with tho thump· In& noise, •nd after the fluh~ trills of smoke, "still glowing sllahtly", were left behind. Could th~ be meteor!' 1 (COL· UMBUS TELEGRAM, November 10; CR: L. F1rlsh, UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE 4ll 113). At 5 PM on November 19th, Rlchl~d town , PcnnsyiVlnla, Will \truck by 41 "boom" which shook the around 1nd prompted ulls to Suu Pollee and the Pent.tson. No ' '"r~ft appur to have uused a sonic boom, nor hive •ny signs of d1mage been noted from what· ever uu1ed thr boom, (QUAKERTOWN FREE PRESS, PA , November 20; CR : L. Fi!rllh & B. Peten, UFO NEWS· CLIPPING SERVICE 411114). Phoenix , Arizona, 1lso reported i1 phantom earthquake on November 21st. Shanty after 9 AM , calh were received that two tremors luting about tlx minutes were felt In conjunction with 'explosion' - like noises wove. No sehm lc recordln81 of tho shocks were m1de, thus no urthqu1ko Wll det"'tod (panty because the Unlver· shy of Arizona seismogrlph w1s under rep1ir) nor would one be UJK:'ttd since Phoenix docs not lio on • f1ull . The t~use or the shocks hu been put down u dynlmho blan ina thll hou been reflected from overh;snging clouds, but no one seems 1blc to pinpoint what blast ing wu done at 9 AM nor the quantity of explosive used there, (PHOENIX GAZETTE, November 21 ; ARIZONA REPUBLIC, November 22; CR: R. Dobbin s) . Starting on J•nuarY 2nd In the afternoon, • large ~rn around Tahlequah , Cherokee County, Oklahoma, hu experienced a serln of "dull thuds". The noises have not been traced to any unhquaku, ai"raft, aulllery, blutlns, nor 01ny lcc-c:llcklna. And, the phenomenon Is not ltrictly toe~ In effect, u the Sheriff commented the thuds 11e hurd over a wide area at the same time, (DAILY OKLAHOMAN, Janu•ry 3 & 4;CR: T. Adams) . So as not to l&nore Canadian booming noises, n much of the Amtrlcan and Canadian press does, It would be worti!Y to note that 1 SO calls have been received by the Emeraenoy Me;uures Organization In liallfax, Nova Scotia, since It set up Its toll·free number for rcponins 'sonic booms' at the stan of October. Nell Standen of Trilnsport Can~da sclll finds the Concordc the prime suspect, but "2S per cent" of the booms "do not coincide with the times when Concordn are flying 1nywhere near the province, "(HALIFAX CHRON· ICLE-H ERALO,January i CAPE BRETON POST,J anuary 9). FIERY PHANTOM: Ncar midnight on January lOth, tho Oory phantom !hlp of the Northu mberland Strait wu seen between Pictou lsloand and Bayview, Nova Scotia. A family claimed only to have noticed a bright llaht In the water which "appurod to be drlftlns toward Pictou lll•nd". It looked like 1 fire, and when watched thru a pair of binoculars, it looked like something on fire. The NEW GLASCOW NEWS of January 11th claims It to be another sighting to be 1dded to many others seen In the same uea where a sailing vessel burned and sank. To add further credence to the tale, It 1ppcars • member of the Pictou RCMP de1..1chn1ent also witnessed tho 'Ore' In the Strait. UFOs: Followina th e widely-publicized reports of UFOs filmed and witnessed In New Ze&lv.d and numerCMK f1110tU reulved from around the world, It wu not too surprlllns to see the Canadlilll news medii try to publicize Its own d iscovery. How~Ner , the revelation mado by the TORONTO STAR of January 20th {pp.A 1 · AS) were that UFOs !)ad been tho uus,e of Cilnildlan jets belna scrambled to Sudbury In November of 1975. The "previously top-4ecret documents rele~.scd In WaJhlnston" obtlined by Ground Saucer Watch and the WASHINGTON POST cont.tlned noth lns new reprd· Ina the Sudbury tlghtlngs that weren 't already printed In the SUDBURY STAR back in 1975. ApJ)Irtntly ,In the lillie time period, many U.S. defence i nst~ l at lons were witneu to UFOs. Or. Bruce Mcintosh of the Nation~! Research Counc:ll commented upon the Sudbury sishtings Jtatlna the radu contact was probably only leo crysuls reflcctlna the radar and visual witnesses jumped to conclusions In think Ina Venus w•• the Yme UFO on the radar once they looked outside. He neatected to comment upon the fact four different objects were reported In the sky 11 one time by rout Sudbury pollee- men. He ~so fills to explain how the 'radlr-reflectlna leo c:ryst.tls' stayed together while movln& at a speed of 100 knots while cllmblna 30,000 feet when tracked on radar by CFS Falc:onbrldae on lfle same date of November 11th, 1975, (N7S/1 52 thru N7S/ 157), Despite the statements of CBC's ~dlo Noon program In Ott•wa on l ilnuary 30t!l, thlt all UFO reports are available to researchers, I've discovered many UFO repom ue "ldenll· fled " by NRC scicntlm as 'meteors' and filed s,eparately from tho rcaular UFO reports. These are not anllable to researdlors, and where It was possible to study unflled UFO reports as they e~me into the NRC at 100 Sussex in Ott.twa. This Is no lonaer allowed until the new 'UFO reports' are checked u meteors first before entered Into either the 'meteor' or 'U FO' flies. For example, t wo RCMP oc:c:urrence reports wero not permitted to be copied as neither hid been ch"'ked as not belns 'meteors'. One report from Gander, !llewfoundland, was the fu ll report to N78/232 already mid· fng In tho 'UFO' file; and, the other wu a description of il brlllli!nt UFO which hovered near Prince Georae, B.C., at Summit Lake, on December Sth, and wu watched over a period of 'five minutes'. I only had time to stance thru the repons before belna advised no one had dll!l nguished whether the10 were 'mettofs' 0( 'UFOs' and could not be copied. This new policy seems to Slem from my discovery iame UFO files and lncomlna reporu 'disappear ' Into the 'meteor' ntes never to be seen by rese~rdlers, such as a UFO seen 11 Petit Rocher, NB, on December 30th, described u an oVll· shaped obJect, 10 to IS feet ton& and SO above the around, nyln& west to em In slsht for 4 to S s,econds. CFB Chatham called It a 'UFO', but NRC SJys It 's a 'meteer', You~l not find It in the 'UFO' Illes; but, how many other 'UFO' reports have been detoured Into the 'meteor' flies where UFO re· searchers unnot ao7 RECENT UFO REPORTS : January 18th • Bale Comuu, PQ · An air traffic c:ontrol· ler reported a 'ball of fire ' at 1722 HRS which wu likely meteoric, (MONTREA L LA PRESSE, l in 20). January I Sth • Edmonton • Four oblem Wore seen by a bus driver who said they left Jhort vapor t111ll1, but the illrport had no traffic logged In the mornlna. Then In the afternoon, a UFO wu videotaped by a realty compony employee; but, It Is thousht it may have been a wuther b1lloon reloascd at Stony Plain that aftetnoon. JanUJry 14th • Edmonton •A wom111 rt11Qrt~d a 'tow~r of flre' or yellow tear-drop lh&ped UFO . PM ov~ r the city. January llth ·Edmonton • Two othe denu reported seelna a cone~haped object with a lona tall for 10 mlnut~ In the afternoon. It Is aho thoullht tht~e slahtlnas mlaht be hoaxu by student. at tho Unlvenlty of Alberta, (EDMONTON JOURNAL and SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX , jan 17). January 11th or 18th ( ? ) • Kltchener, OT • A bulldlna Inspector reported scelna a 'bird· uac' . like UFO with brlsht llahtl for 1 S mlnutn In the mornlna, (KITCHENER·WATERLOO RECORD, j an ' 18). January 1Oth • Kitcllener • Sev~ral motorlsu report a 'blul!h· yellow' llaht In the !hape of a c:ross with red 1111 llllhu that separat~d from it later, The UFO was in view for l S mlnutn, (KITCHENER·WATERLOO RECORD, Jan 10). January 8th· Toronto • A tennis pl ay~r Rf)Orted a UFO which Is most likely Venus, (TORONTO SUN,Jan 9). january 8th • Toronto· An operator of snow...,aking equipment at Earl B&les Park reports a UFO In the sky, (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, jan 9). january 7th • Toronto· At 2: IS AM , two residents opposite Earl Bales Park saw a UFO about SOO feet over the park and called Niitlonal Defence and Tom Gray, a local UFO researcl1er. From the pulsating, tear-drop shaped UFO, two smaller cylindrical UFOs emerged after It had climbed to 2,000 feet. And, at one point, ;a wltn~n claimed to 1ee 6 small objem about the original UFO. A military policeman met Metro police at the park area, but ll he only saw mow· making equipment In the pa.rk that Is what he concluded the witnesses were report ing, { TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, TORONTO SUN , and TORONTO STAR, jan 8; N79/unfiled). January 7th • Oshawa, OT • Two students saw a diiC~haped object over Lake Ontario and photographed II about 5 AM . One of four photos showed two white objecu ovtr th e lake which wu a surprise n only one wu v l~b le to them before disappearing at daybreak, (OSHAWA TI MES, Jan 8). january Sth • Teu, AB • An e~tremely bright light whlcl! broke Into three pieces was seen by a college Instruct or and was likely only a meteor, (RED DEER ADVOCATE, Jan 6). ) ~nuary Sth • Barrio, OT ·Two residents were wakened by a whlrrlr.g no ise and photographed a wh ite UFO thoy uw high In the sky which wu visible for an hour, (BARRI E EXAMINER, J•n 5). january 4th • Perdue, SK · An object described as 70 to 80 feet long and 30 to 40 feet wide with 1 green body and yellow lighu flew nolseleuly over a treek aru and hov· ered there for 4 minutes, (N79/002). january 3rd • Burns Lake, BC • Two round UFOs with a red llaht In the centres and a very bright white light around them were reportedly watched for about S minutes by two resldenll who tried to photognph them, (N79/00I ). january 2nd · Shelter Valley, OT · A round, star-like UFO wu seen by three residents between 3 and 5:30 AM before It dlu ppn.red behind some trees. The witnesses considered tho obj"t similar to tho recent UFOs seen over Now Zuland, (COBOURG DAILY STAR, Jan 3). "During the holiday season" · Fredericton, NB · F. Brucie Greene's column roporu that a UFO wa\ seen over tl1o city but falls to provide any details on tho event, (FREDERICTON GLEANER, )an 6). December 31st · Meilford, OT • Several residents reported a large, tan object hoverlna over the are;~ around dusk. Later, <~ hunter diiCOV· ered 1 weather balloon from NOAA entangled In a tree and solved the mystery, (OWEN SOUND SUN TIMES, J ;~n 8). December 28th . Perth, OT (and Ottawa and Greenwood, NS) • A retired civil se rv<~n t reported a JtNII flashing light, similar to a 1ur, cross the sky over a pttlod of 20 minutes. He called upon the OPP (Onurlo Provincial Pollee); and In turn, the PERTH COURIER (Jan 3) notified Ottawa where they teamed from Annie Claude that two other rii>Ofll were received on lhe ume day from Ottawa and Gf"nwood, NS. However, these othen wen 'Identified' ti ~rtballs ',' and no details on them are available. December 24th • St. joseph, PQ • The Surete dU Quebec were notified of a UFO Men near Salnt·VIctor-de·Buuce which appears to have been a flreblll . No traces of tho fireball or metoor were found de$plte a helicopter search, (QUEBEC LE SOLEII., Jan S). December 20th · Benton, NF · Near Gander, a lone motorist encountered an oval obJect with two brlllht whhe llshts which palled over hiJ car and then hovered near lt. He p1nkked and drove ti fut a. he could till he r e~ed Goander. Our~t lon of the •lshtlng wu given n 90 seconds, (N78/232). December l Sth · Moose jaw, SK · An officer and w.eral men at the control tower at CFB Moose jaw observed four circular white llghU above the northern horizon. They move In lint from west to east about an hour and a half before sunrhe and were said to be four tlmes the slu of nreetllghts, (N78/2 31 ). Docember 13th • Jou1sard, AB • A pul101tlna, trlanaular light with "$parks or beams emlttlna" from Ill top point wa~ seen for three and a half hours over Lesser Slave Lake. Seen thru binoculars, It had a definite !Jtape tho llmounded by a fog or haze. It also changed Its position In the sky by 45° In a brief time before h faded from sight In the morning sky. One of the couple had also observed an extraordinary display of 3 to S minutes dur;atlon Involving ~everal UFO• In the same location on Cktober 29th In the early morning, (N78/202). December 12th· Prince George, 9C • A brlllht white UFO with flnhlng red and white lights atop was ~een for 1 S minutes In the dlllantsky 25 miln west of the city, (N78/230). Dec;ember 11th • West Carleton, OT • A " bright light" wu seen for 40 minutes and reported to the OPP, (no description given), (N78/ 229). Oeumber lOth • Kitchener • A UFO wit h red 1nd blue flnhlng illf,hts was glimpsed at by a motorist who said It was moving at tree top level, but Its description Is too poor to determine whether or not It was 4n alrcnft or some sort, (Cambrldsc UFO ReJearcl1 Group, 362 Khchener Rd ., C1mbridgo, OT N3~ 1A6) . December 7th • High Prairie, AD· At th e Eauem Pr~lrle Metis Colony, a Ill rae oval object followed a bus over a distance of 3 mllol to a resid ence where passengers watched the obfect continue down the road, hover In position u lona u 10 minutes, and omitted a beam or light to the around. As many u 21 people witnessed It; photographs were uken; but, no deulls or how It left sight are sJven , as most were trylns to evade It, (N78/228). This is also next to Les~ r Slave Lake. OBITUARY: The LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER of Novem· ber 26th noted the death of jacques Bergler on November 23rd In Paris. He was born In Runla and a native of Odessa, and later he moved to Paris where he took degrees in physlc1, chemlmy, and englneerlna and became known u a Klonce writer . During the Second World War, he headed one or the most elflclr .ot resl11ance networks In France. After tho war, he helped In the Jynthesls of Polonium and heavy hydro· aen and rcalstered the first patent for the electronic cooling of nuclear bmerles. Forteans will remember him best for his book! on stranae phenomena, some of which were In con· junction with tho lnternulonal Fortean Organization, and especially f« his efforu to p t Fort's BOOK OF THE DAMNED Into Frencll translation, (LE LIVRE DES DAMNES, Pari•, 19SS). {CR: R. Dobbins).'· ~es Jaureaux 1§ulletin Bulletin No. 44 February 1979 ISSN 0383-6150 Conducted by Mr . X Printed ln Canada ® Res Bureaux 1979 Address mali to: Box 1"598, Kingston , Ontario K7l 5C8 CANADA was forthcoming as to any new nu"les of the boomins nolse1, MORE 'BOOMS' HEARD: even tho they have returned, (WASH INGTON STAR, Febru· uy 12; CR: R M~nncrs). Ric!lard A. Kerr wrote In the January 19th Issue of SCIENCE that the "secondary boom" theory proposed by the Naval Research Laboratory ian ye.1r has been gaining wider accepunce. As some of the more exotic theories summoned by mediao(lrated scientim are shmered, It Is now acceptable to study those 'soniQ booms' (If that Is what they are) by blaming any and all aerial explosions on supersonic aircraft, mainly tho Concorde. No one seems to be demanding any proof of this explanation, and no experimental flights arc planned to tcu the theory. "Most observers now feel more comfortable with the N RL explanation of Unusual weather for all the booms. Further study of last winter's flap Is unlikely unless the booms return," writes Kerr. (CR; T Dickinson). BOOMIII On February 8lh, residents from Rhode Island to south· ern New Jersey hear a "thunder·llke" explosion In the sky. Hundred. s of ~ails arc reGeived by pollee and civil defence officials shottly after 9 P.M.; and, in the area of Burlington, Ocean, Monmouth, ilnd Mercer counties In New Jersey, win· dows and houses were shaken by tl1c blut. Residents feared a second earthquake was following one felt In New Jersey and on Staten Island on January 30th; but the seismologists lind no seismic rcadlnJS to indle<~tc an earthquake. In a short while, the Federal Aviation Agency officials launch an effort to determine if the Concordo that landed at OuiiM lnttrna· tlonal Airport outside of Washington , D.C., may have been to blame, FAA spokesman, Jctry Lavey, did not Inspire much confidence by natlng, "We probably never will prove It was or was not the aircraft, but at least we'll be able to give the people something," British Airways said it was "unlikely" that their aircraft caused the boom a.nd CfT!phasi~e the fact the "secondary boom theory" Is just a "theory" and hasn't been proven. Are the scientists still romfortablc with the NRL studies even after the booms return? (PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN, February 9, p. 9: HARRISBURG PATRIOT, PA, February 10, p. 8; CR: L Arnolll; WASHINGTON STAR, February 9; CR: R Manners). BOOM! f I (AGAIN!) Two days later the switchboards lit up aaain alona the New ) ersey coast when llnother boom struck at 7;13 P.M. The Lamont·Oohcrty Geological Observatory at Palisades, New York, detected the "boom" but apparent ly no earth· quake. William Donn reputed His suspicion that Concorde wu to blama and said he was "more than 99 per cent cerllfn ". If he Is not fully certain, he must either have son1c doubts of Its being Concord• and prefers not to commit himself to all explanation which might be proven erroneous, No word It wu not only in the skle~ that my~tery explosions ljave been heird . Lan March 24th, a string of upfosfons occurred along two miles of sewers in the Bronx, New York. Many store windows were shattered, and eleven people were InJured by tlie explosions. A formal bo~rd of Inquiry was manaed and eve11 given subpoena powers. Its head wu Deputy Mayor Her!lllln Badillo, lind Its other members Included the pollee and fire rommlssioners, the €ommissioner of lnvestiiation, the Environmental Protection Commissioner, and the Corpo13tlon Counsel. Consolidated Edison Company records were gather• ed, witnesses Interviewed, lind a ''gas leak'' was souaht out. However,, !lOth log was found that would have caused the explosions. The only dlfnculty tl)ey have Is they cannot readily blame it on the Concorde, (NEW YORK TIMES, November 19; CR: L Coleman). MORE ON TUNGUSKA Another theory about what caused the extraordln:lly blast over Siberia on june 30th, 1908, has been put forwud by L. Krcsak of the Slovak Academy of Sciences In <::zecho· slovakia. He believes ttle blast resulted from the dislnteantion of a "cometarY boulder" which WI) part of the debris from the Encke comet. Kresak 's o!Hervations stem from !)le annual meteor showers which uke place every Jurte 30th (according to him) . Walter Sullivan of the NEW YORK TI MES explains: "According to (Kresak's) hypothesis, such an obJect would become so hot during llS plunge through the atmos· phere that It would explode In a catastrophic manner. When farge meteorites hit the earth, they generate explosions sufflc· lent lo souao out craters, but no crater was formed by the Siberian blast, poulbly becatJse the 'boulder' was not larae enough to do so." We rould cite several cases of meteorltu found on snow banks and Ice 111hose Impact barely disturbed lislmplllt point; but the point I will argue with Sull ivan and Kresak Is that no lingle crater was to be found by Kulik's expedition, Instead thousands of crlters were found but none contain Ina meteoric fraaments. Can we not wonder how theories abound ibout the Tu11auska explosion when the NEW YORK TIMES <:annot flnd the tiiT!e or lncl!nitlon to read some of the wldenCl!s of the blast before ·once again publlclzlna another Inadequate hypothesis? Again, this new theory faiiJ to explain the iltmos· ph eric ph~nomena that were seen In the skies of Europe shon· ly afttf the distant eKpfosion. Neither alien spaceship, blatk hole, meteor, comet, nor cometary boulder would account for what w.u seen In 1908. (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, FebrUJry 5, p, IS).
. . The lONDON TIMES first drew notice to tho "Aurora. Bor·· on July 2nd (p.12). Oolcriptions by c:orretpOndenu illus the brllllanu of ihe phenomena which w:as seen by many. On the 3rd (p,l2). It was attributed to "curious sun effecu": and In the ume Issue (p.lO), a report from ireland confirms both the nocturnal Illumination and the siglltlns of brilliant meteors. "The Recent Nocturnal Glows'' are further dls,ussed as somcthin& of a mystery In the TIMES of July 4th, The scientisu of the British Astronomical Association, COMI· de red the clows to be '&uroral ', Prof. Fowler had predl"ed auroral displays for that time, and there was a ''plainly marked, disturbance ofthe magnets" thatnlaht. What bother· ed them was when the glows were still visible the next nl&ht "but the magnets were exceptionally q!llct ". The reader Is then advised the glow1 are merely a prolonged twlll&ht that "some temporary c:ondltlon of the atmosphere made this twlll&ht much brighter and redder than usual". There Is no jljagestlon of lu being the result of meteors nor comets nor bits of comets. Indeed, It took another twenty '(ean for itlcntlm to learn that there had been an explosion over the taiga of Siberia. However, there Is a strong suagestlon that h was similar to an earlier event, Krakiltoal Herein we find the mystery of the Tunguska event. The glows were favourably compared to dun clouds at a very high altitude spewed forth by Krakatoa owing to their lurid colour and to their .growing brlghtne~s after normal twlllgh l. ll Is explained In the TIM ES article that It wu not until the third circuit 1round the earth that the clouds from K ra~atoa reached the Blltlsh Isles while spreading at a speed of 80 !l'lies per hour and spreading acr£Ks the latltlfdes. However, the clouds of dill! frol!l Kr•.katoa were seen a.lt over the globe; and, these new sky·glows were apparently confined to the skies of Europe, even tho the dust clouds from Siberia (if that was what they were) travelled at the prodigious tille of 220 miles per hour. Why were the sky11lows cau~ed by Tunguska confine~ to Europe and not seen In the Americas or i11 Asia 1 The mystery as seen In 1908 Wu only slightly different. "We thus sec that distance Is no obstacle In vast cosml" cal phenomena of this kind, which are world-tmbraclns. No volcanic outburst of abnormal violence has been reported lately; there have, however, been some moderate outbursu In the Pacific during the spring, and h Is possible that the dust may have reached us from these, or from some unreported eruption In some llttle·known region ofthe world." LONDON TIMES,July 4, 1908,p.l6c. 4. VOLCANOES; Euly In the morning of February 20th , the llllegedty extinct volcano Slnla In the Java Oleng range In c;entrltl Jilva went Into a violent eruption kllllhg 182 people and lnlurlng many more . Polsonou~ gases and flowing lava caught many asleep and has forced the evacuation of 9,000 or more from the .rca, (TORONTO STAR, February 21, p.A22). By the 24th, It was also reported that nel ghbo~rlng Slkldan~ cr.uor w•• ,tl\0 erupting and \pcwtng forth thick cloud, nf black 'mukl•. The only cunncctlon between the two vulc~nuc>, ,tutlldln& tu ,clcntht,, would probuhly be ~ ;uhtcrr~nc.tn lin~ . il'ORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, FobruJry 24, p. 3j. ~ •• \'~Jli~II\Jiluo lui lh\' \Uddtn, erupt fum Wd' pu1 lcu'w•rd. SEASTS OF THE FIELD: Jean·Jacques Barloy writes (on February 18th) that Dr. Helmut Sick, a German orlntholoalst, dlsc:overed the habitat of the Lear's Macaw. (Anodorhynchutlcarl) In the state of Bahia, In Brasil. Previously, the purot was only known In Its captive state and obtained from local traders. Dr. Sick hu now teen u many as a score together In the wild . They Measure 75 centimeters In length ilnd po~sess a fine blue plumage. Rare birds seem to have been showing up ·ln tho last few months. Between November 19th and December 1st, a Ross's sull wu seen on the shores of Lake Mlchlg.tt1 at Chicago. It has only been seen onc;e before In 1975 near Boston when It came lOUth from Its Arctic habitilt 1 (NEW YORK TIMES, December 3, p. 26, and, December 17, p. 49). In November, Rhode Island wu visited by a white pelic.n native to tho Gulf of Mexico, a South AfrlG~n sholduck, and a Europoiln bilrnilcle goose, (NEW YORK TIMES, November 26, p. 62). On December 31st, a Richardson's owl was photoaraphed at Salls· bury, Massachusetts, for the first time In 36 yearJ. And,, soon afterwards, a rare areat aray owl was spotted at the Maino Audobon Society hcad~uarten in Falmouth. Colder weather Is uid to have driven these owls further south than usual, (BOSTON GLOBE, January 6, p. 3; SOUTH MIDDLESEX NEWS, MA , January 25, p. SA). (CR; L Coleman). An elght·pound armidltlo wandered across a lawn In Holliston, Massachusetts, on December 23rd. It was soon adopted Into the household until lu original owner could be found, or could It be a wcre·armadlllo? (South Middlesex News, MA , December 24, p. I ; CR: L Coleman). Ncar Manitowoc_ , Wisconsin, (in early November?), a hunter spotted a 40 Inch long alligator on tho banks of the Manitowac, He deftly c•ughtlt by clamping his hand over Its closed mouth, (tho best WiY to keep from belhg bitten), and he made sure to bring It homo sou not to suffer the skeptlci' suffaws. No one seem bothered by the fact such an action isn't covered by game or endangered species statute~ , (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, November 6; CR; L Colemiln), In eastern Colorado, Bigfoot is being hunted by the state's Division of Wildlife. However, It's nr>t the ume big foot belonging to the Sasqua"h· "Thb mouse once o"upled the tall arus and wet mudow habluts In Colorado, but I can't find any really confirmed slshtlngs since about 1955," says Steve Blmil, a non'&amc mammalspeelalltt, (CHARLOT· TETOWN PATRIOT, January 27). Since December 21st, there have b~n a doren .slghtlngl of "Knobby", a homltlid creature described as belns slx feet tall, 200 to 300 pounds In weight, and covered in btac~ fur. Christened after Carpenter's Knob, In Clcvclilnd County, North Carolina1 the creature has beeome most noticeable by howling at night. Mmt lou l residents prefer to consider ''Knobby" to lust be <1 bc<~r; but, after a dud goat was found on January 14th, tracks were found by a search party from Ca\ilr In the vicinity of Toluca. They '"Y they ware dPC·Iiko tracks, vet In one report the tr~ch oro dc>cribcd •' "at '"'"' ·~ l.rgo ., • man\ hand •nd similarly •hapcd, even with d thumb·likc protu.<inn 1 ', Hnw m•ny ape tr•cks they h•vc socn bc(orc I; nut certain; the F~ll~ ton ro>idcnt who found th••rn did n0r ,;ty, (GASTONIA GA7.ETTE, NC, l ~nuo~ry 17; CR: 1 Ad•n"; OURHAM MORNING HER Al D, NC,I ~nu•r y 171
FAL.LS MAKrmeiJ of Yuao~l~vla'~ Fortean serial OOISEJA writes (~cembcr I Sth) that Ice fell from a clear sky at Spill, Yugoii&VIa, recently. (If your Serbo.Croatlan needs practice, please subwlbe to: OOISE)A, e(o Milos Krmelj , Mllclnskep 6, 61000 Ljubljana, Slovenlla, Yugoslavia; or, send a sample of your publication If you'd like to exchanae copies). More dc~lls u e llso souJht reaardlna a crashed UFO Imbedded In the roof of a house In Hannut, Belalum, sonic· time at the end of December or early hnuary. When pollee urlved to lnvcstipte what they found wu a bluish block of Ice which Is said to have fallen from a passlna plane, ho·.vever the woman reporting the cruh apparently rmde no ment ion of any other flyln& objects other than what came thru her roof, (EDMONTON SUN, January S). Pollee were also called In to lnvestlpte the pike pole that crashed thru the window of a home In Saul t Ste. Marie, Ontario, on February 7th. The pike pole wu more than four meters In lengtl)and used mainly for break Ina up loa jams or for rescue work on some planes. It has a spike on one end and a hook on the other. The resident and lnveu laatlna pollee are at a loss as to where It eame from . ''There was no one on the meet and there were no "" or trucks any· where near." The only clue may be a dam qed CP Air sticker on the pike pole, but a pollee ~pokesman admitted there wu "still no reasonable explarullon for It ", If It did fall from an a lrcr~ft, wouldn't h.s absence be noticed ; and, how would the fall of a four mettr long pike pole ao unnoticed by an air crew7 (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAI L, February 9 1 p. 2) , lrreaular hailstones the slze of baseballs and scllf·balls fell In a storrn at lakehills, Texas, on February 24th. The smaller stones appear to be normally layer ones of a srnooth ~~rfa co, but the larger ~tones app~r to be conalomeratlon~ of larac hailstones coated entirely with smaller clear stones. No measure o( damace nor any ln)urlu were reported In lhe newspaper ·~ wlrephoto, (TORONTO SUN, February 25, p.S4). After a most severe winter In the Soviet Union and Europe, scientists In Chorzow, Poland, determined to find what had changed the colour of the snow to yellow. The canine community was not blamed, uthcr the PAP news qency announced that the cause was particles of sand which had been earried by strong winds from the Sahara. Sand wu al so said to have fallen In Yugoslavlaand Aunria, (but no mention of Its fall ing In Czechoslovakia In the lntervenlna area). How the sand was identified as from the Sahara Is not clear, If that Is where It came from, (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, February 24, p. 3). ANTA~CTIC DISCOVERIES: Pollen araiM taken from drllllna cores In the Ross Icc Shelf lndlc..te vegetation once abounded on the Antarctic continent, (or thll h w.J~ transported to lu earlier Icc fletch). W e are thus enH&htencd that 14 to 20 million years aao that there wu nu Icc ~elf. More meteorites have been found near Allan Hills In Vlctori ~ Land ~nd ncar the Darw1n Gl•cier. The joint effort by American and J•p~ni'IC ~oc: lentiU\ h~ve found •nmhcr 309 meteori tes. Arnong thi· number are two CJrbonJc.'OU> chondrites and a 300·puund 'P«imen fr~>m a n•etcor h~ orlginJIIy wclahing 11911 puumh before broken Into 33 piece~. Probably the 1n01t lnt.emtlns of tfle - ......,. ltcs was one found at Yamato mountain. lu conttnt has bill! analysed for radkmtl'le hotopn. The manp.- ho~o!Je Indicates that It fell 7 million yea11 qo; but, the beryllium and aluminum Isotopes Indicate lu fall to have. happened "only one million yoars'' aao. It Is curlolll that two Stich diVII'IIfll dates arc Indicated utho fall of a sln1le meteorite. All of this, uy~ Walter Sullivan, "would pnovlde the flMI refutation of the proposition that the continent was more recently free or Ice and wu charted by ancient navlpton." Questionable analy1o01 of dates of aupposcd falls of meteorites Is tufflc:lent proof to dismiss e•tnordlnarlly accurate maps, such » the Plri Reis map of 1528 deciphered by Clwlcs Hapgood. Far more confidence would be elicited by d~tlna the qe of thelc4 c:.lp Itself Instead of rclylna on d~lei or meteorite falls, (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, February 19, p. 17; WASHINGTON STAR, February 18;CR: R Mannen). NEWS FROM NASA: Early flndlnlll from the PIONEER VENUS proj~t have been released by NASA 1nd reveal some marvels of our sister pl ~net not seized upon by the popular media. Flntly, the man spec1rometer on the two probe~ descendlna Into the dark side of Venus reahtered various sulfer compounds for the stranae alows flnt noted ~~ 13,000 me ten altitude. ''Chemic:.~! fires" fueled by sulfer compounds seems to be the best tiC· planation now avallable followed clowly by the & low resultlna from the descent of the probes themselves. CBC tudlo's QUIRKS AND QUARKS announced that ll&htnlna had In· deed b.etn diJCOvtred to txln on Venus and behaves just 11 oddly as It does on our planet. However, my suuestlon that atows seen over the duk side of the planet hnlna resulled from musive electrical disturbances mi&ht be supplanted by other finds. The Interaction of the solar wind and the Venu· sian Ionosphere Is much more powerful than had been sup· posed. Without a rnal!llttlc field to denect the solar wind, the Ionosphere Is In direct contaot with It; and, durlnasolar flares Increases the wlnd's speed, the lonopause c:.1n be pushed to the top of the sensible atm~phere of Venus. Chanats In the pressure of the solar wind produce notable chanaes In the position of the Ionosphere ~nd In Its shape. Relatively II rona magnetic fields were also encountered In this realon, and the temperature of this turbulent reaction Is about I ,000,000° C. Some of the solar wind Ions man1ae to pass thru the lonopau~e (no such feature or boundary exists on E~nh) 1nd heat the upper atmosphere to 5,000° K., well in excess of an expected 1,000° K. There Is even an Ionosphere on the dark side of Venus which appears to be composed of "olltremely lona· lived me~l Ions of meteoric or lain". It lsto be hoped more of the rnynerles of Venus will become Illuminated with the con· tlnulna work of the Pioneer Venus orbiter. PemaPS, It will detect l)ne of thoM otustve alows we have ~een from Earth. UFOs: Following letters of protest to Dr. A.G. McNamara, ~~d of the Planetary Science Section, and to Dr. ) .l . locko, Director of the Hcrzbctl Institute of AJtrophysiCI, It was decided lhat permllllon would be &ranted to Inspect the 'Meteor' file; Into whkh some UFO reports arc detoured. The Initial inspection of the flies did not permit more than a cursory cx~m l rwtlon , but reports of "UFOs" filed ~monast the nrcball repUm will now appc.ar In the column on 'Recent UFO Report> ·. Nl) dcOnlte wstem of labelllna the meteor
reporu' other lhan to number them by yur and order of flllna: thus to desianate a 'Meteor' file from a 'Non-Meteoric' Ole, . former will be designated In the followln& manner, "M7 8", whereas 'U FO ' repotb would •PPUr u usual as "N79/008''. UFO lnvestlptors should contlder that UFO received by Canadian Armed Forces are often routed to CINC NORAD at Peterson AFB in Colorado. And, this recent access to the 'Meteor' files leaves only the RCMP's UFO files Inaccessible to researchers In Canada, (at least thoH the gov· ernment now admits to having). We Ciln now thank the change of policy on the part of the NRC s.clentlsts for cenln' to withhold disputable UFO reports they have I dentified a> meteoric In origin. RECENT UFO REPORTS: February lOth ·St. TherM, PQ ·A brlahtllght with two rod tights below flew from northwest to southeut at a slow speed over a period of ten minute>, (N79/013). February Sth · W~r11w, OT. A red and white object with an orange glow and red bcnuth was observed for two hours before reported to CFB Trenton, (N79/014). january 3ht · Grand Prairie, AB · A very largo object with "four wings" passed ovorhnd rcsl· dent> or a trailer park. First described as a red light, It chansed to a bright white one: and, thru the two minute slghtlna, It sounded like jet engines, (N 79/013). January 31st · Oshawa, OT · An early mornlna slahtlna w~s made of an object about three tlmts the size of an airplane (what type was not >aid) e•hlbiting two blue llahts. A former pilot watched It hovetlna'over Lake On~r lo for two hours, (OSHAWA TIMES, February I ). Jilnuary 25th · Clairmont, AB · A very bright llaht which illuminated the interior or a house passed from north to south at an uueme speed. NRC lim this as a fire· ball, (M79/0IO). january 23rd ·Waterloo, OT · An oval object of a red colour wu seen by several youns alrh. First seen movlna acron the sky, the object bopn to descend. After nvc minutes they telephoned the Cambridge UFO Research Group (362 Kitthener Rd ., Cambridge, OT N3H 1A6), but on rotur"lng outdoors, lhe UFO had diS.Ippoarcd. January 20th· Port Cartier, PQ • For two hours and forty minutes three constable! and numerou! residents watched three oval objecll travelling In line stop at various polnll In the sky. They were seen near Polaris and also over the St. Lawrence River. Some- one decided to act a better view, and lhey were watched from the highest point in lhe area. The UFOs were described ;u "red, areen, blue (and) fast ", (N79/012). January 19th ·Cam· brld&e. OT • A red light wu reported by two teenagers u mov· In& and stoppln& several times while aolnaacross the sky. The Cambrldac UFO Re~rdl Group suspects It was an aircraft. january 18th • New Brunswick · A brae fireball was reported as a UFO by witnesses at Doaktown, Newcutle, Chatham, and aboard an Air Canada fllaht, (M79/009). January 17th· Bona· vista, NF • In the early morning a couple saw an oval obje" (estimated to be 20 feet lana) or arcy colour with red and steen flashing llahts moving about the nearby 1~y for lwo and a half hou11, once passln& to within 1 quarter of a mile from them, (N79/011 ). 1 anuary 16th • Peterboro, OT ·An oblong obji!C t appeared to loll In slow motion for a period of ten mlnum. II was described as a "ball of fire trailing lensthy white 1moke" and would appur meteoric In nature If not for Its lona duration, (N79/010). Januuy 16th · Bmhud, AB • Two sm~ll round lights 11 hi&h altitude were seen movlna II f•st speed,, One was travelllns to the 50Utheast, and the other was going ncnheait , Duration of the sl&htlna wasalven ,., " two minutes", but NRC decided they were meteors, (M79/008). January 16th • Pointe Noire, PQ • 1\ round llaht was lftn to hover at about 2,000 reet altitude fDf 10 to 1S mlnuteJ by • constable and anothtr wltnoss, (N79/009), January ISth . Hanmer, OT • A large round obii!Ct with other round objects on and around It appeared to bounce thru lhe sky before dlsappearlna stralaht up, Two CF-100 air· traft were seen to enter lhc area shortly ;afterward\ a1 well as a small twin engine aircraft. The object wa1 said to be above lhelr levels and wa.1 In sl&ht rrom 30 to 60 seconds. At the time, CFS Fal,onbtldae said Its two aircraft were Involved In a demonstration and were droppin& chaff In the area of the observation, (N79/008) . January 1 Sth ·Southwest of Edmon· ton, AB · A st.atlon~ry object of large size was seen by lhe driver of an automobile outside of Edmonton. The object will In Y iew about three minutes before fadina from view, and shortly •fterwards an alrcrlft wilh a bright spot liaht was seen In the area, (N79/007). January 141h ·111\ilte, OT ·A "bright, shootin1 object" was reported as a UFO to CFS Siouk look• out, but an ofncer spokesman nated lhe object was probably only a meteor, (DRYDEN OBSERVER, January 17; ATIKO- KAN PROGRESS, January 24). january 12th · Alber~ · A meteor was seen over nor them and central Alberta and broke Into two plccQI before disappearing, (WET ASKIWIN TIMES, January 17). January 12th • Sudbury, 0T ·A llaht green object at hlah altitude flew quickly skyward for 3 to 4 seconds before dl11ppe;arlna. CFS Falconbrldge reported It as a UFO, but NRC thinks It was a meteor, (M79/00S) . January 12th • Cambrldae, OT · In the e;~rly morning, three people obHtved an object l<~raer than the full moon In the northwest Jky for a period last in& about 30 minutes. They swed It Will brlahter lhan the moon, and hopefully they'd be able to Identify lhe full moon If It were on lhe horizon, (Cambrid&e UFO R01earch Group) . January 12th · Harrletsfleld, NS ·A round white llaht ("like Venus") was seen In the afternoon In the direction of the sun, but It could not have been Venus which would have been below the hotllon at the time. Duration of lho slahtlng was 30 minutes, and photoaraphs were taken of the object, (N79/006), january I Oth • Pre11on, OT • A larae bright ll&ht said to be larger than a nearby water tower was observed for 1 S minutes before disappearing behind some clouds, (Cam· brldse UFO Research Group). January lOth • Yellowknife NT • A "alowlng ball" was reported by sever;al residents and by others In Fort Smith. A NORAD spokesman denied that It was a utellhe, like Cosmos 954 which fe ll a year before: and, IJ It was uld to bre;ak up, II was probably a fireball. Yet, one report says It was ~lslble for 30 minutes, (EDMON· TON JOURNAL, Januuy 12; CR: J Muscrave ; M79/00l ). Janu.ry 7th • Plerceland, SK • A "single brl&ht ytllow, four pointed Slar'' wn s.tn sutlonary In lhe north-notthwCJt sky at nlaht. The report was not made until three weeks later to CFB Cold Lake when lhe picture or lhe New Zealand UFOs, which appeared similar, prompted its belna reported, (]1179/· 004). January 6th • Kltchener, OT · In the early mornlna, an oval object Uhlbltlna a brlaht white light wu seen In tho southern sky In the early mornlna. Upon watchlna It with binoculars, Itt shape became more pronoUnced with flashlns red lights around It aod 1 blue11reen peak ;atop lhe object. The object moved across the sky horizontally, and mo~ed back In tho same direction before dlsappearlna skyward after an hour and a half of observation, (Cambrldae UFO ReHarch Group) . january Sth · Mclennan, AB ·An oval object with a brl&ht white llaht and described as slightly wmllcr lhan lhe moon was watched on and off In the southern sky for about 9 hours thru the nlaht Into January 6th. Mclennan Is about 30 miles we1t of Lmer Sl;avo Lake,(N79/003). JanUAry Sth • NorthweSI Tcrritorle5 • • Tho rocket body of Cosmos 1069 roll at 21 S9Z OYer Hud>On's Bay, (NRC Oltl)... # • • ~es 1Jureaux J§ulletin Bulletin No. 45 March 1979 ISSN 0383-61 SO Conducted by Mr X Printed In Canada @ Res Buruux 1979 Addres~ mall t o: Box 1 S98,1<1ngston, Onurio 1<7L SCS CANADA ASTRONOMICAL OISCi:OVERIES: The Soviet Union has sadly learned that bigger tele· s.copes are not necessarily better telescopes. Their latest ob· servitory is plagued not only by minute flaws In the refle~tlng mirror, but the winds surrounding the mountain upon which It is pc"hed mar the Images of distant stars before they even reach !he telesC<lpe . It Is certainly a major triumph for Soviet engineering which Is unlikely to be beaten, but It will probably also represent the end of the era for astronomical observatories .on mountaintops whose pride Is a slnale glaantlc telescope. The optical telescope ha.s advanced to what appean to be Its limit not only In size, but the pollution of the skies with wastes and omnipresent lighting will soon force astronomers to take their telescopes into the vacuum of outer space. The age of radio amonomy Is becoming Increasingly Important In delv· lngever further; and, Hay astronomy In less than a decade has reached a stage of Importance rivalling that of optical utron· omy (tho the latter has been wit~ us for thrce·and·a.flalf cenwries). An excellent example of the advances ra.dlo • and •·ray ~tronomy have made over optical telesC<lpes Is the case of (NGC 1961). It was discovered in 1802 and published In William Herschel's 't(llrd Catalogue as a nebulous oblect. No telescope ha.s been able to unravel the fuzzy patch later ldentl· fled as a galaxy of undetermined size and distance from the earth. Only be combining the use of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West VIrginia, •nd the Kitt Peak Observatory In Arizona were the utronomers able to learn It w;u; the most m~sslve galaxy yet,known whh about ten times the mass of the Milky W ay. Its diameter of about 600,000 light years Is three times that of th e Milky Way. Ill Immense size Is believed to be the result of the collision of two separate galaxies, Which drew the altcntlon of astron· omers, "It looks like a beautiful spiral galaxy, except that a quarter of It looks patholoalul - It has blobs and lumps In· stead of long, 5piral arms. We think this Is where a large spiral devoured a small one," says Dr. Vera Rubin. Lumpy galax(., (like a lumpy Pluto) seldom auract the attention of utronom· ers, and It was only a decade ago NGC 1961's being described as a 'peculiar galaxy' prompteQ Its being examined more care· fully. AI a dl~tance of 250,000,000 light years,lts features arc lost sight of,(TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, March 8, p.2; TORONTO STAR, March 24, p. 11,CR: WAmbury). Similarly, gamma ray astronomy may soon yield clues 10 phenomena not yet visible 10 us on earth. Massive bursts of pmma ray radiation have boen observed on an average of once a montn since their discovery In 1969. Now It might be ~ld the largest telescopic array Is several million miles In size, be· cause a 's• unrn• ray burst detector' on the Pioneer Venus 1 ortiher Is now belns usod In C<lnjunotlon with the Vela sate!· lites orblttlng the urth, ISSE 3 and Hellos 2. B~o~rm have al· rudy been detected six times by early O"ember, and four of these bunts were also observed by otller wtellites. As the burst~ appear to take place both within and outside of our galaxy and last only a few ~e<;onds, It il hoped spacecraft at liuse distances from one another can be used to home In on the orisinatlng point. The method of "triangulation" uslhg data from distant spacecraft will however be Indicating two points where celestial circles lnterseca. ''Tilen we'll search the catalogues for <!bjects at those locations. Hopefully, we'll Ond son~ethlng that Is a candidate. If the same type of ob· ie" - a quuar or black hole or neutron stu, wy - Is ldenti· fled with several of the bursts, then !hat's extremely strong evidence th;u we have found the source of these gamma rays," explaim Dr. W. Doyle Evans of the Los Alamos Sclentlflc Laboratory. As~ronomers may be far more wlillna to trust "triangulation" than Forteans ever will, and the precision of Geometry may be forced to yield a bit to find an object at either of the points where celestial circles Intersect. As with the discovery of pulsars, gamma ray bunu may reveal a new exotic object oth·cr thao those described . More profound In this mystery is the brlef duration of each burst at such In· frequent Intervals. What event mlsht they suggest which yet eludes observation from optical and radio telescopes? (NEW YORK TIMES, December 6, p. A21 ). NEWS FROM NASA: NASA has signed an agreement with the European Space Agency for a joint mission of a solar polar exploration 'onsln· lng of two spaee"aft with wld.,.ranglng orbits. Its primary obje<ltlve Is to observe the nature of the Sun·~ polar roslons from opposing sides (one side by cotch spacecraft) In an orbit perpendicular to the ecliptic. A seC<lndary objective of the mission will be the hlvcstlgatlon of the Interplanetary medlurn while the spacecraft travel to jupiter before being swung Into the novel solar polar orbits. The launch of the two space· craft will originate upon the Space Shuttle In 1983, but II will take about nve years before tho second pusagc or the spacecraft about the sun (and both sldei seen by each space· mft) will be accomplished, (NASA NEWS RELEA.SE, 79·37), During March, several fllshu by U·2 aircraft over Peru otnd over the Pacific may complete a mappll\8 of the back· &round microwave radiation said to have come from the "big bana" that.created our universe. The 'upward~ook lng differ· entlal microwave radiometer' will scan two·thlrds of tile skies of the Southern hemisphere, It Is hoped the sllg~tly warmer spot In the sky towards Regulus In the constellation Leo whlch o~r galaxy Is supposodly travelling at a million miles per hour rnl&ht be matched by a 'slightly cooter spot' near Iota Aquar· Ius on tile other side of the celestial heavens. Hopefully, the data from the new microwave turvey will match tho Ond(ngs
In die Northern heml'f)here, otherwlte we rmy find our p i· u y -t hurdllna In the rl&ht direction nor ~t IU presumed ~pee s I 1ft no lndlc:allons that a 'sllahdy c;ooler 1p0t' Is expecteo, nor so much as suaested, the confidence of the scientists In this movement of the galaxy relative to the unl · verse may not prove as convlncln& till a full survey Is com· pleted, (NASA NEWS RELEASE, 79·25). urty results of HEA0·2 indic;ue a major find In the d lsc;overy of the most dlmnt object from the earth. Th~ new dn~ so closely followlna the results of HEAO·I represent a quantum lup In astrophysical obser111tlons. X.fay emln lons from "normal" stars (like our Sun) are the first with which amophyslclm m•y compare with the coronal tml11lons of our own and may reveal more about the transfer of heat from the Interior of mrs to their outer itmosphere. A new clan of "0 stars" have been observed In the nebula Etil Culne , They are young st<ln clouded by dust •nd sa• clouds and visible only by Infrared telmopes before. "Some hitherto unknown mechanism, possibly maanetlc bubble\ In their ~t mo'f)heres , apparently illlows this hlgiH!nersv rad~tlon (X.filys) to dlssi- Pilte," liYS NASI\. The pulur "ntcred In the Crab nebula wu 5een ill iln X-!iiV emitter, yet another pulsar showed no Xofilys Jt all , Qu,uars and Seyfert pla•lculso locked any slanlflcilnt X·ray line emissions Indicating their X·rays were of 1 non · thermal origin. X·ray line eml11ions were observed In several supernova remnants for the elemcnls of maaocslum, 1ulfur, argon, and calcium for the first time (previously only Iron and slllwn had been dete"ed), Spectra were observed In plasmas 3 thousand times hotter (10 million d~rees Kelvin) than our Sun's Ionosphere. In four months of opemlon, HEA0·2 hu doubled the number of known X·ray obje"s In the universe. Such object• cin also be re10lved for the first time, for X-ray 10urces In disunt aalaxles, like M 31, can bo dllllnguhhed where only 1 blur of Xo~ay radiation could be leon before. Such refined resolutions may help determine If the galaxies were formed early In the history of the universe or If they evolved from mmlve gas ' louds which predated stellar forma· tlon. Globular duster galaxies are found to harbour "cosmic bursters" which produce Intense X·rily radiation which some· limes ;witch "on and orr like cosmic lighthouses". As the X·ray source of one of th e~e "bursters" is In the c~nter of one cluuer, It Is thought Its mass h thirty times that of the Sun and lndlcall\'f of a black hole system; thus, il seilrch will be made to see If X·ray sources ue to be found at the centers of other clunors. Vet, by far the most c•cltlng discovery Is the most distant quasar "about 15.5 billion light years away". The age o[ tho universe Is thus pushed woll past the ''10 to 20 billion" mark recently touted about. Now It will stan at 16 bllilon or morel One lmplle&tlon of X·ray emissions by distant qua~rs Is that they may contribute backaround radiat ion pre· sumcd earlier to 'ome from hot plasmas and aas cloudsthll fit a model of the universe with sufficiont mall to be "c1014'd" undf!f snvlutional collapse. If qua.sars are responsible, the missing mass may very well be missin&. and the radiation from the "universal hot plasma" (see RBB 43:2) may be an Illusion stemming from quuar omlsslcms. As tho closest known quasar Is only 800 million light years away, (NEW YORK TI MES, June 10, 1978, p. 22), It Is clear that quum arc not connnod to either the earliest period of the ~nlverse nor the latest, rather they have been In existence throuahout. However, as quasars rad iate iln extremely Intense amount of radlatlon,they might simply be the only objectS whl'h CAn be detected ill the Immense dlslinco of 16 billion ll&hl years with our present technoloxv . How many other quasars exlll In the void be· yond, iind how many other lie nearby within a bill ion lltht VW17 Wt c;an anMiously await !fie rwa~lts of HEA0·3 which my help u• probe ~ more 1o 111• edp of the lcnoM~ unl· • wne,INASA NEWS RELEASE , 79·36). JOVIAN DISCOVERIES: Where the &lant telescopes functioned bell was In the >1udy of our own solar system. In our small nealm, s~ ml&ht be swdled ill dlsunt points of ll&ht by which the piths of wanderers ml&lll be marked. However, u the bulaes of Saturn Rsolved Into a "unique set of rinp "; as the wont of minor planets In the ultfold belt climbed pist a thousandfold ; as Herschel'•, Leverrler's and Tomb;augh 's planelS were e&ulht sight of over funher from the sun ; uploratlon of the plilnets was confined to earth-bound observatories. There ume the arut leap1 Into outer spice with Mariner, Pioneer, Vlkln&, and Pioneer Venus missions. And, there were diSilppolntmenu whon no conclusive slans of life were found on Mars and when Venus wu found too lnfernill to support any life we know of. It Is not 100 dlfflcuh to understand the excitement recently pnefilted by the Voyageur I minion u the spacecrilft flew bv Jupiter. Worlds or another nature hid been found to exist tu beyond our expecutions. "What we're seeing Is not what we had expected. We're baffled," says Dr , Bradford Smith, head photographic scientist for the Voyageur 1 mission. The stoady, oonna.nt bands of clouds so uniformly drawn by anronomers for centuries changed Into a chaotic jumble of churning and swirling streams of color among which were huac spots of unknown chara"er. No lumps of the sort described by Andrew 8;arclay, (see chap· ter S of NEW LANDS) , but jemreams of frozen ammonia were detected over the cloud1. Tlme·lapse photO&fiiPhY re· vealed dark oranse "hot spots" pusln& thru the upper cloud layers of the Jovian atmosphere. One ml&ht overuke another and sw•llow It, ;and other spots which had merged broke apart and went their Stlparate ways after tWelve days. Where the colors for the clouds and spoil como from Is not clear, tho sodium from lo Is said to add a tinge to the clouds. So unpre· pared were the sclenllm for a complex mechanism In Jovian meteorolo&y, few explanations were forthwming as to whit they had seen, and more attention was diverted to the Gall· lean satellites which figured prominently In news media reporu . lo has Immense voloanoes, they say. Larger and more aotlve than anything on Mars, and ea~ll y dwarfing anything on earih. Gases shoot forth from them with the speed of a bullet spewing olouds far Into space. The c•tromo vt.llcanlsm, we arc told, Is the result of tidal stresses from I upller and Its larger moons, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Few lmP<lct craters were !fen on lo; ilnd, the volcanic activity may have re-sur• faced lo In the lall 100 million ynrs, says Dr. Lilurence A. Soderblom of the United State~ Geolo&loal Survey, (NEW YORK TIMES, Milrch 12, p, 812). Callisto, on the other hilnd,lsscarred from ilnclcnt meteoric bombardments. A hu&e clroular basin surrounded by concentric rldlll's suuem somo Impact wh lch may have molted a vall portion of Its subsurfuo Ice. The t idal wa~c, or tsunami, froze once again as II passed over the froltn surface of Cillllsto, Ganymede, composed laraely of Ice, ~uffen large fractures and "water quak~" which CJM 11- across Its surfa'o resembllna the elusive Martian canals (or canal!). The Inner moon of Amalthu, previously 5een only u a point of light In the laraosl telesc:opes, was found to be of an lrreaular shape. II\ lfavlly 100 wuk to form a roundiJh flaure. Amalthtil su~aested a definition for
"planets" as belna bod in wilh a dlame1er of I ,000 kHo"*•s 6r mo- · With suth a yardnl'~, II Is e&\V 10 ~:<~nsldtr lhe Voy· 'leur ulon not simply as the ekamln"lon of one planet, Jupher, u1 of a Jovian sySI.em of planeu: Jupiter, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, and lo, after whlth II will pus on to ex· plore Saturn and Than, (soon 10 b• photoaraphcd by Pioneer 11 at the end of August and early September this year). The excitement elicited from Carl Sagan: "Thb Is al· most beyond Interpretation. There\ different thembtry, different physl", different forces at work out there." (TIME, March 19, pp. 72·73). Of ~:<~ursc, ll aho prompted r&Sil stale· ments from others. lo w.H connantly referred to u havina a "pizza" surface. And, Joe Hall of d1e TORONTO STAR (Much 18, pp. AI·A12), whose revelations of previously top· secret UFO reporu last january could be found In Sudbury newspipers back in 1975 (see RBB 43:3), claimed the speed of llaht was "known wllh surprislnsacc:uracy" barely tnenty• flvo years after Gallleo discovered the four major moons of Jupller . Few astronomers seem wllllnato admltlo the uncan· ny acc.uucy of Pliny's dimensions of planetary distances and planetary revolutions about the sun; but, the speed of light was nol so readily discovered only being gues~ed at by lhe eccentricities of the Jovian moons and their often lna"urate distances from the urth, (see R.A. Proctor's OLD AND NEW ASTRONOMY and chapter 8 of NEW lANDS). Fortunately, lhe numerous dlswveries provided enou&h printed maucr 10 prevent 100 many "revised" hlnories of astronomy beln& rc· peaud by some hapless science writers. Althou&h II wu thou&hl a fourlotnlh moon ml&hl be found, the w:lcntisu were greatly wrprlscd to Ond 1 rlns of debris In orbit around Jupiter. II required an eleven minute exposure to detect the ring, but as II wu photographed "edge· on" Ill dimensions will remain obscure until Voyaecur 2 takes another scries during its Oy·by. Dr. Bradford Smith delilyed the announcement of the discovery until the "fuuy meak" wn fullhcr enhanced. No prediction of a ring was made thill could be confirmed, and Its faintness would have rendered II Invisible to earthly observers who'd only sec tho brilliant plano I they surround. The shuller w11 loft open In cue some ring of particles, or perlups thai fourteenth moon, ml&ht be seen ''but not whh any great expecmlons". "A few years ago, only Saturn had known rln&s. The theory lhll expllined how !hose rings could persist lhrou&h the 4.5 billion yurs of solar system evolution also e.xplilined why Saturn was the ·only' planet that could havt a rlna. Then theorln had to be revised to accommodate lhe rlnas of Uran· us. Now Jupiter Is found to have a ring and we must Invent a theory to explain h." Dr. Smith finishes his lesson In hls10ry. " Findina of jupiter Ring Del!lonnrates 1849 Principle," begins Waller Sullivan's lesson In hlllory In lho NEW YORK TIMES, (Mmh 10, p. 42). "This week 's dhcovcry Illata rlna of rocky debris orbits Jupltor Inside hs Innermost moon Is perhaps the mosl dnmallG demonslrostlon 10 date of a prlncl· plo enunolated by the French muhem1tlclan Edouard Roche In 1849." Somehow, I feel Mr. Sulllvan had nol read Dr. Smhh's les1011 al1o0 in lhe NEW YORK TIMES, (Marth 8, p. AlB.). Yet Sullinn persists wllh his lecture. "II Is now clear, howe vet, that suth be tors (tho density of I upller and Its moon5) have not substantially ahorcd the conecl definition of jupiter's Roche llmll." Ignore any discrepancies previously announced about the uniqueness of S..turn's rlnas, Sullivan Implies, fot the lhoory Is IIIII ~:<~rrect, In fKl '~:<~nfirmed'. "The qo•lloft 111111 lltiMs wt!y the Inner pbnets of the tOlar syttam - Merc&~ry , Venus, Earth and Man - do not have rlnas of lhelr -n." The ~e~&lmony of Dr. Gerard de V~ucou · leun of the Unlvenlly of TeJW Is c:alled upon to explain lhat our moon has probably been responsible for sweepina up the debris that would haW! formed a rina around lhe earlh. What of the Mercurial moon? (Or wasn~ It only a star Mariner 10 det«ted bKk In 19731 ) What of lhe moon of Venus seen, or at least reporled as recently u 1791 7 (See BOOK OF THE DAMNED, Holt/Oom, p. I9S; but I read a bit more here than did Fort). Was the Martian rlna devastited by Deimos and Phobosl Evt11 another rlna Is u ld 10 potslbly exlllln ani nita· Mercurial 011111 by Or. Irwin 1. Shapiro of lhe Muuchusens l nstllute of TechnoiOIY. (Shades of Vulc:anl I I l Where are the rlnas of lhe lnnw p1111Mb1 For the moment we will not pursue lhe rlnas of Neptune, they're alrudy damned! "In May 1707 the late Asslsunt of thelhen Astronomer Royal saw Mercury In transit en~:<~mpu~ed by a thick haze or atmosphere. "In tho transit of May 1753 a rlna was ob~erved round the planet; also In that of May 1786. "In May 1799 a dark or nebulouJ rlna wu observed, lhe lln&e belna of a violet hue and stronaesr near the planet. Sthroter al1o0 saw lhc rlna, lhe liaht of which he says was surcely brishler than the surface of the Sun, but of another colour. Hardlna did nol see II 11 first, but he did afterwards when he used a Iichter shade." "In M;ay 1832 the planet was seen at lhe Royal Ot11er· Viltory, surrounded by a dusky dnae. In lhb uansh also the rlna hu been described as of 'a violet hue' the ~:<~lour belna strongest near the planet." " This Is the sum of our knowledge ;about the rlnas round the planet In the May transhs," (MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 38, 338·339, April 1878). I'll not ao further with the November transhs other than to say the ring wu "seen" In 1848 and an "aureola of ll&ht" surrounded the planet In 1868 ac~:<~rdlna 10 Mr. Hualns. Is h possible no one hu looked for It durlna the lall thirteen transiu or durlnathe Mariner 10 mission? It seems not. The mention of sclentlsu wu drawn to a vut aurora over lhe north pole of Jupller and which stre"hed over a disunce of 26,66S kilometell (wch accuracy In me1rlc where 18,000 miles Is alven el~e,.here l ). Also seen on the dark side of Jupiter were three elusion of light spots which were presumed 10 be ll&htnlng storms of 1re111endous violence. The10 were seen while the Voyaaeur I spacecraft was 4 million miles away and wore alternately said to number 17 In tho loW· er lathudos lSASKATOON STAR PHOENIX, March 10) and 19 several thousand mlle1 south of the aurora (NEW YORK TIMES, March 10, p. 42). A moro systemulc searth for plano· wy li&hlnlna In Jove's domain will be undertaken by Voya· pur 2 whlth lnc:ludos equipment whkh "should be able 10 detect lhe 'whlstllna' sounds produced by llahtnlna". Durlna lhe approa.:h to jupiter, sounds were heard from a distance of 660 million kilometers In a plasma wave experl· mentlhat was part of the Voyaaeur 1 mission. The cac~phony QUsed by the collision of charatd partkles from jupller wilh
those of the solar wind. Sonic boom1are produe«< which un even be detected In the interplanetuy medium. ''We hope to 11u. my of the other {audible) phenomena that develop aro juplter,"lolld Frederick Scarf of TRW System•, who Is In charge of the experiment. Tapes of the nol~.e~ were des· crlbed a1 whlltlc1, popping 1ound1, squeallnatlrel, and "deep artlllery·ll kc booms", (ST. JOHN EVENING TIMES GlOBE, Mmh 2). MORE BOOMS ON EARTH: Several boom1 heard on February 28th In Rockland and Ora"l!t counties In New York and New Jersey, respectively, were sueuufully traced to the de10n1t1on of 1urplu1 Army explolives at West Point, In New York. Dr. W illiam Donn a id Ullnalnllrument data, "the location wu Identified by trlanau· lation and later confirmed by West Point official•"· A norther· ly wind wu to blame for propellina and aeeentuatlnathe nohe of the explollom. Yet, how IUeetllf\JI this method of trianau· latlon works for known events of known maanltude raiiCS the quenlon of wily 1uch triangulation c;annot be u readily used to trac;e the booms being heard oft the Nova Scotia com. (NEW YORK TIMES, March 8, p, 82). In the EMERGENCY PLANNING DIGEST of January· Much 1979 (page! 25 ln Enall•h and 27 in French)theiiUdy of the boomina noise1 are lolid to be "the oblect of serlou1 study ••. for the next nine month I or 10". "It hu been alleged that the 'boom!' m1y be related to Aircraft in 1uper10nlc night near Nova Scotia. The rcroutlna of supersonic fli&hts lut yur seemed to re1ult In fewer booms belna reported In southwCIIern Nova Scotia but they 1re still occurrlna." RECENT UFO REPORTS: March 25th -Canada and the United Sme1 - Cosmos 315 dlslntear<~ted u It re.. ntercd the earth'! atmosphere. (OTIAWA LE DROIT , March 26; OTTAWA jOURNAL,, March 31, p. 10). Februuy 24th - Labrador City, NF - No description of the UFO h &lvon In the R.C.M.P . teletype rc· port, (N79/020). Febr\Jilry 20th - Brltl1h Columbia - A brilliant yellow bolide lastin& 1 S nc:ond1 was seen over a li'le area of the province, (M79/0i4; TRAIL TIMES , Februuy 21 & 22; KELOWNACOURIER, February 21). February 20th - Prospc'l Road. NS - A round coloured light of largo size wu seen hovering 300 to 400 feet up In the sky for a period of S minutes. The object changed from a red to blue c;olour, made no noise, ;and dlsappwed flying stralaht up Into the sky, (N79/019). February 18th - Nym Lake, OT - Three star· like lighll making sounds like helicopters wero later Identified a1 a flight of helicopten on their way to CFB Petawawa, (ATIKOKAN PROGRESS , February 21 & 28 ). February 18th - Montreal. PQ - An object that appoare~ "like a wagon tnln" wiiS reponed moving up and down over tho city for Ove minute! In a lone report, {N79/018). February 16th - Yel· lowknlfe, NT - As the reported lJFO was seen in tho same place and time as a DaWI 7 aircraftloilvlna the city ,Its identity Is quite uruln, (NRC ntes). February 9th - Border Town· - ship, OT - A bright red bill .at hiah ;altitude paned rilpldly au on the sky and would appe•r to have been a meteor, (M79/013). February 3rd - Mlnissaup, OT - Two families u id they saw ~on "extra bright star" hoverlna over the city and Lake On11rlo In the early mornina. One witness thoutlht It hid "tuned In" on them, for the UFO seemed only Inter· ested In IDina whet- the wltnes• went. It would appear 10 be either Venus or aircraft approachlna Toro~to Inter· Ntlonal Alrpon , {OAKVILLE JOURNAL RECORD, Febru· ary 7; MISSISSAUGA TIMES, Febru1ry 14). February 2nd - Whltefilh , OT - A brlaht obiect was seen desccndina to tho around where It was seen from S to 7 minutes. Little del· crlptlon was alven In tho report relayed by tho Ontario Provln· clal Poilu to CFS Falconbrldae probably as a principal witness did not !peak Enallsh, (N79/017). Febru;ary Sth and 2nd - Woodstock, OT - On the Sth, the mornlna lhlft of tho WOODSTOCK·INGERSOLL SENTINEL REVIEW confirmed thl! they too had seen the brlaht light in the southern sky seen on the 2nd by several ni&ht shift worke11 before It disap· peared In the com in& dawn. It would be hoped tho Stratford UFO Research JIOUP wlll be able to discern thi1 11 Venus, (SENTINEL·REVIEW, February 2 & 5). Janulry 20th - Sheffield, NB - A bright oval object was first seen ncar Oromocto, but It wu wllched from the witness's home in Sheffield for 3 hours In tho early momina. Seen thru blnocu· lm, It ~ppured to be two spheres restln& adlacent to uch other and 10 hover about 100 feet over tree top lent. It moved slowly towards the south 1 as would Venu1 which was not noted In tho report, and wu wid to chanae !11 Intensity of llaht quite radicallY, (N79/016) . January 3rd- Lowbank1, OT - Three round obfccts with~ diameter of 30 feet descend· ed Into a wheat field. The farmer notified pollee thlnktna It mia/lt hive been a plane crash. Grabbing hl1 camera, he found the UFOs quite wllllna to remain while he !hot 30 exposures. He was able to walk around them, wu Joined by another witneu who was drlvlns by In a c:ar, and was later folned by two pollee who &110 lolw the UFOs. For 20 minutes, the UFOs remained 11111, but a flllh of coloured li&hts slanalled their ucenl back Into the 1ky. The fumer continued to photograph them before they flew off, but he had neal•"· fullv used a lhuner speed of a thousandth of~ second thu1 renderlna all but two exposures (as the UFO! departed) use· leu. The phototraphl are belna sent to Ground Saucer WaiGh for analysis, (Cambrldao UFO Research Group, 362 t<ttchener Road, Cambrldae, OT N31i 1A6). January 3rd - Aylmer, OT - In the morning, a farm family witnessed a flashing biUl) and areen triangle of light, comparable to a "boomerang", hovering over their barn. Looking 10 ~onother side, others were seen: " •• . two keeping abreast of each other and the other, which, 1he lolld , seemed larger, crossing their property." The family was bothered by the fact no one else seemed to notice the UFO!. Yet, someone cl10 was out In the mornlna at Copenh;aaen, to the south illld east, and he uw a "brla/lt pulloltlna llahl . •• trianaular In lhapc • .. hovcrlns over Lake Erie". No one seems to hive connected these lights with the objects which de~c;tnded !hit lolme evening ncar Lowbanks, Jbout 80 mlln to the can and on the lhores of Lake Erie, (AYLMER EXPRESS, January 10; ST. THOMAS TIMES JOURNAL, J;anuary IS). (Errata: In RBB 44, tho UFO re· port dated February 10th Is from N79/01S, not N79/013). OBITUARY: The Nesslener (Ness Information Service) of Fobruuy, 1979, notes the death of F.W. (Ted) Holiday In February. He was born In Enaland and was educated both In Enaland and Canad~ . Ourlna the Second World War, he served In the Royal Air Force In Africa and luly. After luvina the service, he became a iournalill dcallna with fllhin& and wildlife. Forteans will remember him for hll lntetestln& bootes on the Loch Ness monncr and lu brethren, (The Great Orm of Loch Neu, I 968; The Draaon and tho Disc, 1973).. . ~es 1Jureaux 1/jullettn Bulletin No. 46 Aprll1979 ISSN 0383.6150 Conducted by Mr. X Printed in C41niidii ® Res Burnull 1979 Address mall to: Boll 1~98, Klnsston, Ontulo K7L5C8 CANADA CERTAINTY IN SCIENCE: A"ordlng 10 Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the only consunt (or absolute) Is the velocity of llaht. There hu betn a arowlng aceepunce of Einstein's the«etle&l physics among the sclentlnc community. Altho Orlt "damned" for Its re· faction of the universe of Newton and Kelvin, Elnnein's areatcJI glory was recognlz.ed In his ability to explain that the aether everyone was seuchlng fc.· simply did not exllt. A cen· tury later, the sclentim celebrate Einstein's geniu s and quietly foraot the aethcr their predecessors accepted without tho sllahtest shred of evidence. The velocity of light Is accepted as being slightly more than 299,792 kilometers per second. However, the pmage of liaht thru a medium does slow It some; hence, ll&ht does not travel thru air at its true speed, and in water It Is slowed even more. We are •mued by breakthrus that enable the ptlyslclst to determine with ever more acute obsemtlon the reOnement or the velocily of light to the hundredth declm;ll. However, the velocity of llzjlt Is a lheoretlcal absolule and as unknown to our universe as the "perfect Ill" and "ab1o0lute zero", Fort asked his " third queulon": "Who, except some· one who was out to boost a theory , ever has demonstrated that light has any velocity?" It wu not until Francis Bacon's NOVUM ORGANUM lhat ~n Interval of time was c:onsldored necessary for the pu· saae of ll&ht over a distance. In the lan number of the Bul· letln, (45: 3), the "surprising accuracy" wllh which j oe Hall said the speed of light was known barely seventy·Ove years after Galilee's discovery of moons around Jupiter Is best Illustrated by Arago. Firstly, Gallleo discovered the moons of fuplter In 1610, and It was In 1675 thn Roemer discovered the method of determining the velocity of light by observing the moons of Jupiter. His fellows obulned differing Oaures for tho time It took for llaht to trivel tho moan radius of the terrestlal orbit. Duhamel said 11 Will about IS minutes; Horne· bow said 14 minuteS and 7 seconds; Cuslnl said 14 minutes and 10 seconds; then Newton said 7 minutes and 30 seconds; and, Delambrc said 8 minutes and 13 seconds. The dlscrepan· cles are not considered worth oxplalnlns to Araao who tells us In POPULAR ASTRONOMY that tho quantity of time l.s more akin to 8 minutes and 16 second• (a ronnoment of 3 seconds). This closely agrees with our modern sclentiSll, but An&o asslans a velocity to light of 192,000 miles per sec.· ond which differs from what modern sclentlsu tell us. Forteans are confronted with other wch certainties! "The l ntra-mercuri ~l plilnet does not exist." (Fiammar· ion and Gore, POPULAR ASTRONOMY, 1894 td., p. 349.) "As to the spontaneous combustion of human bodies, It Is an impoulblllty, and all reporu of wch "'" can be clearly shown either 10 be due 10 erroneous ol»ervatlon or to be Intentionally fnudulent." (NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1904 ed., 16, 100.) "F"t A: There are no Intelligent belnas from outer space on Earth now," (Dr. Michael H. Hart; "No chance of close encounterl or the third kind : Scientist", KINGSTON WHIG·STANOARD, April 26, p. 34.) And, tho Dr. Hart believes our plancl 10 be free of visiting aliens from other worlds, he hu no obJection to our descendanu occupyln& and spreading c:lvlllutlon thruoutlhe aalaxy. Our planet is unique beeause hIs hablt.lble, he says. It Is seldom such certainties are revealed as errant in the news media ; but, the odds of a meltdown accident at il nuclear aeneriltlna station happenlna onee In a million years was one such certalntly lhattered by lhe news media and a motion picture. The accident ill the Three Mile Island power station In PennsyiYilnla m•y not appear Fortean u a phenomena, but It Is Ironic in ill close poruayal in the "Chlnil Syndrome" and Its o~posln& myths about nuclear power plant safety standards. For onmplo, one reads In the NEW YORK TIMES of March 18th, p. 19, th1t reviewers were doubtful that an ..cc.ldent ol tho loOrt In the "China Syndrome" could happen. ''Frankly, I don't believe a serious accident co~ld ever happen," says David Rouln, a System Nu,lur Re'search Engineer at Commonwealth Edison Company. " I am alsclen · tist, and I don't believe In ~eroes. But I do believe In 4edun· dant systems and tho Cilpablllty of people and 1ystems t<\ take preventive action." If one aoes further back in the NEW YORK TIMES one will flnd similar reassurancu of nuclnr power plan; safety. A study by Pennsylvania State University concluded residents llvlna near nuclear power plants had little rear for their health and safety, (NEW YORK TIMES, Mareh 18, p.41). The chief engineer at the Calvert Cliffs (Maryland) nuclear ~wer plant emphasized the sttess on safety at such plants. We have baek-up systems to baek up the back-up l)'stemsand even more behind lhat," (NEW YORK TIMES June 21 1978 p. 48). And Pro feet LOFT In I doho Involved the purposeful failure oflost coolin& Ould and was hailed asa success. Project LOFT !thowed lhat even when the back·up systems failed, a reactor core wu not likely 10 roach the temperatures necessary for a meltdown, (NEW YORK TIMES, December 11, 1978, p.A14). When the first valve falls, the control rods drop Into the nucl•ar core and pumps sun to pump In additional coollna fluid. The problem Is compounde'd by the f"t that the now vents to the back-up pumps were closed. Another valve venl· ina steam from the ovemcued core opens. More pumpsswt to pump In additional coolant which is heated Into steam and escapes thru the open ventlna valve. Then the pup In the
contro'm show• the open v~lve to be &hut, wllen It IJn't, so the ~tors of the plant •tart shu ulna off the addltlon~l pumps. few mlnutesl~ter, when It appearJ the cOfe Is not coollna, the additional pumps ue started apln, and they are closed ~pin when the puae aJI.lln shows the ventlna valve to be shut when It Is IIIII stuck open. Finally, one of the operators Onds the stuck valve .and closes It, and the problem ;appears to have been solved. Yet, so much coolant has escaped as steam and con· densed onto the ructor room floor and holdlna unks that a sump pump Is a"lvated. It transpMU the hllhly r~dl ~tlve water from the sealed reactOI room where the radlltlon cannot esupe to a snled co11talner In another ~ lldln a where It spills onto the floor and Is blown Into the atrne»phere by the second bulldlna's air-conditlonlna wstem. As radioactive aases escape Into the air, plarH officials explain to the Nuclear Reaulatory Commission that there haJ been an "Incident" and that small amounts or radiation have been released, (NEW YORK TIMES, April 16, pp. A 1 lc BlO). Further accidents complicate the situation, m01e radioactive gases are vented Into the air, an explosive hydrogen bubble formed by the over· heated core threatens to explode or expose danaerously hot fuel rods, ;md a false report of an lmmlhent meltdown eauses a widespread panic. The damage done could not be simply measured In terms of a partial meltdown within a nuclear power plant. The entire nuclear power Industry was devas· Ia ted by the adverse publicity. The clu n-up or the plant will prove ;an enormous task. Yet, I would stronaly recommend that anyone who Is not "ruin of how close the "incident" ume towuds being a disaster rud the excerpts from the NEW YORK TIMES, (April 14, p. 9), of Nuclnr Reaulatory Com· minion hearlnas Into the accident. The Irony of the "China Syndrome" describing Its O"lclous .accident .as ''rendering an area the size or Pennsylvania uninhabitable" b"omos ever more clear, (NEW YORK TIMES, Aprll4, p, C18), Leu Ironic, perhaps, was that a 30 page analysis warnlna of a possible ml~ap sent to tho reactor's manufacturer was first reJected and Ignored back In April of 19781 (NEW YORK TIMES, Aprll17, p.A16). NATURAL DISASTERS: Human error was not to blame, but one mlaht find It il bit difficult to swallow that Lil Soufrlere would erupt on Frldily the 13th, (April) shooting sulphurous pscs, dust, and uh hundreds of miles across the Caribbean. The north end of the Island of St. VIncent hu been evilcuucd In fearfulantlcl· patlon of a major eruptlon such u occurred In 1902 with a loss of over 2,000 lives. On the nelghbourln1 llland of St. Martinique, fears of a slmllu eruption of Mount Peleo were bolng realized as tremors were felt early In the next week. Tho activity of La Soufrlcre seams to ocour but a few days before Mount Pelee shows Its own active ll.atc, (TORONTO STAR, April 19, p.A14; KINGSTON WHIG·STANDARD, April 18, p.22; MONTREAL SUNDAY EXPRESS, AprlllS, p.6; OTTAWA JOURNAL, April 21, p.lO; lORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, Aprll27,p.11), A maJor urthquake shook Yuaoslavla on April 1 S and was musured at 7.2 on the Rkhter scale. More than 100 aftershocks were felt, and some or them me;asured S.3 on the Richter w:.alo, (TORONTO STAR, April 16, p.AI ·A2: NEW YORK TIMES, April 17, p.A14; TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, April 19, p.17). Several tales or precur1011 were rc· • • fated by a COtmi!Ondtnt to the TORONTO STAR, (Apri119, pp.A I·A2): "One man's ~dale went benerk In Its CiJe an hour bef01e the first shock." "Another a&id his c:at went wild In the .ap.artmant, bocomlna 10 uncontrollable he had to pick It up and c:arTy It outside - Just before the quake hit." "Par· ents who ml&hl otherwise have relaxed In bed urly Sunday, found themselves pouered by lnexpiiQbly fretful children." At Kamen.arl, the Adrllllc: Scil was seen to "mushroom up like the cloud from an 11omlc bomb" durinathe quake; yet, the provlslonil hypocenter of the quake In the U.S. Geoloalc:.tl Survey's "Prellmllliry Oettmlnatlon of Ep lcen~rs" iJves the depth or tho epl"ntcr as 33 k llome ~rs. Was there an eruption under the Adriatic as well u below the mountains of Mon~n · evo1 Forteans should note this qu.ake's eplc:ent£1 Is about 100 kilometers east of Milot Island, prevloully known as Mellda. Another maJor quake measurlna 6.3 on the Richter scale w;as felt In the Southern Pacific ~an at 36 deatees South and 1 02 deareos West on April 14th, On the s.amo date, the volcano Carran erupted In Chile about 28 dcarees lonal· tude to the east of the quake 's epicenter. The eruption was reported as aolna Into Its second day with names shootlna 125 feet Into the air, (TORONTO STAR, April 16, p.A2 ; U.S. Geological Survey's "Prellmlnilly list of Epicenters," No. 13·79, p.2). BOOMS AND EXPLOSIONS: Whereu Dr. Donn of the Lilmont·Doherty Geoloalcal Observatory Is quito certain the 'booms' he.ard alona the Atlantic coa~t of the United States are of an ;artificial orlaln, some doubt exists on the put of the Federal Aviation Admin· filiation. The FAA says that tho 'booms' heard alona the New Jersey coal! on February 8th (sec RBB 44: 1) were not c:.tused by the Concords. They did not say What caused them, but It WiJn't the Concordel It wa1 .announced that sclcntllls from Britain, France, .and tho United States were to meet In Wash· lnaton on March 2111 to dlscuu these 'accoustlc phenomena' and to explore the theory that "wuther prcuure 1ystems could carry sonic booms for thousands of miles from their Otlafnal source," (NEW YORK TIMES, March 3, p.26). I've he.ard nothlna mOte or this mectlna, and It strikes me u odd that no mention was m.ade of any Canadian participation In any such dlw:ussions conlldorlna the onaolna study of 'booms' hurd yetln Nova ScotliL More booms have been heard sin" this meellna. On March 13th il series or aerial e~ploslons shook Oranae and ~mlnolc counties In Florida st.trtlnaatl 0 AM and apparently lastlna until S PM. The· Kennedy Space Center was testlna sound waves under different weather conditions with dyna· mho blaltl, but no ono seemed to notice nor were any such rests conducted on tho 13th. Tho Navy denied Its responsl· blllty. They admitted to test bomblna ncar Ocala, but the c:hanc:e of a S()().pound bomb belna heard as far away ;as Orlando wu "remote If not absolutely Impossible". Some officials "theorized that rare .atmospheric conditions could have c:.tnled the rumbllnp over unusually I on& dlstan"'•" a&ys the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES of March 15th, (CR: M Hall). What ewr became of the cold layerina or the atmos· phere "theMized " In NEWSWEEK, (March 13, 1978, p.60). which accounted for tho 'freak conditions' that mide such 'secondary booms' pe»slble; 01, Is Florida uperlcncln& an un· publicized cold-spell I
In Woodhaven , Mlchlpn, the "boonllna IOUnd" 11 of I veryAIIIzed nature. Surlln& on April 8th, I JlnaJe house has ~truck by "the ominous floor-tllaklna IOUnd every half·hour or 4S minutes". Attempt! hive been made to trace the sounds. The ps company could find no leaks1 the bull din& Inspector could f'lnd no aaseous accumulations In the pipes or tewers, and a neiahbour had to visit In order to hoar the boornin& u It wu quite muffled next door. Early on the morn Ina of the 9th, the fa.mlly IOUJht shelt.r elsewhere where lhe sounds were not threatened by whatever It wa~ waJ tha.k· Ina tho house so badly thill wills a.nd eel tina had 1Wted crack· Ina, (WASHINGTON STAR, April 10; CR: R Manners; MON· REAL GAZETTE, AprlllO, p.l ). • Very much alona the lines of Lockyer's METEORIC HYPOTHESIS, Steve Qaden concludes: ''There must be a connection between these six events." On January 16th, he notes explosions and fires which "must have been cauted by meteorites". Altho Lexington and London In Kentucky 111d Hamilton, KlnBt Mil ls, and Middletown In Ohio do llo In a aenoral south·north direction, ~lmlwn In Arkans.\s Is certainly not In line nor do the flres and explosions cited by Mr. Ogden occur at the same time of day . Vot, It Is uncanny that In Harrlwn a telephone company building Is "leveled" by an explosion that damages a flve·block area and which It of unknown cause a.nd upon tho same date sixteen buildings are darnaaed and five demoyed by what Is said to be a natural ps explosion In London . I tend to reject the "mouorlc" or lain as wmo fire1 originated In and were confined In closed rooms, but it Is diff"lcult to !snore tho s~temont of a pollee· man In London. Tho explosion Wll followed by a 30-sccond blackout. "It wl1 pitch bliick outside and evorythln& turned brlaht blue • , , ." From whence did this blue light comel (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, January 17; KENTUCKY COURIER·JOURNAL,J•nuilry 17 & 18; CR: S Oaden). NEWS FROM NASA : "I was walkina from 1he third areon with three other plavers when woosh • .• this thin& arued my hat and my urn and ploughed Into the ground In front of mo," says aolftr Noel Stutz at lhe club in Buderlm, Ausualla. Was It a lethal meteorite? Nol "I looked down and It was a 1-1 /2 pound mullet." As tho course was severil kilometers from the ~e~, lho aolforJ wore surprised but did not let the falllna flsh dis· turb their pme. Lookina aloft, they claim to have seen a sea eagle and consider the mullet Its lost meal. The mullet Is said to bo destined to be stuffed and mounted u a wall trophy at tho aolf club, (KINGSTON WHIG·STANOARO, April 18, p.49). The period durlna wlll'h tho Skylab Ia expected to fall to earth Is between june 1 Sth and july 2nd next. The effect of 1unspoh ;md lonOJpherlc tides will determine Ill final orbital decav and re-entry. Most of Skylab Is expected to break up and burn up durin& Its re-entry, but ~many u 500 parll are expected to survive lncludlna a 5,000 pound airlock. Tho risk or belns hit from above are put down as beln& "tllm". Araao calculated that a cornet would strike the earth once In 281 million years; and , Prof Owen G. lnales of the Unlve11ity of Now South Walu puts tho odds of belna killed by a mo.-. haas 161HIIIoll tD - · Ytt, dlln~- whldl ~ Mris Is Ul*ud to fall mllllt u!IM 100 ma.- .net from S to 4,000 miles In Mnath· E"" If II h GC~n~lda edmon IIUiy to fall CMOr the oceans, 111 utlftllw dfop·- ._.u - of It will come cwer land. The !Ilk IIIPUI't to bt acaptablt to NASA, but have they ""' ~i:lnd 1t1t odllt ... lnst belna hit by a I"UIIet belna dropped by a flimblln& ....... ? (NEW YORK TIMES, F"""-Y 27, pp.C1<2; MONTREAL GAZ.ETTE, Mardi 29, p. 72; KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD, Aprll ll, p. 41 , and, AprillS, p. 30). Unfortunately tht rJdu M~Uipment abolrd dll Pioneer Venus ~ft went faulty before II could lit lllld tD INP the c:.ontours of Venus, but radar obMIVItlons llllda by the Aroclbo Observatory In Puerto Rico have ~ a hlfl· retolutlon picture of tile planet's meum. Moet notable of dlotc Ito two realons, simply named Alpha and leta. Alpha Is a circular rttlon with a diameter of 1,120 kllomet«t. Rld&eJ extondlna hundrech of miles In t.nalh llld NMina parallel 19 ~llometen ljllrt surround a "cmual dark object". NASA IUUHtJ tho object mav be 1 volcano. The feal&l,. It .aid to ruemblo nothlna on earth except postlbly tht Appa· lachlan Mounulns or tho sand dunes of the Arabian Ptnlnsula. Tho Beta realon Is probably volcanic and Is 800 kllome!M'S In diameter. Asldo from Its "centril dark foawre", which Is tven u ld to resemble a volcank caldera, "lona tonaun of rouah material " flow away from It to a distance of 480 kllornete11. O.ne ml&ht wonder If Alpha were volcanic, would It not dis- play similar futures? Or Is Alpha the result of a muJive meteoric lmpilct, such u mlaht result from the crash of the rarely seen utelllte of Venus? NASA simply stateJ, "The radar evidence lndlciltes that volcanic and mountaln-bulldlna proces~e~ similar to those on Earth, u well u meteoric lm· pacts, ~ave played a prominent role In shaping the surfiKO of Venus." (NASA News Release, No. 79-47). On April 91h, SAS·3 (Small A1ttonorny Satellite 3) re .. ntered tho atmosphere premuuroly In tlto Paclnc Ocean. It discovered two quasars ilnd was prominent In dlsc;ovorlna about half of tho 3S known X-f'ay bunters. "Their X-ny power riiM within one socond to a level 100,000 times the total luminous power of the Sun, then fades within a few ~j of soc:onds," uys Dr. Georae W. Clark of the Musachutetts Institute ofTochnoloav. SAS·l also discovered a "npld bunt· er" which differed from others by burstlna several rJmes per minute. The cause of these bursts Is thouaht to be "th«monu· dear ructions on the surbus of neutron stars, " but what 10ft of reactions Is not spec:lfled, (NASA News Release, No.7,..), ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES: "I t Is perhaps tho most bafflln& uuophytlcal Pht11on• non since tho dlsc;overy of the quasar," uys Or.I!Nce M.,.,... of tho Unlvol1lty of California at Los AnJIIn. "lt'slllui noth· Ina else we've over INn, Nothlna tlse tvtn - dose." The stellar mystery known u "SS 433" Is IIIPPOIId to be 1 d im sur. The puzzle comts In the feet that It Is "In - terribly weird kind of trouble". (Such technical larl~ ncape1 mel) Bulcally, the sc;lenthb cannot underttand how It Is the sw can be tpledlna towards the utdllt 1!10mlllon kllorneten per hour and at the wne time be rKlna..,., from the earth at the ume IP"d. Elt!Mt It Is ~Ina ot .... llut the sc;len~sts uy ll'saolna both ways at the- rJnee. What Is even _,10ln dlh puule Is that 1t1t 'Nioclty rltft Md fills on a 160-day cydt. The btst expl.lnatlon .,._. IIMI1r. llld
the only one thusfu, is that a slowly rotatlna sur h thootina forth two strums of p.ses on opposite slde1 of the 11&1 and al rou~ual veloc:itlu. Stars which "lull don 't eject material at ..... onormous velocities" are expected to explode Into a nova or supernova. However, such violent dl~eharaas ate In all directions and not In two equal and opposite directions, (TORONTO STAR, April 24, p.A 14; KINGSTON WliiG· STANDARD, April 2S, p. 42). No one ~terns prepared to blame equipment for the mysterloul lt&rl extraordinary speeds. In Florida, considerable protest hu been raised apinst the use of radar In SPCedlna summons Hpe<:lally when such udar units hilve recorded trees u travelllna at 138 kilometers per hour, (TORONTO STAR, April18, p.A14). The Soviet Union has been quick to lndlute th•t the rlna around Jupiter h•d been "predicted" by one of It• sclen· tlsu, Prof. S.K. Vsekhsvymky ol Kiev University . First published in 1960, the profeuor stAted, "The exiuence of illitlve ejection proce1se1 In the Jupiter syuem, demonurated by comet ntronomy, gives ground for mumlna that Jupiter II encircled by comet ilnd meteorite material In !.he form of a rlna similar to the ring of Saturn." The prediction Wdl re· pealed In 1969 and 1972 •nd were tlinslated Into French and German. The profa110r "demon1trated" the ex I lienee of the then·lnvlllble ring by observations of then-supposed volcanoes upon the moons of Jupiter. The claim of priority In the dis· covery of the rlng calls forth Leverrler's predictJon of Nep· tune's exlnance. Tho leverrier did not see Neptune, he had told Prof. G'lle where to look with his teleKope whereupon Galle "confirmed" Levorrier·s predlttlon. Or. Ambutsumy•n of the B yur~ k;an Observ;atory says NASA merely "connrmed" the Soviet's predictions and measured the sire and extent of tho rlna•. but the credit for Its discovery mUll go to Prof. Vstkhsvy;auky, (NEW YORK TIMES, Aprll 18, p.820). ATLANTAEN NEWS: Prof. A.A . Aksyenov, deputy director o( the Soviet Oceanology Institute, has announced that the Jurvey ship KURCHATOV photographed an aru now believed to ba rem. n~nt of the lost continent of Atlantis. Reporters and Journ•· lists In Lisbon were sorely tempted to mo'k this announce· ment, but It was apparently made In all serlousneu but with the unwaverlna confidence of sclentlsu on the rlaht theory's path. Altho the legendary Atl1ntls h1s been overworked by wenern occultlsu, It has been the subject of serious reseuch In the Soviet Union. The mon bothersome epl10de In the report by Prof. Aksyennov Is that when the KUCHATOV wa1 In the aru of the Ampere Seamount l;ast Ottober, ono of the sclentim aboard considered It to be tho "exact ilroa" In which Plato said Atlantis wu, then he souaht permiSsion from Mo~eow and proceeded to photosraph the horsesho~Mhaped plateau. Upon the plateau, the photographs are said to exhibit walls, forti· Rculons, stairs, and po11lbly brick wall•. A second expedl· tlon with mini-submarines ;and beuer-equlped photoaraphlc equipment Is to examine the ;area more closely. What Is most bothersome to Fonean1 h the "exoct aru " cited by Plato. Aristotle simply called Plllo a 'liar', and any self·respectlna Arlstolean ~elentlst did his bell to damn the mythical Atlantis. The lost continent hn not only been placed In the Atl•ntic Oce;an but u far afield u the Arctic, Anuretic, Paclflc, and oven In the celestial realm with the Super·Supsso Sea, (ShadH or Al.url&f)·. Bertlu claims to h;avo photoaraphed a aJaantic Atlant.aen pyramid In the Bahamas, If wo wls/1 to accept the location promoted by 111011 psychical Atlantoloalm; however, the explainlna and debunking archaeoloalsll point to the Island of Thlr1 which erupted about 1470 B.C., If you want to accept the location of conventionalists who don't like calllna Plato a liar. Even amonJit the Sovlot Atlantoloalsu, the location alven by Zhirov for his "Pmldonls" Is utrlde the Mld·Allantlc Rld&e and the Azores. To confldently sugeat the "exact area" was coincidentally belna passed over when It hil)pened sub· marine photoaraphy equipment wu ;at h&nd II more than a Fortean can believe. Altho the evidences of Atlanlia illlegedly photoaraphed will prob;ably be found only to consln of basaltic formations, the Erythela Archlpell&O was probably above tho surface of the Atlantic whenever a lupr Atlantaen continent was, 10 the location In tho vicinity of the Ampere Seamount Is not too far afield and well within r~nge of sea·aoln& vessels from early MediterraneAn Sea, The Ampere Seamount loc&tlon does not ~tl1fy the de~erlptlon given by Pluo, but so much legend has been built Ill> about Plato's description that Adantla mean1 very different thlnJI to different AUantolo&lllt. So many submersed ruins ue to be found ;almost any can and are claimed to be the fOil contJnen 1 of Plato's de"rlptlon. Were the sea level to rise 100 meters today, one mlaht find It difficult to decide which sunken city was New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, or Leningrad following a description of the city In question several centuries after the cat&clysm. It wu only ;a dozen years ISO thl! Weaener's continentAl drift theories came Into voaue •monJit aeoloaim, but the discovery of a sunken city, be It Atlantis or not, In the Atlantic mlaht pro· voko more serious examination of calasttophlst aeology, (WASHINGTON STAR, Much 29; CR: R Manners ; KING · STON WHIG·STANDARO, April 3; WINDSOR STAR and LONDON EVENING FREE PRESS, both April 5). RECENT UFO REPORTS: April 27th • Sioux Lookout, OT • A st&r·thapcd obJect was seen moving up and down at high illtltude. It wa1 des· crlbed 11 thlny & nd blue and red In rolour and was In slaht for fifteen minutes. A radar search by CFS Sioux Lookout wu unable to locate anythln& on its radar, (NRC files). Aprll 21 • umbrldae, OT • In the middle of the night of the 20th·21st, a brlaht ltar·llke ll&ht was seen to Oath red li&hu at Its top and sides. Seen thru binoculars the object resembled a white afobe surrounded by a bluith'lreen hue. It wu vl1 iblc from 1 AM to 2:30 AM, but It was not to be found on the follow· Ina nl&hts, (Cambridae UFO Research Group, 362 Kltchener Road, Cambrld&e, OT N3H 1A6), April 18th · Guelph, OT • A V·s/laped object wu seen to move from a stationary posf· tlon In tho northoutorn 1ky and rapidly move past the eastern horlzo11, but u It wu flnt seen within a movlna car Ill Initial stationary attitude may have been an Illusion. The objcot was larger than 1n ''airplane" and moved with the ends of tho V forward. It wu visible between 10 and 1 S seconds, (Cambridge UFO Reseorch Group). April 10th • St. ·t.ln, PQ • A red and areen luminous obJect was seen thru blno~ulars moving intermittently alona hlahway 337 between TerreboMe and St.·Lin, north of Montreal. No duration wuclted, but It w11 said tho object was noisefeu, (NRC flies). No UFO reports h••• been filed since fall Much at the National Ro· search Council, but a notlcuble decreuc In sll!lltlnas belna reported hu !&ken pia" Iince mid-February.
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• • 4 1979 qJ:onsulting l\esologist of tbrl\ts ~ureaux Jhx 1598. ltingston. *ntario lt71. sqce qJ:anaba Ql:able: l\Qej,jli'alt1\€mltl May JO, 1979 The Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1200 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K 1A OR2 Dear Sir , fEDERAL P0 t •:!NG BRAIKH -:;-c;-ot, -tJS SOUS·DIRECTION DE L'APPliCATION O~S lOIS FEDERALES I am writing to you directly with regard to an effort I have been involved with for the past five years , beu1g a comprehensive study of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) in and about Canada , Since my return to Canada from university in the United States, in 1974, I have made inquiries of various government departments including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as to their involvement in any reporting of U FOs and a ny holdings they may have had of UFO reports . I learned most UFO reports are forwarded to the National Research Council's Meteor Centre , but their holdings were obviously not complete and showed many reports received by t he Department of National Defence and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police wer e not forwarded nor transferred when UFO reports were first received by the Meteor Centre , I have been successful in tracing many of t he missing UFO r eports compiled under the Defence Research Board's Project Second Storey which were held by the Directorate of History of the Department of National Defence , As I had been ill-advised between 1974 and 1977 that they had no such reports and had determined they did possess them in late 1977 (which t hey later admitted to) , I asked them if "all" the reports had been released . They told me that they had not made all the reports available as any reports "involving R. C. M.P. personnel and reports" could not be opened to public scrutiny at that time nor without the permission of the Royal Canadian Mounted Pollee . Since then 1 I have learned a list of UFO reports running four pages in length were withheld from transfer to the Meteor Centre and allegedly re t ained by the Force , In order to pursue my study of UFOs I shoul d very much like to examine these reports personnal ly and see them made available to serious investigators of UFO phenomena . As you are probably aware, I have submitted briefs to the Royal Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police both in January of 1978 and January of 1979
' . • •' 1 ./2 Commissioner/RCMP/May JO ' 79 with regard to the involvement of the Force with UFO investigations . I have raised questions concerning the legitimacy with which the Force has become involved in investigating UFO sightings and holding any records or files of UFO reports. Quite basically , though I can well appreciate and many times applaud the reports of UFOs made and transmitted by members of the Force, there appears to be no legal sanction for this activity . In fact, UFOs would appear to be more o£ a matter concerning the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of National Defence . Both of these ministries have been involved in studying UFO reports as demonstrated by the report s of Project Magnet and Project Second Storey, yet , the Force is not mentioned or recommended as a participant in gathering and in the investigation of UFO reports . Obviously , the Force did become involved in gathering reports under Project Second Storey and as far as I can tell probably still retains a considerable number of those reports , Over the past few years, I have occasionally written to various detachments or the Royal canadian Mounted Police aski.ng H copies of UFO reports originating from their detachment might be obtained as a photocopy , The responses, when a response was received, have varied from refusal to forward any information as it was against "policy" to other responses which forwarded drafted reports and unsolicited photographs . It would appear that the 'policy ' of whether or not copies of UFO reports might be obtained is often determined not by any Force, Division , nor Sub-Divison commander but merely the Detachment commander or officer-in-charge. As I have access to most of these reports already at the Meteor Centre, I cannot see what objections of breach of confidentiality of the identity of the names of UFO witnesses can be claimed . It is not my intention nor desire to identify UFO witnesses without their expressed permission (which I seldom seek and then only that other serious investigators might know who to contact regarding a report) . As I find the UFO reports held at the Meteor Centre incomplete (sometimes consisting only of a telex message) , I would prefer to obtain complete copies of Occurrence Reports and Memoranda made by investigating members of the Force for my own files and study . Ae I have been reading UFO reports made by or transmitted by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the last five years , I have gained considerable insight into the difficulties arising and confronting investigating members who are not experienced in UFO investigations , Many reports are of admirable quality and most professional , whereas others are regretfully lacking in the most basic of details and full of erroneous data , It is a pity so few members of the Force cannot distinguish between Venus , Jupiter, Saturn , and ~Iars nor the stars , They might thus be able to re-assure contused witnesses and readily determine the identity of the UFO in many instances , One cannot expect members of the Force to be knowledgable in astronomy considering their many t asks1 but , I suspect they might benefit by having access to information on celestial phenomena, which I am aware is not always forthcoming from astronomers at the National Research Council .
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(') Commissioner(RCMP(May JO '79 At the present time, I have been able to malntain a fairly comprehensive r eview of UFO reports of recent date in my small RES BURF~UX BULLETIN , (copies of which are enclosed for your perusal and for deposit in the Force's library) , In the next few months , I shall begi.n amassing a computer data-bank upon UFO reports in Canada from my own files, reports copied from the National Research Council, Project Magnet and Project Second Storey files, and from reports received from UFO investigators and publications in Canada , A proper survey of UFO reports with the availability of statistical analysis may thus be made possible whereas the National Research Council finds such an effort too time-consuming and expensive for their undertaking, Needless to say , even old reports gathered by the Force before 1968 would prove of considerable value to such a survey1 and, with the co-operation of the Force, I could provide reviews of UFO reports according to region , dates, and descriptions as gathered by members of the Force and other parties as well . Thus, I would ask you for some response to the following questions , (1) Will you disclose how many and what UFO reports the Force has gathered under the auspices of Project Second Storey which have not been transferred to the National Research Council'? (2) Could I be given permission to review and/or copy any of these UFO reports which have not been transferred to the National Research Council? (J) Could I be advised if there is any ' policy • prohibiting my obtaining copies of UFO reports from originating and reporting detachments of the Force, and , could I obtain your permission to obtain copies of UFO reports held by originating and reporting detachments of the Force? (4) Would it be possible to distribute a supplementary questionaire to all detachments , which would provide more detailed data (5) than currently asked for by the Meteor Centre1 and , could a telephone number (available at night) be suppl ied to the Force's detachments where they might be advised of celestial phenomena currently visible , if I furnished such a number? Would it be possible to provide a liaeon ·through information on UFO reports received by the Force made available to serious investigators? which might be I would appreciate your earliest reply and your co-operation . Yours truly , ~ Mr . :X• 1\es J§ureaux J§ullttin Bulletin No. 43 I anuary 1979 ISSN 0383-6150 Conducted by Mr. X Printed In Canada ® Res Bureaux 1979 Address mall to: Box 1598, Kingston, Ontario K7L 5C8 CA NADA SUNSPOTS: A report deserving of the cover of SCIENCE (202: 1079·1081; December 8, 1978) r~isc~ some Intriguing quos· lions about the possible 1cc:eler~tlon of the sun's rotation in hhtorical time. Richard B. licrr of the Unlvarslly of Dela· waro wem over the solar charts dr~wn by Thomas Harrlot between t611 and 1613 ~nd comp~red these wllh cham dr~wn by Schein<r (162S • 1626) and Hcvellus (1642 · 1644), From 690 observations taken of 146 ~unspots {with an average 4.7 oblCrvaiion> Per suMpot), Herr now feels confident In revealing the 10111 rot.Jtlon prior ro the M~under minimum (from 1645 to 1715 when no sun~pots were reponed) was only 12.92 to 13.76 degrees per day and then sped up to 14.2to 14.9 dCljree; within a period of 32 yean . "It Is dlrrl · ~ult to ~pc the conclu;lon that the sun's rotation, as de fined by sunspots, was truly slow at the time Harriot observed It, and that lt was acce l cro~tlns between then and the incept· ion of the Maunder minimum," )<IYI Herr. One might dlso wonder of the effect sunspots m~y have played In • sudden slowing of the oanh 's speed of rotation after tho solar stnrm of August 4th, 1972. The change 111 speed of rotation may have only been mciiSUrJble In mllll· seconds, but the bellel our planet keeps spinning 11 th~t Its had only gravhatlon.!l folttlon affc(llng h since It formed Is highly suspect. The energy Involved 11 ~ffectlng the earth's spin would IUI!IICII sunspots and magnotlc storms could be ma1or fdctof) In atmrophlst gcoloxv yet to be recogniled. An excellent book containing many fnsclnatlng references of lhc effects ol the sun and pldnbts and mrs Is THE CYCLES OF HEAVEN by Guy Lyon Playfalr and Scou Hill (Souvenir Press, 1978). II one pd<dons their scant knowledge of r or· tcan.J, dpparently skimmed from William Corliss' Sou"cbook series, and failing to note such minor trivia of the de~th of somo scluntlsts like Vladmlr Gavrcau, (''He does not seem to have published anything lately."), tho List of References alone Is WOrth the price of the book. (Also ICC Cited In this Instance from their book: Gribbin, J, & Plagemann, S., 'Dhcontlnuou~ change In Earth's spin r.nc following grc1t lOiar storm of Ausu" 1972,' NA.TURE, 243, 26·27, 1973.) A.N ECLIPSE. News of the wlar eclipse of February 26th will draw considerable media aucntlon In the coming month. It Is the last total sn l ~r ucllrse to be visible In North America lh thl~ century ~nd will thth cdll fonh many sclentlflc experiments from Oregon to the NUt"thwcst TorrltoriC$, For u~mple , there will be ~ many rocket Orlng' taking place at Red Lake, Ontario, that ~II the resident trappers arc 10 be kept off their trails lor fear ul falling rocket parts, tho they will be compens.ncd lor this Inconvenience. One experiment I have suggested to Dr. John B. ~Icc of Brandon University, the Canadian ~o-ordlnator for professional observations, Is to watch lor ahy changes In tho swins or a torsion pondU· lum. In 1970, the solar eclipse ol Much 7th was "seen" by wch ~ pendulum ~~ Hanond, Mu!Sichuseus, by Erwin 1. Saxl and Mildred Allen, (sec PHYSICAL REV IEW D3 (4), 82S • 825, 1971). Evon when all calculations were nnlshed •nd corrections m~dc they found the variation In gravity wu 100,000 times as great u expected. " It is further to be noted that the 'roatost change occurs between the onset of the eclipse and its midpoint," they add. "These variations MD too grcJt to be explained, on the buls of classlal ardvl· tatlonal theory, by the relative th~nge In position of the moon with respect to the earth and sun." If the classical theory cannot oxplal11 It, do \Yo fear Einstein's theories are wrong or simply mlslntcrpretcd7 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: "Prediction ~n(lrmtdl " A pulsar In the Aquila cormel· latlon was detected In I 974 by the radlo·telescope 4t A.re· cclbo, Puerto Rico; but, il was found to be In orbit Around some other object whoso nature wo do not know. Some speculate It may be another neutron st~r and perhaps even one of those oluslve black holes, but such dct~lls shall not pre· vent any doubts as to the precise measurements which will confirm Ei nstein 's general theory of relativity of 191 S. What· ever the pulsar is orbiting, It Is quite small. The pulsar and tht unknown orbit each other about every elgllt hours, and the pulsar Is said to travel about It~ companion at I .06 million kilometers por hour. It Is the fact that they arc nlUtually mrattcd and coming toacthor wherein gravlt~tlonal waves •re cmimd. 1\lthouah none of the gr~vhatlanal waves them· solves have been detected, It would be expected their orbit would be shortened by one ten-thousandth of a second ca~h ycJr. Since 1974, they have noted a slowdown in the orbit of the pulsar of four tcn-th ou~ndths of a second. Joseph H, Taylor ol the University of Mas~chuscus says, ''We don't claim to h.wc detected gravitational w ave~ themselves, but simply proved they cHill." We rnust awah verification; but, I unnot help but wonder, as Edwin Holmes probably would, tho confldonce of accuracy they f'Ut inro the "new, extrcmelv ICnsltlve computcrlled clocking dovlce" c~pablo of moasure· monts of orbits at I S,OOO ll~ht·yea rs tO within on& fifty• millionth or 4 second, (TIME, December 25, p.3S; KITCHENER·WATERLOO RECORD, Dee. 14; HAM ILTON SPECTATOR, Dec. 16). GLOWS UPON VENUS: Only 1 few newspapers noted • most lntrlgulng mystery oltad in RBB ~2. for as they descended Into the clouds on the dark side of Venus they detected ~ glowing light. The alow w~s first noliud as the probes ruched an ~lll t udc of 7.S miles and bCl!amc brJahter a$ tho probes approached the su r·1 • .-c Or . Ounald 11 untcn of the Unl>cr.lty ut 1\tl/O(IJ sr ••'CU l.uucJ, " I 1 hin ~ '"' were >Oil lOg the 1 ~'II glow uf thtl ''" '·"'' "" k<, which )tQI bJighw '" tho t>ll>br< """'''" thu ~u rl .tec. It "''"'n 't make JIIY dlf1Cfi'I1CC wh.ll the .0)111pmlt run ur the 111t.k> rnlght l>C, It's hot onOURh on the surf;aoe of Venus ttl 101 !hem o tflrc." 1\oother SCitlntlll thought ihr ,flfiiOiphcre o nlght be su hot '""' the .11rnosphorlc K•I)C\ might l>urn "wun· t.mcouslv'', ,md yet •nothcr thought the v.,auslon nwuotalns themselves might be nhusphorus<ont Or. fhomas Ounahuc of the Unovcrsiw uf Mochlgan was ,, lillie more hone'S!; "I think we were lookong at the nrc\ ul hell." i\ntl tho the WINNIPEG TRIBUNE of O..ecmbco I Sth hc.adllncd hsro-.cw J\ "Sp•crships detect f•lnt glow never before seen on Venus", Profes>Or A. Schafarlk's list of twent y t\\o ubscrv•tiOnl prlur to 1872 should provklc ,, gond cnmparisun ol explana· tlons, ( fORONTO STAR, 1'· t\18, •nd, EOMONlON JOUR· NAL.bnth December IS). NFWS 1 ROM NASI\: Tho yc.r 1978 saw o na• 1y > ueccssful mls1iOn1 launched by NASA. All twenty launches wcru successful, lind tho only roJI IJIIurc •t•pcurs to have bcun a ~h ort·tlrcult ln SEASA I ·A (which provr·d lhc rea.slbilhy for ruturc SEA!>/\ I' profem). I he Pioneer Venus .1nd HEAO· I projectS led the flcld or dlsc•IV<rl<•, and the testing u t the ~p.tcc !.hunlc <ystcms previewed the excitement thdt ,1walt; a new erJ ol space cxplowlon In 1979. Or the sixteen IJunchc• ror 1979, the must excltong will undoubtedly be the ntu Sp.r~e Shunlc launch now scheduled lor November 9th and tu be piloted by John Young •nd Rob<rl Crippen . In MMch and July, tho VoyJgeur I and 2 spaccctaft will make their closest o~ppooaches to the planet Jup tter: ,1nd later In September, the Pioneer I I spacecraft will mak~ Its clu1cst Jpproach to s.n uql. Little .uomlon WJS ~ivun In tho 11rcrs t~ tho manu· mental discovcrl<>l 111ade by tile HtAO I mission which has Uit<lcd aftur 1cvcnlccn morttl\1 .mrl ~lx .totlvo months l'il 1pnce ~X tllora tl u n . ll tus s<orvcycd the cntlro ~ky lor X·oay sourcu1. rhc C3 t ~log of X·ray sources has now boon Increased from 350 ttl nearly 1500; d new 'biJck !tole' nr,t) be round In the Con· >tull,nloo Seorplus (thus increasing tho number ol 1uspcct> tO four)j Jnd, .l "univ· crsal hol J)ICbnltl CUihlitutiOg a maJOr lr~ctlon of the mass of lhc universe was dhco•ered, as well as • eloud of dust and gas with a mm cqu~l to J million billion Suns envcloptng a super-cluster of g.~l•~ r es' now su~gcsts enough mass n>ay be about to "clrllc" the unlver.e with gravitat ional collapse. ''Selent 1m belteve tlw this Important new ~nowledge may bring fundamen tal ehanl(l'> In concepts of the universe," say, the NASA News l~ c l caso . Surely, It Is also one of tho mu>t under slo tt ed ,u,wvuolul mtttlc hy NASA In recent years. (CR: Nli\SA,•IIId TO RON 10 51 AR, J,rnuaiY 21,Jhi\ ll ). I I'TIIi\1 METEOR ITES• M) IJII note in R88 32.6 seems tu hJvc jlalned a rullow- log J> thrcm ol • half-co mbuncd S~y l ab h.ovc been compared tu the chaolC<i holng ~ llled by 6 nleteorltc . Snme NASA ICicntl~ t m•y h~w believed the urthodo~ myth th,atno on~ ha• been known 10 be killed by J meteor he , hut, the comparilon w," • pOOr one to make. Ai 1\o•go discovered with Ci!Ci of teth~l lightniog, metL'Orote> m•l not ho Jl tully errdltccl whh dl onuch dcsuuctlon as hu been thought In Arago'> day, rt "'"' tll!lll~ht 11 1.11 the nulllb~r Ill ~l '<l lll~ ldllcd by ,IIKhtnlojt w.h rtnwghl 1u th.' nu mmt: Uldtt uuc o1 two pt!r ~cfttur . IJut, In IJIII tmllg~lh.·uci.J ••Mt'. "'' ~ t,.1t1l 11nd Jn atCOHI"'I Hf \UC ,1 ttc.tth In tht· nu<v-r>,Jpuo nc<~~ly uv•••v w c~k. Wltllo mutcuol• clc.lths nldy nu t hu ,,., numcmus noo as llkoly to go ow In nwnbco, thuy should oHJt be ;lmil.trly lgnoo cd und fonsldorccl llct1tlou•. Al11n~ 1vllh ••·vuo,ol ,\ccuums o f anltn,JI dc.alh' .tnd huon an ln)uoiu), J lew nuw J"'"tnh of lclhJI ructuuohc> h••c come to my .attcrHinn . On IM•u•ry 14th, 616 A.D., (how aetu•••• thu dJtc cl,aim) tu be I c:.tnnot say), " ..... 1 stone fell In Chon• , lh.lltering clwlot> .1nd killing 10 men," <l,lles 4n J Ccount credlll'd tu £ .. Olut . The dc.~th uf d h•n,ls_.n friar Jl l.rcmJ, ltJI\, on Scptcmbtr 14th, 1551 , Is credited Jl otiC cluth I run~ • l.sllul o~thour.Jnd stone) according tu I .I . Phip<on, whum 1 \lllpc<t tonk it from Humboldt 1 h•· de•th of twu .,anoos between Japan .and Sicily h glvt•n JS " 1(>47 • 16S4" (evidently \till conlusrd), hut th e source ol J new .tccount h cited as ('apldln OI•U>·Erlcsnn Willmann. A11d, J new C Jsu d.11c~ 1 ·'""., y 16, 182S, clai111> 6 "''"' •• Orl.onlJ (MJiw•tt c) , llrlt lsh hodl;1, was killed Jnd J wvrn.111 ICrlously ln lurcd nacordlng ICI S. Meun ier . All those lnoltlcnts were .11110ng ,, 11\t I!Ompllud by LlnCc'1111 LJI'a~, In cnnnccLion lrl the aco;uunt of ,111 lnluoy ~.o uscd by the 1\lld,J••P·"'· m~tcurltc , In 1927 , (POPULAR 1\STRONOMY, 59, 43 1-43S,Oct. 1 951 : CR: R . Dobbins). i\ correspondent writes to the WASIIINC.· fON STI\ R of J ~mo.ory 2nd (CR : R. Manne") to cite rrlt1 ll cldc's boo~. METLORI res, .. the ~OUitO or one such C3i0. rh~ COIIC\pondcnt alw did his own rcsoMCh Into thll case: ol Gcncr•l T. L.lllllianus who was said to h.-e been killed by • mctoomc In 1906 while in a military c;amp Un· fortunately, little else: was to be found •bout thr gcnco•l even with ,, se~rch throuAh the Library of Congress: but, It •<Ids another case to ,, ghlwlng c~talog which has yet to be publllhed di ,, whole. I he perpetuation of the orthodox myth of humJn irnmunlt y to meteoric death) (or lt1 flctl · tiOUI IIC)>) h prub,ably du(• tu thO Inordinate otltcn tiOII p~ld to th ~ meteorite It soli Jord no1 the clr~u mstan ocs tll'ldcr which It fell. ;\ rcgc~ t check ol the forty·slx known mctCQrl tcs fount! In c, .. ,,,(l,, rovoalud ihc nne olted by Fon '" !tolling at L~c h l n c, Quebec, nn July 7th, 1883, w.u not upon the llu, (Fort gives the MON I' I~L Y WEi\'rHER REVICW of lu ly 1883 u his ~•urcc In ,h,tpter 8 o l th e !lOOK OF I HE 01\MNED) ; thu>, d review <If Jld>t record> m•v not only reve.JI more death• due to metL'Orltc< but more ipoclmons which may hJve been O\erlooked by the catalugs. FLi\SI IlS AND TIIUMPS : Ooi Cklohcr lht, d red ,nd yellow nash Wdl >CCn Ill cross the ~~ Y uf Falob.onks, 1\l•>ko. Some dcscrlbu a.l It "' yellow with ,, bhll' ll.amu, .tnd ot her1 loslsLit had ,, red ull. Everyone would ho~vu 1 110b11bly agreed rhat It w.o1 only " rnOtllUI. lto;W UVOI, tho (o(O I that the '0a!h' W ol~ lOrn nt 6 ; 1 S PM .1na.l thiu "' 6: 1 G PM there wa> .1 "sllghl u.11 th tronu11 " hils st.trtcd u lot or specula tion. The tremor mua1urod ho· tween 1.~ •nd 2.0 no the Richter l(ale Jt lhe Unlvcr~lty o l /\las~,, •nrl •onturcd In "" drc• to the wuth 11[ falrb11nks where the flash WJI seen. The Feder•• AvlatlrJn Authorh y SJid no phancs were mlssln~. ~nd the «!l;muh•Kist WJS unwlll l n~ to connect the tremor with the fall ot the meteor, even su11 pcrJing 11 wtts tt mclcor Jnd nnt a case: of earthqu.s~c ll"'hh, (TI:\IPI D/\11 Y NCW!;, A7.· CR· R Dobbm\;M>d,SOU1 11 OAKO'II\ EVI:NING 1 RIBUNE, CR j . Mu sKr~ve; huth NU\tlllbtl h t) .Af1<Jihcr wn of llash dc..:rlb•-d "' "II~~ ll~ lnnong, • c•ccpt porlc•th• str~oght " w<1~ .oc:.omp.ooolcd by J ·•sch;h\hu,upr .. lyp~ , t•f 1humnlnH\oUntl .11 Columhw •. Ni.1 hl .l· sk.o, 1111 Novuonbcr ':l th 1\ wuup of youth' ),ow thrc< ll.ollo•> I~ tho clcnoulc•> lky \Yhlth wuru ~l muh.oot ct ou; wllh the thunw· ing ooisc, omd .oltco the ll.o>h ~> trJIII of snuoke, "> llllj~l uwlng ,lightly", wcou left hchi,,l, Could th,•w he meteoo l• ? (LOL UMBUS 1LLLCRAM, Na vrmb<r 10, CR: L Fm>h, Ul 0 Nl:.W!>CLIPPINC Sl:.RVICF • Ill). i\1 < PM oo Nu>conbcr 19th, Richl.uotltnwn, Pcnnwlv.tnll , wdl muc~ bv J "bollm" which 1hoo~ the gruund ~nd prompted c.oll' 1<1 St.otc Pnllcc ,o nd the POnt.ogon. No Jlrco.oft ·'l'l'c~t wlo•v" ''"ned • ><look hOOIII, lhlr ho iVc ,my signS Of d toonn~O been ll<liOd irtlln wholl• uvco ldUWol tlw broom, (QUAKt.R I OWN rRLL PKLSS, PA , November 20; CR: L. F•rilh & B. Peters, uro NCW S· CLIPPING SLRVICE # 114). Phocnl\, Ari1ona, ~lso oq>uo ted <1 ph.lntono r.uthquJkc on November 21st. Shonly after 9 AM, ull> "'"'e rectiv•d th< ll twt> trenrors l.l~tin~ •bout six minutes WCfl' fell In cunJun"ion with 'cxplmion' • like noises above. No scisnola recordings or the shocks wcro made, thu> oou cMthqu.o kc wn< clotectcd (tmrtly because the Unlvcr· shy of Ari1001d seismograph WJ> umluo repair) nor would one be expected since Phoenix docs not lie on a fault . I he C4u>c or tho >ha<.ks h•) been put down as dynamite blnsting that h~s been reflected I rom ovcrhan~Uns cloud). but no one seems ~bit to plnpoont """t bla11ing w." done at 9 AM n.>r the quantity ol cxplu>lve used thcoc, (PIIOENI X GA/( ITF , Novcmboo 21 : ARII.ONA REPUBLIC, November 22; CR· R. Dohhlns) . 5 t.srtlrog u11 J.muoorv 2nd In lhll uhenuoon, a largo"'"'' oll (lt lll~ Tahlcqordh , Chcnokoc County , Ok l.rh<>no.o, has CXJ)Crlenccd .t series of "dull thuo.h ... The noise• hllvc nell been traced to JOY ed<thqu•kcs, airuart, Jotillery, bl•~tlng, nor any lcc-cucking. And, the 11hcnumenon Is not strictly loc~l on cffttt, •• the Sheriff commented the thuds ore heard over J wide .ma lt the <ame tlonc, (OA ILY OKLAHOMAN. lanuary 3 & ~ : CR: T.l\o.Jams). Sn •• not to ignor~ C.onadlall booming nulse~ •• rs onuoh or tho i\oncrlc.ooo and Ca nadlo~n pru>i does, II would bo wuothy to nolo thdl 150 <•til> have been received by tho Lmcogcncy Measures Orgdnllalion in Hallfdx, Nov• Sc;otia, since h set up it) toll ·frct nun>bCI for reporting 'sonic booms' Jl the start uf Ouohcr Neil Standen of TransPOrt C4ndd4 still find; the Cnncoodr the poimc SUipCCt, but "25 per cent " Of the booms "do not coinco dc whh the tin o c> when Concnrdu arc !lyillK .onywhiJre ncar the provlr10o, "(HALl FAX CliRON· I CLE·~II. RI\1 D, l anuary ; CA P~ OR E TON POST, Januury 9). FIERY PIIAN rOM : Ncar midnight un tanuary lOth, the ficry phJntom 1hip of the Nunhuonbcrland Strait Wdl seen between Pictou Island a11d BJyvl~w , Nov.o Scutl•. A f,omily t1.1lon ed only to hnvu nutlocd a bright light In tlou w~tur which "appc.re o.l 10 ho drihloog low•rd l'lctuu Island " , It lt>okcd llko a nrc, •nd whun Wdtchud thru a p~h of blnotul.ors, II looked like somothlnK on Ore. l hr NCW GLASCOW Nrws or tanunry l I rh claims it to he o~nuthl'l slijhthog tu bt ddtlcd to m•ny nthe" >ccn m the S•me .orcJ where J .. rllln, '"~'"' burned •01d <ouok To Jdd furthro crcd,•ncc tu lhr t•le, It .oppcars a mcmbur ul tho Pictou RCMr dctJthmcnt ·''"' witnessed the 'lire' In the sv.olt. UI'Os: r ollowlng the widcly·ruohllclll•d r<port> ul Ul 0 1 lrlmcd JOIII wilnl'SSt'd In New Lcal•nd Jnd numerou• reports '"'""'-d fruoot .or<ound tho world, It w•s not too wrprhlnK to \U C tht C.o n•diJn news mcdiJ try to puhlocote Ill own dllcuvcry. tl uwcvcr, thu revcl.otion mad~ by tho TORONTO S'l AR <11 l•nto.try 20th (11p.i\ I i\8) were thnt UF01hnd been tho l.OU>c of C.m adi~ n lc•t( bolng scrambled to Sudbury in Nuwonber Of 1975. Thv " pooviously top,.ccrot documents released In IVJshington " obt.olncd by Ground S.1uccr W~tch dncl the WASIIINGTON POST contained nothong new regard· lng the Sudbury >ightings that weren't 01.lrcady printed In the SUDBURY STAR back In 1975. App•reniiY, in the >oome time period, many U.S. defence ln>tallatlons were wltrOC>I to Uf01. Oo . Bruce MclntQsh ot the National Rcso"'ch Council toonnountcd upon tho Sudhury slghtings >t•tloo~ lh Q Ho d~r coollact was probably tmly l~e cry>t.ols rcflectloo11 the radar ond visual witnesses jumped to conclusions In thinking Venus was tho >o~mc UFO on the radar once they looked ouulde . He neglected In comment upon the f•ot four different ObJCCIS were reported In the sky .n uno time by four Sudbury police· men. He Jlso falls to explain how the ' radar·rcneetloog Icc eryllals' 11aycd together whil e moving at a speed or 100 koot>ts while climbing 30,000 rcot when trackad t)n radar by CFS l'alconbrldge on tho s,omc date of Novc001bcr Jllh, 1975, (N7S/152 thru N75/lS7). Dl:sphe the statements of CBC's Radio Noon program In On1w• nn lanuary 30th, th•t •II UFO rePOrts Jre av<~llable 10 rc.carchors, I 'vc discovered ooMny UFO rcJ>OtiS Me "identi· ned" by NRC scientiStS ·IS 'meteors' and nlcd S<ltMrlltcly from the r~gut.rr UFO rcr1ons. Thoso Jrc 11nt available to rc>cao chu1>, ,oood where it wa> possible to study unfllcd UFO repoll~ .os thuy came Into the NRC n 100 Su<scx in Ott.awa. This Is no longer allowed until the new 'UFO report~ ' o~re c h ec ~cd a> meteors first before entered Into either tho 'meteor' or ' UFO' files. For example, two RCMP occurrence reports were not pcnooincd to be copied •• neither hdd been chocked '" not being 'meteor>. One report loom c~ndcr, No>YroundiJnd, was tho full rcpon m N78/232 .tlrudy rusid- lros In lho 'UFO' file; and, 1ho o ther was a description or " brllll•m UFO which hovered ncao Prince George, B.C., at Summit Lake, on Dcccmbco Sth, •nLI w•s watched o'er a period of ·nvc minute$', I only had time to gl<~nco thru the reports bofure being advised no one had distinaul>hed whether the$<! were 'meteors' ()I' 'UFO, • and could not be copied. This n ~w policy soerns to stooor from my dl>co•cry some UFO fllijs .md lneQ mlng reports 'dlsdppoar' Into the •onutcol' flies never to be seen by researchers, such as o UFO seen at Petit Roth co, NB, on December 10th, described as an oval· shaped obJect, 10 to IS feet long •nd SO above the ground, Oylng weu to em in sigh I for 4 to S seconds. CFB Chatham called h ,, ·u~o·, but NRt says n's a 'meteor', You'll not Ond It in the 'UFO' ntes, but , how many other ·uro· reports have bean detoured Into the ' meteor' Oles where UFO re· searchers c.m ooot go? RECENT Ul:o RI!I10RTS: lanu•ry 18th - B•oc Cooooc,ru, PQ · An •lr trafnc control- ler rcpu11eoJ • 'b•ll uf Ore' .u 1722 HRS which wJs likely meteoric, (MONTREAL l. A PRESSE, Jan 20) . l•nu•ry I Sth l;dmonton - Four ubictts were seen by ,, bu~ driver who ~oold they I til ;hort v,rpor tr;tlls, but tho dh tlO rt had nn lf,lffl< lhK""" In tlou onoornlng, Then in thu •ftur·ooo(ln, ,o U~O w.11 vld~ot.opcd lly ,o rc.ohy eu mp~n y cmploycu; hut, it h thuooghJ It ot1dY have been J wc.uhor h,rlluon releasee:! .11 Stooy l'l••n that •fl~rnoun . J~nuary 14th ldmonton .
A woman reported a ·tower of Ore ' or yellow tear-drop waped UFO at 4 PM over the city. Januuy 12th ·Edmonton · Two other re\idcnu reported seeing d COM·\haped obje" with a long tdll for 10 minutes In the dfternoon. h Is ~lso though t these slg hr l n~• mighl bu hoaxes by itudents at tho University of Alberta, (EDMONTON JOURNAL and SASKA100N STAR PHOENIX, Jan 17). )Jnuary lith or 18th ( 1 ) • Khchencr, OT • A building lnsl)eCtor reported seeing a 'b ird · cage' · like UFO with bright light> for 15 minute\ In the mornlns. (KIKHENER·IYATE RLOO RECORD, J•n 18). janu•rv 10th · Kitchener • Sever.11 moturish report " 'bluish· yellow' llglu In rhc shape of,, cross wlrh red tall llghh that scpar.Hcd frorn It l•tcr, Thu UFO was In view lor 2S minutes, (KI'rCHENER ·IVATERLOO RECORD, Jan 10). ),rnuaryl!th • Toronto • A tennis player reported a UFO which I~ mn~t likely Venus, ( rORON'rO SUN, f,rn 9). J•nuary 8th • I Otonto • An optrator of snow-ma ~.n g equipment dl Earl B~le• P•r ~ rcpom a UFO in the sky, (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAI L, l•n 9) . J o~nu • ry 7th • 1orontu · At 2: IS AM, two residents oppuslte Ea!l Bales Park uw a UFO about SOO fcetuvcr the p.~rk a nd called NaalonRI Or. fence and Tom Gray, a local UFO rcsc~rehcr. From the pu l ~1 tlnN, tcar·drop shaped UI'O, two srnallcr cylindrical UFOs emerged after II had climbed to 2,000 feet. 1\nd, at one poin t, J witne•$ ciJimcd to \Ct 6 \m~ll objeell about the orig in~! UFO A military pollum•n met Metro pol ace Jt the par~ Jre.r, hut •• he only •JW >00" · making equipment In the p.rk that h what he concluded the wilnmcs were reporting, (TORONTO GLOBE 1\NO MAll., TORONTO SUN, ~ ndTO RONfO STI\ R, Jan 8:N79(unnlcd). Janu.try 7th • Oshawa, OT • Two students saw a dlse·sh,apcd object over Ldkc Ontario and ph o to~raphcd h Jboul S AM . One of fuur photos showed two white oblccts over the lake which was a ~rprilt as onl)' one was visible to them before dlldppwing •t daybruk, (OSI IAW> \ TIMES, Jan 8) Janu•ry 5th · Tees, AB An e"trcmdy bnght light which bro ~c into th ree pltcta wa• >Ccn by ,, culleKC lnutuctor .md wdl ll k~ly or1l y • meteor, (RED DEER ADVOCATE, lan 6), ).tnuJry Sah • Barrie, OT . Two resldcntl w\!re w ak~ n cd hy ,1 whlrrln" nol10 Jnd photographed a while UFO they s"v high In thu sky which was visible for drt hour , (BARRIL LXAMINCR , Jan S). )anu11y 4th Perdu~. SK • An objett described M 10 to 110 feet lonl and 30 to 40 fret wide with a green body and yellow lights new noiseles\ly over a et<C ~ .He• •r•d ho•· ercd thcrr• for 4 minutes, (N79/002). January Jrd • Burns Lake, BC . Two round UFOs with a red light lrr the centres and ~ very bright whho ll)lht Jround litem were aoportddly watched for nbout S minutes by two residents who triad to pho togr~ph them, (N79(001). Jnnuary 2nd ·Shelter V~llcy , OT A round, llar~lke UFO w.s seen by three residents between 3 and S:30 AM before h disappeared behind some tr~s . The wnnes"'s considered tho O bJect similar to the re<.onl UFO> seen over Now Zealand, (COBOURG DAILY STAR, )•10 3), "During the holiday season" Fredericton, Nfl . F. Brucie Greene 's column repo rts lllnt il UFO wa• seen ovor tho city but falls to provide ~ny detail> o n tho event, (FREDERICTON GLEANE'.R, J,an 6). December 31st • Meaford, Ol • Several rcsidenu reported a large, tan obirca hoverinl over the are• Mound dus~ . Later, d hunter dlsc;ov· ered .r wuthor balloon from NOAA cnunglcd In ~ uce and solved the myllcry, (OIYEN SOUND SUN TIMES, )an 8). December 28th . Penh, OT (and Onawa ~nd C.rccnwood, NS) • A rotlre!l civil servant reported a 1mall na<hlnR light, similar lo a mr, cross the sky over a period of ~0 minutes, Hn called upon the OPP (Onldrlo Prcwtnclal Pollee), ~nd In turn , the PCRTII COURIER (l~n 3) notified Ouawa where they lc•rned fronr Annie Claude that two Othtr repOtts were received on the same day from Otlawa and Greenv.ood. NS. However, these others were 'ldentllicd' •s •r'irebatts•• and no detail> on them arc available. December 24th • St. josuph, PQ · The Surctc du Quebec were noll lind of~ UFO seen ned< Sa lnt.VI c to r-d c· Bc<~u cc which apf)Citrs to have hcert J fireball. No tr•<.cs uf tho fireball or meteor were fuun~ despite ~ helicopter soarch, (QUEBEC LE SOLEIL, jan S). December 20th. Benton, NF · Ncar GJnder, a lone motorist encountered an oval ubjec:t with two bright white lights which passed ovllt' his "" and then hovered nc <ar it. He panicked Jnd drove as fast as he could till he reached GJnder. Duration Of the sl~hting W<IS given JS 90 ;cconds , (N78(232). December 15th · Moosu Jaw, SK · An nfncllr and several men at the cuntrol lower at CFB Moose j,Jw ohscrvcd four clrcuiJr white light\ ,tbovc the norlhorn horiLon. rhey move In line from Whl to e.nt Jbout Jn hour ,urd 3 h~lf before sunrise •nd were .... td to be four tirne~ the si1c of str~tll~ht\, (N78/231). De<ember 13th · Joussard, AB • A puls.nlng, triangular light with "spark! or beams emtuing" frorn Its top point was seen fur three •nd J hall hours over l.osscr S l~vo Lnkc. Socr1 thru blraocutars, It had .1 definite shape tho \\trroundcd by J fog or haze. It also eh.tngtod Its position in the sky by 45° In .t brief tlrnu hcforc It f.tdcd from sight in the mOtning sky One of the couple hJd ~lsu observed dn cxtrAmdinJry display of 3 10 5 minutes durat ion tn1olvlng se•cr~l UFOs in the ;.tme location on October 29th In the e~ rl )• morning, (N78(202). December 12th Pnnco George, B C • A bright white UFO with flashing red and white li~th ts atopw.ts seen for IS rn lnutos In tho distam sky 25 mllos west of tho city , (N78(230), December l ith • W os1 Carleton, OT A "brigh t light" wa; 1ecn for 40 minutes ,Jnd reported to the OPP, (no description 111v~n), (N78/ 229). December 10th • Kitchcner · A li FO whh red •nd blue ll~shlng lights '"'" glimtlWd Jl by J motorist who said II was moving at tree 1up level, but Ill description Is too poor to dctcrntinc whether or not It was .In .1lrcraft of ;omc sort , (Cambridge UrO Rcscarclr Group, 362 Khchoncr Rd., C.tn1bridgc, OT N3H I A6) . l)ocombcr 7th · lllgh Prnlrlc, All · At lite E•~ tcrn Prd lrlo Ml'l l~ Colony, ,, l.trge uvdl ohject rolluwod .t bus over a dbtotncc of 3 miles to • re~ldcnce where pJsscngers wa"hcd th~ object continue down tht road, ho•cr In position .u long ~ s 10 minutes, and emitted~ beam of tight to the sround. As many u 21 people wllno\scd It; photogrJph\ wero taken ~ but , no dctalls of how h loft sight are given, '" most WllfO tryln~ to evade It, (N78('228). This is alsu r11Hct to Le~w Slotvo Lake. OBit UARY Tho LOS ANGE:ti.S Ill RALD CXAMINCR of Novcm· bet 26tlt noted the dc.uh of Jacques Bergior on Nove01ber 23rd In Pari$. He was born In Russia and a n.rtlvc or Odessa, and tat or ho mov~d to Paris whcro ho took degrees In physics, chcmlmy, and engtnccrlng and bccarnc known as a science writer . During I he Second W orld W ar, he he<~ dod o ne of the moil cfndont resistance networks in france. After the w•r he helped in the synthc•ls of Polonium •nd hedVY hydro· gen 'and registered the Or>t p.t trnt for tho elcctronk coolln.s ot nuclur bancrio;. Forteans will remember him best tor has bonks on strange phenomena, somo of which wore In con· junction with tho lhtorn,ulonal Furtcan Orgaril7ntlun, and cspccll1 11y lor his cHon> to get Fora's BOOK OF TH E DAMNI:.D In to French transldtion. (LI:. I IVRE DES DAMNES, Paril, 1955). (CR: R. Dobbin\).• ·~es T§ureaux T§ulletin Bulletin No. 44 February i 979 I SSN 0383·61 SO Conducted by Mr. X Printed in Canada @ Res Bureaux 1979 Audros~ mail to : Bo>. 1598, Kingston, Ontario K7L SC8 CA NADA won ronh,omlng a~ to Any new studies of the booming noises, MORt 'BOOMS' HEARD: even tho the)' havo returned, (WASHINGTON STAR, Fcbru· dry 12; CR· R MAnnm). Rlch•rd A, Kerr wroul In the )1nua1) 19th ihuc uf SCICNCl th•t the "secondary boum" theory prupuscd by the N.~V.ol R~>edfc h Uboratury im ye,u has b~en ~alning wider acceptance. As som~ of thr more CMltlc theories summoned bY mcdla-cruLcd ;cientisll Me <h•uorcd , II Is uuw .occcpwhlc to <Wdy thn,c '•ontc hoom>' {If th•t I• whut tlo uy Mu) by IJI,nu in~ .ony .ond ~II .ocrlal explosions on Slllforsonlc aircraft, mainly rhu Concordc. No ono seems 1 0 be dcrnandlnK any proof of this uxplanation, Jnd no oxporlmcm.rf flight s aru planned 10 1 es1 the theory. "Mo)l obsorvurs now feet moro tornron •• ble wllh the NRL explanJrioo ol unusual weather for all the boom>. Funher study of lust won !Or's flap Is unlikely unless the booms return," writes Kerr. (CR. 1 Oickin\Onl. BOOMIII On Fcbru•l) 8th, re.ldents from Rhode Island to ,.,uth· ern New je1>ey ht•r a "thunder ·like" eApluslon in rhe sky. flund•ct.l> uf .-n, •r• received by pollee and cMI defence official; shunly alter 9 P.M.; ~ncl, In ttw area of Burlington, Oce.lll, Monmouth, •nd Mer'"!' countlc1 in New jersey, win · dtiWI ,mu hou,c; were sha~cn b~ rhe biAII Residents rc.trcd ,, >cGuncl ''"' thtluakc was ronowinK one lulL In New Jurscy .md on Sm~ n lsl.111d on January 30th; bu t lhe sohrnologhts rind nu seismic readings L o indic•to an oar thL IUako. In .1 shan while, the Federal AvlnLion Agency llrf ict,,i< l.wnch an uffurt l!l determine If the Concordo '""' f•ndcd ,u Dulles lntcrna • tlon•l Air11t1rt out>tde ol \Vash lngLon, 0 C., may have been 111 blame. FAA spokesman, Jerry L•-.y,dld not ln;plre much conOdenct by stating, "We probJbly never will prove 11 w>5 01 wa; not the • irctaft, bur at feast we'll be •ble to 8"• the peuple somerhing." British Airw•y• uid It wa; "unlikely" that their ait"~f• "'used the boom ~nd cmphasl7c the r~t the "secondAry boom theory" Is just a "tllcory" •nd h•sn't been proven. Arc the sclcntisu .-111 cnmfott•blc whh the NRL ltudlcs even after rhc booms return? (PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN, February 9, p. 9: HARRISBURG PATRIOT, PA, February 10, p. 8; CR: L Arnold; WASH ING.! ON STAR, February 9: CR: R Manners). flOOM I J I (AGAIN!) 't wo days IaLor the switchboards lit up .tg~l n along the New Je,.cy coa<t when .1norhur lx>urn strut~ •t 7:13P.M Thu L•moni·Dohcny GcofoslcJI Ob~crvawry at Paflsades, New Yur~. derocted the "boom" but •r>parently no earth IIU.t~c William Donn r•PC•tcd hi> >u>plclon tlw Concordc 1\oS to blame and said he was "mo1c 1h.1n 99 11cr ten! 'crrain", II he i' nut fully ccrt<~in , he must ehhtr have !A>rne doubts of It; bdng Concorde and Pr<h'l> not 1 0 commit htm.clf to .on C~>Pi•nlliun 11hlch might bt• trruvcn crruncou>. Nn word h wJs nor only In th11 skies that mystery explosions have been hc•rd. Last M•rch 24rh, a suing of explosions occurred along tWtl miles ol >ewer> In 1hc Bronx, New York . M.u1 y stoH' wlnuuw1 were shattered, .rnd eleven people were Injured by rhc e~ploslnns. 1 \ rormal board of luqulry w.as arranged .m~ even given •Ubpoena powers. fu head was Deputy M:1yor Hetman !Jndllln, .tnd '" othc1 mcmb~rs included rho pollee .u1d Ore wmonlssluncl>,thc Contnlissioncr of Investigation, the Envlronmcru,d Prot~"lon Commissioner, and the Corporation Counsel. Consolidated Edison Company records were gather· ed, witnesses Interviewed, and a "gas l(dk" wa. 10ught out. However, norhfn11 w•• round 1ha1 would have 'aused Lhc explosions. The o nly dllfkuhv they have is they cannot r~dily blame it on the Con,orde, (NEW YORK TIMES, November 19;CK: LColemanj, MORE ON I UNGUSKA Another thoory ~bout what cau1cd the extraordinary blalt over Slbtd• u11 )uno 30th, 1908, has been put forward by L. Krcsa~ of the SlovJk Academy of S'lcnces In Ct.tcho· slov-akia. He bcltuvus the bidst resulted from the dislntegr•rlon of d ' 1 COillct.try hOU idcr" which Wa\ part or ihu dcbri! from the [ncke comet Krc><tk'l llillcrv.ulunu tem from the annual mereur showers which take place uvcry I unc 30th (according tu him). Walter Sulllv.ln of the NEW YORK TIMES expldins: "Acoordtns to (Krew~\j hypothesis, such an object would be-come "" hot during Its plunge through the Jtmos· phcro thaL h would e~plode In a earastrophlc manner. When large m<'tt~ulte. hh the earth, they generate explosions sufnc· lent to 80UlC out "attrs, bu1 no ewer was form•d by the Siberian blaJt, PO»ibly be"usc 1he 'boulder' was not large enough to do so." We could cite several cases of meteorite• found on snow banks and Ice whose lmp~Gt bardly disturbed Its Impact point; hut tho point f wllf .argue whh Sullivan and Krcsak Is that no single crater was to be round by Kulik's oxpedltioo,lnstead thousands or craters were found but non~ contain ing meteoric rragrncn It, Can we rKJt wonder how theories abound about tho Tunguska •~plo•ion whon the NEW YORK TIMES cannot find the limo or lncflua tlon to read some or the evlt.leuccs of the blast bcfort once <~sa tn publicltlng another Inadequate hypothe~ll? All• In, this new theory falls to explain the atmos· phcric phenomena lla.t were seen In the SktCS or Europe short• ty .rrl!r' 1he dlswu c~ploston. Neither allen spac!"hip, blac~ hole, meteor, comer, nor comeury bouldN would account for wh4t was seen in 1908. (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, Februdly S. p , 151The LONDON fiMES frr11 drew notice to the "Aurora Uurc<~lh' ' on Jul) 2nd (p.l2). Descrip tions hy currc>P<mdcnh lll11 >1rdiC tlw hrlllloncc of tho plwnornmu whrch w,., seen by rn,my . Orr tho 3rd (p .l2), h w,,; ollllihmcd to "curlnu; su n uflcet>": Jrld , In the sltmc l1suc (n.IO), " report f•rlln lrol.uul ounflr 1111 both the nocturrMI lllurn hM rlo111 .rnd lh <· 'lght lhK 11f bt iiii,Jnt mctuor>. "Tiw RcccrH Nutuunul Gl11w1" .nc lu11 hur dl<cu;scd J> >tln1C t hln~ uf J myucry In th e II MI·S ol )Ul)• 4 ih. I he ;clcnthts ol l h ~ British Astronumlcal A;sucl,ulon, coml· dared the glows to be 'aurorJI'. Prot. ~owlrr h•d predicted oturor.ol dl5j~lJY• for that lime, .rnd lhNc wn d "plainly mat~cd, dl\lurb•ncc of the m.t&nct," th,u nlsht. What h<rthrr· ed them wa~ when the glow; were 11111 •i>iblt• the nt>.l night ''bu r the magnets wtrc cxccptlonJII) quiet" The rc.tdcr is then ~dvisl'd the glows arc merely a prolonged 1 wiiiJht that "sum~ trmpmarv condition of the ~tmosphl.'fc made this twlll8hl much brl(!hter and redder than u1ual" T h cr~ is no •usscstlon of ih being the resu lt of rnctcors nor comets nor bit~ of corncu. Indeed, It took another twen ty years lor ltlcntlsts to lc.trn thn there h•d been an cxplo1lon over the taii!J of Siberia. However, there II ,, stroroK " ' Kgestlon tha1 It w .os sl rnll ~ r 1 0 an earlier event, Krukau)l) I llcrcln we lind the my>lcry ut the 1 un~uska ovonl . The glow< were l•vournbly con1p~rcd to dust cluud~ dl a very high .tltltudc ;pcwcd forth by Km~atc,~ O\\lng 10 their lurid colour •nd lu thclo growing l>rightne\\ Jftcr normal twilight II I; expldlncd In the TIMES •nlclc th•r It wd) UQ I until the third chutt around the canh tiW 1he cluuth frunt KOJkdtu• ruched the British hies while IPrc•dlng 11 J Spl'Cd ol 80 moles per hour ~nd \Preading .tcross the latitudes I hlw~ICI, the clnud; ot d• 111 from Kr.tl.atoa were ~ecn all o1cr the lluhc, .rnd, these new sl.y-gloW\ were JPPatonlly conllncd ttl the 1~1r' ol Curop~. even tho lh~ dun cloud, lrorn Slbcrl• (If th•• w.r' wh•t tht•y wcr~) lld>cllod .1t the rrudiglotr> we of 220 mile> per hour. Why were the <l.y·gluw> CdU<cd by I un~u \kd cun(incu lo Euwpo url\1 not >Ccrt 1 11 tltc Americus u1 In Asl11? l'hc mystery ,11 seer' In 1908 Wdl onr y slightly dllforon t. ''W e lhu• sec th•H diUancc Is no obll.tCic In vast cos1 nl · cal phenomena ot th is kind , whiCh •rc world·cmbracmg. Nn volcanic outburst ol abnormal violence h." been reponed l.rttl)•; there hrtvc, howevrr, heen •omc rnoder.rtt outbur<h in tlw P.clfrc: during thc spring, •nd It I• rm,Jhl~ th<~tthc du,t may ha•e reached us from thc~e, or lrorn \Orne unreported eruption In some lilllt·knuwn region of the wor ld." LONDON rtMt:S, Ju ly 4 1908, p. 16 c. 4 VO L<:I\NOES : I:Miy In tho morninJ! ol r obruMy 20th, the allegedly cxtlr,.t vulc.cno Sin la In rho I•V•l Olong ''"' K " In cent ral )6V • wont Into ,, violent uruptlon k llll n ~ 182 fiCO J>Ic "" d ln)u o lng ntunv more. Poi!>O nous gases and llowlng l1ov• c•nsht m•nv J\lccp and h~l lorccd the ovdou.uion Ill 9,00U 01 rnorc I rom thl' .rrc•, IIOKONl O !>11\R, fcbru.uy 21, n.i\221 lly the 24th, r1 w•~ "'"' rupurtcd tllAI nerghhuurrn• ~ l krcJ"nll ,,.,., ,.., ,,1"' uupton)l •nd •Pcwin~ lt~lh thot~ cklud, ol bl,of~ '"'"L.'• Hh onh t unn-=,ll•lli hciW\"l•n lh\ two \nit '"'"'"'• .tu.nfthnlt It• ~·cnli~t-t'. \\nufcJ J'fnhthh tH .- 'uhll'll.utt·.•n lin I tl OltO'I 10 (,1 OBI \II.U \11\lf ., I •·hr~w1 N J1 lr ,, , · \J'III\-'1 •t•U ht 'h\.' 'oU\Idl'O t'l U fliHIU\ \11. tt' 11UI l111 ",11 d ll~A~ I l> 0 1 Hit m LD )c.ln·I•"'IU•• tlo1rlrry Wrote! (on hbruMy IHth) lh • • Or. ll••ln11n Sic ~ . ,, Gctm.tn t1rln th Q I ~gb l, dlscuvcrcd the h.rbholl uf rho I.e<~~'; M.oo.tw (Aoodnrhyrrchu' l~arl) In rlw • l ~ l c ol B. l hl ~ . In Br.s>ll . Pr eviously, thl' p.rrot Wd> nnly known In In o.tptlvo "~ ' ~ .1nd ob111lncu frolll l oe~l rr~dcrs. l) r. Sill. h.t> now 1ucn a' m~ny ,., .s ;core together In the wild . 1 hey mu>vrc 75 ecntlmclcr"S In lcn~t h Jnd po;scss J nou blue p l um~gc. R.uc bird' ;ecm IU ha1c been •howlng ut>ln the la>l lew months. Bctwccn No•rlllbCf 19th And December I u, • ltos;\ gull ,.,., o;ccn on the shore' of L~~c Michix•n "' ClriCdKO lr hu only been ~nonce before In 1975 nc~r Bolton when It came south from liS Arctic habitat, (NEW YORK TIMtS, December 3, p. 26, Jnd, December 17, p. 49). In November, Rhode hland was visited by a white pelican nativc to the Gulf of Mexico, • South 1\fric•n shelduck, and a European barnJclc goose, (NFW YORK TIM FS, November 26, p. 62). On December 3111, ,, Rld r•rdl(m's owl was phoh>graphcd ill Sulh· bury, Massachusc11s, for the first time tn g6 year;. And, soon aft crwdld ~, a tall• gr ea t gr ~y owl wd~ spon cd "' the M ,llnc Audobon Society hcadqunrters lrr Fulmouth. Colder w~a t hcr rs s•ld to hBvc driven lhcsc owls furth er south than U>UBI, (BOSTON <.LOBii , J•nuary 6, p J; SOU III M IO OL(~~X NE\VS, MA, J•nUilry 2S , p. SA) (CR · L Coleman). An t:lsht•pound .nrrr•dillu w•ndcred ,.-oo;s c f~wn In Hollhton, Ma>IJChu~eiiS, oo December 23rd It wu \OOn ddopted Into thr huu~ehold until lh O<igin~l owner cnuld be found, or could It be 4 "'ere-Jrmadlllo1 (South Mlddlesc~ New\, MA, December 24. p. I: CR L Culcman), Ncar MMitowuo, WI\Consln, (In e.r1y November?). ~ hun ter lpOIIod • •1 0 Inch long •lligatot on the b.10k1 u( the Munhow•lC. I I~ doftl y uc~ u gl ll it by damping hi< h,snd nvor hi cln•cd muuth, (ihc boll w.cy 10 kocp rrorn holng blllcn), •nd he mr• t:l• \lore tu brinK It horne so as not to suffer the sk ept ic~· ~u!f.sws. Nu c1nc scorn bulhcrcd by the laet such un JCtlon isn't eovcrcd by ~Jmc or cndnn~crcd spoc;ics statutes, (SAN FRANCISCO t.HRONit..LE , November 6; CR: L Colcrnon). In •••Stern Colorado, Bigfoot I> being hunted by the mto\ l)lvl,lon nt Wildlife However, it's not the samr bls fool belunslng tu the S.II<Jt..uch. "This RIOU>• onco occupied tht ull KfiliS o~nd ~~<et mc•dow h•bit:ats In Color.1do, but I can't Ond ~ny really confirmed slghtlngs since about 1955," say; Steve Bissell, .1 non·gamc mammal speclall!l, (OIARLOT rE rOWN PMRIO I , Janudly 27). Since Docembrr 21<1, rhcre h.o ve hccn ,, dlllen slghthrJ!> or '' Knobby'', ,, humlnld creature dt«rlbed • • being ~lx fcut 1 ~ 11 . '200 to 300 pound• In weigh I, .rnd covered in bl ack fur. Cht h tonctl aft er C.upumor'S Knoh, In Cleveland C:oum y, Norr h Cnrollrlil , lh u crcnwru I MS become mo>t nuticonblu hy howling .u night. Most h.1cul resident; prclcr ''' wn,Jdcr "Knuhhy" 10 i"'' he,, hl•,u: hut, ofler 11 dead gfl•l w.ts tnund un f,onu.cry 14 th, IIJLk' wen· luund by,, ...,,,rch pMty h um C.c\dr In th;• vl<lcrHv nf I nluto They ,.~ tlwy w•tr<• ••111'·11~,. IIJ\.h, ''('I In Wl\! fC!'UII tht• lfdCk' .trt' dt'\U rtK•tJ ·'' •·.11 lt•,t,l .1~ l.u~"' ~h .1 m.tn\ h.10d o~nd ~mit.uly ~.attrd, C\Cn v..nh _. thumb ·hkc lllntu•torn" llcrw mJny .tre u.cck' they ho~w ""'n bdurt' I\ run Ct:rl,un: the 1,111\IOn tC'-tdcm "'hu lnund lh,•m dtd nnl "'~· ICA~IU'I f 1\ t . A/~ rrt , NC:, )dltu••v 17; (I( I t\cf,,m,, UURII \M MOlt Nil\(., HHtAt U N(.., f,onu.H 1 171r AI t.s· • MIIUI Krmcl1 ol YuKoslavro' hmc.&n s~wl OUil>I;JA wr11~1 (on Dcccmbur I SLh) that icc loll hom a do. rr 'ky .11 ~ptlt, Yuwo>l.tvtd, rocont ly. (If you1 ~crho.Cro.III.HI needs p r .t~tlec, l'loa>c subscribe to; ODISI; JA, c/q Milos Kr~noll, M llcrll'k"~" (>, (> 1 00(1 Lrubltan". ~ICJWnlJ.l, Yu~o, l nvl.t; rlf, send ,, """''I• ,,r your nublic~llon if you'd llko t<> ~xch,Jngc co pies). Moru dct•ll> ,uo dlw ;ought reg.ordlnK ~ "a<heu UFO Imbedded in the rc.l()f of .r hou>e In HMlnUt, Bt•lglum, ..omo· time dt the end o ( Ucccmber or c1rly j,Jnuary. When pulicc arrived to ln•cstlg.ne whilt they found w1s 1 blul1h block of Ice whlth II utd to hale fallen from il pa1slng pl.one, howc•cr the wom•n rcpuning the crash ilPparcntly mJdc no ment io n of .ony other flying objecu other th•n whJt c.1mc thru her ruol, (EDMONTON SUN, )anuo~ty S). Pollee w<re also called In to [nvcstigatt• lho pike pole thai crashed thru 1ho window of a hume In Sooult Stc. M.~r ic, Ont~rlo, 011 Fcbru.uy 7th. Tho pike polo w•& more 1han ruur motor$ In long1h and used mainly for broaklnH up lo)l lams or for roscuu wor~ on soma plnncs. It has a ~pike on ono end .u1 d ,, hook on the other. The resident mnd lnvcsllg,llrng flt >flcc 4rc d1 il lo'is as to wbere h Cdmc I rom .., here Wtl~ no one on tht, strC(Il .:and 1hcrc wctc no Ct.lr, ur lrutk~ dRy• where near." The only clue may be • dltii O.Igcd CP Air 'tltkct on the pike pole, but • pollee 5P< l ~e~nun .1dmlnod there wa1 "still11o rea~on•blc cxplan1tlon for it", If It did r~ll from •n d tr cr~h . wouldn't tl> •bsence be not iced: •nd, how would thr r.ll of • four meter long pi~c pole ~0 unnotl•ed by •n air etrw? (TORONTO GLOBf AND MAll f ebru•rv 9, p. 2). hrcsuiJr h411Sit1nc> lh ~ 1l1c u f b.tleb,llll .utd gol r·bo llll fell In .1 1torm .11 l.akehlll1, Te~.11 , on Fcbr\oA ry 24th. The smo tller stonc1 JPPCM to he norrmtly l~ycr unc1 uf .t 1m001h sur fact• , bul lhc l.u~cr 1tonc1 ~ppc.u to be conslorn~r.u l onl ul large lldll!loncs coated emlrely with >ntllllor ~ l e.tr 1t011cs. No me.1surc ot unrnnge nor an~ lnJ~trlos wuro reported In thO 11l'Wlt'•Pcr'• wlrephotn, (TORONTO SUN , l·tbrunry H, p.54), After • most " 'vcrc winter lu 1 hc Suvlc1 Union 3nd Lur01>c, \Cienllltl In Chortuw , Pul~nd, dNermmcd to 011d whJt hdd Ch3ngcd the colour or lhe snow to yellow 1he c:.1nrnc community was not blamed , rarher the PAP news •liicncy Jnnounced th~t the cJuse wJs particles of ~.tnd which h•d been carrred by strong wrnds trom the !>ahara. Sand w,11 also s.1id to h•vc !allen in Yugoslavia and Aumli, (but no rnunt lon of lh falling In C1echos!ova ~ ia in the in tervening •rc~) How the saod wa. Identified ., fr(IOl rhe Sahara is not clear, If th•t Is where it c•mo from, (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, Fcbrudly 24, p. 3). ANTARCTIC DISCOVERIE SI Poll~n ~rJlrh t.tkc11 from drlllhtA cum In the Ro,, l<c ~ l 11•ll 1ntlh ••~< vc~ehrtiun 011~ ~ olh<~tu o dttl nn lh ~ An wet;, contlnrnr, (or lho ot II w,,. tr.m,pntlcd tn II\ c.ullcr lcr Ocld>). \V,, ''"-' lhw. tnli)thtcnat.J lhJtt 11 1u 10 rn 1 lllnn v••,u, .tgv thJt th ce~o.• "J" llll ilc \11rlf M01t' mttt·ontt ~, IM,,, bt•t·n lound f1C~JI All•n If ill• 111 VICI<IIIJ I .md Jnd ntw 1hr U.uwm Glo ttit•r. lfw IOjnJ cUun hv Am~.~tc.ul Jntl ) .IJlJfW~ ""'''- ' "' ''\~ hJv~.• luunt.l .mnth\'1 HttJ mCH.'tUil\~, AmnnJ.: lht' numtH:I .th' Jwn "• *' hufM\\'UU\ .. hundr Hl ·" .u1d .1 lU(I flfUiflll "~JH'tl01l'O twm 11 nwh·, ultt: tH 1 ,:1n.,ll\ ~"'~~hm,: ~NH flm•mh lw hJH' b· n'-.,·n uuu 33 pieces Probably the most Interesting of the new metCQr· itcs was one found .u Yamato mountain , Its content has been .m.ly<ed lor r.ldiOdctlvc Isotope). rhe mallganese Isotope indlc.llcstharlt I ell 7 mlllllln yeur~ ~go; but, the beryllium and ~ l um i nu rn ho l llfl~• l n~lca t c II< fa ll to have happened "only ono mil lion years" .1g11 It 1 1 clrrlou> llldt two 1 11ah dlvciMant dlltos Me Indicated as the run ot . llnalu moleorhc. All or this , says W alter Sulllv3n, ''would provide the nnal refutation or th~ proposition th•t the continent wJS more recently free of Ice •nd Wdl thmrted by •ncient n•vigiltors." Questionable •naly!oC> or diltes uf ;upposcd f•lls or meteorites is sufOclcnt proof to dismiss cxtr.ourdlr>Mily ... curate maps, such as the Pirt Rels ntilp or I S28 tlctiphered by Charles Hapgoud Far more confidence would be cllclttd by dating lhe •&c or the Icc cap itself fn\lcJd of relying on dates of meteorite falls, (TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, February 19, p. 17, WASH INGTON STA R, February 18; CR: R Manners). NEWS FROM NASA : Early findings rrom the PIONEER VENUS project 1'!3va bcon released by NASA and reveal some marvels of our sillcr pl•net not scl1ed upon by rhc popular media. Firstly, tho mass spectrometer on the two probes descending Into 1he dark ;ide of Venus regiltcrcd vMiou; sulfer compounds for th e wango glows nrst no1ed at 13,000 melcrS •ltltudo. ''Chemical nres" fueled by suffer compounds seems to bo the best ex· pl•natlon now avallo~ble followed closely by rho glow resulting from the descent of the ptobrs themselves. CBC Radio's QUIRKS AND QUARKS announced that lightning had In· deed been di;covercd to exist on Venus and behaves rust as oddly a; it docs on our planet. llowcvcr, my suggestion Lhat glows seen ovor tho d,ork side of the planet having rcwltcd rrorn ln< IS>Ive oleCtr(,.( clhturbdtrCf> rnight be Supplanled by other Onds . The lmer~crlo n or the solar wind and the Vcnu• sian Ionosphere Is much mora powerful than had boon sup· posed. Wl1l1out ~ lll ·l~n otlc field to dellcct tho sol;u wind, tho lttntlsphcru lsln direct cuntilcl with it; and, during solur flares incrca~os the wind's Silted, rhc lonopau1e can be pushed to the top of the sensibl e • •mosphere of Vcnu;. Chango1 In tho nru»ure nr the sn l ~r wind ~toducc notablu el11ngc1 in 1hc position of tho [;mo1phcrr •11d In Its sh.tpc. Rel •tlvely mong magnetic Oclds were alsu encountered in this reston, and the t~mperature or this turbulent reaction is abOut 1,000,000° c. Sc>ntc of the solar wind lon1 manage to pass thru the lonopause (no wch feature or bound.ry exists on Earth) and heat the upper 1tmnsphcre to s,ooo• K., well In excess of iln expected I ,000° K. There is 0\tn Jn Ionosphere on the d~rk side of Venu~ which ot>PCMI to be composed of ''c,;tremcly tong· lived metal Ions or motoorlc origin", It is to be hoped more of tho mysteries of Venus will become Il luminated with tho con· tlnulns work or tho Pioneer Venus orbher. Perhaps, It will dolect one ol those elUsive Mlows we have seen from Earth . Fnllowln~ letter; of prutc11 to Dr. A.G . MCNJm~ra, lleo1d ot the l'lanewy !>ticncc SL'(Iion, and 1 0 Or. J .L. l.ockc, OirC(tor ol th" lltllbcfl lnstnuto ut 1\>trophy,lc\, It wA; decided lh.rl I>Nmt\sion would be 11rotntrd to ln~cct the '~kt~or ' Iii'" trlln wluch """'• U I 0 report' •ro de toUted llw llllltJI ltl\jHJ<trun nt th<· liJr, clitl nul permit more th•n 1 'ettMlf\ \"\,lll11n41111111, hut tcpufl' ur .. UFO'" Olcd .1mnngu the ll11•b.tll r~Jiillt• w;tl nnw <IPIX'Jr fn the column un ' Rc<ent UHI '<tiltttl\ Nn "''Unitt ,y,to:rl1 nl l .tbollln~ rhc motcor
'"I'Utl> <llhcr chan co number !hom by ye~r and order or nlln~; thus Ill J cslgn,ltO ~ 'MettOI' fi le from ,, 'Non·Mctcurlo' tile, lhC fo11ncr will br dcllgn~t<d 1 11 rhc following rn.rnnor, "M7'l/008", wherus 'UFO' rcpgr11 would oiPPt~r ~s usu~l as "N79/008". UFO lnvostlg,llors should consider that Ul 0 rcccl•ud lly Colncldidn Armod Force\ olrc often rout•J 1<1 CINC NOR1 \0 .u Percrwn AFB In Culur•l.lb. 1\nd, chi> rccum •tl<\\ co the 'Meteor' fllrslcavcs only the RCMP 's UFO Illes in.otce>Siblc 10 ruearchcl\ In Canada, (.u least those lhc gn>· ornmem now ,odrnils til hAving) We e.m now th.mk the char•su ol pulley nn lhc pan .,r rho NRC wlcntl>t> lor ce.tslng 1 0 wilhhuld dhputAblr UFO rcporcs rhcy have Identified a; meteoric In origin. RI!Cl Nl ur-0 RCPOR'TS: Febru~ry lOth. St Therese, PQ II bright light with two red tlghrs below flew rrom OOrlhWCSI 10 >OUihODSl at 6 IIOw 1pccd ovur,, pcnodoftcn rninutcs, (N79/0 13) Fcbru.rry Sth w,,"aw, OT ·A red •nd while obie<l with Jn or~ngc glow,tnd red bcn,..lh ,.., ob~e"td lor two hoUri before reported to C~U lrentun, (N79/014), january 3 1 >t • Gr•nd l'rairic, All · A very l.crgc oh)ect wllh "f<tur win~\ " passed uvorhcud rcsl · dent' ol J tr.tllcr PJI~. First llr;<rlbcd "' .1 red llghl, It ch•n11•d to J bright whitt onr, JOd, thru the two mcnutc >ightlng,lt 1oundcd ll~c jctcnginu;, (N79J0 13) )AilUAry 31st· Osh•rw.t, OT · An u.rrlv morning ;lghtlng Wd> m,cd~ uf •n ubjuct ubout three times the <lie of .en .tlrpiJnc (wh•t type WJ> not SJid) c•hiblt l n~ two blue llghu. II lllrmcr pilot watched It ho1unng'ovcc l.akc Ontario for two hOUt\, (O~HAWA IIMLS, February 1 ). J .tnu,uy 2Sih C..IJirmnnl, All A very brl~ht ltKhl which lllumtnalcd lhe Interior of • hous• p•sscd from north to south Jt "" cKtrcmc !ipcca NRC list> thi< Jl a fire· b•ll, (M79/0IO). J Jnuary 23rd • \~aterlon, 01 An oval oh1ect ol a rod colour was seen by several ytlung girl1. rlr;t Icon moving "cross the sky, the ob1cct hogan tu descend. After hvc minute~ they tdcphuncd the Cambndge UFO Research Gruup (362 Klt•hener Rd.,(;ambtldgo, 01 N3H 1 A6), but on rcturrrlng outtloors, t it ~ UFO had dlio\PPc.Jrcq, ).rrwdry 20th · PMI (..allier, 1 '0 · ~ or rwo hou" and forty minute) three u.m,uhlcs .rnd numerou; r<sldcnl> w•tchod thrcr o'•al oblccts tr,l\rllins in lin~ \lop .11 v•rlous polnllln rhr >~Y. They "'cro ,con nuJt Po l ,ul~ and alsu uvur 11tc St, Lawrence River. Some· uno decided to get a better view, .md they wuro watched from the highest paint in the .rrc.t. The UFOs were dc>trlbcd Jl "red, ~rccn, blue (.tnd) fast", (N79/012). jdnUMY 191h ·Cam· bridge, OT . A red light was repon ed by two tcon•gcrs a1 mnv· lng and stopping several times whllo gnlng ucrr~! thu 1ky. The C•mbrldge U~O Rcscuch Gr<>up 1u1pects It wa1 an .tlrcraft. January 18th · New Brunswick ·II large Oreball Yon reported ., .r UFO by witnesses at Doaktown, Newcastle, Chatham, and aboard an Air Canada fllj~ht, (M 79/009). janullry 171h · B ona· vista, NF • In 1 hc early mornlnK a couple s;~w •n .oval obJect (tlllmated to be '20 feet long) or grey colour wnh red and ll•t..:n noshing lights moving about th e neuby ;ky for two 3nd .t h,rf( hour; , once passing to whhln ,, quarter of a milo from thcon, (N79/0 11 ). january 16t h • Pewburo, OT ·An oblong <lbicct appwcd tu fall In ~low motion for ~ period of ten OIIIIUlCS, fl WA~ described Jl a "ball of nrc lralflng lcngthy wit h~ m1okr" .ond wuuld •WPC!llr rncleorlc In narurc If nut lor lh long durottlnn, (N79/010) J•nu1 uy 16th B.urhc•d, AB · 1 wn .m•ll r~>~~nd light\ •t high .altitude wet~ >Cen moving at '••I ;pe<d,, Om· w•> u.wcllln~ 10 the snurhcotlt, and lhc ulf • ~r was gnlt•H nmthQitll Duration ul thu slwiHing Wllllllvon '" " two minute<", but NRC dcddcd the~ were mctcur,, f\17'1, 008) )Jnu.ul 16th Pointe Nurre, PQ A rountllll!ht wotl seen 10 hover ,,, • thout 2,000 feet •lthudc fur 10 to 15 rn lnutc; hy ,, tllll<totltll· "''tl tlrtt.nhcr wllno$s, IN79/00\Ilc.. J• nll,uy I Stlt H,uurrcr, 0 I A lac~c round ob1c~1 wrrW other round objcCtl un otnd .tround It appeared to h<!lrn(cth• u the s~y hcforc disotppe.rlng 1tr•lght up 1 wu CF·IOO air· <r,tft WCru ICOII to enter the ,IICll \ h Orl ly .cltcrward\ J> WUII olS a ;mo~ll twin engine .olrtraft. The obJect Wdl said to be abuvt their fr, ef; and wu In ~ight from 30 to 60 seconds. At th< time, CFS Fnlconbrldgc said lh two •ircrali were Involved In a demonstration ttnd w•·rc drotrplng c h o~fr In the .tro.c of the ubservallon, (N79/008). J•nu.ry 15th · Southwell oll:.dmon· ton, AB • A stuion.try object or large SllC WolS seen hy the driver of an outomoblle outside of Edmonton. Tho ubJrct W.ll In viow ,llwtrt three minutes before f.cding from vlow, .md ~hortl y o lftcrwMd> d ll ttircraft whh 3 bright SPOt fight WUS >COn In the ~rca, (N79/007), J~noacy 14ih • lgnJ,c, OT ·A "bright, ~hooting objctt" was reported as a UFO to CFS Sioux Look· out. btll .trl olflccr spokeHnan >1o 1 tcd tho objoCI wJs probabl y only • meteor, (ORYOEN OBSERVER, j ,1nuary 17;ArtKO KAN PROGRESS, )Jnu•rv 2•1), January 12th • Albert• ·A meteor W.l> seen o•cr ntmhern and central ;\lberta and broke Into 1wo lliuec, bcfor'e d iuppo.ul n ~ , (W ElASKIWIN liM E ~ . j.o nrrJry 17). l•nuJry 12tl1 Sudbury, 0'1 · A lishr green obj~oc: t Jt hl!lh Jlthude flew ~ul,~ly 1kywMd foo 3 to 4 ~econds before dlsappc,uing, CFS F•leonbridgu reported It dl .1 UFO, but NRC 1hlnk1it w,,. • molcor, (M79/00S). JanuMy 12th· C.~r•tbrldgc, OT • In the carl\ 11tornlng, lhrcc people nbsorvct.J Jn object l~rKer th~n lhc lull moon In the nurthwc>t >kY for a period l.lstlng about 30 mir1Uir• They swcd It w3s brighter tlt.tn the n11>0n, o~nll hopefully they'd be Jlllu to Identify tho lull mou11lllt were on t h~ hlltlton, (Cambridge UFO R•<oeMdt Group) j.utuary 12t11 Harrictlfleld, NS ·A round white light ("like Vcnu•") wo11 >een In till' afternoon In the direction ul tho oun, llut It could not hlvo been Venus which would h•ve been bulnw the horl1on .tt tho time. Dur,,t lon of rhc •lghting w•l 30 minutes, .md photograph\ were t.tl.en of thu obJect, (N79/006). lanuary I Oth • Pmton, 01 · A large bright light ,aid to bo i•rsc• th.rn • nearby w~ t cr tower was oh•ervcd for I ~ rnlnu luo before di5JIIPCUrfnR uehind ~omo ctoutl>, (Carn· bridge UFO Research Group), )ammry 10th • Yellowknife , NT A ''Nfowrng ball" wu ·~potted by several residents and hy other' In Fori Smith, A NOKI\0 spokesman denied tho1t II w •• • 1.1tolllt1!, like Cosmo1 954 which fell a ycM bcfuro; and, J! It was s•ld to break up, it wa; ~rubably • flreb.tll. Yet, one report says It w&~ vhlblo for 30 minutes, (EDMON· TON JOURNAL, januuy 12; CR: J Musgrave; M79/001). january 7th . Plcrcul,md, SK • A "single bright yollnw, four pointed stM" was seen statlon•ry in the nonh·northwest sky at night, The report wa• not made until three weeks liter to CFB Cold Lako when the picture of tho New Zealand UFOs, which appeared similar, prompted Its being roporlcd, (N79/· 004). january 6th • Kltchcncr, OT • In the early morning, •n ovi11 obJect exhibiting a bright white light wu seen In the ;outhern slo.y In lhe early morning. Upon watching It with bl noculm, lu shapo bccnmc more pronounced with nashing red light> 1 1<0rmd It Q nd l bluc·green pea ~ atop 1ho ubject. The ob)cct movtd .rcross the sl.y horlwntally, ~d moved bdek In the same dlrc.:tlon before di~ppearlng skyward after an hour ~nd ,, hdff t>f uhscrv.lt lon, (Carnbrldgc UFO RoiCarch Croup). )nnuary Sth • McLIIItrtorn, AB ·An ova l object with,, bright whit•• light ~nd desc:rlbcd h slighlly >nlilltr lh•n the mnun w•s WJtchcd on •nd off In the ;ou1hern >ky fur abour 9 hour; t11r u the nlKh l in tu ).rnu.try 61 h, MeLcnntln I• tcbou c :J() nt llc' WOil <If l.c\wr SIJVC l.otkc, (N'/9/003). )clll Uolry Sllc • N.mh"'c't Territories · • Tho rocket bod\ of Ct:»n111s I 069 fell •t 21S'Il over lludson'' Bay, (NRC Olt:i).• l\es r8ureaux r8ulletin Bulletin No. 45 Conducted by Mr X March 19 79 Pnntcd In C•nada ISS N 0383-6150 ® Res Buruu x 1979 Addrm mail to. Bo>. I 598, Ki ngston , Onurlo K7L 5C8 CANADA AST RONOM ICAL DISCOVER IES: l 'ho Soviet Union h." ~•d l y leJrncd that bltlt(<r tclc· scopes .u~ not nece>s..rily better tele<topes Their IJtest ob· serntury i> piJgued no r only by mlnutr flaw, in the rcll~ting mirror, bu 1 the windssurroundlng the mountain upon which It is pcrch<d m.11 thc lm.;tc> ol diStant st.rs before they even rr.~ ch the t d~>cn pc . II i> ccrt•lrrly ,, maJor triumph for Soviet cnglnccrhrg whkh is untlk<Jiy to b~ bc.rten. but h will prob4bly JI>O r cprcscnt the end of tho em fur ~nr on o m ic~ l uhw r v~ t orles on muuru.o lntOP> whose pride Is .r lingle glg•ntic rulcscopo. The o ptlc.ol t olc><~pe h•> .odvJnl.cd to wh•t •ppcus to be Its limit not unly 111 >iJe, but th~ Pollution of the sklc> with w.mes And omnipresent lighting wrll suon force amnnomcr> to ta ~ e their telc.copcs into rhc v.1cuum of uu ter >P•co. The age ol r.1dln J\tronomy Is b1.-GOini11g ln"<c••lngly lmport.trll In del~ · lng uvu1 fur th or; .md, ~·rAY mronomy In los> than ,, docudu has reached J \IJI\C of Import once rlv.tllln~ tlrn1 11f ,,~ r l oitl .t>trnn· omy (tho the latter has been with us for thrcc•,md·.l-h.rlf centu rlel) An excellent example ot the oldvJnces rddlo • Jnd l<·r•l astronomy hii\C made over nptlc•l telc\COfW\ Is th~ t~~e of (NGC 1961 J. h was diSGOvcrcd In 1802 and publl>hcd In IVIIII• rlf Hors~ho l '> Third C•taiO IIUO .os a nebulous O bject. No telescope h.u hccn ~blc to unmvcl rhe ruay patch Inter ldcntl· ned ~> ol guloiXY nf undctcnnrncd Sit.e and dist.tntc frum the earth. Only be combining rho "'" ol the Natlon~l RJd io Astronr,noy Qbqorutury •• Green 0Jn~ . IVcu Virgin !~. 4nd the Kilt Po:•k Ob>crvJtOt) in AritoN ... ere the awonomers able to l e~rn It WJI tho mo>t m4>>i•c ~·I·• ·•Y yet known with ,olmut ten time> the m•SS or the M ll ~ y W.r) Its dlonwtcr o f about 600,000 IIHhl l'".lr' I; three times tlw of the Mll~y IV•Y· Its Immense ,1,~ I> bollovcd 11> hu the re;uh of the colllllun or two scp,II,IIC g.1tuxlos, which drQw the o~ttcntlon nl ,.,unn· omc r~. ' It loo ks like~ bcJutlful ;pir.•l go~l .. xy, c>ccpt th•t • quarter nl It looks pul>nlo~icJI It ho~> blob> •nd lump1 In· ncad of long, \jllral •=•· lYe think this Is "here J l.u11< 'piro~l dcmurcd • smJII one," ~o~ys Dr. VcrJ Rubln. Lu mrl~ g.rl.r.lr. !like a lumP\ Plutnl seldom attr.ltt the an ent ion ol il>llunum· m, .md It w•• only • decade .rK" NGC 1961's being dO>crlb~d a• ,, 'pccull.tr Ra laxy' Plt>rnntcd lis bcl nR examined mo re C MC· fully. AI .t dlst.mce ol250,000,000 11~1 11 years, Its lc.llurc< nrc lo>t sight of, ( fORONfO GLOillo ANO MAIL, M arch 8, p.2; TORON 10 S I AR, M.trch 14. p I I, CR W Amhurv) Stmll.orly, gamnu 14¥ ••uonomy may soon yl~ld clues to phcnomo11• nut yc1 vrllble ro us on c3rth. Massl,•e b u ~u nf g.r mma r.ty r ,rdlo~titm )love been observed on Jn JVcrugc of tlllte o1 month since tho11 d i~C<Jvery 111 1969 Nllw It rniKht be s,tld tho lar~elt tcloscopl' ""•'Y Is >CYCI<II million rnll~s In sl1e, be· cou~ •• ' g.unm.o '"Y l•tlr>t detector' on the Pioneer Venus I orbiter I> nuw being used In 'unfun"lon wrth tho Vel.o >a rei· lites orbl\llrrg the earth , I SSt 3 .rrHI Hellos 2. OUISIS h,rvo al· rc•dY buun detected six limes by early December, and four of these bursts were also observed by other ldlcllltu. As the bur,ts ,rppeAr to t.lke placr hoth within ond out>ldo of our gai•>~Y .ond l.ut onl ~ J few II.'Conds, It Is hoped spacccrafl at l•rgt• dl\wrccs from one another c•n be used to horne In on the orlgl n.u lng point. The method of "HianguiJtlun" usi ng dntJ trom dlsi.nn spaeocr.rlt will however be lru.tl,atlng two polnl\ where cclc>tlal circles lrncrscct. "Then we'll search tho c•t.oloHU OI fm objects at those locations. llopefully, we'll lind something that is d c.rndldatc. If the >or nrc 1ypc ur ob· feet • quasar or biJck hole r>r neutron stu, HY Is fdcn tl· tied with 'everal ol rhc bursts, then that's •~ trcmclv Sllong evrdcnce th at we have touncJ the source of the>c gamma rdys," explAin> Dr. IY. Doyle l:v•ns or rhc Los Al•mu> Sclemlnc Labor.ltory. Astronomers nMy be f.rr more wllllnM to tru n "rrlangtl l.llluu" than Fortcans ever will, nnd the precision Ill Gcum~ t r y may be forced lo ylilld d bit to find .ur uhlcct •t either uf the points where ccleJdal circles lntunc~ t . As with the dlscu,ery of pul,..,.,, gdmm• r~ y bursts may revc~l a new exotic <~blett other th•n thole described. More profound In this my>tery I> the brief dura tion of each bu()t •• such In· rr~-quen t In tervals. IVhat cvrnt might they suggc.t whkh ycr •ludes obsijrvatlon from nrulcal •nd radio tclcocopcs1 (NEW YORK I'IM ES, Oru:ombcr 6, fl. A21 ). NEWS FROM NASA . NASA h•s <igned Jn Jgrecrncnt with the European Space Agency foo • jornt mis\lon of a solar polar exploration consist· '"II uf two >pacccraft with wldc·ranging orbit\. Its primary oblcetlvc I• to observe the n.rturo of the Sun's pul•r regions from O PPO>inR sides (onu sldo by each $pacuaraft) 111 an orbit Jlc rp~ndl culi •r tn the cclhlllc A secondary objective of lhc nrl,;lnrr will be the lrwcstlg,nlon of tho intcrplonut.uy medium while thu UlJCccraft travel to Jupiter before being swung loto the nov ~l ><ll.tt polu orbit,, lhr l•un<:h of the two sp•ec· cr•h will nrogln.ne upon the Space Shuttle in 1983, but it will rJ~c •bout nve year~ before the second pdS,..KC of the •P•tctraft .rbout lhe lun (ond hoth <ides seen by c.tth space· craft ) will bu .t~CMlp ll >hed, (NASA NEWS Rloli:A~Ii. 79·37), Uurln& Morch, ~vor.tl fllghh by U·2 alrcrJit over Peru ond over tho P~ clnc '""Y complete a mapping ol the back· J!I'Wnd rnlcrOWJ\ C radiation wid to have come from the "bl ~ bang" th.u.crc.ttt d our unl•er~o The 'upward·looklng differ · cnlfdl mlcruw••• r•dlunretcr ' will 1can IWO•th lrds of rhe ,~ les of tho S!>uthcrn hemlsphor~ . It Is hoped the ;lightly warmer Sputlntht• >kY tnwdrdl Ro~ulus In tho conHell~llo n l.co which OUt gJIIIXY h >tii'IIOiodly lr,rvulllng < II il mil lion mi!CI por hour mlgh1 br m.11ched by,, 'slight ly cooler spot' ncar lnta Ac1u•r· lu~ u11 the other !Ide of the cclcu1.11 hc•vcm. Hupofully, the dat~ from the new microwAve sur••) will "'•"h the findings
on the Northern hcmllphere, otherwise we rn•y lind ""' g•l· •'<Y i~ not hurdllu~ In lht right direction nur at It\ pre1umed ,peed. A; I 1<c no tndlc.ulum that .1 'slightly cnolor spot' Is cxpc"cd, nor ;o much '" suggc\t(d, the conf1dcn'c ul the ,clcnlists In this movement •>f th• g•I•~Y ll'liltlvc tn thll unl· vcr;c m•y 110t jHove as "lrwln~l n g till ,, full ourvoy i1 co rn• pletcd, (NASA N(IVS RLLI!I\SE, 79·2)). E..rl~· result! of H£A0·2 l11dicate ,, molj<lr lind In the dl'((>"r~· or the mo11 dhtJnt uhject from the c•rth 1 he new dJI.I 10 tlruel1 h1llowon~ the rc!Uh> of Hb\0 I repre;cnt • qu3ntum leap In J>lruphyslcal obscrvatron1. X-r.~y eml>llons from "normal" >tJII (ll ~r our !>un) ••• the fl"t with which .l<trophysiCI\1> rnay Comp.uc with the <tllullJI ornl,_lnn! nf 0111 own omd m"' revc,tl more ~bout the lr.lnsfcr nf he~ I holnl the Interior or !loU• to their o)U tcr .1111\0ij!horo. A 1\llW cl,tti M "0 otars" h.o vc been ob;crwd In tho n~bul ot Et.l Ci1rh1c. 1 hey Me young 1tar1 clouded bY du>t .md ga; cloutl! ,lnu vlslblo u nl\• by 111fwed tele<eppcs IJclore. "Some hitherto unkrwwn mcthJnl~m. po;sibly mo~gnttlc huhble> in their Jtmoophctu, •PPdrtntly allow> thl1 high-energy ro~diJ tiu n (X·ro1y1) tn dltli• pdlc,' say> NA!>A. The ~UI1o1t centered in tht CtJb ncbul• wo~< ;.!en Jl .n X -r•~ eminer, ) rt o~nothrr pul~r ;huweu no X·•·•Y• ,\1 Jll Quo~;ar; dlld Sey f<rt g.olotXto< Jfllfi,IC ~ Cd JOY ll~nlhCiiJ\1 X·totY line cmlssltiO\ lndfc•uns tholr X·r•y• wcrr nl ,, non thrrm.tt ()(lgln. X-t,tY line cmi>litlll\ wcr c ubocrvr•d 111 lc'<~cr.tl >UflC!IIuv.o rcrnn.rnls l11r the "lcmcnts of lliJllfle<lum, sullur, .ugnn, Jnd cJI~hom ftll !11~ 1111Ltlm~ (provloll•h unly lmn .md 1illeon hud been dotcetod). St'cCU ,, •vcru ol»••rwu 111 plt"m'" ,, tho1114nd limos hOller t I 0 million degrees Kd•·ln) th.rrr our Sun'> lonu!phcre In four months 01 Oi>•'f.tllnno IILI\0·2 hal doubled the numb<r o f known X·my object! on th< Ullt'Cf\C, Such Object~ can Jt!O be resolved lor the lir>t trm~. lnr X·r•v 'o()Utccs in drsunt ~diJ\Ics, Ilk< M 31, tan be di1tlr'll""hcd whore onl~ a blur of X·r •Y rJdl.ltlon could be 1c~n hcfore. Such refined r~owlutlun1 mow help d~t<rnlinu II the jtJIJ~Ias were lot mud ~arly In tho hill!lry <lf t h~ unl>crso 111 H they ovolvud from nllllslvo K·ll ~lp 11d~ which prudotcd •tolloll h11111.1• t11>11 Globulou .;luucr ~.J I ,I~Ies orrc found to hJrbnur "cu~ntlt bur.tcf)" which l"<•ducr lnll•n10 X·t~) ro~diJtlon whl<li \Qmo· tunul 1whc!l "!In .or>d utr llko «•,mic llglllh<ltJIIl'"· A> the X·r•v !>QUiet' of on~ of thtl~ "hur,ttl>"ls In thu otmtur of nne tlu>ttt, II 11 thou~hl ill nldss is thirty time! tha• nf the Sun •nd mdi,Jt i-.• nf .r hl.otk h<>lr tyll~m. thu1, J \C.llch ,.;n be made to see if X·r.y <Ulll<el .rrc to be found ,u th e centers of other clustrh. Yet, b1· fM tho most cxclun" dl1covcry b the m~;~St rlf~t .. nt tjuasur "about I S.S billion IIJiht yem JWJy". The .1gc of the unlvur!u 1, thus pU(hod well p.l\t tho " I 0 to 20 hill ion" m11ll\ ICCCI\IIy tou t ~d .tbout. Now h wlll <loll' I '" I b billion or more l Ono lmpllc.ulon o( X·ray oml;slons by tfl>l•mt 'lllul•« Is I hut th ey rnuy contribute b•ckground radl.ttltm JliO• ..umed e,ulfcr Ill como from hot plasmal and S•• 'lnud1 thdl fit ,, model of tho unlvtlie whh iulficicnt m•" tube "clo,<d" under ~ravn•tiOnJI C<llfJPio. II qu•s..~rs ,rrc re>poniible, th< mi»ins nw, ma\ ••rv wtfl be 111111rng, and the r•diJtlon I rom the "univmJI hot pl••m•" (>cc RBB 43 : 2) m~) be ,\n lllu>lbn \lemming from quasar emissions As thu <lowll known QIM>olr 1, only 800 mlllton lillhl yrm o tway, (NFW YORK " l iMES, 1 ur•c I 0. 1978. n. 22), 11 I> cloo~r th•t qu.tSdll '" ~ !11H confined 10 chhor ' '"' u.uiiCII 1>urlnd pf thu universe 11111 tho lutoSt, ro~thor they h< IVO he en In uxlstcncc th rouJ!IIllut ltuwuver , "' <JUolloll) tildldlO Ull OXIICOlUIY lotOiliC olOIOUnt Ofradlotlion, they m•ght >imply be the only uhjocts which e.Jn he detected •t the lmmcn1c dilt•ncc of 16 hillion tight v•••s with our prc~ent technolo~') liow m.tny tllhcr qu•>.ar> e>.t\1 In the void be y11nd, Jnd how m,my other lie nearby within • billion light ytJrsl We CJn o~nxlously awalt tho result\ of HEA0·3 which may help u~ probe once more to the cdgo of the l nown unl·· vc~>t, (NASA NEWS RELEASI:., 79·36). JOVIAN DISCOVER IES : Where the giant tolciGOpcl lunotloncd bc;t wa1 In the ~ t Ud\ of our uw11 whrr IY>tcm. In nur \mall rcBitn,>tJrs might bo ilUdlcd .11 dhtant puint> of light by which the porths of wanderer. miKhl be mJrlcd. Howc•cr,.l> the bul~cs of Saturn resolved lntn • •·unfqur set of 1111~1"; dlthe count or minor pl•ncli in tho .uwuld belt climbed p.rlt • thou~andtold; ill Hcr1chcl\, Lcvcrrlcr's .rnd TomhJUKh'> pl•ncts were c•uJ!ht >ight of ev.r further from the sun; c• plor.lllon of the planets w•• wnfhtcd to e.rrlh·bnulltl Ob\CIVdll>rlos. There Cdmo the src.ll I C~ i1 >1111U uu tor IP~CC whh Md•lncro l'lonccr, Vi k>ng , und Pioneer Vcnut ml15ions. And, there were dl,dppointmunl\ wlwn no~ conclusive signs or fife were found on Mars and when Vcnu; W,\0 found tvo lnfcrn.ll to oupport uny life we know or. It 11 not too dlfOcul t to undcm•nd the e~cltement recently gcncr•tcd by the Voyageur I minion Jl 1hc !Pd«trdft Oew by luphrr Worlds ul dnothcr n.>turo h.1d been found to exist far beynnd 001 c•p<'<'W 1ons. 11 \Yh~tl w~•rc SCCinK is nQl whdl \l.l' h td r:<pc.'ttt'd. Wt:'I C h.tffled.'' uy1 Dr 1Jr,odford !>mlth, h ~.111 PII ltn~roiPhlc ~clcntl>t for thu VQy.rgo•ur I missron . 1ho nu,tdy, •"IIH;tn l bandl !'If clolld> !() 1111l10r111ly dtiiWII by ol\ t lrlll!lmOr~ fnt CCn l htiC~ ch.u1~cd Into,, oh.tutlc jumble of churn ln~ ,wcJ 1whllnM ltloarn> ol oolor ,)111tlll~ which were huge llltll\ of trn~1111wn thdrltW. Nu lump• of the wrt dc;cribcd bl' Andrew IJ,ud,tV, lsce eiiJP· tcr 5 ul NEW 1.1\NOS), but juhtrr•nh ol lrM<n JrnrnoniJ "ere tlctctt<'<l Mer the cloud~ Tlnre·t•p~< phntugrdphy rc· >edlrd dMt.. orJnge "hot ~POli' PJ\\Ing thru the upper tfoud hyer~ ol tho Jovl,\n J tmDsphete. 011c rnl~ht ovcu .. ke •nnthor and >w,tllow ll. and other spou whf'h hJd mcrgod broke Jpollt ~nd wunt t h ~lr 'CIMWO w.oys •Iter twol>•o d.ty~. Whore lht• colm1 lor the ollludo .urd •POll cnrnt• lrom Is not clear, tho 10dlunt rrorn lu I~ !aid to ,tdd ·' t in~· · tn thtl cloud; Sn unpru· IMMI wort the sol~ nllsts for ,, com1>iox moclunisrn in lovhon metuoroloMI · few rxplun.ulon> wore fo,·thcorning Jl to wh.lt they h•d IC<rl, .rnd more aucntlnn w,u dilcrted 10 the Call lean ~.uellho1 which figured prornlnentlv in news medl• rcp<>rll. lo h,t< lnuncn\C volcanoe-, thoy • ··~ ·· L•rgcr Jnd more ~ctlvo th,tn .mythlnq on Mars, .ond c."IIY dw,llling anything on c.rth . G.11cs ,hoot forth from them wllh tho weed of • bullot spt1Wir,g cloud• for into suace. l hu oKtrcme VUlij,tnl>mo wu .tro told, I; the roluh nr li<fal StrCUe\ lrom lUpher Jlld Its larger moon~. !;.uropu, c.nymcde ~nd C:.tllls\11 F l'W lmpoiCI ern ten were \oon on lu: and, tho volt.mlc .tctlvhy m•IY h•••• rc·,u•· faced In In the lalt 100 million years, \~V> Dr L•urcnce A. Sudcrblom of the United St•tc~ Gwloglc.ol Sui\C), (NEW YORK TIM£5, M•rch 12, p, 812) C•llhto, on the other h.1nd, l1 "'Jtrcd from Jnclcnt meteoric oombJrdmcntl, A huge ci""'"' b.1\ln >Urroundcd by concentric rldge1 WAACSts $0me Impact whl~h m~y hJ•C molted "v ~ H rortlon of 115 ~ubsurfacc ''"· I hv ild.ll WoiVO, or t~UOl\1111, tll}/0 '""" .tgJIII J! it f"JS<ed ovor the lrt11en surl"c" of Calllita, Gu11ymode, co111posod l.ugoly r) f leo, ~llffcr> large fr~ctu rus U i1d "wottor q th r kc~ " which carve line. JCIOI\ lt1 wrf.co ro;omhllng th o oluslvo Mart lnn Cdf\JI> (ur c.mo~lll. n1o Inner rnoon of Arn ~h h lld , previously 1cen unly ~~ u point of ll~ht in tho l•rgest tolc><<>trc>, w•• found to be of Jn irrcJular shape. It< gr•vlty too we•k to form • roundi\h figure, Am•hhu >Utl!lOit~d o1 dcnnhlon for
"planet\" •• being bodlc~ wllh d dl•mctcrof 1,000 ~ llometcr• • more . Wllh such.& yJrdlllcl. ,lll ~ rJ\Y 10 cnn\lder the Vny• eur I mlss1on not simply Js tho eJ<amlnJllon of ono pl.ulcl, Jupiler. b111 or,, lovi.ur ~~~ t em of pluncts: Jupiter, EuropJ, Calli>to, Canvmudc, Jnd lo, •ftcr wh!Lh h will i''"' ''" ro ••· piQfc S.rlurn .mtl IIIJn, (soo n to bG pho tojtrnphcd \Jy Pioneer II "' I he end or Augu11 .rnd Nrly Srpten>ber thh yc.u ). The excitement chcned frorn C.ul Solllan· ''fhls Is .&1 mo11 beyond lnterprcwoon Thm~·, dlflcrcnt •hcmlltf) different physl,s, different forces Jt work vut there." (liM E, Maroh 19, pp 72•7 lJ. Of cnurse, 1 1 ~110 prompled rJih S IJie• menu from otht11. In w~s 'ons1antly rclertcd lo "' h,IYinl! ,, "pird ' suriiiCC. And , Joo Hitll ul til<' f0RONT0 STAR (Murch 18, pp. A I·A 12) , whr,;o rovCIIIIIO!II or rrcvlou.ty lOP• secret UFO report> IJsl J•nuary could be found In Sudbury new>P'P"' b.o ( l.. In 1975 (s~ RBB 43 .3), el•lmcd the speed of llghl wa~ ' ~nnwn with surprlsiiii!J<CilrJ'Y" h~r<ly sa>enly• flH l'e.ir> o ther Cdlllcxt di\Covcrcd the four ma1 0r moons of Jupher. Fow •\IIOIIIlrncrs seem willing to .odmh 10 the uncJn· ny J tcuro~~y u f Pliny 's dlmunslom ol t>l.mciJry diltJntcs .tnd tlldncr.try revolutions about thu ltm; hul , 1he speed of IIMh t WJI out .u •••dll~ discovered on ly being gue~>cd ~~ by 1ho •occenlrltitles uf tlw Jovian moons •nd their often ln•ccurolc dlstan..es frum tho e•rth, (1ce R A. Proclor·s OLD AND NEW ASTRONOMY JOd ehapl<r 8 of NEW LANDS). Forlundtcly, lhc numcruu • dhcovcrlcs provrded cnougl> printed manor to prcvem 1 00 mmy "revised" historic\ or d'olronomy bolna re• po~ 1ed bv some hapless science wrllcrs. Ahhnu11h h was 1hough1 ,, founccnlh moon rn i~hl be found, the ,clen tiSls W\!1'0 Rrcatly surprised 10 nnd 3 rinjl Of debris In orbit Jro und Jupner h roqulred • n eleven minute exposure 10 delcct 1he rin•, bul •• h wu phologo~phed "edge· on" its dlmen>ions will remain obscurt u ntil Voy3&eur 2 takes •nothor serlc> d uring Its Oy·by. Or Br.1dford Smhh del.&yed tho announcement of the discovery until the " (uuy ~~~ea ~" w, ~; further onh11nccd . No prolllcLion llf J ring wdl mado I hill could bo •ot~flrrn cd , .tnd I t~ r~ l n ti1 M' would hdvo romfcrcd 11 Invisible to e~rth l y obwvcrs who'd unly seo th o urllliilnt plane! I hey surround. Th6 lltuttcr was left open In case some ring of p•nltiL '>. ()( perh•ps thai fuuneen1h moon, m•chl be seen "'but not with Jny gru1 cxpecutlons". "'A few yc,.rs <IKO, only S.r1urn had known ring,, The theory th.u oxplnlned how those rings <Uloid perllst through (he 4. 5 hllllnn ye11rs of solar system ovolullon . 1lso cl\plnlncd why Sa1urn w•s tho 'onl y' planoll h.c could have a rinK. Then lheorlcs had lu bo revised to accornmodiiC the ring> of Uran· us. Now )upher Is found 10 h•vc • ring and we rnust Invent a 1hcory 10 oxplaln h." Or . Smnh llnlshcs his loson in hiuury. " f lndln~ ur Juph!!r Ring Ocmon>!rJic' 1849 Principle," begins WJitcr Sul llvJn 's lesson In hlstury In tho NEW YORK TIMES, IM11rclt 10, I'· 42) . " fhls wcek"s discovery lhnl 11 ring of rocky d~br li orbit> J u pl t~r ln~lll o Irs lnncrmnst moon i< !lfrhaps the mo>l dr.matlc dcmonm Jtlou 10 d31C of a prlncl· t>lo enur"l•tcd by the French nmhematlcian Edouard Roche In 1849 ." So m~hll" , I feel Mr. Sullivan h.ld not •••d Or. Smhh'l leSio n •lso In tile NEW YOR K TIMES, (M•rch 8, p. Al8.). Yet Sulllvdn pcr<ish w11h hl1 lecture. "Il ls now clear, however, th.u such factors (tho donshy or Jupiter ltrrd ill moons) h.wc no1 substantially ahorcd lhe correct definition of Jupiter's Roche limit.'' Ignore ~ny dhcrol>anclos previously announced •bout tho unlqucnc» of S•turn's ring1, Sullivan Implies, for tho theory is still correct, In fuct •confirmed'. "The question then arises why the Inner planets of 1hc sol•• 1y11em Mercury. Venu1, Earth .md Mal$ do not have rln&s or tholr own:· The testimony o f Dr. Gerard de Vaucou· leurs or I he University of rcx41 Is called upon 10 explain that our moon h~ 1 probably been mponslble for sweeping up the debris tllolt would have formed .1 ring Jround 11tu oalth. What or tho Morwdal moon! (Or w.r1n't It only a star M3rlncr 10 dt iOC icd b•tk In 1973? ) What of tho moon of Venus 1ccn, or at lent rePOrted as recemly n 1791 / (Sec BOOK OF THE DAMNED, lluh /Oovcr. p. 195, bul I read a bit more here !han did Fort). Wa.s the Mmlln rlrrs dcvmAttd by O~• mos and Phubo>l ben another ring Is ~ld 10 possibly cxls1 In an ln1ra· Mercurial orbit by Or. Irwin I. Shapiro ol tho Ma\Sitchusetls lns\11\Jtc of Technology. (Shades of Vu lcanf I I ) Where drc the ri ngs of the inner plane~> I For the moment we will no! pur>uo tho rings of Neptune, they're ahc~dy damned I " In M•y 1707 the laic Aul>t•nl of 1he 1hen Astronomer Royal s;~w Mercury in 1rnnsh encompassed b) a 1hlck hMe or atmosphore. "In thG 1ransit of May 1753 J ring wa> obsorwd rouml the p l o~n e t ; .dso In th•t or M11y 1786. "In May 1799 d dark or nebulous ring was obscrv~d. 1he lingc being ur .r violet hue and wongen ne.u the pl1net. Sch1o1er also s•w 1he ring, lht llgh1 or which he u ys w.is n:arcel) brighter than 1he su rf~ ce or lh ~ Su n, but of ano ther c:olour H.rdlng did nut , •• It at flr>t, but he did Q ftcrwards whon h~ U$Od a lighter shade," "In M,,y 1832 thc pl.tnct WJS seen a1 tho Rny.11 Obsor• vatory, surrounded by • du1ky 1 lngc. In 1hls ttJnllt also !he ring hu bern described u of 'a violet hue' lhc colour being strongest nc.rr the planet.'" "Thi; h the ;um of our knowledge about the rings round rho ~lan e t In the May trdnshs," (MONTHLY NOTICES OF r HI: ROYAL ;\STRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 38, 338·339, At>rll 1878) I'll nut go further wnh the November uan~lts other than I CI uy the ring w.;s "!><!en" in 1848 o~nd ~n ''4urcolo~ ur llchl" surrounded 1hc pl.&nct In 1868 ~ccordl ng ro Mr . Hullfl l n~. h it f'(ISslblr no o n~ h•s looked for h during the last thirt~en tr•nllll 1'11 during the M•rlner 10 mi>slon/ II seem> not. Th ~ tallt~n l lon of sciunlht-. Wd~ drawn to 11 Vd"t aurorJ over the no11h pole of I upher .tnd which matched over a di;wncc o f 26,665 kilometers (such accuracy In metric where 18,000 mlle1 Is givl'll else,.hcrcl ) Also seen on 1he dark >1dc of Jupiter were three cluners of llgh1 spols which were presumed to be lightning \lorms ol tremendous violence. These wurc seen while tho VoyJguur lspacccr•ft wo~s -1 million mil es o~w11y ''"" were •It or nately Sdld to number 17 In the low· ur l•lhudo> (SASKATOON S1'AR PHOEN IX , MMch 10) otnd 19 ~vcral lhous•nd miles south of the aurora (NEW YORK TI MES, M•rch 10, p. 4'2). A more >ystcm•tlc ~• rch for plane· ury llgh1nlng In Jove's domain will be undertaken by Voya· geur 2 which Includes equipment which "'should be able to de let t I he 'whlstllnK'Ioundsproduted by llgh1nlng'\ During thu .tpproach 10 l <!Phcr, sounds wurc htwd from ,, UIIIOil<C or 660 million kllumutuu In a pl•sma WdVO export· men! th~t was rwt of thu Voyageur 1 mission. Tho cacaphony caused by the coll ision o f chnrgcd particles from )uplt e1 with
thusc uf the sol., wind. Sonic booms are produced which c.an even be detected In the lnterplanct.uy medium, "We hope to hcru marty or the other (audible) phenomena thdt develop Jtound Jupiter ," SAid Frcuerick Scan ol I'RW Symrn., who I~ in chJrgc of the cxpnrimcnt T•pe\ of thu nulsc1 wcru de>· crlbod oh whi\llcs, 1'01'1'111& jOundi, S(]UCdiflll! thCI, ,mu ''deep mlllcry·llko bourns", (ST. JOHN EVENING TIMES GI.OBE, March 2). MORE BOOMS ON EARTH: Several booms hc.rd on February 28th In Rockl.md and Orange countill) in New York and New Jcr..,y, respectively, were succc••lully tr.H:cd to the detonation of iurplus Army explosives at Welt Polna, In New York . Or. Will iam Onnn said using lnmumcnt d,tta, "the location w•> ldentlf1cd by lll~ngu · IJtiOn dnd l,lter cunflrmcd by W est Point ofnctah". A (lorthcr· ly wind w,t; tu bl,unc for prop~lllng ~nd accentuating the noise of the cxplo>lom. Yet, how !uccessful thlt method of lrlongu· ldtion workl for ~n ow n e•enL' ol known niJgnitudll r.tl<e• the quc\lion of why 1uch tri ~ nguldtion cdnnut bed> reJdll)• U>td tu tr•cc the bouon; being ht•rd ofl the No•• Scotia coa11. (NEW YORK TIMES, \lmh 8, p. 82) In the EMERGENCY PLANNING DIGESl ul I Jnu•ry· MJrch 1979 (pages 25 In tnglish and 27 In French) tho study of tho booming noises urc said to be " thu nbloot of \eliou; study ... for tHo next nino months or so". " It has been •lioged thdl the 'boom>' m•) be roiJted to .tlrcraft In \upcrsunlc flight nc" NuYa Scotl.t. Tho rerouting of <upersonlt nlgtm l.tst year seemed to result in rewcr booms being reported In ;outhwcstern Nova Scot I• but the)' ore ''HI occurring, •• RECENT UFO RLPORTS : March 2Sth Cdn~d.o .1nd the United Stdtel Cosmos 31 5 dlslrucgnuctl as It rc·cntercd tho earth 's atmosphere. (OTIAWi\ U UROIT, March 26: OTrAWA IOURNAL, Marth 31, p. 10). February 24th Labrador CllY, Nf No description of tho UFO Is given rn the R.C.M .P. celetyp• ••· port, (N79/020) . February 20th British Columbia - A brilli•nt yellow bolide l•;tfng 15 sceonds wu seen over o~l•rgc •r•• of the province, (M79(0J.I; TRAIL TIMLS, Febru•ry 21 & 22; KELOIYNA COU RIER, February 2i) r cbtuory 20th Pre>spoct Road, NS A round coloured light of I urge sl(c was seen hovtring JOO co 400 feet up in tho sky for 11 period nf 5 minute>. ·1 he ohJ~ct ch.lllged from a rod t() bluo colour , madti no noise, o~od tii••J>poarcd flying strat~ht UJ> Into the sky, (N79/0 19). FcbruHy 18th Nym Lake, 01 l'hrce lUI• like light> ma~lng sound; llko helicopters were later idcnclfled a~ • night of helicopters on thcrr way to CFB Poto~wo~w.l, (ATIKOKAN PRO<..RLSS, Febru.ry 21 & 28 ). February 18th Montre•l, PQ An object thoit •ppe.red "ll ~ c a WiROn tro~in" w•• reported muvlng Ul> •nd down o•cr tho City for five minutes In • tune rc1>0rt, (N79(018). February 16th Vol· luwknifc, NT A> th e reponed UFO wo~s seen In tho same pl.tcc •nd tlmo .1> ,, Duh 7 o111 cran le.tvlng tho cit)' ,It\ ldoitllly Is quite corta lo, (N I~ C files). February 9th 8ordc1 Tuwn· 1l1ip, OT A brigh t red ball .u high • ltltutlu t>.mod qpfdly ucrus. the 'ky and would olppe•r tu h,tvu b~'<ln o1 meteor, (M79/0 I3) . Fohruo~ry 3rd Millis-aug•, OT Two f~mllles s.ld they uw an "~xtra bri&ht n.tr" hovering o~~r the city .net L•"• Onwiu In the euly morning. One witness thought 11 had "tunrd In" on them, for tho UFO ~ecmcd only Inter· csted in goin3 whcrr:-cver tho witne" went. It would o1ppeo1r to he either Venus or aircr.cfc •l'l""'"hing Toronto Inc. rutiorul AlcJlort, (OAKVILLE JOURNAL RECORD, Fcbr ~ry 7: MISSISSAUGA TIMES, Fcbru.try 14), February 2nd Wh llefilh, OT A bright ol>juCI W>\1 seen descending to tho MIOllnd whore It was seen from 5 to 7 minute... Lillie des· crlptlon WJS ~lvcn In lho report rcl.tycd by the OntJrio Provln· clal Pollee to CFS F~lconbrldge prob•bly •>• .t principal witness did not !PColk English, (N79/017). February 5th .m!l 2nd Woodstock, OT On the 5th, the morning \11th of th~ WOODSTOCK·INGI:RSOLL SENTINEL REVIEW eonOrmed thit they too had seen the bright lll!)lt In the southern sky >''til an the 2nd by severo1l night shift workc" before II dlsap- pured In tho eomlnR dawn. It would be hoped lhc Stratford UFO Rc1carch group wlll be able to discern chis as Venus, (SI:.NTINEI.·REVltW, February 2 & 5). January 201h ~hcfnold, Nl.l A brighl oval obJect w.1s Orsc sean ncar Oromocto, but It w•s walehcd from the wl1ncss's home In Shclllcld for 3 hout> In the cdtly morning. Seen thru binocu· idl>, It JI•PeMcd to be two spheres resting adjacent to CJCh other •nd to hu'rr •bout 100 fctt over tree lOP leYel. It moved slowly tow•rd~ the south, as ... ould Vcnu~ which was not noted In the repun, and "•S u1d w ch.lnge it~ 1ntenslty ot light quite rddicdliy, (N79/0IG). J•mury 3rd - Lowbanks, 01 Three rr •md object> with • diArnrter of30 feet descend· cd lncu • whu11t llcld. rho larrnor notified pollee tl>lnklng It mlghl h~w b~~" ,, pl.tnc cr•sh. CrabblnJl hh earner~. ho round tho UFOs quhu willing to rcrnaln while h~ shot JO cxposutcs. He Wtl! Jblc tU w,tl~ .truund them, Wol\ joined by otnothcr witness who w,Js driving by In J car, •nd -.,11 later joined by two pollee who also saw the UFO\ Fnr 20 rninut~. the UFOs remained still, but • flash of .olc1 mcd lights sign•llcd their ascent bac~ Into the sky . The l•rmcr wntinued to photoxr•ph them before they new oil, but he had neglect· fully used a shuncr spllCd of • thouundti1 o( a se<:ond thus rendering •II buc two exposur01 (.u the UFOs deparccd) usc· less. Tho photographs arc being sont to Ground Sduecr \Vatch for .tndlysls, (Cnmbrid!(o UFO Research Group, 362 Kltchunur Ro11d, Cdmbrld~e. OT N3H I AG) . J.triUMY 3rtl - Aylmer, OT In ~he morning, d f,trm l•mlly w1tncss11d a flashing blue •nd grcun trl•nglc of light, cornp.arJble to J "boomerang". ho•crlng over their barn. Looking to •nnther side, others were seen: ", .• two keeping abreau of each other and the other , which, \he s.-.ld, seemed larger. crossing their property." The fam ily wa> bothered by the ldCt no one else seemed to nutitc the UfOs. Yet, someone cllt w.u out In the morning ott Coponhugcn, tu the lOUth and n.<t, .1nd hu ••w ,, "brlghc pulutln~ ll~ht. • crl.ongular in ~h.I I>U ., hovering over Lake Erlo" Nn r111c suonh lo ha~u connec ted these lights wlt11 tho ob)o:~l' which dustundcd thdl so1mc uvunlng uoar Lowbnnks, o lbuut 80 miles to tho can .md t>n chc shores of LJku trlc, (AYLMI:.R EXPRESS, JJnuary 10; ST. THOMAS TIMES JOURNAL, J•nu.ry 15). (Errdtl : In RBB 44, the UFO rc· port dJtcd fcbruo~ry lOth is from N79/0I S, not N79/013). OBITUARY I hu Ncs1louur (Neu l nfullno~tion ~crvlcc) of Fcbru.lry, 1979, ntllos tho death of F.W, (Trd) I h>lld.ty 111 Fcbcuary. llu wus born In EllMinnd nnd w.IS oJuc.lted botn In Enginnd and Can,,d,t. DurlnM 1ho.Second W or ld W.u, he served lnlhe Roylll Air ~orcu In i\lrica and Italy, After lo.ovlng the ~rvicu, hu becdmc a journ.tllst dealing with 01hlng and wlldlllc. Fortc•m wllircmcmbcr him for his tntercsting books on lhc Loch Ness monncr ~nd Its brethren, {The Grut Orm of Loch Ness, 1968; The Or•gun •nd tho DIS<, 1973).. • l\es 1Jureaux 1Jullettn Bulletin No. 46 April 1979 ISSN 0383·6 150 Conduc ted by Mr . X Prin ted in Condda ® Res Bureaux 1979 Ad cJ rc~s nldll to : Box 1598, Kingston, On rario K 7L SC8 CANADA Cl RT•\INIY IN SCIENCE: According to Einmin'< Theory of Rel~llvlty, the only con!l•nt (or ab<alUlc) Is the velocl1y of light There h~s been ol lliOwlng •«ep~ncc of Elnslcin 's thcorotlcul physics among the scien tific: community. Althu first "tbmncd" for •ts rc· fcctlon or the universe of Newton und Kelvin, Einstein's ~rcdtu;r glory was rtcvgn .. cd in his .tbllhy 1 0 explain that the 1tethcr ovur yu11~ wns searching f~ · simply did not exiSt. A cun· tury f,ller, the scientists colobr.ue h rnstoln's genius and qu iotly for~ot the dOther lhoir Jltodaccs>ors o~ acoptoll wltiH>ut 1ho slightest shred of evidence. The velocity of light 11 J~cptcd al bcin, slightlY more than 299,792 kllumeters per ~econd I htwe,cr, the pm•se of IIRh t thru a medium dOC$ slow It wmu; h~nte, flgh1 docs not tr.tvrl thru .air ~• it\ true spoetl, .and 1 0 WJtcr II Is \lo"cd r•·en more We •rc amazed bv brcakthrus that enAble the ph\ ~lcln to determine wiUt c•er more JCUtc nb>er\o•tlon the refrncmcnt of the 1elocity nf lil(ht to the hundredth d~cirnJI llowevt", the vclocuy of light l• • lhcoretlcJI .absolute .and as unknuwn to our universe as the " pcrfe" g.as " .and "•bsnlute tero". Fort .11ked his "third qucnlon": "Wh n, except wmc· one who w.as out tu boost a theory, ever h.l! demo nstr~tcd that fight h.os ""Y velocity I " It WliS not until FunGis Bacon'; NOVUM ORGANUM th.n .tit Interval ol time w.as considered 11cCm1uy for tho pas· sotge of light over .J distBn~c. In the fJSt number of the Bul· !11 tin , (45 3), the "surprising .a"uracy" with wtttch Joe Hail 1o1ld the speed uf light was known barely scvemy·Ov,• yc.,s •her Galllco's discuvcry ol moons .uound Jupiter Is best lllunr•ted by Arago. firstly, G•llleu discovered the moons or Jupiter In 1610, •nd It w•s ln 167S th.at Roemer d l sco>e~cd the method 01 determining the veloclt) ol llsht by nbservmg the moons of lupiter. Hls fellow~ tobtdincd dlff~rlng Osures lor the time it tool for ligh t to ltolWI the mc.tn r~dius Of the 1errcs1l•l vrblt. Duh•m•l "'id It wu dbout IS mrnutes.llornc· how Mid lot mlnu1es and 7 seconds; wsslnl u1d 14 minutes Jnd 10 seconds; then Newton said 7 minutes .o nd 30 seconds; olnd, Ucl.trnbrc Solid ~ mrnutcs ~nd 13 let<Jnds. The discrcpan · clc~ dW nr)l ,trn>ldurud worth o xplalnin~ to l\r.1 go who !~lis U\ iu POPULAR ASTRONOMY that i h~ qu;tllllty of tihtu Is rnnrc .tklrl to 8 minu tes and 16 scO<lnd> (.t roflnumollt uf 3 seconds). Tills t lusaly agrees with our modorrt sclontiSIS, but flr.aHtl .tSilgn~ ,, voloaily tu ligh t ol 192,000 !lilies per sec· ond which dlffm from whJt modern >t.lcntlsts tell us r ortc.ms •rc confrcln ted with o1hcr •uch •cr tdhHicsl "The lnU•·rnercurl•l l>ldnot does not •·~ !st ." (Fidmm•r· tun •nd Gore, POPULAR ASTRON0.\1Y, 18!).1 cd •. p 349.) "As tu the >POntanoous combustion ul hunt .an bodies, h Is an lmpos>ibilltv. dnd all reports of such cases c:an be ~earl y shown either to be due to erroneou> observ~tion or to be lntentlon•lly fr~udulcnt." (NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1904 ed., 16, 100.) " F oiCt A. rhcre ..re no intelligent beings from outer space on l:mh ntJw" (Or, Mlch ~el H. Hart: "No chance or close cncuunters of the third kind : Scientist'', KINGSTON WHIG ·STANDARO, April 26, p. 34.) And, tho Dr. Hotrl holleves our planet to l>e free of visiting aliens from Othor worl d~, l•c has no oujootlun ttJ our descendants oocupylnu nnd spreading olvil17-atlon thruout thQ galaxy. Our planer is uniqu,• bccau~ I t is habitable, he says. II Is \Clldorn ;uch ccllalntlcs arc revealed as errant In the news media; but, tho odds of a meltdown acciden t at a nuclear !,'ilncrallng sti tlon happening once in a million years was clne such cenaimly shattered by the news medi ,l and " motion pitturu. The o~c:cldcnt at the Three Milo Island power swlon In Pcnnsylvani~ may not appear Fortcan J; a phcnorneru, but it Is Ironic rn its close portrayal in 1he "China Syndrome" Jnd Its exposing rnyth> •boutnudear power piJnt safety st.rndnrds. For cxdrttplo, one read> in the NEW YORK TIM ES of MMch 18th, p. 19, that reviewers were doubtful 1hat an a"ldant of tho sort In the "China Syudromc'' could happen, "Frankly, I d c 111'1 believe a serious accident could ever hnttpcn," say; David Rossin, a System N uo l e~r Rer.aarch Engineer at Cornmunwonlth Edison Company. " I dm d'sclen· till , and 1 don't ball~vo In ~crous. But I do believe In ,lcdur• · dant systcnJs and the c.tpablllty of people .and systemstq takc preventive action " If one goes further back In tho NEW YORK TIMES, one will Ond similar reassurance! of nuclear power plant safety. A study by Pennsylvania Sl4te University concluded resldenu llvln11 nrar nuclur power plant! had li ttle rear for their health and sJfoty, (NE\Y YORK TIMES, Match 18, p.41). The chlel engineer at tho Calvert Cliffs (Maryland) nuclear power pl.rnl omphasl1rd the s11ess on s~rcty nt such plants. "\Ve h~ve bac~ ·up syncms to back up the back·up systems and even more behind th.u ," (NEIV YORK TIMES, June 21 , 1978, p. •t8). And ProJect LOI T In Idaho involved the purposctul (allure of lust coo lin~ fluid ~nd was ha iled as a success. Projec1 LOrT showod that oven when tho back·up systems failed, • rcttctOI core was no t likely to roach tho tompor.turcs necessary for J meltdown, (NI: W YORK TIMES, December 11. I 978, p.A I4). When the first v•lvo fails, the control rods drop Into the nuclear co., and pumps n.rt to pump in additional cooling fluid. The problem Is tOmpounded by the fact that the flow ven1~ to tho b•ck·up pumps were closed. Another valve vent ing ueam from tho ovcrhe,llcd core opens More pumps Stull to pump in ,lddhlonal coolant which Is healed Into >team and csc.1pcs thru the open vumlng VAlve. Then tho gauge in lhc
control room show~ the open ••l•c to be shut, when II Isn't , 10 the operAtors uf the plant >tart shunlng off the dddhion•l pumps. A few minutes later, when 11 •PJIIl<lr~ th~ corr Is not cooling, the additional pumps .re started •gain, and they ore clo>ed dgain wht•n tho gauge .Jgdin 1 howsthe ven ting v,llve 10 be shut whun It Is still stuck open. nn,lll y, one of ihc upcrotors finds tho Stuck valve and closes It, ond the prtJlllcm •ppeJrs to hJvc been solved. Y<l , w muth coolant h•s esupcd as stc•m and con· dcnscd onto me ruttor room noor Jnd holding t.tnks that J > Ump pump II •ctl\lntcd . lt lr•nsport) thu highly rJ dlo~atl vo w.Hur from the sodlcd ru.ttlur room whew tho radiation connot oso•po to a sc.tlcd container in another bUilding where It 1pllls onto the Ooor Jnd Is blown Into thr •tmosphert by the second building's Jlr·condirionlng wstem As r•d•oactlve IIJSCS escape into the Air, plant officl•ll e~pl•l n to the 'luclear R e gulo~to ry Commission that there has been an "Incident " .md that Sln311 amounts or radiJtlon hnvo boon rele.tlcd, (NEW YORK TIMES, April 16. pp. AI & BH)) Further ,1 ccldiln11 complicate the ~ltuatlnn, more ratJiuo~ttlve gases Jrc vented Into the •ir, an explosive hydrogen bubble formed by the over- hc•tcd core threJtens to e•plodc or e~pusc dangerous!) hot fuel rods, and a f•lse report of an immlnenr meltdown c•uscs ~ wlclcspre.1d panic. The darnago done could no L be limply niCIISUIC d In term~ or .I partial molldown within ,, nuclour powur plan t, 1 he entire nuclear power Industry wa1 devas· wed by the advmc publicity The clcan•up nf the plAnt will pro\C an cnormout tal ~ Y ct, I would strongly recon1mend th.n anyone who Is not ceruin of how clow the "incident" t.tmc tuw ~rds bcinH • dlwster rc•d Ute o ~ cerpts from thu N[\1' YORK TIMES, (April 14, p, 9) , of Nuclear Rogulutory Cum· mission hearings lnw the .tccldoltt, Thu lruny of tho "Chinn Syndrome" dcscrlb111g h> nctlciOU> .ttcldent 3J "rcnderlna •n arr.1 the size of Pennsylvania Unl nhabhdbi~" becomes ever more clear, (NEW YOR K TIMI:S, April 4, p. C18). Lm Ironic, pUihaps, wa1 that a 30 page •nAiysll w•rnlng of J posslbl~ mishap >unt to the reactor's rnunulacturor Wdl first roJcctrtl .lnd Ignored back In April of 1978, (NEW YORK TIMES, Aprll17 , p,A16), NATURAL DISASTE RS Human error was not to biJmo, but one might find It J bi t difficult 10 >Wdllow that L.t Soulrlurc would erupt on Friday tho 13th, (April) shooting sulphurous gases, dust, and • tlh hundreds of miles across the Caribbean. The north end of the lsl;md of St. VIncent has been ev•cu.tcd In fearful .10ticl· P•tlon of ~ major eruption such l> nccurred in 1902 with a loll 01 over 2,000 llvc1. On the neighbouring lsl~nd of St. M.t~t lnl4 u e, le•" uf <1 shnllar eruption of Mount l'clec were being realized JS tremors wore fel t onrly In the next \vuck. Tho activity of Ln Soufriorc seems h) occur but d few days before Muunt Pelec shows Its uwn •ctlvc swe, (TORONTO STAR, April 19, p.AI4 , KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD, April 18, p.22; MONTREAL SUNDAY EXPRESS, April IS , p.G; OTTAWA iOURNA L, April 21, p. IO: TORONTO GLOBE AND Ml\ IL , April 27, p. I I). A major oarthquJko shook Yugoslavia on Aprtl IS .tnd was measured •t 7.2 on the Richter ~•le. More thAn 100 Jhershcxks were felt, and somo or them musured 5.3 on the Richter scale, (TORONTO STAR, April 16, p.A I·A2: NI:W YORK TIMES , April 11, p,AI~ ; IORONTO GLOBI AND MAI L, April 19, p. 17). ~o\lcrnl tiiiO! nr prcctlrsun wurc ru- lillcd by a correspondenl to tho TORONTO STAR,(,\prll 19. pp,A I·A2) "One man's budgie went berserk in ItS ~•Ke • n• hour before the first shoe ~ .' "Another said his nt -.ant wild In the •partmcnt, becoming so uncontroll•blc he had 1 0 plcl.. ll up and carry it au hide - Just before tl1e qu•ko hil." "Pnr• unt' who might uthurwlse h ~v c rcl.txatl lh bad early Sunday, fuund thCmStliVCI peStered by iMXpllt•hly rrotful Chlldrun,'' At KJmenarl, the Adriatic Sea was seen to "mushroom up like the cloud from an •tomic bumb" during the quake; yet, the provlslon•l hyprxenter ol tho qua ~e In the U.S. Geological Survey's ''Preliminary Deteminatl on ol Epicenters" give, 1hu depth or tho cpicontor aS 33 kilometer), W.nthcrc an crUJllJ On under the Adriatic lt~ well o1s boluw thu mounulm or Monten- egro' fortcan~ ~h uu l tl note this 4UJko's epicenter Is Jbout 100 kilometers can of Mll<t Island, pre•iously known u Mellda. Annthcr m•lur quake mcasurlns 6.3 on thu l~ lc ht cr \C~Io w,l\ felt In the Southern PaciOe Occ.u1 M 36 d ~groc s South .1nd I 02 dbgrcos W est on April 14th. On tho same date, the volcano Camn erupted In Chllu •bout 28 degrees longl· tude to the ea>t of tho qu•ke's oplccntor The eruption w,ts reported .u goin~ In to Its $ccond d•Y with flames shoottng 125 feet Into the air, !TORONTO STAR, April 16, p.A2; U.S. Geological Survey's " PI'u lh nln~ry List or Epicen ters." Nn. ll-79, p.2), BOO \IS AND EXPLOSIONS . Whoro.u Dr. Dnnn of the L~mont·Dohcrt Y Gcolog1eal Ob>erv,uory i ~ < tulle ce~ t J in the 'booms h~ard ,\lnnR thu Atl~nllc coast or 1 hc United States :tru nf an •rtlrloldl vrlgln, some doubt exists'"' thu part or the Fcdcr.tl Aviation 1\dmln lw•tlorl The FAA ~ys th~t th o 'boom\' hc.trd along thu Nc" Jersey coa.st on February 8th (sec RBfl 44 11 "ere not c:aused by the Concords. 1 hoy did not s~y whnt caused them, but It WdSil 'I 1ho Coneordcl It w•s announced tin t sclcntlm from llrl t.tin, Fr.mcc, and tho United Sutus wore to mcut In Wash· lr1gtun on March 1 ht 10 discuss those 'accouulc phenomena ' •nd to explore the theory that "weather pressure wstcms could c•rry sonic booms for thous.tnds or miles from their original source," (NEW YOR K TIMES, March 3, p.26). I've hc.ud nothing more of thiJ mecling, .md It strikes me as odd thru no rntn tlcm was mndo of dny C•nadian p•rtlclpatlon In nny such dlscul!lons oonsldorlng tho cm~ulng study ol 'booms' henrd yet in Nov,, Scutl• . More booms h.tve been heard since thts meetln~ On M~tch 13th a series of •erial exploslnM shouk Or~nge ~nd Seminole 'ountlos In Florida ~l.rting o11 I 0 AM and ~ppa rc nt ly lasting lllllll s PM. Thu Kennedy Space c~ nter IYI1S lUlling sound waves untlor different weather curtdltlons wit h dynA- mite blasts, but no one socmcd to notice 11or were Jny such tesu eonductcd on the 13th. Tho Novy denied Its responsi· billty They •dmltted to test bombing near Ocilla, bu t the chan'e of • 500·poond bomb bulus heard as far ~w.ty '" Orlando w.s "remote If not absolutely lmposslbl~" . Some urn ol~ ls " theorlzod thwl r.~ro atmospheric conditions could h.tve carried tho rumblings over unu~ually lon11 distances," s.IYI the ST. PETCRSilURG TIME S of March I Sth, (CR: M 11•11). What ever became of the colt! l•ycrlng of the atmos· phrrc " theorlted" In NEWSWEEK, (March 13, 1978, p.60), wh ich ,JCcountcd fo1 tho 'freak condit ions' that made 111~h 'scco n~nry booms' po,slhle; or, Is Flurlda uxpcrlonclr1K •n un· publlol•ed cold-spell /
In Woodhaven, Michigan, the "booming sound" Is of • very loc:dlizcd n.llurc. Starting o n April 8th, 3 ~Ingle house '''I bo:un ~truck by " the om.nous lloor·shaklng suund every h·tlr·hvur or 4S minute)'. Aucmpts h4vo h11un m.tde tu trace the ;ounds. The gas comp• tny cuuld Olttl 110 lcttkl, the building ln\pootor could find nu gaseous ,,c~u mul u ti U rt > In thv 11lpus u1 >cwors, .md ,, neighbour had to vi> It Itt order tu hoar 1 he booming ,ts It WAS 1 1uito muffled noxt door. l:.~r l y on t.lw morning of the 9th, the family sought shelter clscwhoro whotc th< sound; wert not th reatened by whatever It W41 was shak· 1 ng the house Ill b.1dly lhat wall! and ceiling had started crack· tng, {WASHINGTON STAR, April 10, CR. R \l,mncll; MON· REAL GAZETTE, April 10, p.2). Very much along the lines of Lockyer's METEORI C IIYPOTHI:.SIS, Steve Ogden concludes: "There must be a con11eclion bNw<en th~c six events." On Janudly 16th, he n<Jtt•s explosions .md fires which "mun have been caused by meteorites". Altho Lc~i ngt on .mtl l.undon In Kentucky and llnmilton, Kirtgs Mills, c tnd Middletown in Ohio do lie In a KCnoM ~outh · north dlrcction, l :"rrison In Arkansu i~ certainly ttot in line nor do the fire; and CXI> Ioslons cited ~Y Mr. Ogden occur at the same time of dny. Yo t, II is unc.tnny thnt In llmlson B telephone compony building II "lovoled" by .tn e•ploslon tha t damages a five·bfock Jro~ ~nd which Is of unknown cdusc and upon the samo d~te sl>teen buildings ·11< clo~m•gtnl •nd five d•stroyed by wh•t Is said to be a n41ur.ll g~s explosion in London. I tend tu relctt th~ "meteoric'' orll(ln ,u sumo Orcs origln&ted In and wero connnrd In do~d rooms, but It fs difficult to Ignore the st~ t cmon t of • pollee· rn•n In Londun. The explosion was followed by • 30·second bl•ckuut. "It was pitch black outside ~nd cvcrylhlng tumed bright blue , ." From whence did thts bluu ligh t come! (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, Janullry 17, KENTUCKY COURI ER· IOURNA L,).tnu.try 17 & 18: CR. S Ogden) N~WS I' ROM NASA; "I was IValkfng fram lhc third ~rcen with three olhcr pl•ycrs when woosh this th ing gro~~ed my hat •nd my Jrm and ploughed into the ground In front tlf me," \ays golfer No.:l St441l Jt the club fn Budcrim , Austr411• IY•s it J lcth•l meteorite' Nol ''I looked down ~nd It wu ~ 1·1/2 puund mullet " As the cout>e was sever ~I ~ilomcters from the S<•, the aollcrs wore surprised but did not let the fillllna fish dis· turb their g;tmc. Looking aloft, they claim to h.tvc seen a sc~ cagl~ .1nd con51der the mullet Its lost meJI The mullet h uld to be destined to be stuffed .tnd mounted Jl ~ Wdiltrophy .11 tho soli club, (KINGSTON IYHIC·SfANDARD, April 18. pA9). rite 1 1crlod duri n ~ which the Skylab I; expected to (all w earth Is between June 15th and July 2nd next, lheerrcct or 1unspoh and lnnosphcrlc tides will determine Its nnal urblt•l tfccay otnd te-cnuy MO'ot of Skylab i1 expected tu brc•k up Jnd butn up during lt1 re-entry, but •• many •s 500 pJrtl are expected to 1urvive lntludinll • 5,000 pound airloc:k. rhc ri1k of being hit from above dre put down'" being "slim", Araao c•lculatcd th,u • comet would s tu~ e the c~rth once in 281 rnlllfon years; and, Prof. Owen G. Ingles ol the University ol N•w South W ale! puts tho odd! ol boin¥ killed by • meteor• ltc at 16 billion to unc . Yet, the .re. over which Sky lAb debris Is o~pcctcd to fall might extcnJ 100 miles acro1s and from 3 to 4.000 mllosln length, Even if It is cun.ldcred mor~ likely w 1•11 over thu oceans, an extensive drop·•one suggesusornu of It will com~ over li•ntl. T~o ris~ appears to be accopublo LO NASA , but have lhuy cvor considered 1110 odds ~g~lnSI being hit IJy .1 mullet baing dropped by a rumbling sea eagle I (NEW YORK TIMES, February 27, pp.CI.C2; MONTRI:.AL GAZETTE, March 29, I'· 72; KINGSTON WH IG-STANDARD, April 18, p, 41, ~nd , Aprli2S , p. 30). Unfortunately the r ~dar equipment aboird the Pioneer Venus spacecraft went faulty before ft could be used to map lhe contours of Venus. but radar observ:ulons made by the Arecibo ObservJtory in Puerto Rico have constru"ed i high· resolution picture of the planet'> features. Most notdble of these ue two regiun1, simply named Alpha and BeLl Alphol is a ctrcular region with J diameter of I , 120 kilometers. Ridges extending hundreds or miles In length and running P4l'JIIel 19 kilometers aport su rround~ "central d~rk obloct ". NASA suggests the obJect may be a volcano. The feature Is ••ld to resemble nothinK un earlh except possibly tho App~ · lachlan Mountain! o r the !dnd dimes of the Ambiao ponlnsu ln. The Bct.t region Is 11robably volcanic and Is 800 kilornctors In diameter . Aside from liS "central dark feawrc", which h even ~id to resemble d volcanic caldera, "long tongues of rough material" flow away from It to a distance of 480 kilometers. One might wonder if AlphA were volc~ni c, would It not dis· play s•milar fu tu resl Or is Alpha lhe result or a manlve meteoric lmp•et, such ·~ might "'mit from the er.uh of lhe rarely l«n satellite or Venus? NASA simply states, "Th ~ radar evidence indicates that volc•nic and mounldln·bUIIding pr~esses similar to those on Earth, as well as meteoric im pacts, have played a prominent role rn shaping the surface or Venus." (NASA News Rclc.ue, No. 7947). Oro April 9 th , SAS·3 (Small Astronomy Satellite 3) re-en tered tho .umowhcru prematurely In the Pacinc Ocean. It discovered two quasars and was prominon t in discovering about half of th o 35 known X·ray bursters. ''Their X-my power rlsos within one second to a level I 00,000 times li1e toul luminous power of the Sun, then fades within a lew tens of seconds," say> Dr. George W . Clark of the Massachustm Institute of Technology. SAS-3 also discovered a "rapid burst• er" which differed from others by burstlng several times per minute. 1 he cause of these bunts is thought to bo " thcrmonu· clear reactions on the surf•ccs or neutron stars," but wh.u sort or reactions i1 not soeclncd, (NASA News Release, No. 7944). ASTRONOMI CAL DISCOVERI ES; ''It Is porh•ps lh o most baffling astrophysicJI phenomc· non since the discovery or the quaw," says Dr. Bruce Mnrgon of the University of California at Los Angelos. ''It's like noth · lng else we've over seon. Nothing else even comes close." Tho stellar mystery known as ''SS 433'' h supposed to be a dim star. Tho puulc comc1 lrt thu fact that It is " in sumo terribly wdrtl kind of troublu". {Such technical l~nguage elopes mel) B.slc.lly , the ;cicntlill cannot underst4nd how It fs the sw can be spccdlns tuwards the earth at 190 million kilometers per hour and ~t tho same time be raclna ~way from lhc earth olt tho !4mc 1pced. Either It Is coming or soing, but lhe sc;iontiSIS uy it 's goina both ways at lhc same time. What Is even worse fn this pualc Is that the •cloclly rises and falls on a 160·day cycle The bc1t explanation given thu,f•r. oandthe only one thu~tar, i~ th•t a >lowly 10"11n11 ,,., •> <hootins forth two nrc.cml of ga~'> em opposite >ide~ of the star and dl roughl) equal wlocillcs Stan which "just don 1 eio•t ntalcrlal dt such cnormou> velocities" arc expcncd to explode in to a nov11 or supcrnt•v·•· l lowu•cr. such violen t dlsch, ~rgc> '"" in ,til dlrcotlons ~n J not In two o4u.rl ""<.1 opposlic directions, (TORONTO STAR, April 24, p.A111: KINOsrON WHIG· STANDA RD, 1 \prll 25, p. 42). No one seem> prcpMcd to blame equipment lor the mysterioU> surs cxtr.curdinMy spe<d>. 111 Florida, corhldur•blc proto>! h•s been rahcd a~ainst the u~ ol radar In speeding .ummun> o>pcclally when ;uch radar unit> ha\0 recorded trees as tra•elling oil I 31! ~ilomctel> per hour, (TORONTO STAR, April IS, p.A 14) The Soviet Union has been quick to lrtdltato that the ring around Jupiter hncJ beun "predicted" b)' one of i~ .clrn· lists, Prof. S.K. Vsokhsvy,usky of Kiev Univ~r~l l y. Flr~ t ptlblishcd In 1960, thu profes>or mt•cl , "Thu ~xls t oncu of Jctlvc ejection prrx:esscs In the jupi ter systurn, d~mcmwatcd by comet awonamy, gives ground for anumlng thdt jupiter Is encircled by comet ~nd meteorite m•t•rl.rl in the form or a rms similar to the ring of S.rturn." The pr.'tlicllon wu rc· pealed in 1969 and 1972 ~nd were translated into French and German. The prolu1sor "dcmonstrilted" tht e~htcnco or the thcn·invlsiblc ring b1 oblcrvatrons of then·supposcd volc•noe~ upon the moons of jupiter. Thu ~l a lm ul priurlty In lho dis· ouvu1y of thu rinK cJIIs rurth Lcverrlur'> Pll•dlctlnn ol NoD tunc's existence. Tho L~vcrrlo r did not w~ Noptuno, ht h a~ told Prof, liallc whcro to lou~ with his lolclcopc wfwuupun Galle "confirmed" Lcvcrrlcr's prudictlun. Ot. Arnb4rl!ttnlYoln ,r the Byura~a rt Obwrv.rtory ~•vs NASA m~ruly 'conOrmcd" the Soviet's predl"luns o~nd mcoiUrcd the site .1nd c\lent of the rings, but tho uodlt tor iu dilco>el)' mull go tu Pmf V~khsvy•uky , (NCW YORK TIMES, April 18, p.B20) ATLANTAEN NEW S: Prof A.A. Aksyonov, dcru LY ~1rcoto 1 of tho Soviet Occanolosv lnnltuto, ha& an n ou nce~ that tho ~urvcy 1hlJl KURCHATOV photogr.tphed an area no" bollovcd Wl>u rom· nant of the losl continent of Atldntis Reporters ~nd Journa· lhts in Lisbon were surely tempted to mock this Jnnouncc ment, but It w~1 app~rcntlv made in All ~errousno11 but wrth the unwivcrrng confidence of sc;icnlil~ on the 11gh1 th~'Ory's path. Altho the legendary Atlantis hds been uvcrworkcd by weotem octuhim, it h.s been the subject of ~erlou; research In the Soviet Union . The mo" bother~omr cplso d ~ In tho rep or I by P mr. Akwennov is that when thu KUCHA'rov Wdl In the .UDU or the Ampere ScJmflUnl 1•11 October, one o r the IClunllm otboard considered It til be the "c~•ot area" In which Pl•to \Jid Allan tis w~s. then ho sough t perminlon lrom Mosc.ow •nd proceeded to photograph tho hol'\e!hoc·~h;pod pl•teau Upon the plateau, the photusraplts Jrc said to exhibit walls, forti · lications, sulrs, and possibly bri<:k wJlls. A ~econd expedl· tlon with mlnl·subnmlncs and bettcr-cquiped photON<ophle cqulpnrcnt is lfl ex,rmine rho area more du>Ciy. W hat is most bo t~orsorno to Forto> ms Is the ''exact orc.t'' cited by Plato, Annotfe simply called Platn " 'liar', •nd any self·rewcctlns Arlstolean >elontist diu his be>t to damn rhe mythlc.tl Atlontl>. The lost continent has not only bctn placed In the Atlantic Oce.tn but Js f.tr ~lteld ~~ the 1\"tlc, Anwctl~. P•cllic, and even in the ,oJe>tiJI realm with Ute Super·Sat8il$10 Sed, ( Sh ~ des ot Azurlal). &rlllt cl~lms to ha•c photographed a gig~ntic Atl.tnucn pyr.mld i•• tho u,lhJmal, If we wish to dCCCI)t I he lue.ttion pronhlled h. n1011 p1ychical Atlan tologfst\; however, thr 11Xplalning .nd dobun ~l n~ .rrchncoluglsts poin t to tire lll•ntl ol Th lr,, which or~p t c <.l o ibout 1470 B.C., If you w.tnt to .tccept tho loc~ t ion uf cunvontlomtlhts wh o don't like calling l'lato a liar. Evtn amunglt the Soviet Atlantologlsh. tho location given by Zhirov for his "Poseidon is" i• ••trldo the Mld ·Atlantic Ridge JncJ the Atures To conOdcntly SUII&Cit the "cx ~ct area " W<~> ctslncid~nt<~IIY being passed o'er when It h;tppened >ub marine photography equipment wu 41 hand ll more th•n • f()(tc.ln c.tn bCiiCI'C Altho the ijVldenccs of Atlanti s ,rllcgcdfy photographed will prObably bo fou nd only to consl\l (ll b.tsaltic formation•. the Cry th e l ~ Archipul•go w,ls probably .t buv~ the sur face uf thr Atltmtlc whullcvcr • larger A t l rrnt.r~n continent Wd$, 10 th~ IOC~ilon in tho vicinity of the Ampere Seamoun t l1 not tou f~tr •Ocld ~nd well within ranac uf ICJ·J(Oing ''mcls from early MedlterrJnc:.rn Sea. Th~ Am!J<'tr Sc•muunt locJtiun doe~ not s•u~ly the dcswptiun 11i•cn b~ Plno, but so much legend hu been built up about rlal<I'S description that Atlantis mc.cns very different things tu different Ati~ntologistS. So m.1nv submerged ruins arc to be lound Jlmilsl any can and are cl,llnled to be the lost continent of i'lato'l description, Were the >Cit level to riso 100 rnctMI tod••Y, uno might lind It dll11culr tel docldo which sunken ~fly was No\Y York , London , Tokyo, P.trls, or Leningrad fofluwlnK ,, duscrlp tlon of t h~ city In 4ucstion so•or,tl centuries •Iter tho c.t.tclysm. ll wao; only a dolcn year~ ago that Wegcncr '1 continental drift thcor~s came Into vogue ,unongst geofCJl!lsl~, but the discovery ol a >Unken city, be It Atl~ntls or not, on the Atlantic might pro· wkc rnuro serious cxamlnulon ul utastrophtn gcolo8)•, (WASHINGTON STAR, \larch 29; CR R 'A•nners; KING · STON WIIIG·STANDARD, Ap11l 3; WINDSOR STA R and LONDON fVI:NING FREE PRESS, both AprilS) KI;CI:Nl UFO RE PORTS: April 27th · Sioux Lookou t, OT A star shaped obJect was seen moving up ~nd down at hlJl)t dltltude. It was dh· cribcd as shiny and blue .and red In ~alour and Wd> in siKht fur nrtecn minutes A mlar se•rch hy CI·S Slou>~ Lookout w•s unable tu locate Jnythlng on Its rJdar, {N RC files). April 21 • CambrldKC, OT · In the middle ot the nl&ht of the 20th·211t, .r brlgh t sw like light was seen to n"sh red Ugh ~sat il$ top and sides. Seen lhru binoculars tho object resembled a whlto ijiobc surrounded by a blulsh·grcon h ~1c . It wAs visible from I AM to 2 :~0 AM, but it was not to be round c>n the fo llow· lng nights, (Cambridge UFO Research Group, 362 Kitchcncr Ro3d, C.tmbrldgc, Oi N3H IA6) . April 18th ·Guelph , o·r · A V·YI•PCU Object WOI >CCII to move from J Stationary POll tlon In the northeastern sky olfld r.apldly move pm the eastern horllon, but ~~II w.rs first ;een within .t moving or its lnltral st.ttlonary dttltude m•v have heen .10 lliu>lun The olllcct Wdl l.rgrr thdn dn " •trplane" •nd mo'Od With the ~ndl of the V furw,rrd. 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005 Rl. y O TT 24 PRIORITY SNF 78-11-17 UNCLAS COMMR OTTA'IIA ATTN D C I CIB4a91/J THE FOLLa~ING I! AN EXCHANGE CF ~~S~A~ES BET'IIEEN THIS HQ CARriiRIGHT D ETACHI~E ~T 4NJ ·,:;:) ·~::E~q ~A I.~.\ FROM CARTWRIGHT DETACHMENT TO IJ R C Q~~ _£_AR 26 ON 13 NOV 78 AT ~ .t51J'J'l Hqs ~FLJ T I '1E ____ _ ~ A .. FOR THE INTERNATI ONAL GRENFELL ASSOCI HION ~ BLACK TICKLE LABRApOR W AS LOOKING OUT THE HOSPITAL 'iiiNDOW ~~..,. ALONG WITH IN AN EASTERLY D~RECTION WHEN THEY SA'II A BR.I GHT RED CIRCULAR SHAPED OBJECT HIGH IN THE §. SKY OBJECT WAS SURROUNDED BY A RED GLOW AND GAVE OFF A JET PLANE ~ ·~ TYPE OF TRAIL BUT MUCH SHORTER PR IOR TO THIS OBJECT HHAD SEEN e~ :~~~~~~~:; ~o;E~~~~O~I~~~A~ 0 ~~p~N~B~~~TV~~~~DL:;G~:E:A; 1 ::so m~ NOTICED BY THEM AND WHEN BOTH WERE IN MOTION APPEARED TO BE ON ~9 A COLLISION COURSE 'II ITH EACH OTHER HQl.•/EVEq ON NEARING EACH O T H~R THEY CHANGED DIRECTION AND HEADEJ FO~ AN UNUSUAL DARK GREY ~LOUD FORMAT I ON '1/H I CH D I SAPATED ON THESC: TO'.•/ OBJECTS GOI N G THROUGH THEM EARLJE q THIS SAME AFTERNOON AROUNJ t30J TO taO ~ MR ~ ALONG WITH AND FAMILY OF THE BLACK TICKL~ AREA NOTI CED FIRE BALLS HITT ING THE GROUNJ IN THE BLACK TICKLE AREA A T ~ART INS POND THESE FIRE BALLS suq,EJ 4PPROX -
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French language Translated by IGW at RCMP HQ CIB - OTTAWA COMMR. O'l'TAWA INFO NRC METEOR CENTRE, OTTAWA FURTHER TO A REPORT WE RECEIVED REGARDING THE SIGHTING OF AN tm-rnt~>.ro•-r THE RELEVANT DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOWS: HQ-400-Q-5 UNCLASSIFIED 1. DATE AND TIME: 78- 08-21, at 21:45 (E,D.T,) 2. CONDITION OF THE SKY: FULL MOON, STARS, CLEAR NIGHT 3 • OBSERVER: I 4. LOCATION : CHAREST BLVD, IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION, IN THE VICINITY OF DUPLESSIS BLVD. 5 . ACCOMPANIED BY HER HUSBAND, GRANDMOTHER AND TWO FRIENDS (OBSERVED INTERMI TTEN'l'L Y BY HUSBAND AND GRAND~!OTHE R) 6 . SHAPE: AN INVERTED SOUPBOWL COLOUR: WHITE WITH BLACK UNDERNEATH, THREE RATHER DIM LIGHTS THAT GLOWED WITH A FAINT, STEADY LIGHT. ALTITUDE: TWO OR THREE FEET ABOVE THE STREET C.IGHTS (APPROX. 30 FEET) MOVEMENT: STATIONARY NO. OF OBJECTS: ONE ONLY 1. LENGTH OF TIME OBJECT WAS OBSERVED: A MINUTE TO A MINUTE AND A HALF a. WE WILL NOT BE SENDING A REPORT ON THIS INVESTIGATION AS A FOLLOW.:OUP TO THXS TELEX. RCMP QUEBEC S/DIV. C- - ,.
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•• FROM DE Government - onade Gouvernement du Conade c.o. "M" WHITEHORSE A'M'th OIC CIB OIO GENERAL SECTION FED ERAL PO LICING BRA NCH MEMORANDUM _j I NOTE DE SERVICE 611'WRTfY C\.ASSIFICAfiON DC SCCCJitlTl OUft ffll! N / lt/ft!f£NCE HQ-400-Q-5 {Y.7) YOYO Ill( V//CIF(~EI<CC 77M-l02-l00-) DAn L ~ 20 MAY T1 $UIJEC1 own UFO•a - Cooperation with N.R.c. Your oo:r.responclence dated 20 APR 77 refers. Find attached copy ot lette.r torwardod to the National. Research Council. Pl .. se be adrised that Mrs. CLAUDE addeed af'ter checks were ll&de by her that they did not receiye ooplea ot your Mqo Detaolaent report. r or your 1ntoraation 1 in general diacuaaion with Mre. CLAUDE abe adrieed tbat they do not gin formulated opinions with regard to U.l".O.•e but 1 .. -.e thia to indirl.dual. inte rpretation aa they are only a cantral deposito!")" tor collection ot 111ater.lal. and reports tor statistical. aDd eciantitic purposes. Theretore 1 rep~ to our cowesponclence and in part1oular paragrapn ) forwarded to Mre. CLAUDE will be awaited with intereet ud when rece1Yed, you v1ll be turther adnaed. Encl. P.JR/jlc -May 20, 1977. Mrs. A . Claude, Planetary Sciences Section, National Research Council ot Canada , OTTAWA 1 Ontario . KlA O Rb Dear Mrs. Clauder Re: Unidentitied Flying Objects This i s in reference to conyersation between Cpl. Reichert or my starr and yourself on May 18 and 19, 1977• Please find attached copies ot report submitted by our Mayo DetaclDent concerning aightinl; or U.F.o. as I understand you did not rece1Te this report. May we please be adT1sed it your Council releasee a formulated opinion concerning s1ght1ng of u. r.o.•a 1n 1nd1Yidual cases. Enola. FJR/jk Yours tl"Ul.y, ~ ~ ,~ "d·! n .n~~rua. lllspl, Officer in Charge, General Section, Federal Polloing Branch.
..• •• FROM DE L Gouvernement du Canada MEMORANDUM NOTE DE SERVICE Government i enade FEOf PAL POLI·:rriQ- DaA.NCH J 5 %4 i.~g _4!· " . 6(Cumtv C!LAS.SI- CAfiOU DITcu~Yrl COMMISSIONilR, O'M'AWA OtC C. I. B. "H" DIVISION j .;J APR ?ti 1 9/1 SOU$ DII!FCTI011 OE l 'APPlrCAl'fON DES LOIS FEOER4LCS Unidentified Flying Objects >(vJ Co-operation with National Research Council (N.R.C.) OU" IlL[ Nl •<f<'(NCI 77M-102-l00-3 YOU" IILf Vl .rfto(NCL DATO _j 20 APR 77 !n referring to the above, 1 also refer to a report Detachment which was forwarded direct to N.R.C. on l FEB 77. f or your information. from our Mayo A copy is attached 2. There were numerous sightings of a similar nature in the Yukon Territory during JAN and FEB 1977, and subsequently many enquiries were received from the general public. ln an effort to provide an intelligent reply , the N. C.O. 1/c Mayo requested the opinion of the Research Catmcil, however, a reply was not received . 3. Present policy does not indicate whether or not the National Research Council will r elease a formulated opinion, therefore it is requested that if such a request is in order, it be obtained from your level. ( OIC -
•• Governme nt Goull8memeot of Canada du Canada NOTE DE SERVICE MEMORANDUM • OCCU/'1 1'1' _,V S&If l ~l iON • Df JUUIIITC I ~0 . A COHHISSIONER, OTTAWA OU" IILf N/ lttrflflNCL L I FROM DE L OIC C.I. 8. "K'' DIVISION _j -, 77M-102-100-3 V()UIII 11\f 11/~lflAfNU gAH 20 APR 77 SUIJ'Cl 01.111' Unidentified Plyins Objects Co-operation vith National Reaearch Council (N.R.C.) In referrtna to the above, l alao refer to 1 report fr0111 our ~yo Detac~nt which wae forwarded direct to N.R.C. on 1 PEB 77. A copy ia attached for your 1nfor.ation. 2. Tbere vera uuaeroue eqhttnaa of a 11Jdlar nature in the Yu.lton Territory durtna JAN and P!B 1977, and aubeequently aany enquirtea vera received froa the aenaral public. In en effort to provide an intelliaent reply, the N.C.O. i /c ~70 requeated the opinion of the Reaearch Cowcil, however, a reply waa not received. 3. Preeeot policy doea not indicate whether or not the National Reaearch Council vill release a forwulated opinion, therefore it h l'equeeted tbet if 1uch • request ia in order, it be obtained fr0111 JOUr level. Attach. (R.C. Pettitt) lnepl OIC C.l.B. "K'' Divi1ion -
ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE -GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA "lot" 1 FEB 77 .77-.102-3 ET AL 14 JAJI 77 14 JAN 17 .A.t approximate~ 10: 00 p . m. (P .s . T. ) the capti .. na11 noted reported the sighting o~ a U. :F.O. near Elsa, Y.T. advises that he was returning to Elsa, Y.T. from Keno City, , • at approximately 8:40 p .m. (P.S.T.) in his vehicle and alone and as he passed the Silver Sprillg turno~~ he observed a round or oblo%18 very • clear white light with ~lames and sparks o~ the same color. also saw what he thought was a red light on top o~ the U.:F.o. grew larger end smaller. - estimated the to be appraximately 4000' and was mov"Iiigiii the valley and estimated U . F .o. to be approx. 10 miles away from his 1~ . stopped his vehicle and heard no noise what so ever, -- that the movements made by the unknown objeot was very tast , went up 1 . down, across and in straight lines , when it moved lat erally~t llght could be seen a considerable d.istance behind u.r.o. Jlllllllfurther advioed that hB drove to EUa and advised the followi ng ue: rsc>ns as follows: tements were obtained from -. --· -- and and copies are being :!orwar'de'd'"'niong with this report . The condition of the sky at this sighting was clear, dark and hazy. M.O . T. I-1ayo, Y.T. advised t hat the temperature at 10:10 p . m. (P,S , T. ) 14 JAN 77 at 1-tayo was -200, wind N.E. 0 14 knots, also reported no known air traffic in vacini ty ot area mentioned • ._.., also of Elsa Y. T. advised that he also saw the ~ed by -· ......_. advises that at approximately 7:30 p .m. (P.S . T. ) 14 JAJ.r7'Tne ~e and was driving his vehicle in a North-East direction at approximately 10 miles Crossing, Y. T. when. he observed the unkno\fll object . desc~was identical to -· with the excep when first saw the U .J':'lJ.""'' t made the menta "!~" a pe. The distance between locations of estimated to be approximately 42 air miles, Bo advise that they vie\'t'ed the unknown object !or approx minutes before it disappeared. Both also teel that the is a man-made object and not a planet or the like • •
RE:- CJ8JJ:T: CONTINUATION -SUITE PAO& "2" ~"ETA.L" ~~~r-- :)~~-~-;_ . _ · E_i_sa_!_~_._~_. __ 14 __ JAN __7_7__________________________ ~ ~~ ~! ~; __m the witnesses mentioned, with the exception o!-and _.advise that the U.P'.O. was stationary and didn't move during the time of their viewing. Reliability of all observers is Ullk:nown. Statements were not obtained from all witnesses as there were no irregular! ties in their observations and also several are European and ~ficulty would have been encountered with translation to English. On 15 JAN 77 a telex (M4) was forwarded direct to the National Research Council, Ottawa Ontario, advising all contents mentioned 1n tbJ.s report. As residents of Elsa and here are keenly interested in knowing what the object is (L! in fact there is a reasonable explaination) , a reply is requested from the National Research Council outlining their analysis . This file will remain S . U. I. pending a reply from the N.R.O. The l ateness of this report is due to not being able to contact witnesses in tbJ.s case. c;d~~ cc 11 M" Div . H.Q. D. D. 15 MAR 77 s.u.r. (E .H. BAS~BA)Cpl . i/o Mayo Detachment
r' rid~:~.y Januc:\ry 11:., 1977 • • . • . iietl\rning homo to Elsa , '{ . T. from ~:eno City ••••.•• Time, approximately 8:40 p . m •• • •• • •• Crisp, cold starry night w-ith no moon . After rounding the curve as I passed the Silver Spring turnoff, straight ahead of me in the distance, I noticed a very bright white light v;ith a srn?.ller red lir;ht on top but I kept on driving . The red li~ht anneared to fl.ro~r biF,;&er and then smaller, then the whole object seemed to rise up t~ en drop a5ain , I thought it might be some kind of helico-pter . I stopped the truck and got out to listen but I could hear no sounds of a helicopter or plane • .. there was no sounds whatever. Then I thought it might be some s~enge vehicle light on the hifShl·tay cor.tin~ in from tvlayo ••••• lt stood there lookin~ and liste~1nfl for about a eood minute and then realized that the z.;ayo highway would not be visible from 1'1here I stood . I got bacl· into the truc-k and drove about 3/4 of a mile and stooped for the second time jus-t south of the Elsa dump , turned off my lizhts and got out of' the truci: again . I could hear no sou.'ld and the lir.hted object was too hi~h in the air and too far to my right to be on the lr.ayo highway •..• it a,peered to be on this s:!.de of i·~ t . Haldane and about the hei~ht of 1/2 ~ray up the mountain. • • • • • • • 2- --·--- -- 2 -- The white li~ht \\•as oblong, wider tr.an high, and reminded ne of a ver}' brip;ht white radiant Heht shinin~ through a windo"' or sort of a ~rhite fireball . The rect light on top would get bi~ .=:er than srr1aller . The wiiole object 1~ould move U!' then do~m , then a bit to the left and then to the right , and from Nhere I stood , it did r.ot a9pear to cover a big area, only that it moved· in all directions . It may have appeared to mo to lool: larger , then smaller, when, !)erhaps, it was co::1int; this way and then goic g back , I don • t ~:now . I watched i t for 1 or i: t11o minutes only and then jumped into the trucl: and rushed to the Coffee Shop a nd called out the men there to come and see and 1~e all 1·1atchet'l the object .for abotlt 5 mir.utes before the red li~tht flicl<ered and faded and the whole thine; disan9eared • Time : apnroximately 5 minutes to 9 p. m. . /.:,~) I rer.1ember the followinr: men car.Je out of the Coffee Shop to see this 11p;ht •• • • •• •• there mny have be ! n others but I can only xe~3wKx remenber these. -- 1•1as just returning fro;:~ \·lhitehorse and saw it to - .S.,.'-..,.,~Il.- C"'t~L•:J~ ~ ~o ' as he drove oast ~t::::- - iie;ldan-e end on to camP . . . ri tory JAN 1 5 1 977 •
. . JAN 3 0 1977 On Friday Janua.ry 14 1977 at approximately B.55 PM I saw a bright yellow light just below the horizon of Mt. Haldane, it appeared to be aiving off different coloured (blue red and yellow) lights, it then disappeared, it did not move lts position. EXEMPT10N/E)(CEPT10N ACCESS TO INFORMATION LOI SUR L.'ACctS A L'INFORMATION
JAN 3 0 1977 On Friday, January 14 1977 at approximately 9.10 PM 1 saw a bright light which was s tatiooery on the left hand side of Mt. Haldane. The light looked to be at the same altitude . as Mt. Haldane, it was yellow-orange-blue, it stayed in one place and before disappearing it changed its colours to yell011• blu•-sreen and f lame like at the bottom. EXEMPTlONJEXCEPnoN t 9fJ ~ ACCESS TO INfORMATION ACT/ LOf SUR L 'ACC~S A l 'fNFORMATION
STATEMENT OF RE U.F.O . On FTiday, January 14 1977 at approximately 8.55 I was in the Elsa Coffee Shop when called me outside to see 4 light. On the left side of Mt. Haldane there was 4 bright yellow light, approximately at the same altitude as Mt. Haldane. This light was larger than a star and appeared to occasionally dim and then brighten, it was stationary, myself and other men watched this for approximately 7 minutes when it extinguished itself. This light did not shine as
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l'loi i JI•.II J\1 III I IIF ,\U 11 1 < IJ>; \' 1·:~· 1'11; ~ '1' 1 11\ lu 11'•111 ., ~. l'lhutt llttft•r ,, """' "'·' Mr·. Donald w. Go lding 204 Chur·th Str·ccl Osha wn, Onbu·io, Canada Ocl ul'" ,. 31.. 1967 Your lett er of October 25th has been t·eccivcd. In response lo your inquiry, the inves tigation of Unldonliiied Flying Objects is not and nevc1· has boon tt matter that is within lhc invcsll~ativc jurlsdicLion of lhc J~ BJ. I can assure you th:1l till' photogl'll ph you me ntioned does noL rcpJ•esenl u mployevs of this Blli'Cnu . ~uclose d is some matel'ial ttl>oul our actlvltl~;:!> wh lch l hopo you will find of inter est. EndUillll'llli (2) -- Sincerely yours, . 1 - L-~ •-.J ...I S':Jm Edgar ~oc~.e r Director .. ..
111 llr1J I)', l'lf'<Uf' llt~pt lu Fil• No. U \ I 'l'fo: I) S I'A'I' E S ll J ·; I'\ H n.1 J~ 'I' 0 F J I' !''I' I l: I•, I' ~ ; II~ ; tc /1 t. II U til·: /1 U Oil t NV t·:Slt' I 1: A 'I' I CJ N \\ 1 \ iUf I NOTllN , U.G. 20536 Doccmhct· 26, 1967 M1· . Donald w. Gold ing 204 Church Street Oshnwn, Ontario, Canada Ooat· Mr . Golding: T have t'(•ccived your lethll· or Dcocmllct' 17t h. Although I would like to be of service, t he 1:-ar cannot endeavot· to locate Dr. C. R. 0' Dell unless he has violated a Fede1·aJ l aw within our jw·isdictlon. It Is not possible to c hock our Identification Division recorc!s on you•· behalf s ince lnformntlon in these rues can only be furnished to law e nforce- ment Ot' Gove t·nment agencies and to clireclly inle•·estod relative~:~ of th<' PEH'son w h o~:~e whereabouts i s being sought. I nm sorry we c annot bo of asl:liskll\co. Sincerely yom·s, ~1· ~. ~ 'ZJ John Edgar Hoover DlrectoJ· ,
• '? by supprc5slng all l~rgc: bright and dark tnns on the picture to a single shade ofbnckground gray nnd accent· uatlng the change-over areas or lines. In thl~ fndlion. nne lines representing delicate structures nrc mngnlned and mnde very dlb11 ne~ for vlsu nl annlysls. The some technique has the ability to evaluate areas of any photograph or trantparcncy that ha1 arcu both over or under exposed. Hard dau exists within these areas of light nnd dnrk densltle,s, but the human eye cannot perceive detail In certain portions of photograph~ that lack proper d~nsity. We tubjectcd our two photograph,s to the edge ~nhanccmcnt process. In the case of the Trent photograph, our cffllrts added signlncnnlly to the dctniis of the originaL Ucrnusc of new detnJis on the edges and con len I shaped dome, it h now practical to measure the object's aspect ratio and the height of the protuberAnces without concern about fuuyedges and gencrnl unshnrp features (sue figure 1). With the Fortune photogrnph. our cffom do nb~lutely nothlnJI to add credence to the photo~traphl The insipid object, upon close lntcrprctn· tion.· viulntcs stnndard principles of gL-.:•motry. Inspection of the object's cdg~s shows n deflnlle deformity nud suggc~u a high-density rloud. This type of natural phenomena Is common to the southwest and is coiled n lenticular cloud. To substantiate that this Is Indeed n lcntkulnrcloud rutd not o UFO, tltriher llnolysls Is required. In order to help the nnnlysls, the cniHinct:d dhplny can be adjusted for different dc~:recs of enhuncemcnt; th ~ t Is, frum normal photograph to n fully cnhunced one for nptlmnl onuiy· Plguoe 3: ,Color contour with Trant ohotogreph. &is. The width of the enhanced lines I• aho ndju.rtablc from nne to very coarse for mndmum visibility of nne detnlls. 'The nc.>ct step In comp 'ut~r study of UFO photographs Is called "color anhnnccment." which offers the great· est amount of analytical dntn. Such things ns object den1lty, exncl shnpo, rctntlon of true ~ize to ctlstnnt objects nnd rcllcctivlt)• of object con all bu learned from color enhuncemem. With the help of color enhancement, the photognphlt density or the photo Is olcctronicallyanmlyted. In thecn~of the Trent photo, the measurements clearly shO\\' lhntthcobject is solid with n uniform distribution of color. This lndlcntes n similar density across the entire bottom or the dhcl On the other hnnd, the Fortur:e photograph showed multiple color bund~, which lndicntc~ n gaseous . · ~ consistency or varying densities. :The coloring technique transforms a bland, , nondetoiled photograph Into a coiDr· ful. information-packed one. Colors nre classified Into 32 types plus bl~ek nnd white. Arcos shown as white and shlldes of b iue nnd green represent rcspeetiYcly lighter fllm densities than nre;u shown as yello". violet and red The thlcknes~ of nn image Is constant within nil nrea~ that arc the snme color. By color enhancing an lmnge 1 its apparent shnpc con also be ldcritlfied. For Instance. a cloud lvould have o broken, uneven density: nn aircraft body would hove a cylindrical shapt! with protrusions from wings causing a variable density dlspl:1y: n weather bnlloonwnlJir.l ha.vc a density very different front n solid or metallic object. A hMA photograph, which usually cond"~ of such mundane objects M frlsbl'CS, camero..lens caps. pie plates. etc., would be of low reflectivity. nnd ltsobvlousshapccould be: resolved when color cnhnnccmcnt nnd magnlf1cntlon technlt111CS were combined. A "profiling cursor" denoted by the venic31 white lines throu!lh our test pictures reveal the objccU' reBI shape; ' tlnt, round. disc, ~lllptlc n l , etc. With reference to ligures 3 nnd 4, note the profile cur$Or und ih result(utl In each picture. In ngure 3 the OO·degree profile of 1he image reveals a true diS<' shnpc, h uwcvcrthc proOie of the objc:c1 In ligurc 4 Is tlnt, thus substantiating the: hypothesis lhnt the UFO is •,o lenticular cloud. The ln't ct1mpu1er test for our pictu res Is the dlgithing of the Image, or "ionogc enhun~mcnt." This Is (Continued on p•o• 4 ~ F!guro ~ 'Col or contour with pootllo olthe•Foolune phol ~Jfllph s. Figuoo 5: Computer dlgltllod ro~ullo ollho Trent photogroph. I
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t j. I (J;tt;:-< • Boy Photographs FBying Saucer~ David Knutson Isn't the first youngster to "sight" an UFO.It happen a evory day- hundreds of times In a hundred different corners of the earth. But, this 1t•year·old Vancouvor, B.C. youth Is dll· ferent than all th o othor ktda boloro him. He haa absolute proof that his "sighting" was not l ust a ptpodream - or somo blza~re llgmont of the rnagtnallon. Ho has an actual picture of the large round obJect ho sighted In tho sky recently. He calmly snapped Its picture wllh hit trusty I nata malic os ho watched It In the akyl tr hr tua.J•rcltd thrre ~trt> I UfO.brfor<', thhnptrl•ntohn' by DICK METZGAR David ron,ln«d. , "l btllt\ td lu tht•nt hrrMC' 11\d \'nitty, AllK•I"lD, '"'' RC~W or- btllt\ ' ~ In them nuw," he Ortrs tfJHU"Il-d \rt-lng~tn unlden· I tnobblcd. tined oh ]•"' ""'' roared llk••J•t Oa\'ld snld h~ nna J:QW tht' u1rtr>~fl· JUntujlt ohjrct (nlnt Uu: \\ludow J)g,\•ld ,uld thr nbjrct h e · home when ht notlc:tct '~" tlhtllti"flll•ht d ~N ! mtd to hl' Cnnudhm Mmmttd 1'o1ltt• uhnut .tOO r,~~· RW'' )' "nd ' 'ITI1\thl nnlntll"" tn .. unu:thlng In hU''t' ht•tn ~0 reel In cll am(·U~r ." the 10 11u1 t•nsl. f<'rom " "ltjn '<l "'l'lll r011111lnnd round nturby l'nrkhl» Int . In 11 ~lrt • h • .'' ht" t\"lllulurd, t.~ · lito clt~~r1 h ecl tht• C1hjl~l M rtlcttl)' lutt'lr. "It \n'lll up unci r0\11111 uml hlurk "llh n e.hnr11l)' d0\\11 nnd th~·ll took off ~uprr· dlttlnpuldmiJ1e "hm' uNwntJ lt'i fli SI lntu th" J;k) . ' ' • tCHiter. 'fhal wus whl'lt th" ••Otn• ltt ," dt<tlnrt.'tl hls fntln<r, ) 'OIIIn~•ll<r SllillliJr-d II..\ 1 •1L1urc. 10 l~i n 1 1 IIUIIIC'OIH' \\hfl m n k( ~'i ult the '"'ht1lt- huJ.I~htnht ~ ll • trle~:· only uhuut lhree &~ lld \, lh ·~ldc ~ lhcte's thut 11lthlre. 'fht RCMI' ornru!l hiW'' not Who \Hi ot lt thai .!itlld u picture h bttn hJ<'otlcd - mHt nn pollee 11r· worth " thOUI\ond ward;;'! luut lu:en rrttortttl. l)n,ld') tare pholi~l'tlph nhtkes '"'o drt)' herurt 1150tnH.IIIkt the uudL'tslutt i'H(nl •"''"""'••· In 'l'urn~r ot the ~tntu ry. 1· r ,. IJa• •mKnudson, ufCanatln, will• hlst:amoro, and on tho rlgh llslho photo h' enoppod I
THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A LITTLE GREEN MAN The que.tion you ar< $11ppos<d lo be "'ldns b. wh<> lh< ht<k is lhal funny lillie mon with 1bc ~ kln ny tunu'! Wdl, according to Allrm'1 ,\focmrlturl, of S~alcm, Orc&\)n, \\hlch once p\lbli,hccJ l11c phc ttltlr:illh, h~.: i.; n C'rcwmun ,,r ,, fl)ing s:1u~cr th:u crmhcd n":.r Mexico C..." it) In l '152. According to a nc.'-'spnper In Cologn"'- W~$1 Ocrnmny. \\'hlch nlso Jmb- ll~t.hed the shot, h~ if! thl! )lh cN ~Iad nccup3nt ('I( u iUUCC'r .. bclns led down t'n Anu:ricnn \1 r~e l by h\0 fnl u~cnt~.!l The nwner nr 1hb P•lnl I• Mlad<n Groho,;~e, o fuller Rrush !al c~ m a n o.nd omlth:ur ll\lronomt;.tf who iC'f\'~· M Rn olnclal ur the M t!OIN3l UFO Slud> Grnup. Cllnhov•~ nblnln<d lh< phuu.» horn Gordon Oct\uy, un 80.ycur·old "'~ mbcr or the um~ lfHlup. '' ht• 1t1)"S lit J;.:.'ll il rrcuu " Monlft:;d iltlrCJOi,1111~·r nnd C:f.'UP· t.!IUlbt n:une~ Qarl O'Dell, "'lnt:c t.lccc.J;cd. "l dun•t kno \\ whnt t l) th1nk nf th~ pioturc.'" !ii\) t. U\!ntty. "Dut 1 lK'IIc\'1.1 1h111 cr~:nturtli r1CI 11l Qther WOrld5 l\fC vlsitin» H"ltb:• ( I j ,.: •• I -. .... - ,, •• • ._ J ' • .. ' MAC LE .· \N'S -- ----- A Matledn ·Hun1or PubhtlUton 481 Uuwefi•IV Avonu4' rnrontu, 1 Of\1.,110, Ct'l th 2:,..,.& U (OifMI/11 n!PMIIMIIII Mr. Don81 J 11 . Ooldinc;, ?.CI, Church S tr-o ~ L , Oshat~a , OnLcd o • Oonr Hr. Ooldin•.s , J,l nun ry JO, 1968 i'laaso accepli my' l nexcusnule dollly .in roplyin;;; ~o your ve r·y knowlegenbll lot. t.er. You obviously enjoy a gro11t. ont.houoiltsm Cor t.ho genol"ll :;ubjoct of flylnr, snucm·s , nnd I only hopo Lhe urt.icle gave you somo f urth••r inuighll11 i nto 1. 111'1 r111 L Lor. As f ar lis t.he photogr aph you ronUon is oonrerned , the sltu; t i on oonoern.ing prints io not. too good, Fi r st. , we do no t. own ~he phot.o . l L Wij5 sent book to t he people w ho l en1. it t o ua f or publication. But. eve n if ~~~~ dld have 1t. , the orlRinal pr int is so small and of 3urh ooor qunli t;r that t.o mokn cophs would bnl,y proc!uco qu 1 t.e i nfori ot• r onul~ t• . One!'! np,ain , ::;orry for t.ha lnt!' reply and wHh H th~ r.nh~r discoura 1 :ln11 nowr; . . . Your s ve r·y t. r ul;v , I {\- J. I, ~~ww~. ,fohn 7.ichmanls f'ho ~o EdHor . •RECORDS MANAGEMENT- C.I.B. CLASSIFICATION AND CHECK SHEET GESTION DES DOSSIERS- FEUILLE DE CLASSEMENT ET DE CONTRbL.E DU SEJ CI.ASSIFIER G ~ASSIF1CAT!UII. 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B. . -...'i. 1 . Following our telex #8 dated 2 FEB 77 to inform you of athe above mentionned, the following remarks were gathered after an investigation was made in Morais Office, N. B. 2, his mother , and his daughter , were questionn • s · g more to add co the 1 except one thing : there seems to be a Alight contradiction to wit:~ red light in the middle of the pattern . It is true that was the only one of the three to stay outisde and watch it the w ole time , They also stated that it was the first time they ever saw such a thing in the sky, 4. Tbe investigation was carried out around the area but no other persons seems to have seen it . No other reports were made to any U. F. O. sighting in our district . 5. Personnaly , in the past few days surrounding the mentionned sighting , I have notice quite a few planes especially jets flying at night over our region , this is one thing that rarely occurs in these parts . 6. records. Hopefully this report will be of M AR- 4 'ffl1 ~ . ALES
. ROYAL CAt<'ADIAN MOUNTED POLICE -GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA I• • o ~omn.~R~~~~~n~ 1 ~, ,~------~~~ ~ n•~~------~~~no--------r.~~~~.~~ " ~ •• ~~;:~. ~ ~--------~ IIU. AUTitfS- "J· 21 FEB 77 -.DOalfiiS ... C:: ~~~~~~~~~~ , ~==-~==~~----~~77-09 5-3 ~:;=:::::;;; M:;;.;~-';:::;C:;:.:TO;;::N=----i 77J_ 09 5 _ DCTACH .. INT - a.TAO-HT CARA~T PCR: First ~dentified Flying Object 2 February 1977 Morais Office, N.B. 1. Following our telex IS dated 2 FEB 77 to inform you of athe above mentionned, the following remarks were gathered a.f'ter an investigation was aade in Morais Ofi'ice, H .B. 2. his mother, and his. daughter were ques . s more to add to s , except one thinft there seems to be a U~t contradiction to wit:~e lar e red ight in the middle of the pattem. It is tne that waa the only one or the three to star outisde and wato e whole t ime. 'l'hey also stated that it was the t1rst time they ever saw such a thing in the sky. ~ '· AB tor the reliability of witnesses, -years old, seems to be a IIIBD. of minor l'ilrormed and normally stable. His mother 1 , .: ' i s • years ol.d She onJ.y ~ooked few seconde. Ill years old seems also normal child, at'it for hal£ a minute. 4. The investigation was carried out aroW1d t.he area but no other persons seems to have seen it. Ro other reports were II!Ade to any U.F.O. sighting in our district. 5. Personnaly, in the past few days surroWlding the mentionned sighting , I have notice quits a few planes especially jets fiying at night over our region, this is one thing that rarely occurs in these parts. 6. record.s. Hopefully this report will be - G~ • • # ~M . Ouellette, Cst. Temp. i/c Caraquet Det.
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"B" DIVI3IOU 7SB..085 .lOQ-4 3139 Ox!ord Stroot P.o. Box 2286 Bal.Uax, H. s. B3J JEl Vla,y 9, 1975 EXEMP'TI()NJEXCEPllON /J ( I ) ACCESS TO INFORt.cAnON AOf/ LOI SUR L 'ACC~S A \.'ltiFOAMATION I 4ave roceivod oor.respoDdenoe t.rom the United States Oo'Yex44l6nt oonoo:l!'!l.ing ;roll%' report or u lmlclenU.tied !'lJ'itiB ob~eot on Pebruar, 9th, 1975. 1 ltOu.1.:1 l ikO to thank you ror 70Ul.O interoot in thlo llll).tter aDd tldvi ~ o yo1.1. tha~ tho lntormation ~1oh you providod has beon ~ranom1 t tad to ~a ~tiona! Reaearoh Oounoil. Yours tru:!.7, (J.A.B. Riddell) Jupt., orr1oer lD ~ae Criminal lDYeatigation Drunoh
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'1'0 FROM SUBJECT: ~\ February 10, 1975 • John E. Mellor - Comme~cial Counselor : i Duty Officer Report of Peb~uary 9 Telephone Conyersation: • Landing of Possible Space ObJect - v, t!LES ~ At bruary 9 a person identifying himself I P . 0. Box 107, Antigonish, Nova Scotia~ number 902-867-2101, telephoned the Enbassy thinking we woul.d be interested in an observation he had made early that morning (0520 hours ~) at Antigonish. Facing due east, he said, he saw a very bright object 101~ on the horizon (20 t o 30 degrees) of a greenish color quickly turning to yellow and then orange . He was quite sure this was not a meteorite because it was not red enough. The duration of his observation was 2 to 3 seconds , he judged . The object was moving from south1~est to northeast and went through a 6oO arc during the period of observation . When the flash disappeared, he said 1 he saw a dark object drop to earth . Although it was dark, the sky was very clear and cloudless, he observation was made ~~ his companion, a telephone number 902-863-1069 . In response to my question, he said he had reported his observation to the RCMP at Truro, Nova Scotia, telephone number 902-ZES-oooo. He was also informing us, he said, because of the possible connection of this sighted object with the Russian spacecraft landing he had heard reported on the radio . --- was well spoken and e ~aches English at H igonish and that he has and therefore had been careful to estimate sighted object . He believed it had fallen into sea anywhere from 25 or 50 miles a1.,ay in George Bay to 500 miles away beyond Sable Island, although he was inclined to think the distance was more like 50 miles away from his point of observation. UNCLASSIFIED B11y U.S. Sn11ints Bonds Rtr.llltuh 011 lht Pnvro/J Sa vim r Plmt
• • • UNCLASSIFIED 2 After consulting State A-6343 of July 25 J 1973 1 I telephoned the Operations Center at the Department and spoke to a Bill Campbell. After checking lfith his military colleague at the Operations Center~ he indicated that this was probably not a significant event~ but that if the Depa1·trnent wished a report by telegram he would l.et me know later in the day. He did not do so. cc : The Ambassador l.finister ., - ,..... • UJ<J.ry' . u\...i.una.s · Coun seior"" POL DAO MSG Department - INR/RSG ECON: JEMellor: rht UNCLASSIFIED
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Mr. 11 . voorsluys, 311-1076 w. 14 Avo., Vancouve.r, n.c . oeu Slr• PSff/8¥ Ottawa, Ontario 1tlJ\ OtiB !larch 30, 1973. Reference is tnado to your lett.r of Huoh 7th, 1973, with respect to CIRVIS Aaports. Inquiries made to appropriate unite in the Vanoouvor uoa have failed to oontirm any reports of •iqhtinga on Septelllher 10, 1973, in tho vioinity of G:rouoe Mountain, as described in your letter. P. s. Walker, tor Chief, Fliqht Standards and Requlationa Division, Civll Aviation Branch. 7 0o-20 (CARL)
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• INFORMATION CIRCULAR 0/1&/69 18t h Augult DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AIR U IVICU CIVIL t.VIt.TIOM I U HCH Pago I o! l VITAL INTELL!CENC£ S!CHTINC • CllWIS REPORTINC PROCEDURES HOT£ I: NOT£ 2: TO HOLDERS OF INFORMATION CIRCU t..AR 0/l0/64 • Thlo Information Cl rc .. lar nperoedeo that rortion o! 0/30/&t ao publlohod on Paau 10, I I and IZ. TO HOLDERS OF INFORMATION CIRCULAR 0/7/69 • Thlo lnlormotlon Circula r euper• edea th•t portion or 0/7/69 a.e publlt hed on Paae t 11, IZ a nd 13. In order to txtend lht early warnl"S coveraa• !or the d•Cente of lht North Amtrlean conttnant a plan ha• Men devtloptcd for the reporti ng of v ttal lnte1\tienoe •lahttna• · Roporte orlatnatln; hom a hborno or land·bated ob tervera will be known a a ClRVIS (pronounced SUR·VE£5) maatiCU· Pllou of a11 Canadlanalrcrah , atr trartic cOnLro11cn, aaradlo o~ratore, and o cher 1tound oboorvoro a hould orlaln•lle CIRV!S report• u and when oppltcoblo. Whtn to Report • I I ) C !RVIS roporto ohou ld be made !mmedlatoly upon vita l lntolllae~co tll!hllnR, except when orlgl nated by thct pt1ot or an aircraft 11.•hlch la ovur 1 {or e lgn cOuntry ot hor tha,n t htt u.S., Crreenl and o r tcfllan d. (2) When l\ lltuatton provloue ly r eported chAnj~.CU surtlclont\y to warrant .. tupptementary or amp1Uytn,a or cnnc:el ha.tlon r eport (3) In tho event a C IRVIS report !rom a n alrcralt cannot bo made by rad io: It obould be rHed Immediatel y \IPOn landing. Such reporu •hould be m•dc by the qulckou &Yil1Ablo meant . To Whorn co Report ~ t 11 CfRVIS mouafttl paned Crom an a i.rc.ra!t by radto thould be trantmlned to tho near til or mou convenient Canadian or U. S. Coverrvnent a i r t raUic control facttlt) or au r ad io IIJt.t\on There It no nccrd to ad.drc•• t ~o~ck me • ••M•• • • tho•• faclthte t have det•Ued lnetructlont for th• dollv~ry oC CJRVtS me••••••· (2) When teporte (&nnot be pa.saed to the fa.d1hle • tbted 11bove, they ahou1d be p;u•od to th~ near.,at Canadtan or u . S.A. military OS" conau1ar authority, IJ) C!RVIS ropor t o orlaluted at an a iT traUie control o r aoradlo toclllty oholl h pauod tn acco1"dance with del'alled tnuruettona h • ucd by appropriate authority. TO IIAV~ IIAIUSC ~ODRIJS CtW:ClEo P ~ I"T :<E'I' .. DDRF.SS 011 Till ElllltLOPE tK • itiC~ nul Cli'CULAI! li'"AI PF.Cfi\'ED .. ~0 Rf.T UW.~ TO H~COIWS ""-~MtR. OtPAin 14f~T OF TRANSPORT, OTTAWA. (POll A CE FUE tr •WUO It< C A~ A OA).Information C i rcular 0/16/69 Palo 2 of l (I) Orourod oboorvara, and pl\oto while a_lrborno : (a) AU ahborne, wate r borne and arO\ind object• o r a ct\vltltl whlch appear to bo hottUe 1 eutplclou.t or unldenUHed. (I) Ouhlocl mlu !l u , Cll) Unldenclflod fi ylllJ objeceo . IIIII Submar l nco, Clv) Surfa ce waro hlpo pooltlvely ldontlfled &o 110 1 Canadlafl or u . S . A., Cvl Alrc rah o r concra llo which a ppear to be dlroctod &I& loot Canada, tho U, S. A •• their tenUorltt or poaaeaa lona. (vU Nuehar burtu, or other violent explotlona , (vii) Any unexplained o r unu oua l activity which may lndlcata o pooolble attack aaatn•• or throuah Canada, the u.s. A. t thetr to.rrhor\e• or pottettiODi j hu:lu dlna ths pretence o( any unldentlCied or other 1u1plctoua ground partie• In Po\ar reatont or other remote or tpauety popylaetd areaa . (ZI Plio to Upon Landin&: • (a) R aporu whtch for any reaaon could not be trantmllted whllo airborne. (b) Unlt.tad atr((elda or Cacllttle a . weather etatton1 or ah navt1ation aldt. (c) Poot•landlng uporto. Con:tent• ol Report• • CIRVIS repotte t hai\ eont.t.ln tht fo\tow i na data , •• Appttcabte , In the order lilted; (II tho wo r d CIRVIS a o tho flrot word of the t o><l CZ) ld ontlflcotlon of tho roporclna aircraft or facility Ul tho object or activity olthtod. Olve a brlol deo c rlptlon of tho olchtlnlf which ohould contain tht foUow\ng heme •• appropriate. (a) Number of aircraft, vcutela, mluilot , e ubmarLntl, etc. lb) Cata.aory of object, general d.otcrlpdon, etc. , o. I• 1 1lao, t h&pt , type of propult lon. etc. HI the pool lion of tho objoct or activity Indicated by any of tho followl na mothod ot (a) Latltudo and lonsltudo . Cb) Over • radio fix, (c J Tru e bearln& a nd dle tance !tom a J'ad lo fix , Cd) Over a woll·known or woll · de!lfled &•oaraphlc polnc, C e l True boarlna ancl d l ocanca !rom a a•oaraphlc point. 151 Date, aod elmo of olghtlna oxprooaed In OMT : (6) A\thudt or object: may be expr••••d at low , rnedlum or htah l C71 Direction ollr&vol of tho objocto 181 SpOGd oC tho objeoc; C91 Any oboorved Identification, lnolanla or other ol1nlflcont Informacion. Every reuonoblo ofCort ohoulcl be m a clo to poolttvoly ldontlfy tho obje ct olghtod. CIRVIS report. t hou\d not be delayed due to lack of dat-a Cor any of •h• above h em• . 0 0
• How to Report • lnlormatlon Circular 0116/1>'1 Pa ce J of J (II Air TrafCic Control and Aoradlo putonnel oh•lt ort~l nato and/or pau CIIW \S roporti ln accordance with lnatrucUon• h•uOd by appropriate a uthorl ty. (2) Whtn oolllna a Rround ... uon to pa u a CIR VIS meuawe the pilot of an a i rcraft thoutd pracode tho coli by tho word C!RVIS (prono11nccd SUR VEtS) opokon threa tlmeo ao a prtorlty lndlcaror. U thia prtorlty lndicottJr do•• not produce tatl alactory precedanco th-e lnternatlon•l Urgency SI&D31 may bo u a..,d. EJCamplc of Call · CIRVIS CIRVIS C!RVIS • OOOSE RADIO TtiiS IS All\ CANADA FIVE ZERO FIVE - OIRVIS REPORT - OVER Examploa of C!R VIS lftltlal Report CIRVIS AIR CANADA FIVE ZERO fiVE SIOHTED FORMATION OF SIX JET BOMBERS CONFIOURATION IS SWEPT WINO WITH ElOHT JET ENOINES TWO ZERO ZERO MILES EAST OF CAP£ HARRISON AT ONE THREE ONE THREE fiVE ZERO ZULU ALTITUDE THR££ FIVE THOUSAND HEADINO TWO SEVEN ZERO DECREES NO MAR KINOS OBSERVED. OVER. Supplementary or Amplllylng Roporto CIRVIS AIR CANADA FIVE ZERO FIVE SIX JET BOMBERS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED AT ONE THREE ONE THREE FIVE ZERO ZULU NOW ONE THRE£ ZERO MIL.ES WEST OF CAPE HARRISON AT ONE THREE ONE FOUR THREE FIVE ZULU HEADINO T WO THREE FIVE DECREES - OVE"R. Cancellation Report .. CIRVIS AIR CANADA FIVE ZERO FIVE CANCEL. CIR VIS REPORT OF ONE THREE ONE THREE FIVE ZERO ZULU STX JE1' BOMBERS POSITIVE I..\' I DENTIFIED AS AIR FORCE BRAVO FOUR SEVENS AT ONE TliR&£ ONEl FOUR FOUR SIX ZULU OVER.
CAN40 A 0 ., "'• , . 1.1+.2~.' .2 Vol 2. (ll.(ill'ro) DEPARTMENT OF NATI ONAL DEFENCE &lsistant Deputy ldnistar 1 Department of Transport , llo . 3 Tomoo1·ary lililuing 1 ottt.Wfll 1 Ultat ~.0 • ~ · Mr, OTTAWA 41 OnteriO 15 lial·oh 1965 Attention Ai1· Tra1'1'lo Cont1·ol .Llivloion lJuo.r Sira Hoi'ol'anou is maca to your lattol fila 14-12-17(/ITL) o1' ~ !"obl'ULI.l.')' 1965 (JOitOO."ning CIHVISft !EhiUT reporting , i>art 9 of IJVI' .Ai r 'l'ra!i'io Cont1•ol ~IWlU&l or upal•aLl.cma hiW bean rvvio\./od and i t ia l'(t OOI!IInencied oarll 929 .2 be eJlll.lllC:od to ind1outa r opo1·t1ng an t'ollows a Dll.r Oo ntro Re port to bu rorwal-Qod to ll • Vancouver Saattle Diroation Uontrd b. Alw>nton - Groat Fo.l.ls Oireotion Gan\.l'e c. 1/innipug Duluth Uireation ConLre d . Toronto U6troit ~raation Centro <I • . lon~ro al ottawa Diro o~ion Contra t . ~1onoton ~L ~r uireo ~ i o n Cbn~rc t! • Oondftr GrJose Diract.lon C•mt:ra h. Goosu 'Joose IJiroction Oon1.l f1 Jourfl tnal.y, , ~~l ~ c~«!~'( \ll'oup en pt a1n i'or Chief of tho Iloi'cn oe Ctllf£ ~ri~ -
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Chief of t he Dat'ence Staff., Canadian Porcea Headquart.re., Ottawa. 4, Ontario. De!U' Sira ll..-~17 (ATL) rEB - 8 fll>~ Reterenoe ia made to DocWMnt JAJlAP 146 (0)., dated Peol'll.al7, 1959., your Pile CSIJ Jl 2~ ... 2 (oliO)., oonoerni.ng OmVIS,IMir;RINl' r~rt.a. Retcenoe 1• al.eo made to a recent telephone collYft'enti on b.tween P /L KoegroYe and o. L. ~!orris concerning tl\11 al.ibj ect.. Aa a rewlt of DIIDjbor agi'IMIIIIellt., a procedure waa eat:.abliahed tor our area control oent.rea to !01'11181'd CIRVIB roport.a to ovta.i.n IIQlAD unite. Part. 9 of our Air frat.fio Control Manual of Operat.iona oont.aina a list ol the llCJUD unite to whiob our central direct the OIRVIS repo:rte. Thb li.lt niJW appNre to be outdated. It 1• r equeat.ecl., please, t ha.t. the CIRVIS r equir.unt be renewed and t hat. ve be adrieed which unite ehould now rooch'e the CIRVIS report.a. t ours t.~, Ortg!n,d • ., R W. .DOUD R . W . Dod4, tor ANiat:.d DeJ,lllt:r M1n1atcr, Air • • , I ~~'
•• • MEMORANDUM #) • J • A. D. M.A . A N o. 3 Temp. Bldg. - R.D.A.S. svaJEcr Unidentitied Flying Object S..iol OTTAWA EDl~Oill'ON ClASSIIICATION YOUR flU No. Votre dottier OUR lllf No. Notte doulot 6Sl9-?9 (ARB) DATI January 25th • 1965. 1 , Attaoned i s a copy of a telegram received from a well drilling site this Region. 2. We have no comments to offer but t hought i t might be of interest to the National Resear ch Counci l ,
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Deo 10/64 Reference telcan Ryan/Wall today, the material on file 11-16-Jl ahould be placed on tile 14-12-17. Mr. A.P. Stark (SAB-C) oonfimed in a telephone converaation that thia action appear• logioal. Both filea concerned are enoloaed s • .m.P.
C!0!1PIDII!TlAL I.DAS - MIM1pel ,a6-UO (M*) DCA 14-12-17 (SAO) Haroh et.h, 1962. 1. Rererenae ia ude to 7ftr .-oranclua ot P•hrllUT 22nd, 1962, aonaarnina tha abo.. noted aubjaet. 2. TheM poet era wre Mnd tor your uae 1n drawina \he atbention ot all aonoerned ~o lntormati on 01roular 0/U/60. ~.i/~i .. 1 .f{'lr. W • Goodwin) DlrM\or, Cirll AYiat.ion.'!0 FROM A. D. M . A,, Ottawa I( F EB 26 1962 . - I' ;:< -I' 7· ;·i:'t'•,ort D"'*~t W innipeg Regi onal Offic _ • 1 • ___ _. CONF'IDEN TIAL. YOUR FIL£ No: OUR FIL£ No: 5216- 11 C(AOW ) SUBJECT: CIRVIS- MERINT REPORTING PROCEDURE DATE: (Early Warning) :.'( ·... February 22 , 1962 '· . , ' (j)~ ...-."'" 1 , A package of 33 posters enti tled "CI RVIS- MERINT /11'/~v>•~;;,., Reportill8 Procedure " has been reoei ved by m ail w1 th no Jf/....:/5/.;)/.; ~ J covering instructions . ~~ _fk. ·l.v "/) ~() lf6t. t 'l 2. It would be appreciated if Headquarters would,-'od1 ,J J!'J·. ·J,Jr a dvise the inte~ed distr ibution of the se post ers . .~J~ \ I.' I (2 S' .. ~~'(- ..J. )'} .l· !l~ 'k'~ .... ~~ ~, p c oJJ~ IJJ'~·· X ,, Qt "'~y 1 .... ~~· ..~,~ ~. ( ~r- ·Y. .... <\ \~J "" ~ ~""" r..y ,}(: \l1\>•(\·• '\~er o" RJ...\\'' i) s,~.O~Y~· ' l'~fi . O~"~ ,..ll ~ " ') \{ ~ I""' tf "~ \f) t t tA (/ P' I 11 11 llb. ~ 'D 7 I f:.>f. 0 vJ n "'~ , t" >l~ (J) ~ tv '~ A.~ ~·~c; · . ~~ / 1/J ~ V' I t" ifD Of \II ./1 .L J CGSD lllood.rd 0-GP-22: P p 4 S 0.1. No. 31580 f ' 1 •• ' • A • • , • l • • Cl ,VJ - 1. ~1AT Yt>r:4)0UY•P Y ow1t r eal r cl.nltt• 1 re TWJ,' I C: i' • Ut'U I crop1 .. ol l.'.o INb j er t. 1 oattr • 2. It 1 11 r,.< !ll•st.on, t'lOIHto , thAt. arrl'tn, .. mt.11 bn •o rl e U · l · · 17 ( "T ) ~[C 'I 19b l t.o h> vn , ,.. po~t l.l' 1" U.tlJ'l ' 7 ffiiJ t· ,. con• loot.Ut tll oe 1n • t oh l•llJ •rt,..t't\\. or fi"'I~J"'Ci rt. I \r' 1'N "flC ('ont.Jool Wlit 'in .J'OIIr 1 I ' on , N; 1111aJ 8ball by Jt :w. Donn No . of Cop:! a" : VAn~'Oll ver 5 Edmonton 6 \ol'lnl"i PflP 5 Te>ronto fl Nont.rl"al 8·' l'.oncton 8MEMORANDUM • GOVERNMENT OF CANADA 013'1r S1r:- iJ A- /[;-- DLC. A.M 1(-1:<-1( YOUR£ 1 8:~~:);(;:J:::: ,~;:::J OUR I'lL£ llo: OATB: 21 - 12 - 61 29671 r 1 Qflf'll be tnrot•med thA 1; the 'CIA tEll'S "C1.rvle - NRr- int Hl'lnot•t " h•ve been ru t up tn our 1'1~o t St~t;1ono , P1 1.ot bont , M.nrlne l1lillOl"l.111~ Stat tone Yours var y truly , Hll/ Jn
MEMORANDUM • GOVERNMENT OF CANADA TO St.perint t~n clent:. of Pilotage YOUR FlU: No: ~-12-17 FROM : District 5up,rvisor of Pilotr OUR FILE No: 8562-ll SUBJECT. - ~ ~:[!i( t DEC 221961 _II-~ I )..., 17. ( . ' ~-------------- OATl:: 20/1':'/ 61 .l - Ref"r"nce io I!I!Jdll t..o your lett.er c !' nooom\!nr 19th, onclouina pooteru outlining the Cirvis-Herint. r oportine procudlll'e, Theoe po~<tars ure put up on our Notice Duord Ulld members of the ot.fJ ff hctve been nuv.!. aed uacordin~ly . ( -- h 7 , ..... ~ee. Ce:......-a.--..._ J/, C(l}ES IU..'L/INSOll, D~ ric t Sup.,rvi:JOl' of Pilot.o.
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• TO FROM C.R.R. MORANDUM • GOVERNMENT OF CANADA • J • I I ' YOUR flU N o: OUR flU N o. l~- 12 - l? (:W::-C) SUBJECT: CiltVIS-1·:tJllii'l' HBPO!li'ING PROC!WUBE DATE D~C . 4, 1961 In aooordanoe ooith your l1inute appended to D.N. D.' s letter of September 8, 1960, we are forooarding here11ith 200 oopiee of' the Oirvis- Herint reporting posters for appropriate distribution. CGSU So•nd•HI O·GP·22, PP6S C••· llo. 3!100 /91~ i (W .A . Caton) , Controller, Hadio Rsgulationa Division.
APS : SL o.a.a. In a ooo:rdanoe vi flh your ~li nute appen4ed to D.I.D.•e letter ot Ueptember a, 1960, ve are forwarding herewith 200 oopie1 ot the Oirvie~ierinfl r eporting poetere 011~\nol S1CJ11ccl by l\. P. ST f\Rl< (w . A. C aflon) , lot Controller, Radio R egulation. D iYiliODo 14-12-17 (u.u;-o)
• \JI U Y'I!J..I lJoJUlll' tU.l'U.d' ! ItO t'ROChDlltu. U noloaod herewith are 6 oopioa ot the Oirria-Htrint reporting poatare t or distribution to Rn41o M &BU.lo.t i oiUI o!tioea within your re(:don • • II\ P o:r f\n ~1. t(I.G. IU.), Director, Teleoom.unio•tiona and i leotrouioa B ranah, R li"ional Direotor 1 Air S.nioea, D epa.rt n1ont ot ,_..port• R•ior.al 1 14min1atration Blda., llontreal Intl!rn&Uon&l Airpori, Donal, .P. Q. (WJkR) 14-12-l? (S.U:..C) ru,;o, 4, 1961
HDA~ T01lOliTO 1 OIIT . Enoloaed herewith ure 9 copi es or the Cirrie-J.ferint reporting poatera for diatribution to lla.d'lo H Q8Ulatione oi'£i oea wit hin yow: region. Enol . glnd tir.nel rt A p ~·r 1\.RY. (P. O . liixon) , ! "rDii•eotor, TelooonmuntoaUona and l:llaotronioe Uranoh. ltae"lor al D:l.raotor, Al.:r Jarvicea, DaPIU'hlant ot Tranaj'IOrt, 25 ~ t . Clair Ava. a., Toronto 7, Ont . (llliWi) 14- 12- 17 ( ..at:- C) DO::Co 4, 1961
APStSL IUlAS VIJiCOUYrAl, j;j. C. JhT oll o ()r'U\IA. OlitV It>-HlJWfr IU:;l'C.hil' .lllO PdOCEll>UR& l:nolo ooc.L hentwi.th are 5 copies o£ ttw Oirvie- f1u•int; reporting poatore for cliatribution to H udio llaaulutione ofticaa within your region. li:no l o r .. aal £ .s I r A. P S'l t\HK t~ (P.G . titxon), .Director, Tt1ecommunioationa and Electronic• aranoh. Regional Director, Air ~ ervioea 1 Depe.rtJHnt ot 'l'.ranaport, 7'9 Weat Uaatins• Ut., Y IU\OOUYer, n.o. (lWlti) 14-12· 17 (SAI:'l-0) DbC . 4 1 1961
APSa SL ~olosod herewith al~ 6 OO»iea of the Oirvia..Merint reportina poatero for dietribution to Radio fl-cul&tiona ottioea within your roaion • &nolo • (P. a. 111Jton), ""' Direotozo, Teleoa!I!Pmfoationa and Eleotronioa Branoh. t~io no l ~i reoto~, Air. ~ arrioee , Deparhant ot Tre&neport, P.o. Uox 42, Honoton, N • .D. • 14-1.2·17 ( JJJ::-0)
APSatiL JI. T . B. OL'l'AIIA Cnoloeed herewit h ore 4 oopi aa o! the Oirv-lo-11erint reporting poatera tor diatribution io fto.4io llogUllltlona oi'tioe11 within your region • E110lo lleeiolll.\1 Dinotor, Air Serv1oee, De)j4%'tment ot Tzanaport, ll'ecieral D 1dg., 982o- l07th ta ., 11:dmonton, AUa. • 1:'1 11 - I ~ c ·• I [\.\\1<. [\ I • {F .o. lfiJmn ), Direotor, feleoommuoie&tione and lllaotronioa llmncb. (Bdllli) 1'+·12-17 (2.U!-O ) u.;o . 4, 1961.+.PSaSL A. D .M ,H, A.. D. H.A, In acoardanoe with your pr.Yioua requeat, we Brl forwarding under oeparate cover 17.50 oop1ea ot the Ci rvil-.terlnt reporting poatere for diatril.lution to oetubliahmenta withi n TQur eorvioe. Enol. (A. de NiverY11le) , Aa aieta.n~ llep11ty Uinieter, A.lz. 14-12-17 (~o) m:c. 4, 1961
Devised the psrles into six & sent them to the Regions. [signature] for [ILLEGIBLE] CAr
CAT 90 Mr Barraw- man SAW (Mr Noulon) See pink flagged memo 19/9/60 [signature]
SMC (Mr Stark) who Don't know who wrote this yet but are you interested? Chron 21/2 Regards this & I have sent this & SAO, SAW, Mr McKae on Emergency Measures, but can't find anyone who wants them. also checked with Dech Harlan on SMr
~. TO .:J.: FROM D.T. B. SUBIF.CT: OIHVIS-H.i:llUN'l' .IW.PORTING l'ROChlDlJlU: As requested by your ~emorandum of September 19, 1960 , we are forwarding herewith 170 Oirvis-Herint posters. YOUR Fll.E No: OUR Fll.E No: 14- 12- 1? (SAE-C) DATE: lli:C. 4, 1961 \ /-27~\/~ (F'. G. Nixon), e 7 Director 1 Telecommunications and Electronics Branoh . -·
_. ..... AFS al:iL D, O, A. D,T, JI, CI~tVIJ .• HWUJrt I~'OR 'l'IItO PllOC~DU I.~ •lu :requested b,y you:r raelliOra.ndutG ot ~ a ptembor 19, 1960, wa are forwarding her ewith 170 Cirv1a- Herint poshl'fl• 1 (D' .a, H ixon) , D1reotor, Teleoom.unioationa and K1aotroniol ~ranoh , . ... - ... D.:IO, 4, 1961
FOR EARLY WARNING IN DEFENCE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT • CIRVIS-MERINT REPORTING PROCEDURE 1. MESSAGE IDENTIFICATION (a) Reports made rrom airborne and lnnd-baaed 10urce1 will be Identified by CIRVIS (pro· n()unced SUR·VEES) aa the first word or the text. (b) Reports mndc by watcrbon1c sources will be Identified by MERIN'f (pronounced M UR· ENT) us the flrat word orthe text. - 2. WHAT TO REPORT Report immediately all a irborne and waterborne object.l which appear to be HOSTILE, arc UNIDENTIFIED or are acting auapicioualy. Submarin9, ourfocod or portly oubmer11«1. Surfoce warohlpo pocltlvcly idenliflod ao not Cnnnd l~n or U.S. Other ahi~a or bontt ftCtiH K lUI• plcloualy. _..,. ..... 3. SEND TO ANY AircrAft or vnpour trnlla which appta.r to be d1rcctt4 ogolntt Conada. the United State1, their turltorl .. or poutulono. Canadian Military Eatabliahment, RCMP Post, Department or Transport or Fisheries Representative, Hudaon'a Bay Company Northern Radio-Equipped Store, or Oulded M l11ilto The nearest open Canadlnn Telegraph Office. (By telephone If necessary.) U~e the quickest possible mean• to make vour report. 4. SEND THIS KIND OF MESSAGE Unidentified Flyln1 Objecto or unldcn· tlfied objecta In tbe water. (a) Begin your mena11c with the word ''CIRVIS" or " M ERINT" na applicable. (b) Give the !dentiAcatlon of the observer, aircraft or vessel mak ing t he report. (c) Describe brieRy the objects alghted. (d) Indicate where and when the objects were sighted. (e) If objects nrc airborne, eelimate altitude as "low", "medium", "high". (f) Give direction or tmvcl of aighted objecte, (g) Estimate and give speed or aighted objects. (h) Give other ail!nificant information, 5. SEND IMMEDIATELY DO NOT DELAY YOUR REPORT DUE TO I NCOMPLETE INFORMATION. NOTE Th•re "" no chDrgu 10 the orf91nalor In the handlln,g of CIRV/S 01 MER/NT muslljltl. Auth.orlrod by Dtpartment of Notional Ocftnco Authorilcd for diaploY In Pol\ Offiecto by tho Poettnalt"r Oen<ral
POUR COLLABORER A LA D~FENS E AVANcEE DU CONTINENT NORD-AMERICAIN • COMMENT FAIRE UN RAPPORT CIRVIS-MERINT 1. IDENTIFICATION DU MESSAGE a) Lea rapports provenont de sources aEriennes ou lcrr~~tru ~ront identifi~s par lea lettrea CfRVIS (prononcl!es SEUR.VICE), qui doivent formur lc premier mot cl.u lexte. b) Lea rapports provcnnnl do sources maritimes ou nii!Jimllecs scront IdentifiEs pa~ les lettres MERlNT (prononc6ea MEUR·A1NTE), qui doivent former le premier mot du texte. 2. QUOI SIGNALER Signaler imm~iatcment tout objet volant ou llottant qui para It HOSTILE, qui eat NOf\J IDENT1FU!: ou dont le comportement est SUSPECT. Soua.marint, en IUf(llCC 0U en pnatic aubn1cr· a&. Naviret do aur.rre: de 1\Ufnce. ld"ntlfl& d 1 une {neon ctrtn1ne c-onHne n'~tnnt ni cnnodlt'nt ni ttm6rlct'h\l, Aulret nnvlru ou cn1bm1tntlont t utptiltt. _ .... . , ... 3. A QUI l'ENVOYER Avlont ou troln~t de vnpcur C'IUI tC!mblent dlrta~• conlrt! h : Cnnodn, 1ca Rtot:l· Unit, lt urt terrltoirn ou leun potltUiOI,I. A n'importe que I: Etablissement militaire du Canada. Peale de lu Gendarmerie royale du Conoda, ttnalns auldb. Repr!sentant du ministb"e des Transport• ou dea P~ch erlea, Objet• volontt 01.1 nottanll non idlrilifi~ . Magoaln du nord de Ia Compagnie de Ia Bale d 'Hudaon muni d'un paste de radio, ou Au plus p1 ·ochc bureau t6Mgraphiquc du Canada qui se trouve ouvert (se scrvir du t61~phone au besoin). Paire so11 rapport par /e moyen /e plus rapide. , 4. COMMENT LE REDIGER a) Commencer le mciiSllltC pnr le mot CIRVIS ou MER INT. aulvont le c:as. b) Fnire connollrc: l'ldcn t lt~ de l'o*rvalcur, de: l'avion ou du navire qui rait le rapport. c) 06crire bri~vemem le ou lea objets aper~us. d) lndiquc:r lc lieu cll'heurc: oil lcs objets ont ~t(: aper~;ua. e) S'il s'agit d'objet·a volonta, donner l'altllude approximative li l'aidc dea mota basse, moyenne ou haute. - f) lndiquer lo direct ion aulvie par ces objets. g) Donner Ia vltessc opproxhnative de l'objel. h) Ajoutor tout autre renacignemcnt utile. 5 . QUAND l 'ENVOYER: IMMEDIATEMENT Ne pas tarder A le folre, meme sl le! renselgnernents eont incompleta. REMARQUE II n'11 o "'" • /'41/fl />0"' l 'upidltion d., mruogr1 C/RV/S ou MER/NT. PubllcAiion nulorit~ par 1 e mintntre dole Dffetue mnionaJe Anlch•a• don• 1 .. buroMx do IJ<)Otc 11utorh~ par lc rniniotrc dco Pott<lFile 1 14-12-17 Copies wer e sent t o t.he following District Marine Agents wjth the notation that copies are to be forwarded to all Lightkeepere and to ot her persons throughout the Agencies where it is felt advisable . - No covering letters . Fort S~ith , N.W . T, Prince Rupert, B. C. Vtctorl.a , B.c. Pa rry Sou.nd, Ont . Prescott , Ont , Sorel , P, Q. Quebec , P . Q, Saint John, N.B. Charlottetown , P.E.l. St. John's , Nfld . 20 40 75 80 50 l5 17.5 160 1?5 200 Aids t o Navigation R.M. Cummings December 21, 1961.
- * , ' Distrlot. 8UJlfii"Yhor or Pilot., ltyttn., Pilotage Oiet.rlot. Sup r int.endent of P1lot.aae OlnVIs-•g"RIN[ HRtmt'lt«) I'P.OCFDUR! W e encloH t our oopl.ee or polter outlining the Oim ... PleaH have the !'Oaten put up on your notice b o~~orcl or other euituble conepicuoua plnce 1n your pilot st.llt.ion a..S on bo11rd the pl.lot vaanole ao t.h o1t the pilate Md othere concerned may be 1ntonned on thin subject. lncl. (4 ) Lett er aleo aent to1 D. R. Jonoe, SuJ)f'rintendent of Pilot "~ · DRJaDO ].4..12-17 Deo. 19/61. District Supervisor of Pilote, llalirax 4 copies II II n , Saint John .) II It " II 1 Quebec 10 " It II ,, , Hont.rf'lal l4 It It ,, It , Kin~at o n 4 It (Cornwall) Supervising PUot - Port Wellor-3arn1a 6 " Res1onal Superintendant of Pilote, Vancouver a II
• llh~ r lo t *-r1DII A&ent, wpert•nt. or 'l'TIIuport , 1 • -' , IM»X U ?O, CILJU.o'l'fll.'fu, H , ' • . • 1 . tolluwtnc venanl e: [ noll . lieorge G. l.cJ., '{ ttr .. Qd , II J.reot.or, • 1oe OpenUou. OUL/ .. 14-12-17 lleo , l J/51• u 1sLr1ot ..:ar1ne t.~~ent., .llepiHt. ;~m t or '1'rM•rort , .o. ~It Jl.O, Uppertown, U!.WO , J'.,.. Pl flolle Cln\1 enoloeo4 28 oopho or "C l rY1a-~r1nt. lfii ~Ol't11l8 i:"l'OOIOW'II" tor youraelt liDO 01et.r1but.1on t.o t.he tolloo.ing n .. oll: ~ oop1oa - J\UIIlt. I! .. "lili.lriTLIOf!l'iNU Y" a " "If .lJ. UoU.J\N" I! .. "WlN'rUI\ lJ.l" 2 .. ".Jlilli:ll'r.J(U IJ...U" u •• - "C ,l.l , flu ~" 2 .. " 4 I liJI,j{Vll.U. fl 1 .. " PllL~ Vl Jl'A" ~ " " .f'VJ!' 1 I li" I! .. "&\VJ:d'4u Ia " " r.U.Il>H" 2 " "t-A1.1i4 •• ~ .. "t.lUn.ur Uuou ltn '~.o " aeorpe G I Pask • • :>. 8 r1Ul4 ' Uireotor , ~ln• Oper at. iona . &.noJ • · H -l.a-17 /JUO, l J/51.• D1t\rlo\ Mllrine 'Cent., l,e jl&J'\I!Ien\ or '1'r llDtport.' I . u. Do.c 1180, n,:r .el l., b . t: . ~ 1• ••• tlod enoloae4 10 oopl ee ot ~ u lrYi a -~ rlot ke pcn·tl ua .Proowouru" t or your11elt &Del cUetrlbutl on to o t bt I) oop1• • 2 " 2 " 2 .. ~ .. ~ ~ B • a " £nola. - 1\gent "" IH J .o IJOIJlWI" " ... 'T J to-:1'0 . tl" .. 1..."'1'1 v \fl" " !I T • o,,'U.i;.hl Ul!l" - • lll ~ f ltil.lilll " ~I) \iC:Il u. • •t:r. 3't'f'.atr;~- Georrrll C L e1sk ~ . ,. , HranCI , 1litto t.or , ~ r1 nt ()pet• a t l una. lltll . 13 / 111
Ot etrlot Warlae A~• nt, U e pe rt~ .ont. ot l'raner-or t , , IJ , D Ol. 1118 , ...UR- L.. ' "'' 11 1roo~ o r, ..a.rtne <lper at.ione. 0 tLI•• 1 ... 10!-17 l.leo. 13/61 fto port1118 J•r ooa4urea" r or yourutlf ftod dLe~rlbut 1 o n t o ~hi rollo ~t tn" naeele : J oop1ee 2 .. s " 1 • l.nola. 11&8%1 t. - ": ... ~'£0\1/ul iJ.Sh" "Vl;k-.lltJ.n • - "V!ti1C..1. tc ..... " G oorn . G. L eJsk t.. ' . b r and , .H.root.c>r, ilarLu Ope r~t t1 o na.
• Chief S. B~Cineer, 1:1\ . Lawrenoe bhl p Jhennll, Llepart.oen\ or Trllllepor~ • .SOD uoro hee\er .,1.r t.o\ oloet, lluoa ? ~1, -"lrl'1"' u .-.!. • i • • u irlo~ o r, ~ ioe Upere"iono. 14-12-17 1Joo. 13/U Vl .. se tln4 onoloeeu oleven oopi ee or ~u 1rv1a-.- r1nt • " • "VlUJ\ ~ .. George G. Leask "' • "' • D l'lll\4. • Uireotor, ~ioe Opera ~ l one.
• U1•tr1o\ Merino ~ an t, D e p«~r t. I» D~ o t l'reneport. , 1 -.o. Bo.c 'fdJ , :..UHr 1Cifllf , N , U. toll a w 1n~ vueeel1 1 .S ooploe " l " " 711l.T611 L . I'OJ'l'tfl " George G. Leask . ... Hr oll4, ~ lr eo t or , ~1 n e oporut.1ona . anole. U ea. l J/41
• U1etrlot .-z1 ne 1\8111\ 1 IJtJ>urt ... unt. ot Tranaport. , 1 , I) , Uox N• U36 , ,;r . J utiN' a, tftld . uireot.or, ~rln• 0pOrot.1ooa . Dt o. l3/ 61 J•lbJIII tirUl enoloeed. nino cop1t11 ot "Cirvlt - t.tl r lot. lt.porttna l'rooedurea" t or yo\U'aelt &nU d loir1bll1.1oo t o tbo r ullow1ua vooaola: .) ooplta - 1\aV I t 8 " "51 H IUJW'I!Rt.. Y OI LblrrtT" a " 2 " George G. Leask 1. • .., • uraou , Oi l rect or, rlne uperu U d na. nola .
• JJt.ot.riot. a8trine l<aen\, llepar\ 'Wnt or Transport, ! . u . B o~t _,67, l'ri!fiUh hU, 'tJ•T , U. C. ~1r eo t or, Jartne Uper ·•l.1o na. OOL/ .. f'll u1111 tin4 anoloee4 seven oop1ue of "C1rv1e-Witrlnt. N e port.i ng ITocoliurea" fur youroelt und IU.a'llri but.i o.n to t. h ~t following veaeolol J 001)1 118 - Agont. .. " .. orge G . Le ask £ . J . H n n4 , >~1 r oo t or , ...;,.rilla Ope rat 1uua. a uola . 14-13-17 .UCIC • l J/ 61
• Di~io\ Uarla. /~en t, !J epart:~en t. or Tl'tlllapol"t, . 0 . SOX 1&10 1 .i'~lY uOU!«< ' Vllt llrio. IJ1reator, wr1M operouona. OW./ .. neporuna Vrooudurea" ror youreelt a nd d1ar.rl but1on to the tollow!oa teaea1ar :1 oov1o11 1 " 1 " a .. a .. llnub. - Ai•nt. - ".P0Jl'4'• 1H1Ultllld:>" - " ~JCO :ll !l" - "Al.IU.Alal~;u lldiUY'• - "<: . i'. !:JJWUJIJ" ~ ... e G. leask E . .. . llrancl , IJ 1reo~ o r, ~rln• over•t1uoa, ueo. 13/ 61
• W.rin. uu~- Ae•n~, ue r•rt iiKint. or Tran11port , i'lllt'l' .. rmiUJc, Ollt.trlo. Ulreot or , Marine uperatlona. ~or your i nrormution pltieee fiod enoloued one oopy or "ll1rvle-l.lttr1Dt ne por\iQ& Proooc1ure " . G ... o l '.ou~ , ... . 1. Hl'fin4 , Uirtot.or, .olor1nt Oper~:~ t.i o ua . A:nol. 14-12-1'1 D eo. l.S/ 61
• U1atr1a' Marino Aa en~, 1Jop6lrt'Unt or 'l'renaJI()rt, 1• tth.>ll<ll' '1' • o n til r 1 o • llewrt1 ng 1 rooedurea" 1 tlll'ae ooplae ror youruolr oad t.wo oo plo• tor Lbe " 01tb./NlLU.". lroo.La . George G. Leask l • .:.. Hrana 1 U~o~o r, -uri oo Oper ut.iune. U-111-17 Lleo. 13/ 61
• Ll11 ~ l'10C. all\l'l DO I!IUn\ 1 D tp art~~en t. or {r •n•ltO I"t. . •' .u. bOI. l OI.IU , OJ ,u• ~ill tl , h . S. n .. ot t'lu4 ono1oaoc1 86 oopiet ot "CirYle-ller t nC. R oporU ~ •'rooodurea" ro r yourself antS 411t r1but.1on to t.be 9 oop1tiJ 3 II 2 " i! " • ~ .. l .. e 2 .. a .. 8 .. t.noh . - Agent, tt.BR.J.'fK ''Li.UfiAIXill u - " J ln lLLlAM ,, JJ ~ NilY.l\" "oll .. •JW C.tfUI ~AJ..' 16'' "ui\..IIJ,oJ UOiT(.tJll'" - "J'tl{N ;, , ltn\ll.lllhl• W" - n,._lD(u ..o._ ........ t·" ".L-.. 10 ·1~>" C G. lt:a~k t • • • BrnD4 , 01r.ot or, ~l oe vper• t t ont . U - l.l-1? IJta . 13/11• Dletrlut M&rlna A a•nt, U.part~ul ot Tr aneport, 10· T i.W[Td , N . .. . 'l'. OOL/ .. U-l~-17 O.u . 13/ 61 l'l ttull t1nc1 anoloaed one uo ;>y ot "01rv-lo-llor1nli H eporUn.s l'ro goClu t · ••~' ' t or youl' 1nta.r0111t.1 on, • !i. Brnna , Dtreolor. Karw upe .,uOlle. t nol.
• TO : .\, D, M, I{, FROM SUBJECT: In aooorda.noe with your previous request, we are forwarding under separate cover 1750 copies of the Cirv1s ~M er1nt reJOrting posters £or distribution to establishments within your service, Enol. (A, de NiTerTille) , Aaeistant Deput7 Minister, Air. h••·· I -C.ANADA DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE 011AVIA !iSS 1480- 3 { S'l'AP7) ,tt1 October , 1961. 1iANSPDRT·RfCOROS oc f 11 ~ It/- ; ;;__ t7 Flle - l .H. ~e ldw 1a 1 ~sq ., Deputy Minister , Deportment or 'l'rensport I OTTA\'.A, Ontario • . ~ tJ. ~ 1., ~~,·A I, I Att,.tion, ••r, " .~. 3"rk V ):) Oommunioetioos Instructions for .tteporting Vi tel lntell1.t enos ( ClitVIStm.!(INT) ,If th reference to your l etter doted 20 Oo to bar, 1960 , 2 1 150 ClkVIS/Mb~~~ Reporting Procedure Cards ~1 11 be ror>'larded short ly . 2 , B'urther to t his subject , the Canadian t elegroph comjlenies will accept CL"VIS/~UiT m .esseges as "t<USII Collect" Tele~rema . These telegrams should be ed~reeaed to t he nearest of tbe 1'ollow1.ng Naval Communioetions Centres : (e) Nevel COJil.lllunioetions Centre , HAlO Dockyard , hAl..lll'AX, N .s . (b) NAvel Oommuaicstiona Oeo,tre , H MO Dockyard , ....S o~,UDJA:LT , ll .C. (c) N evel Oommuniostiooa Centre , Nevel Headquarters , OTl'ri•IA, Ontario . (11) Nevel Communications D uckmsster's Field , ST . JOHN' s , Ntld . Centre , I {~~ Deputy M inister .... • Ml'. Shrll: W.r. Ra•l•J Mr. Ueuoa h.JIJ 14!10-S t~r.vr) - Dl»art.eat or 1raa. port ! - 01 Ttltl'epbe • Ct Telt1raphe O n• la~rtaat eapaot So tbe dettnoe ot Oeaade 1e OOPI to teoll tbe reoeApt of latelll& IDO I re~orte rroa aoa-.1li,& rJ o\aar••r• of elfbtlac• eod oerta1o other taro~atl o a TttM l to t bll ooUAtrJ'• ••~r1tJ, Tba1t reporta, bow• ••r, .uet bt rec•1••4 by the appropriate ailitarJ eutborltJ wltb • a1o1~ or delay tr they era t o be or u••· 1. ~ •rat .. tor re~ ortt oa baa beeo aatabliabtd wblob 11 011114 ~~. Oaaadl~u aittd J te\ ~ • caa.un1tet1ooe la.truottoaa tor Ue~or~lag Yl~ul 1otell1&oaea 91,bt1D&I , C l~ ilS/~ lNt)• lAd ln c orpor~ te1 Uaoediaa end Un1te4 a totee teollitlee . Tblt 11otom it beiot &1fta \bo w14olt pOtlihle p roaul ~u t1 o o 1a Oaaada, Ue•eral Oo•orQIIOt U lpM r\IIOtl IUOb 00 OOT, rtaborlto, Northera Aftalte, ~ l nt e a4 Toehaloal ~rYeya and O itl ~aaabif ao4 laal & rltloa aro part1o1pet1AS eo4 , 1a e4d1t1oa , the UC.r , tbo l'Oit Ortiol I D4 t bl budOOD iiOJ O oaj)aD)' bnl ladloeh4 l lloir doolre 1.0 belp. s . Tile problu ia reporu111 •ttal tnt•Uts•••• elptlqo , bowaYtr, 1o in tbe 1ptad wltb wbiob • report eaa be p1111d troa en obotrter t o the a111terr aotbor1t1••· fbe •J•toa ~• t bo et.pla ~~t rop14. 1~ ~•• betA rurcealed t bat t be aoat approJ)r1ate aaeo1 would arpeer t.o be bt •rtU~· Oolleot folocr ... 4. Tilt vu~o o e or t bl t aaot1n• ot raprosont •ti••• ot the U.part•ont or Traaeport, Caoa411A Yooltlo ~ol&areplle, Oeae41eo l att ooel Telesropbe, aad tbo Dope rt~ Dt of N~t l o oal lllfOOOI 11, thtrlfore, to dhO I&II t bt tollOWlllll ~t11101, (e ) the taeel~llltJ ot "''AI ~dVbD• Oolleot Ttll&f&el o1 o ae101 to paea 1otoll1~aaoe raporte. (b) the toloar .. roraat wbteb • 1&bt bo u•t4. ( ... at "J1PID41a •,o•) , (o) tba erreqcoaoate tor taploaaatlQ4 the ~ ldVlD/~~~T 171t ... lOto A ppondl¥ ~a•). vTT~tiiJ. 0 l b Sl»t .. bor, lt61.
I I - Al ~ .KNOU, "ll" 1\) I UA 1480..8 ( Tltlt ) DG~IGI lD l l »ttabtr, 1961. Tbt r 1r1 ~ • Ord or tb~ tl ~ t I ll) bt Ull4 to 14tn\Jf7 the eourot or tte lntellis•not r•~rt •• tollowea (a l ll t ~o rtt r r •• alrboru ea4 laa4-"-•e4 aouratt • 111 bt 14tn~1f1e4 by '~ l rif lS• tt tht ttrat • ord of the text. (b) ltJ:,OI'I.8 fr OA WlltiJ'bo.rllt I U\IJ'OII " lll be 1dtnt.lf1t tl IJT "MiodlNt" on tt.e rlrat word of the tlltt. bo•tft r, botb t1PII Of &111111 t rt t o bt trette4 w!th 1 11111 llJ'I IDit• a. • tu~tttttd • ••••ce fornw t 11 •• toll O~II k111111 IU.Alft't t or wlktlo>) (e) (Who ) Meat, oall-letttra or otbt r 4eter1pt1oa or ~ b t reporter ot t be 1ottlll ~nct al~tlQJ t b) ( lrb at.) Dbjeot ll1, bhd. 1\ b1'1Ctt 4Uer1ptloo or ooJaot. t1Jh l.t4 ao toh • • nuabl"r or e1rentt., • •-••le , allt1lee , eub•~wtnea , etc ., and o a ~ eso ry or object , •· ~ · eStt , obepe, eta. ( o) ( .. btl'l) h t porttra poe1t1on ct t.tu or e1~tJ.q . (4) (lo bto) D ate end n .. or J 1,httllJ . I• l ( H t.ber) Spee l , J1rectioo or r rnel, ent1 J tl•u ~ o (i t • lrborao) or ObjtQ\ , It) Ot b ~ r tnror• o tl o~ . J~e~tlrloetl n o ~rke, l u 1sate, nror, . .r,. oot l &~\tl . etc, Ia) ( eutho r ) ~oco 1 1. 1on. or •e• t ad 4tetber. ~. aho4 o C!H V1 J/ aa41H~ oe••••• lo recel•ld tor rel aJ ~~ ttlo~r .. • l tb 1ator .. \S Q D alatial, t he 1prropr1ett ••o•loD 11 t o be ooU.tt4, lt 1 ••••••• 11 rua1Yid lfhloh OllllDOt ltl readllt 41~i 4 •4 Jato • •ot1 oaa • • thowa t bo•• lt 11 to~ ~oaee4 01 r• ~ •1•t4. Tolearelh ope~ o tor. ~ !Jl oot bt •~reota~ to 111\ll'l•J'It C:J.llfl.-3/ .U..tllr.T 1111111!101.
.. I I .. Al'PDDU •a• '1'01 1.:13 1680.1 (OWJ) De•••• 18 Sep1ea-.r. 1111. \I J.hY1~ L.Iro4ll.ftT •••••ace ••1 be reoet•td h'OII ••••ru eounu euel:l •• CQM t1'~1el •ieUo JU,l0Jia 1 b.QMl CoDa\tbl.ee, rtekeraea, or ~n• ~ ueeoa ae7 Ooap .. J coa.uatoe\too• s,,, ... 1\lr\btraore, tlhtf ••r I U itr ta 11.1:17 toru. llonnr, prnl4N the •••••1• ooa\elae t be 14aatttteattoa ctr& •Cl kY! s • or -•u..urr• 1' 1t t o be torw •,..~ -~ llUeB Collett t el•...- t04r•••et to oa• of tbe tollow la& •••11 Oo~lea\1~ O tA~rea, •bltb te tlk• ~ • rtt\ ota\rt to t b• repor\lnft e\atioaa (e) ••••1 O oc.8altttloa Otatre, WlO Dotltt•N, Hal Stea, a. .a. (b) laYel Co•MAoteettoa Ceaire, UM0 Dotltfu4 , aequtuu, a.o. (e) lttal Ooa.•atottloae Cta~e, Watal Het41•trtora, O tt•••• C aterlo. (4) WtYtl Co.-uatc•t100I C tD~re , 9uokatet•~'• f1ela, ~\. l~n •a, Ntl •• a. The ~ •••l C ~uo to atloA C on t.~• will Lbto p~•• the ..... , , to ell Wbo ntea t o kaow.
1'.1H/ea 11.- 12- 17 OTTAIIA, Ontario, lt.th AUSUDt, 1<)61. CAptai n W . E. Raea- Potter, "'-Tina Superintendent, The Cunard St eamship Company Limi ted , ~ 66 at , John Street , KlNTilli !, 1, P. ~ . Deftr CAptain Reo~ - Potter, I ooknowledge with n1a11y thanks your l etter of the 8th ~ tJ8 uat reporting the aighting of an unidentifi ed aubmuino by Cnptai n Jonea of R, 1-1. S. '' SAXON! A" . I ho.w ! orw&rded this 1n!orlll&t1on to tho Director of lfAval Int.elligonce, and I ! oe1 aure ho will appreciate it. fours very truly, \ - \. ... E. s. Brand, Director, Marine Oper ations,
• ESlJ/ea 14- 12-17 .• , flf'rA W A, Ontario, 14th Auguet, 1961. D irector of Naval Intelligence, D epartment of National D efence, 125 Klg1n Street, 0 T T A W A, D ear Sir, I enc1oee a photoet at oopy of a letter I have juet received from Captain Reaa- Pot.tor. I h1 we ack- nowledged this and told Captain Potter that the infor - rMtion ie being i'orwnrcled to you, Youre very truv., ~ ~ , r - ·~ .' Director, ~~ne Oper at1one. lmol .
THE CUNARD STEAM,SHIP COMPANY LIMITED CUNARD WHJ Til STAR CUNARD BAOLB AIRWAYS ' I GENERAL AGENTS . IN REPLY KINDLY QUOTE TH£ DONALDSON LI NE LIM ITED ELD ER DEMPSTER LINES LIMITED CUNARD fJDUSE 4e' ST. JOHN STREET M O~ TREAL I . QUE. PORT LINE LIMITED I~-·.~·;;::::::::.-~::: .. ·• J l 8th August, 1961. MD-101.3 .9 L AUG 1il 1~1 I /J.f -1 2..-ll Captain E. S. Brnnd, . I' ol t I Director Marino Opsrn:ttons Branch, 1 t Departlitent of Transport, ·-- Ottawa, Ontario. Dear Sir, The follolling 1nfomat.1on is eomowmt tordy for various reasons, but I eend it along now for vba.t it is vorth. Captain J. T. Jones of our R.M .S. "SAXOtiiA" upon tJ.e arrival at Montreal Wednesday, August 2nd, reported baving eighted nn unidenti- fied au \:marino in Latitude 5.3° 08 minutes North, Longitude 470 38 minutee West, on July 30th at 2115 hours G. M .T. Tho subnari011 surfaced abaft "SAXONIA'l!l bowu at a distance of betveen 7 and 8 miles and disappeared f."rom sight at about 11 miles. The aubnarine appenrod to be of a light 8re;y colouring and -was appu1•ently bound to the Wcstvnrd. A rough out- line of the craft• s oilhouette is shovn belov. Y oure eincarely, • TID! CUNARD STEAH-I"UP ca<PAIII ~: . Ar.fL O · NERP IVhC Marine ~uperintend ent ALL COMM UNICATIONS TO BE AfDREUED TO lHE COMPANV
. Director, Metoo r ~toa i out Br~~ oh )15 Bloor St. W ., Tor ont o 5, Ontario tf'.T I L, Slsbting Ab~~n~ lloatiQi Station - 1oe BIOS!M&i!IUOI llJght 'Pr/ehl. 7th Jul.J, 1961. CO!fFIPBMIIAJ, 1, Atteranoe 1a m ado t o your letter dated April 28, 1961, on t he above L'ilo o.nd eubjeot. 2 , Advice hu been reae1ved troaa D.o .A. and D.T ,B, that 1oat.ruot1on. t or re port.1Qi vital intalligenoe •iahtina- a.re outliDad in Ciroular 0/12/(IJ, dated loth M!lroh, 1960. lor your euy reterenoa a oopy of thi• o.Lroula.r 1• att.aobed. We haft al•o been advitted that eaob Aeradio Station ia prO'd"-1 with a !knual ot OperaUona w b1oh ghea turtller det&U i n reporting to~ip objeota. )~1-. L,T. Oaapbltll I4a1aoo .lllteorologiet
OII. .. U I Y Ml NU. "rCR 0 ' U U .. T U"-"N A f'P'A I AG A H D N._ T IOrtAL .... . OU H C ~a CCMJ:o'IDLNTIAL Ottawa, 1-!e.y 16, 1961. L. T. Campbell, Esq., Liaison Meteorolocist, Department of Transport, Ottawa, Ontario. Dear 11r. Campbella ;J/ - 12 - 11 Thank you for your letter of Nay 2 on your f ile U-10-;zl. I wo.e moat intneeted to hea!' about thill abandoned site. IJ~ You ask about the channel for reporting any future • of this nature. It w ould seem to me that thls 1B the s ort of thing that would be covered by D. O.T. Air Se1~ioes , Civil Avi11tion Branch Information Circular 0/12./60 dated the 20 Haroh, under the heading Vital Intelligence Sightings - CI RVIS Reporting Procedures , Yours einceroly, ZS(Z~ w. Rovley, cretary, A.<:. . N, D.
• • • 'INFORMATION CIRCULAR 0/12/60 lOth March CAHAOA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT Alit SERVICES CIVIL AVI.t.TIOH IIIAHC:H VITAL IN 'J'F.LLIOI!lNCE SIOHTINOS • C IRVIS HEI'ORTINO PROCElDUR.ES In order to extend the enrly warn1ng coverage for the defence or tho No r th A mer lean continent a plan, e((eollv" lat April, 1060, hu boon developed for tho reporting or vital Intelligence s lahtln f111 during pucellmc. R eport s ot•lglnatlng from a~rborne or land·buaed observers will bo known as CIRVIS (pronounced SU R·VEES) messages. Whp Rgporu • All Canadian atrcrafl should Originate CIRVIS ret poria aa and when applicable . When to Reeort • I) 2) 3) CIRVIS reports should be made lmmps!IR!ely upon a vital Intelligence slghtlnl! e xcept when the nlrornft Is over " foreign cuuntry other thRn tho U.S., Orccnland or l<c lnnd . When n alluntfon pre viously reported c hangoa surrtcien tly to warrant a I!IUI>t>lomo•nll\ry ur n mpllfylng ur Cl\ nccllullon repo1 ·t, In tho event n CUt VIS report con not hu mndu by rudlo) 11 shou ld be rtl ud with the nunresl Cnnndlan o r U • .S . Oovcrnmont no radio siallon , nlr l l'llrrl c control orrtc o· nr onllltnry or ooMulnr outhorlly lmmcdlntPiy upon lnndmf!. Such r oporl& s hould bo mnde by tho qulck~st ovollnble moRns. To Whom to R peO[! .. CIRVIS messages passed by rodlo ahould be trnn ~ nllllerl to the nearest or moot convcniMt Canadll\n or U.S. Oovernm<>nl Aerodlo ato llon. T here Is no need to addroaa ouch muugct AS acradlo atntlont havo detailed lnstructlol\s for the delivery o r CIIIVIS moasngcs. What to R coor! • I ) 2) Whtle airborne: nil a irborne, "a te rborno Ot' ground objects which llfJpuu r to be hostile, auspicious or unldenllflod ahould be reported , Example& I 1) !! Ouldcd ml astles, Un id entified llylng obje cts, Sulunn l'lnos, SUI'(nctl wllrahlpoi positive ly lden \lh od ns not Cunodlnn. o o· U.S, 1\lrcr ort or oont rail s which 11pponr to be dlre clo d ognlnat CAOU<da, the U.:l . their lcrrltol'les or pouoaslona , 0) llny unexplained or unusuolactlvlty whic h may Indicate a possible attack Rfr.llnst or thrOUIIh Canada, tho U. S . the ir torl'ltoroes or passeaalona: lncludlna the presence or any unldonttlltul or other liU~pl~louo ground putloa In Polar >aJilons or other remote or SpAra~ly populated oreas, Upon l..l>ndlna:- I ) Revor lli which for all)' re1uon could not be lransmmed whllo "lrborne. 2) Unlisted a>rhclds or roclllllos, wcothor stations or nlr nuvlgl\tlon n1d&, 3) Post-landing reports • ' • . .. 2
• 2 - c ontents or Re~o r ts • c llVIS reports stwll oontMn thu lollowlng dnto. u npplicablo In the order ltstedt I) the word CI IIVIS •• the ltrbl word or the tt•xt 21 ldentlflcauoo or tho reporun11 olrcrart 3 the object sighted. Gtv~ n hrlrr desc ription or the slahtlng which s hould con tn In the following !terns ru1 npproprtnte. (nl Number or n tr cron, ve•sel5, mtselloa, submnrtnes , etc. (b Categor y of object , gonornl descrlpllon, elrt O. j!., t;l~c . Jhllpo, typo or propulil lon, etc. 4) thu pusH ton or the oi>J oatl lndt oll!oLI by 1111)' ..r till! following methods: ! "! Lontltudo nnd lon~tiiU < n, b Over n rnd lo rtx, c '!'rue bcnrln11nnd dlttonce from o radio fix, (d) Over o well·known or we ll·derlned guogr 11phlc point, (e) True bearlnll nnd dlatance from n geograph h! point. &) Due and time or sighting, expressed In OMT 0) Altitude or object, mny be expn:saed aa low, m~dlum or h1gh 7) Direction or travel of thr object 8) Speed ol the object 9) Any obse rved ldont lllrntton, IMignln ur other· algnlll cant Information. Every rcnsonulllo oflurl s hould bu mnde to 1J081t tvQiy Identify the objocl sluhted . C IIIVIll r opor· ta s hould not hu doh1 yud due to lac k ol dutu lor nny M the nbove llama, How to Report • Callln n Oround tallon - When calllriR o cround atnlfon to pasa a CIRVIS mossa1e the &Ire raft s ou prere ~ I c • • I by the word ClltvLS (pronounced SU R VEES) apoken three tlmea oa a prio rity Ind ica tor. U this priority lndlcmlor do•s not produoe aalllllnotory pre cedence the lnte rnatlonAI U rRCIIoy S1Rnol mny bo used Example o f CUI • CIRVIll ClflVIS C IIIVIS ·GOOSE IIADIO TillS IS 'I'RANSCANADA F IVE ZEI\0 FIVIil • CIIIVIB REl'ORT - OVI'JII Exampltn ol CIFIVIS tnllln l ttnpor·t • CIRVIS TMNSCANADA FI\' E : ZE I\0 FIVt: SIO HTt:D 1"0111\tA TION OF SIX JET BOMBERS CONFJGUI\ATION IS SWEP'l' WINO W11'11 EIOH'l' JET ENGINES TWO ZERO ZERO Mlt..Ell EAST OF CAPE IIAltltiSON AT ONE 'Titlll!:l:: ONE THREE FIVE ZERO ZUI..U At..TITUDE THREE FIVE 'l' I!OUSAND HEADING TWO SEV EN ZERO Dt:OREES NO MARKINGS OBSERVED· OVflR . SupplementAry or Amplllylna H<•por'le • CIRVI.B 'l'llANSCANADA II'IVE ZEilU FIVt~ S IX JE•r BOMBERS PR!JJVIOUS I.-V f\EPOI\'rtilD AT ONEl 'l'llllt':t J ONN ' I' HilEE ~ · tVI~ lW IIO :t.UuU NOW ONE 'f'l.llll~t ~ ZI!JIIO Mlt..ES WES'f 01•' CAPE HAiliUSON AT O Nt ~ 'rJIREE ON I:: 1 "0Uil Tlllii::El F'IVE ZU ~,U II EADIN(.l 'TWO THREE I'IV.I!: ' DEORI:lES • OV E:t-1, Conc~llatlnn ttnrort - CIRVIS TMNSCANADA F'IVE ZERO l··tvt: CANCI>t.. CIRVIS RE POR T OF ONE THREE ON£ THREE FIVE Z£110 ZUL.U S IX JE'l IIOMRERS POSITIVELY IDENTWIED AS AIR FORC E BRAVO POUIISf!VENSAT OSI 11111EE ONE FOUltSIX Z.Ul.U ·OVE R. (A . rte Nlvt'rvllle), Asslatant O"puty Mlnlator, Air. I~ • •• •
I , Ccil.. G. • P.orrl<t', >.~OCN!LI'.r:'', lldvl.oolj· Ca:x :.l.tt.' o llartltc.."'''\ DG"Jclotnont, DO'f't1rtt ont oi' llart.llnn\ M!rw:o ZlLl t.nttcn.:ll. Raoou.rcco, OT':i •, .nt:.nd.o • /PT I t/- t:J-11 ~ 1-:ey 2, l%1. • t.t.Mhul iD n rc,.Ol'l. a!' tho o:.chtill,, Ql: Clll nbr.n(Jaleil 0/ll.il'OJ.tc on t.~o llnr.t'.ln Iulnln Jl'l<ll: leo, ol::::orvod Jurln<. tllo .Clrat nor.l.co Ol lCX\ ~c leo :t'CCCXVI:lil10M~O ru I tc. l bc.Ucva Llr. L.T. Cr.nruol\ ill.oonooccl ~h.ln u~tlt ;;oo on t.ha tclo ~lana :;oot.Cl.'Ja.:/• I t \."'Ultl uc ar ~c-'..:ltod 11' ,;w could pro•J.i.dc c\l11.1Mco oo to tho oh.mncl !Ot' t'O:-.ort.J.nr rnturo c.i:::1t !J 'J Q!' Lli.L.o n.nt.Ul·c. .\loo yoo:r oovl.eo r lcru;c 011 VJ r.!lOt.hc:.- :;1, 1 ~U:CII cl.or,:; t.:~e coort. of llcrr ounc.llAnd o.f fora~ emlln. vlt.l o Md •· :d.:,l cr ohit~" ohould be l'CIICrtcd, Mel J.! ao. to ':ll1CD ruld ~t cllould be tho c:-~ .o o! ccr.ronirotioo. t.tt. ?~~· L. ';;" • Col:'~cJ.l I I.ioioan Lat.corolo:;laL.
• • MEMORANDUM . • 'GOVERNMENT OF CANADA • TO : Mr. L,T , Campbell, Ottawa, Ont. f1!0M 1 Director, )(eteorolo gl oal Branch, Tor an to 1 Ont. OUR PILi No: S5960- 2 SUBIII':T1 Sighting Abandoned Floating Station - Ice Reoonnai nanoe Flight. DATI: April 28, CONFIDENTIAL le Attached ie a report of the s ighting or an abandoned campsite on the Baffin Island paolc i ce, observed during the f:lrat aeries of long range ioe reconnaissance flights aa outlined in ICEREO 4•1961, This report was pr epared by Joe Obsorver-in-<lharge of the m iaaion , Mr, E, Stae~ ehyn . 2. Kennedy, Defence, A oopy of the report haa been forwarded to Ur, D,B, Li ai son Meteorologist, Joint Stnff, Depar tment ot' Nat1 onal Ottawa, I 1961. ' · We should Appreciate guidanoe ae to the channel fo r re porting / .future eightinga nf thi 11 nature, Also may we be adviaed pleue whether aight1n6• nlong the ooaet of Newfoundland or foreisn sealing ahipa and "mother ehipe" should b., re ported, and if ao , to wham and what should bft the meane of col!lllunioatian , enol c. ~%£ -~··' ~· · 0 P .O~aggart-cowan Director, Veteorologioal Branoh
• 0 • l:'lrst ,.. Series of Long Range Arotio Round Robin los Reoonnaiasnnoo flights April 22nd - April 25th, 1961 . An a pparently unoccupied ice station waa sighted April 22nd a.t 2120 O.M. T. The ei te wae l ooa.ted about 36 ml.lea east s outheaat of Cape Christian , posi ti. on 7026 North 6623 Weet. The site waa twelve ml.lee within the fast loe botmdary. I oe in the area wae 10/lOta OoneoH.datod , A e;e 7(1f. Polar ~winter , Ridging and iiUI!lmooldn& Hea-vy, Snow oowr con- tinuous, n111o loebergs within a fifteen lllile n~Uus , two being pinnaoled ono of whl oh Willi four mi loe north., <~ at of~~~ ei te, The el te 1 tself "11.8 l oonted a long tho northwest edge of a giant pol ar floe . Within~~~~ site there wore about nine Be par ate buildings , two of the bulldj ngs nppeared to have a dome shaped oan~ee covered construction attaobed , the bu1ld1ngs wore of wood~ metal ooDBtruatton and &~raged amnll cottage in size . An exposed three bladed helicopter about the alee of~ Bell RanGer lie a few hundred feet wes t of tho main buildings , numerous dr ums and a fallen radio mast wo.o also observed within tha site area.
APStSL 14-12· 17 October 20, 1960. :.a. Ar.natr"ll{S• t;e 1 ., e ,.ut,y rlinietqr, Depi.Ll' t mant ot lhtionu1 Dolence, ottmm1 lkaturiu. l!ofl'renoe io mnao to your let tor o t l·OJ)tOillbo:r 8 1 1960, your filn ~;:,u 1124· 2 (JIC) , O()ncG.rnin,; oomuuniCtltlon inetruotiona tor the n portil'I,J of vital 1ntelliaenoo ( IJliiVI~/dMIIII'l'). lD repl,y to the qu_ory in your l u t p1m1- .~01 h 1 t vould advioe thttt 21l.S0 oo · 1 ~11 of your CIU'Ill will be n cull.roll t or diatribu.tion within thia O e piirt,llent. rou.ra vor;, trul.:l'. ( J . K. tl&ldvin) , !le11ut.Y .tiniater. r T , I~ .0 A CCt. lltP tm' llKI ~tiR (\ MAJUNt "'--------JI"OOVRRNMRNT OP' CANADA CALL MEMO CGSB 8·GP-ll P .P .&S. Cat. 3432 FOR FROM .. ' ..... ' ,, 0 •• • ............... •• ••• ....... . OF v ~/~~/kl • D LONO DISTANC&-· D PLEASE CALL 0 WILL CALL AGAIN 0 VISITED YOU D WANTS TO SEE YOU MESSAOR : •(If long dlltonce, record O/'crator number ond dill) ........ /2. 7~ ...................... .• •••••••••••••••••••••.••• ":J··· .•..•.•••• • •••• ••••••• •••••••••• •••••••••• • .................. ,. .. /( . (), P. t otoooootoooooootooroo tit I lttlfotlol'l.fllllltttoolltlllottttllllflltfflt ll l ffll t tf o too ot l ooo ttt l otltf ltf l ll tlll l ll ltltt Ill OtffllllftttiiiOIII Ill I f IIIII I II O O I I f 0 t lolfltllo o t ff f ooo Oil 01 IOt41 1t l l 1 1 f0 0 I f I I t 1101111111110 I 011 I Ill I llltllt tiOO I IO O o 0 0 I o I ·········· · ·· ············································· · ····································~········· ···· ········ ....... . -~ . BY TIM It 9 .. O S'" A.M . P.M.
TO FROM : SUBJECT: MEMORANDUM (/ / f (/ A .D .'f/.A ,' t:, ~ 'V • GOVERNMENT OF CANADA YOUR FILE No: OUR FILE No: 11,.-12-17 FSS:EK DATE: O ctober 13th, 196o. Referring to rour memorandum of September 14th it would appear that the number of Oirvis lobrint reporting procedure poster s required for .!-Iarine Se~rioe e vould be 200 for O . L. H. and 25 for Pilotage. (Gordon 11. stead) Assistant Deputy !1l.nioter, t-nrine. OOSB Siondord 6-GP-:12J P P S S Col, No. 3590
TO FROM : MEMORANDUM D . v.A. ftq) C. A. T, • GOVERNMENT OF CANADA YOUR PILE N o : OUR PILE No: 11.-12•17 (ATP) SUBJECT: CIRVIS MERINT Reportin~ Procedures DATE: 19 Sept.,l96o, 1, With reference to the query contained 1n DTB'e memorandum of 15 September, hereunder, it is euggeeted thAt there should be a poster in every Civil Aviation office where night plans may be ~"" filed in person by the pilot.. (11{; t; ' 2. Since there are eight ATC Centres and 29 Control Towers, If ~~~ the ATO requiranent will be only '37 poetere. f/ r.- - r/,: ~ ,.., : ti.,J· 3. Aa discussed, however, it is considered that we should v ~· obtiiitr An additional poster ror each of the l'JO.odd airports in which we have an interest or a suggested Civil Aviation total of approximately 170 poatere. 4. Submitted please.FROM MEMORANDUM • GO VERNMENT OF CANADA D, C, A. - ATTENTIOJI A. T. C. D.T.B, YOUR FILE No: OUR FILE N.., 14-12-17 (SAE-C) OIRVIS KERINT REPORTIITG PROCEDURE D ATE: SEPT , 15 1 In order that a cons oli dated nnd co- ordi nated repl r m~ be made to the D. N,D. letter of September 8, 1960 (Foli o 5S01 below) concerning Departmental requirement & fo r Oirvio Merint reporting procedure poeters may we be advised please of the number of these posters you will requi re for diotr1but1on to your eo tabliehment a . 2. Since the D.N.D. i s pr eaei ng for tb1e information, early advice will be appreciated, l~~t L (11'.0. Nixon), f"' Director, Telecommunications and :llectronice Branch.
APSt SL - D. O, A, - A 'l'Tt,fn'lCih A. T. C, l), 'l'.ll. OIBfl S Hlmitn' Jtl.!POR'fT'IG P.ROC»DURE 1' ... 12-17 (SoU'.- C) S¥PI' . 15, 1960 I n ordet- that " coneolidatrod a nd oo-ordl M t ecl 1'111"17 msy bft ~~ 1 0 t n tho D. W , n, l etter of No ~te ~be r 8, 19 60 (Yelle 5501 below) oonoer nS.ng »opartmon\al ri!Q\li . r t~monta for Olrrie Iter t nt ro1 orting ~o oodurl) poator e n'll\ll" we bo ntlri nnd plonttt ot the numbor o r thnoe , o etare you w111 r A q,uirn fo r rUa·tt'l butloh t o ,your e u tabU nh~nBnh. 2 , ~lnao t ho D. f{ , D, 1e preulng fo r thte 1nfOl'llll\tion, oarl y ~vi ce wilt be ~np~o ! Rtocl, t), 10 t t "' I ' •f t· • C. AJ. JJ LL \.! i'1 ~ (F, G. Nixon) , D1rsceto~ T o1e oo~l ~t1o ne And llleotronlce llranch .()3.()051 10071 FILE NO. DOSSIER N• • I 2 - 1 - .s.~ I VOLUME NO. 1 VOLUME N• DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT MINISTER'S OFFICE ' MINISTERE DES TRANSPORTS CABINET DU MINISTRE Ul.IDEr4TIFIED FLYHG ODJECTB ' ;;!. ~ 8 '? ~ ~ ::1 " ~ ~ I\ ' ~ ~ ~ v ... .., " ~ ...
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' I •• • Transport Tr 8/lSI)()II s ~.? :J Car-.da Car-. de Mr. Hugh F . Cockrane, 100 Walpole Ave., Toronto, Ont., M4L 2Jl Dear Mr. Cookrane: p (?~ YOIM' lilt vov. tftfletttt Ott l ilt Ottawa, Ontario I<lA ON5 December 22, 1978 5400-7-5 Transport Minister Otto Lang has asked me to reply to · your recent letter on the subject of "Project Magnet" and OFOs . We do not have copies of the report to which you refer, but suggest you contact the - Meteor Centre, Planetary Sciences Section, Herzberg Institute of Astro-Physics, National Research Council , Ottawa , ontario KlA OR6 613 - 996- 9345 , or The u.s . Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington, o.c . , U.S.A., 20330 Enclosed for your information is a Canadian paper on the subject . Good luck with your research . Encl. o.c . : c. Eic:kner / • Yours truly, s1oned 'D'I l)rlolnal Ef\·\. d C M. f~AS If . 1 ~1nal alon• \) Craig Fraser-Lee Liaison Officer Public Affairs
UFO'S WHAT ARE THEY? BY A.E. [ILLEGIBLE] p. 3 [handwritten: 14-359]
,. ,lu R rch Council. 'Or. Allen G. M "Ito aaintd hi' rh .D. In rh)'ldn from University of Sa\katchcwan I~ currenll)' H cad. 1-'lanetary Sclencf'l Sccrlun. H~b er& lrutltutc of Asnophyslcs. l'iatlonal He has en Involved In auroral, meteor and lonospherlt nnarch and ha• cmplo)td e~perlmcntal techniques uslna radar, photuaraphlc, and photomet ric systems_. and rocket borne probes. The Plonctery Sciences Section currently has research projects In the rollowlnc areas. emonc~t others: Field oburvellons of eu rora ere made by redar and by optical methods at man) situ a-cross Canada. mainly In the Arctic and sub-Arctic n111ons. The Section also operates a Prairie l'ictwork of ll stations for the photoaraphlc rceordlna or mcreor cntrlu Into the atmosphere. and a 111Uiti·opt lcaland rad.r system ar Ottawa for the obnn·atlon of met eon. DEFINING THE TERM UFO Taken literall)•. the term Unidentified Flying Object means any phenomenon detected in the air for which the observer has no immediate logical explanation in terms of natural events or phenomena. However. if sufficient I)' good data are obtained and ' or sufficaent investigation and analyses are performed. then it may perhaps be found to he a perfectly natural earthly phenomenon or object. It 15 then no longer unidentified, There are some people. often cilllcd 'believers'. who take the posit ion that if It is not identined th en it must be or extra-terrestrial or supernatural onatn (often called the ETH, or extraterrestrial h)·pothesis}. This connotation has been so widely propagated >n the public media and by Its proponents. that the popular concept or 'UFO' Is Immediately synonomQus with 'extraterrestrial visitor'. Actually, in the great mlljority or UFO reports there is no definite yes or no answer and there never can be, simply because the data recorded are either lack1ng entirely or Insufficient to make an interpretation. The proper scientific attitude is to declare the observation to be indeterminate. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF UFO's Reports of unusual sightings. very similar to many to or today's UFO repom, go bacl( into antiquity. Take for example, the wheels in the sl:y described by Ezekiel in the 6th Century B.C., or the numerous myths or the ancient Orecks. The descriptions orthe appearance and behaviour or their phenomena arc similar to today's. bur expressed In the language and beliefs or the time. In the middle ages such sightings led to the belief in witches. demons. wiurds. fairies, ghostS. elves, to mention just a few. In the 1890's. there was a nap or mysterious airships reported in the United States. The terms 'flying saucers' and 'U FO's' arose in 1947 from the news media descriptions or a phenomenon seen by a private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, in the United Statu. (It is probable that he wu seeing mountain tdp mirages.) However, throuahout the enure course of human history there hu never been an authentic case of physical contact with an alien spacecraft or of the recovery or a~;~y anlfact of clearly extraterrestrial origin. In 1947, the U.S.A.F. set up Project Bluebook to collect 10 U t'O rcr>orts. 1 .. projC<!t wus finally abandoned in 19t>9 with the publication orthe Condon repon on the content :I of their ntes. From 1951 to 196M. the Department of!'\ational Defence in Canada operated a parallel dot a collection project. Then in 1969, D.N.D. deela s~ifi ed the files and turned t~e collection and maintennnce of the UFO files over to the 1\ational Research Council. TYrES OF UFO OBSERVATIONS Reports of U FO's may be eategori7.ed in the foilowina five types: (i) VIsual sishtinas (ii) Photographs (iii) Radar detection (iv) Local effects remaining on the iround (v) Close encounters with vehicles and beinas. Before continuing with a discussion of the types of observations. one should examine the physical and psy· chological characteristics of the human ·inst rumcnt' to try to understand its sources of error and limits of observation. THE HUMAN BEING AS A 'TRANSDUCER' AND 'RECORDER' The single most important factor in understanding the UFO problem, yet probably the most overlooked one. is the human observer himself. It is not suf!ic1ent to think only in terms of th e physical laws which the alleged object must obey. but one must al!o recoanize the data distonion which goes on in the eye·bnun mechantsm of the observer. and the psycholoay of the human both individually and en masse. (a) The eye. When the eye is cons1dcred as a purely optical element, it ts found that the physical ilmit of angular resolution is about 3.5 minutes of arc (about 1/ 10 of the diameter or the moon). However, when an observer rcpons a •saucer' which is 30 meters In diameter with a row of 10 ponholes and his estimate or some other independent observation places it at some distance more than II km away, then we kuow that the portholes are a fiament of the imasination. . . ' ... ... - . .: .. , .-~ - . . .. ... ·- - - -· 1 .... • • ,. . " . A htltht ttiiiiOt 11111/ , rordtd "' on# of th# HH'i-v /i#IJ JtGHcuu uf tltr Mtlt<Y OIIJtnvllitDII find Rttu''*''·'' Protttt t~~ hu•h U QfJttQUfllw NRC In tltt P'''"' f"O''"'rn. Tli' ilflil tm81' 1 1 i'huppNI J linii'J "'' J«oml lh o tOIIIIItt' JIIUtllt to promH ,.,fortt••• ndJrNic-ultHJn tl•t•. Tltu mtltn,.uorl IJ •bout ]j km /unit" Glt 11lf1111Jt of •hou.t fO knt, Sut'h '""'u" ~·tty on,. RtntWUf UFO rtputtJ. When one tt1t.sthe stereoscopic depth perception of a pair of eyes, it turns out t-hat distance estimates beyond about 100 meters arc impossible by this means. Any distance estimate beyond this is based upon mental judg111ent of the superposition or known objects In front of 11 or on an assumpt ion about the linear dimension of the object. The ,
•• fnct is, the eye can only estimate the augulnr size lEI) or the object. This is related to the linear dimension (.ll of the object and hs distance ( r) b)' the relation e = I./ r For an unfamliW. ' object asainst a featureless background. the separat es of i and rare unknown. ln\'ariably for any object, t rain makes some assumption. either consciously or unconsciously. about either~ orr In order to estimate the other. If one value i5 grossly in error then the other one will be also. and the identification of the object is likely to be total!)' inaccurate. The same errors apply in any estimates of the linear velocity or the object. Two examples of the most common errors orthis type will make this clear. A bright star or planet suc.llas Venus Is orten mistaken for a nyin&; saucer about 10 meters in diameter at a distance ofa kilometer orso.ln reality. Venus is 12300 km in diameter and about 48.000,000 km away. A bright meteor, leaving a naming trail of hot gases 10 km long, is hurtlina at 30 km / sec through the atmosphere 200 km away. Yet the observer interprets it as a nearby rocket· propelled craft Oying on an imminent collision course with him. (b) The eyt·braln mechanism. As described in the previous section. the eye and brain do not function simply as a camera lens and photographic lilm. Only a small part of the optical information can be transmitted and the brain can recei\'c lnformatton relatively slowly. What appears to happen is that a relative!)• few Information bits tngger associative memories and pauerns withi n the brain which then more-or-less fashions an impreuion or model based on its previously buih·in fund of knowledge, conceptions, interpretations, and expectations. In shon, the human sees wbat he wants to see, what he is conditioned to see, and what he expects to sec. In the face of a surprising or frightening situation, the distortion introduced by the brain is greater still. Everyone is familiar with the major disagreements both in detail and in general amona testimonies given in coun by witnesses to an event. (c) Tht pllychology of tht human. The human basically believes what he wants to believe and sees what he wants to see. Either consciously or unconsciously he interprets the signals from his senses and forms his conclusions in terms of his social conditioning and personal knowledge and experience. For example, a modern man may think that the meteor he sees is a rocket-propelled spaceship, bu1 an ancient Greek would have described it as an angry god coming in a naming chariot tO punish him. his believed that many people arc receptive to the extraterrestrial visitor hypothesis because they secretly hope 1hat a wise and benevolent superior civiliz.ation is ncar a1 hand to help solve the crushina problems of the world. (dl Effect of tht Mass Med ia. In a continued deluge of ideas from the public med1a of newspapers. radio and TV. the individual loses his capacity for Individual reason and follows the nock. The reasons are not difficult to sec. In I he initial excitement or a spectacular UFO report, the media rush the scnsa1ional details onto the from page (too often without taking the time and cffon to dO even elementary checking) and many people will believe all of this. When the)' go outdoors they arc conditioned to interpret almost anything unusual that they sec as a UFO. This feeds back through the media again in an expanding wave of repom throughout an entire area. Much later. when a detailed and ' painstakinsanalysts of the case may sho"' that the original sighting was simply a meteor or a hoax for exllmple. 1his mundane explanation Is either ianorcd by the media or relegated to some inner pageasa filler. However the original (erroneous) interpretation of the repon as an exira- terrestrial spacecraft lives on and may even be quoted and re-quote.d throughout the UFO lheralure as a 'classical unsolved' case. (i) Visual sighrlngs of U FO's The preceding section has indicated the difficulties which the human mechanism luis In obser\'ing and inlcrprcting an unusual phenomenon. Many things of natural origin produce the original "imulus - bright planetS and 5\ars, met eors. aircraft landing lights and navigat ion lights, high altitude balloons, aircraft contrails. sun glints from aircraft, chemical seeding experiments in the ionosphere from rockets. satellite re-entries. unusual cloud formations. birds, Insects. power line renections. reflections from windows and other surfaces, aurora, sundogs. mirages, -the list is almost endless. Coupled with these sources arc additional effects innoduced by refraction in the atmosphere. layers of icc crystal.s and clouds. as well uthe ph}·siologiCJtl behaviour of the eye such u autokinesis which produces an impression of mo1ion of a fixed source resulting from uncontrollable irregular movements of the eyeball. Moreover. when observed from a movina vehicle. a distant fixed source of light will appear to be following the observer. It has been estimated by Klass thai a1 least SO% of the UFO reports of lights are due to I he bright planets and stars. (ii) Pltotagraphs of U FO's 1\ photograph of an object tends to be regarded as incomrovenible evidence of an event. However. to one familiar with the photographic process it is realized thal fakes are extremely easy to produce but often very diflicult to detect and disprove. A small model suspended by thin threads or 1hrown in the air aaainst a suitable background can scarcely be distinguished from 1he real thing. Double exposures. internal rencctions in the lens elements. lens aberrations, and defeo1s and scra1ches in the nlm can produce startling effects. It is interesting to note that In S)'litc of the estimated 50 billion photographs taken in the last 30 years by the eStimated 80 million cameras in North America, there is not a single photo showing a craft·like UFO which has whhstood close analysis ( Klass 1972). (iii) Radar U FO's Electronic equipment such as radar is also subject to its own characteristic cleflcicnces, aberrations. faults, and blind spots. Electronic 'glitches' due to circuit faults or to interference (bo1h Internal and external sources) can lead to false Impressions of solid targets which show apparent velocities and acceleralions of which normal vchiclcsare not capable. The operator of such equipment is very often not suflicientl)• technically knowledgeable about the symm to recosnlzc the source of the anomaly: sometimes I he designer or manufacturer must be consulted to learn of the idiosyncracies of which the sys1em Is capable. In addition. anomalous propagation effects such as atmospheric ducttng will give rise to echoes from ground targets or tarseiS a1 unusual ranges. Such radar ·angels' can also amc from reflections from Oocks of birds and even from insectS. To the orerator. these echoes with propenies unlike any aircraft may be interpreted as U FO's. II
•• On the other hand one ha.s onl)• to look at the vase rldar coverage of this continent - air craftic conuol r.tdars . weache~da rs. militnry surveillance radars. and ballistic missile ction s~stcms- and one realizes that it would be impossi e not to ptck up and track any extraterrestrial spacecraft. For example. uperimcnts have shown that a high-power air-defense radar can detect a single bird at ranges up to 160 km. and even a single bumblebee released from on aircraft. II has been stated that some of the best missile detection radars can detect an object the size of a 0.22 calibre bullet at more than 1600 km. Yet no extraterrestrial spacecraft has ever been tracked. (iv) Lora/ tffms of UFO landings Three of the most commonly reponed observations anrlbutcd to UFO's arc 'landing pod' depressions in the soil. broken tree limbs. and burnt rings in the arus. In addition to the obvious Invitation to hoaxers. these effects can often be explained by natural circumstances. A 'believer' who wants to find UFO evidence will search for a patern ofthree or four depressions in tho ground. or for limbs of trees broken in the area, or for burnt patche.s produced by an exhaust. and will probably find something whtch ap- proximates one or more of these conditions. However, careful measurcmenu usually show that the so-called pad depressions are not precisely spaced or onented and are probably a random coincidence of natural roughness. Broken branches can be found on almost any tree if one looks for them. Finally, burn t ringJ in the grass are well· known to agricultural scientists and golf coune operators throughout the country. Circular rings of burnt grau are produced at cenain times In the year by the action of the fairy-ring mushroom. (v) Clost tnrounttn These cases involve stories of close encounters with either spacecraft or their occupants. No such cases have ever been adequately substantiated. After thorough investigation they have either been ad mined or suspected hoaxes, or else the story had so many inconsistencies that a hallucination or misrepresentation of che truth is suspected. HO AXES AND FABRI CATED STORIES Hoaxes and fabricated stories occur in any of the areas of visual. photosraphic. radar, local effects and close en· counters repons, School boys have caused many spec· tacular sishtinss by Oying hot air plastic bags with candles under them. Somwmes stories are fabricated to achieve notoriety, and sometimes economic gain Is the motive. For example, payments for TV appearances or publication riahls, attraction of tourist dollars to a community, and increasing the market value of a property. SCIENTISTS' VIEWS ON EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL LIFE When one considers the abundance of complex molecules revealed in outer space by the spectral scudies with radio telescopes, and the fnct that there are 2 x 10~ (200 billion) scars tn our own Milky Way galaxy, few scientiStS doubt that there are probably many planets tn our galaxy with intelligent life forms. However, to be consistent one must also analyze the probability of an advanced civilizacion travelling man)' liQht·yun of distance to our parttcular infinitesimal spot. In addition to the tmmonse di((iculties of distance and location, such a civi llzntion must co-exist m' 12 time whh our limited exinence within the 10 billion vear history of the aalax)'. • • To put the probability in even closer perspective. consider the possibility of radio communication with even the closest star (Aipha-Centauri). 4light·years away, and assume that'll has a co-existing advanced civili7.ation which can re~pond co us. Even though our signals travel with the speed of light. it would take 4 years to se ~d each message and another4 years to wait for the reply to return. At a more probable distance of about 1000 light-years to the nearest c:lvllilation. manv generations of men would die before any acknowledgement , would be received to a query. Any form of physical travel would take much longer because the speed oflight could not be reached b)• a material object. If one thinks that perhaps some alien craft might home in on earth's radio emissions. one must remember that radio wave generation on earth is only about 60 years old. and high power radio generation only about 20 or 30 years old. Hence. the ou twardly advancing front of these signals is still only 60 light yean from earth, Civilitations beyond this distance would not even yet be aware of our tKistenec. UFO FI LES AT THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNTIL All UFO repom received by the Canadian government since 1965 are on file ac the National Research Council. These files are unclauified. and are open to inspection by the public upon appointment. The files arose os an offshoot of the cross-Canada network for collectina mucor fireball reports which assist the meteor research being done in the Planetary Sciences Section of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Reports of both phenomena are received 'in the communication networks of the Armed Forces, the R.C.M .P.. Associate Commiuee on Meteoritics, and bv mail from the general public. These are separated at N. R.C. into the meteoritic and non-meteoritic (UFO) files. Addi· tional field investigations are not done in general since the available details arc normally communicated from the source. Further investigations. if any, are done only if the scientl(ic content appears to justify it. SUMMARY Two thousand years of observations and thirty yean of rather intensive collection ( I S.OOO repons in the USAF Project Bluebook and 1500 in Canada) and examination of repons have not yielded any positive sighting or artifact of extra·terrestnal origin. However, the data collection pro· cess continues for its scientific merits co aid in meteor research and the recording of rare atmospheric: phenomena. If and when some new phenomenon is observed. the data will be available for Interpretation. An improved awareness by observers of the errors and biases inherent in the human senses will help co produce more useful data. More precise notation of time, location. azimuth and elevatton o( the object, weather conditions, and the presence or absence of sun, moon. and stan would also be helpful in reporting observations. Sel~<tt<l lthlloaraphr Condon. E. U .. 1969, SclontiRc Studr ol UnldcnliOcd Ft)lna ObJ,. ... Rontam Book!, ltV, H)nek , J .A., 1972. The UFO Eapnlcnct, Ballentine Bool.s. N.Y. K tu~ PJ ., t97l. UFO'o Eaptt lntd, Random Hou\t, N Y and Toronto, Millman. P. M .. 191$, R.A.S.C. Journal. Vol. 69 . NO, 4, Saaan. C. and T P•e<· 1972. UFO't A ScltntiRc Otbllt. Cornell Univ. PtC11, Ithaca ond London.
·· ~ , H.F.Cochrane • 100 Walpole Ave., oronto 8, Ontario Canada M4L 2J1 Pho11e : (41 6) 463·6563 Hon. Otto La.og Minister Transport Cana~a Dear Sir: ' f'lcr c. T8 ... :.. t De;-uly l •• !;ll~t cr c/ -"~ ,. ' ~--~ i D· ,~,,~~~o, Nov. 30 I 78 As a treelance wri ter I am attempting to gather in:tbr~~~ation re "Fl.Ying Saucers" or UFOs. In tbis connection I am interested in toe work of Wilbert Smi to and "Project Magnet" which was commissioned b3' the. 14inistry of Transport and the Defence Research Board a.od operated at Sbirley Bay bet ween late 1953 and August 1954. I wonder if a summary report of Mr Smi to' a work at this 0 lath-atory is II'Zllilable, also if t here is a report on toe rewults of "Project Uagnet". ~s o , are copies available to toe public and where obtainable. I would al so be interested in any names you might be able to euppl.Y of some of the specialist~ who worked at this laboratory, possibl.Y addresses where they might be reached. AAy assistance you might be able t o ofrer on the above will be appreciated. Admlnblralof '- MmlniiiT.._ IUtEIV~ REs;U I Ab VV\ -- 3 ¥ f.J I 'DEC 13 1919 ).ll 'IVINS!'. ADMI~ ~IN. TlANSI'. AflliiNS Sincere]..y, ~/!&~·~ Hugh 'J". Cochrane
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' ' ·H.F.Cochrane . 00 Walpole Ave .. Toronto 8, Ontario Canada M4L 2J1 Phone : (418) 463·5563 -- Hon. Otto Lang Minister Transport Canada Dear Sir: '{ l. tt., · r: ... .. . . '.roronto, Nov. 30 I 78 As a freelance writer I am attempting to gather information re "Flying Saucers" or UFOs. In this connection I am interested in' the work of Wilbert Smith and "Project Magnet" which was commissioned by the Ministry of Trans-port and t he Defence Research Board and 1 operated at Shirley Bay between late 1953 and August 1954. I wonder if a summary report of Mr Smith's work at t his 0 la~otory i s available, also if t here is a r eport on the rewlts of "Project Magnet". If so, are copies avai lablE!' to the public and wnere obtainable. I would also be interested in any names you might be able to supply of some of the specialists- who worked at t his laboratory, possibly addresses where t hey might be reached. Any ass istance you might be able to offer on the above will be appr eciated . Sincerely, ---~ - -~IJ"; ;.;r Hugh • Cochrane. . 1 • DCMc:en ~ -I - --' ' 66.51-4, (LIOA) . . Mrs. Mary T, Heltlcemper, R.R. No. I, Lower L'Arda.lle, Richmond County, Cape Breton, NoY& Scotla. Dear Mrs. Heltlcempera Thls refen to your letter of January 27, 1978, reprdln& supeuonlc fU&ht actlvlty ln the Nova Scotla area. The delay In replylns Is resretted. Your expreaaed concern resardln& TrBNport Canada's r. llcy toward sonic and superaonlc fU&ht over Canadian territory adcnowledsecf, however, you may be UtUred that exlatln& lesJalatlon Issued lltder the authority of the Aeronautics Act provldea posltlve Depat tmeutal control over thls type of ac:tlvlty. Air Resulatlon Jl-'(2), which expreuly aafesuarda penons and property on the srOll\d and alrcratt In the alr, statea that "No penon lha1l fly an alraaft ln such a mamer u to aeate a shock wave or aonlc boom, the effect of which may Imperil the safety of other alrcratt, be lnJurloua to penona or animals or cause damqe to property.• In addition, Alr Navlptlon Order Set-In V, No. 21, which may be cited the Sonic and Supertonlc PUsht Order, alao detalla the means of controllln& any propa1ed superaonlc flight In Canadian alrapac:e. Parasraph 3 of tttla Order atatea that "No person shall operate an alraatt In Canada In aonlc or auperaonlc fllsht unleu authorized by the Mlnlster." There are no civil resJateted alrcraft In Canada capable of exceedln& the apeed of ao\.lld, and no Mlnlater of Tranaport hu ever authorized supersonic fllsht by foreJan clvll alrcratt over Canadian territory. The ac:ouatlc phenomena which have *n experienced In Nova Scotla have not yet been confirmed u sonic booma althou&h Departmental lnvestlptlon Ia proceedlns ll\der that auumptlon. As you are probably aware, the superaonlc Concorde alraaft Ia QPerated on a acheduled aervlce by British Airways and Alr France between Europe and several cltlea In the eutern United States. As a result of complalnta of allqed aonlc booma ln some areu of the Province and In order to minimize tha poealblllty of aonlc booma over Canadian territory, the Concorde tracka were eatablllhed on February 20, 1'71, to.,.... that theM alreraft approached no clo11r than •o nautical mlln from the cout of Nova Scotia. Th .. fll&hta are belna CO!'tlnuaUy monitored to enaure they comply with their ueTIMCI tnckl. ---
. . It la hoped that the forezolnl wW ualat ln reuawlns you of Tramport Canada'a contlnuln& retpanalblllty and concern for the a1ety of peraona and property on the grOU\d u they are affected by air operatlona. cc: Minister's Records DM, SADM, AATA/DAA DGCA/DDG, Dll Bob Ward ARA-ACA Monc ton Originated by D. C. Mcllralth Typed on June 2, 1978 Y oura sincerely, Bob Ward, Special Aaslatant. LIOA 2-5662
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Jun 7 9:04 AM '78
8 Avalon St. Truro, Nova Scotia
MINISTE- TRANSPOR-
July 5, 1978
Mr. Bob Ward
Special Assistant
Ministry of Transport
Ottawa, Ontario
Dear Sir
In reply to your letter of
June 14, 1978, I heard the
same excuse and explanations.
Frankly, I'm still told
by the Ottawa RCMP Security
to contact Transport. The
Queen of England would be
simpler. To me "probabilities"
"prominivences" "possibilities",
are from security for a nuisance
of this sort, along our coastal
area – here – Truro – Cape Breton –
PEI – Newfoundland – New
Brunswick. When in Cape Breton
Lanner L'Ardoise, an explosionwas manifested – shaking
our house and walls.
I spent at least $50.00 on
long distance calls from there.
No explanation – Even
contacted Halifax National
Defence – Lt-Col. Houser –
Special assistant to the
Admiral: "Who else reports this?"
Here in Truro – Computers.
Some Microwave or such –
Havana Jammer missiles or
"whatever" – Space Project
computers – operate like "Tom
Tom" drums – 24 hours –
night worse than day.
Thundering, rumbling, screeching
Cyclation signals, relays &
"diesels", jets, boats, trains
are never tracking – "in our laws"!
How can you justify this?
Sincerely
Mary T. HeitkemperM. Heitkemper 8 Avalon St. Truro, Nova Scotia [postmark: TRURO 5 VII 1978] AIR MAIL USE POSTAL CODE Canada Cabinet of Ministry of Transport Mr. Bob Ward Special Assistant Place de Ville Ottawa, Ontario K1A0N5
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RR#1 – Lanner L'Ardoise
Richmond County OFFICIAL FILE
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia JAN 31 9 15 AM '78
Jan. 21, 1978 MINISTER [stamp]
Dept of Transport
Hon. Minister Mr. Otto Lang
Ottawa, Ontario
Dear Sir,
After the RCMP Security in
Ottawa, heard my complaint
here, they advised me to contact
the Dept. of Transport.
The appalling lack of regard
for residents here is unbelievable.
The permissions given by your
department for supersonic jet
test flights over Nova Scotia
shows your continued disregard
and lack of concern for the
people of the Maritimes.
1. Foreign jets are training
over our homes like decoys.
Strong powered computers going
incessantly like tom tom drums.
The frequency used is on theSub-sonic, atomic frequency. which is medically on human hearing frequency. In other words you and Communication are allowing this frequency which actually deafens and can rupture ear drums operating as long as 24 hours, including night flights. 2. The use of transducers makes the situation worse amplified at a specific decibel & deafening intensity. 3. The decoy brings in bursts of explosive, supersonic, noise intermittently, including sonic booms. 4. The use of a satellite confuses the issue as to when the maneuvers are. In other
words we are helplessly
dependent on the remote controls
operating here including
probably submarines of Russia.
5. These maneuvers are
actually on a broadcast
media, including interference
frequently, with phones,
power lines, TV, radio,
20 meter band.
I told the RCMP I've
notified Communications on
the use of transducers frequency
etc. They specify to 'notify'
the Dept. of Transport.
It seems to me, our
civil rights have been signed
away here. I've called Ottawa
Security, throughout the nights,
also Sundays including
Christmas. I thank God for
their help but I regret the
lack of your consideration.
These acts spell more
of aggression and deliberate
harassment than necessity of
operation. (Like terrorism)In the U.S. Cuban disregard
in [ILLEGIBLE] frequency had to be brought
to court. Also some Jugoslavs
revolutionists were using
the operation of grounds for
Alitalia, to their own advantage.
Also, of cause the Soviet Unions
ground operations for their
supersonic jet flights, are
as bad as the Concord flights
coming on broadcast from
Air [ILLEGIBLE] France
Really as fellow human beings
please dispense your permits
to diversified areas, like your
own, for a change and
relieve have Serbia of this
lack of consideration.
Please act at once so I
can live in my own home
with reasonable security.
Yours truly
Mary T. HeitkemperI .&. .Minlater ....,.... Transport Canada Minlatre 'n'anaporta Canada No . 45/77 For r e l ease t-larch 11 , 1977 ;-/- J J l!!O.:::UE.::: · .:::E:.;.N_;C:::,:HJ\:.=..:cRL=O::.;T~T~E:.....:I:!::S:::L::.,:A::..:l-I.:::D_A:::.I:::.;I:::.~ ...;T~Rl\~'1/l:::..!•::.:'L::.....::RE=BI\:.:.:.T.:::E~PLA=ll VANCOUVER -- Minioter of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport Iona Campagnolo, anno~nced today that a special r ebate plan has now been e,;tablished to compensate permanent r esidents of tho Queen Charlotte Islands for air t :r.ave l t o and from the Elritish Columbia mai nland . The Skeena MP, in making the announcement on behalf of ~·ran sport Ninister Otto Lang said that under the plan , which will be in c.ft:oct for one yoar, and which is retroactive to Narch l , a rebat:e of $5 ~lil l be paid for each one v1ay trip, and ~10 for e.1oh return trip on any third level air carrier provirling scheduled service to the lslands. HrR. Carnpagnolo said the plan is designed lo help compensate Island residents for the price difference bet\·leen air travel and the ferry service which had previously been provided by the federal gove~:nmenl. "The Nalibu Princess 1 l':hich had been used as a ferry on an interim basis, has now been removed from operation. During the Lhre~ months of its service to the Charlottes , the t1alibu Princess carr.·ied very few passengers, yet cost federal taxpayers $250,000. It is my 11opo that the nc1~ air rebate plan will provide a more general benefit Lo all island residenls, in a fairer and more efficient way" , said Nrs. Campagnoto. Rebate cards, to be picked up when airline t.Lckets are purchased , must be filled out and mailed, along vlith the receipt portion o[ the ticket , to the Regional Administrator , Canadian Air Transportation Administration , Transport Canada, P.O. Dox 443, StaLion n, Vancouver , B. C. VG C 2N2 . • ••• 2 Public Affairs Branch 996· 8874 Dtrccnc n des aftalfes publiques
- 2 - 1\ comprehensive publLc a1·1areness and information prog~;. to acquaint Island residents with the air rebate aystem, Nill be carried out by regional officials of Transport Canada. ' •
( -Elooseil national de recherches Canada President Your letter 11072 1 0 29 ~~ ,77 Horch 10 , 1977 •Hif "'p~ _. Hiss Denise Ashby ~/ ? p ) Minister's Office . Ministry of Transpor " . Place de Ville Ottawa KlA ON5 Dear Hiss Ashby: J ' .... r Request from Richard Bourdeau for information on unidentified flying objects in Can ada This r equest was forwarded to the National Research Council from the Department of National Defence who turned over the responsibility for non-meteoritic sighting& to NRC several years ago. I have asked Dr. A.G. McNamara, Head of Planetary Sciences Section , Herzberg lnstitute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council to send informat ion to Mr . Bourdeau direct . cc: Mr. R. Bourdoau Maj or R.K. Corley (DND) Ottawa, Canada KIA OR6 YouTs sincerely , W. G. Schneider
•• . . Mlle Dfane Laurin Adjofnte spectate Mfnfstlre des C~unfcatfons Cha~re des-COIMunes Ottawa, Ontario. Mademoiselle, Le 18 fevrfer 1977 Vous trouverez cf-fnclus copfe d' une lettre adressee a monsieur Richard B ourdeau concernant certaines fnformatfons qu'fl d!sfre obtenfr sur les objets volants non 1dentfffes au Canada. Veu11lez agreer, Mademofselle, l'express1on de mes sentfnentl dhtfngues. L'asafatante I la recherche, Den1se Alhby Pflce Jofnte
•• M. R1 chard Bourdeau 100 est, rut Wt11eslty Ap,arte.ent : &Ol Toronto, Ontarfo . M4H 1H5 Mol'ls1eur, Lt 18 ftvr1tr 1977 Au no. de l'honorablt Otto Lang, J'accusa rfctpt1on de votl"' note tn date du 15 ffvr1tr 1977, concernant votre Msfr d'obttn1r dts 1nforwat1ons ayant trait a 1t prfsanca de certatns objets voltnts non tdtnt1f1fs au Ctntda. Je fats parventr votra note au •1n11tlre dtl Co..untctttons qu1 YOUS ftrl parvtnfr des 1nfo,..ttOnl a Ct Sujtt. Veut11tz tgrfer, MOnsteur, l'eKpresston dt .. , sentt .. nts dht1ngues . L'asststanta a 11 recherche, Dtnht Ashb j
Toronto, 15 fevrier 197?. I A qui de droit, J'aimerais recevoir de plus amples inf'orma,tions A propos de la presence presumee d'objets volants non ident~fies au Canada. MercL A l'avance, A~~ t\nd- , Richard Bourdeau (verso)
100 a rue Wellesley, appart ent no. 2601 , Toronto , Ontario . M4Y 1H5. Tel. 925-1871 .
• Le MinistAre federal des transports, Bureau du Millistre, Edifice " TranSl>ort Canada ", Place de Vill.e, Ottawa, Ontario. KlA 0!15 , e ·
Frg 18 8 56 AM '77 RECEIV MINISTER OF TR[ILLEGIBLE]PORT
,, • ••• • Mtnlstor Mlnistre Transport Canada Tr11nsp01 ts Canada Mr, Jack ~furta, M.P. Room 450 WB House of Co1m10na Ottawa, Ontario Dear Mr . Hurta r Minis tor 'a copy ~- 1 -l s This is further to my interim reply of Janu.ary 24, 1977 to your le t ter of January 19 , 1977, concerning a r eques t from ono of your constituents for assistance in locating reports on Unidentified Plying Objects filed soma years ago by ~lr. Wilbert Smith who once worked in this Department . My officers have attempted to locate the donnant Transport files which would have carried these reports but, unfortw1atoly, tho volumes relating to the periods Hr. Smith was activo in this work have been destroyed as is normal for all files of this ago, In carrying out their research on the matter, my officers found that •lr. Smi t!h • s widow still. resides in Ottawa and they spoko with hor regarding your inqwry. Mrs. Smith still has many of her husband' s popors on the s ubject in Hhioh your con uti tuont ia i n to rested, j noluding a book published a short time be foro hie death, Mrs. Smith expressed a willingness to discuss your constituent ' s rcquiromont:s with him if lao would ge c in touch with her, Hrs, Smith' s address is 810 Canterbury Avenue, Apartment 507 , Ottawa, Telephone 521-2032. Your constituent may also find assistance in his project if he would contact Dr. P.~1 . Hillman and D r . 1\,G. McNamara of tho l!orzberg Institottc of Astrophysics , Planetary Sciences Section , National Researnh Council, Ottawa KlA OR6. Tho Planetary Sciences Section is tho depository of al l Canadian reports on Unidentified Flying Objocts. Dr . Millman worked directly with Mr. Smith on Ptar:o do Ville Ottawa KIA ON5
• ~) several projects ln the area of inte~;est. Dr. HcNamora, BB hoad of tho Planetary Sciences Section, would be the boat contoct in requesting copies of any material on hia section's files. or. Millman moy be reached by telephone at Government local 996-9345 and or. McNamara at 992-6511. Yours sincoroly, C»IG•NJJ. .JG:-..J 01 HON. ono E. LANG Otto Lang
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• ' Mr. .J~ck Murta, H. P. , Room <150 WD, Rouse of Comnone, Ottawa, Ontario. Dear Mr. Murtas ' /jw 2-l-33 type4 s Jan. 21/77 I am .,ri tinq on beltalt ot Mr. Lang to aoltnOI'- le~qe receipt ot your J anuary 19th letter ooncerninq UPO report~ an~ to let you know tbat tlta Hiniater will be replyinq further a• 1oon •• ro~aihle. Sincenly, Adrian Lanq, s~cial ~~iiatant.
\~ .. • JACr 0 MURTA, M.P. t1,,,.,., ~,.o vve H OUS E O F CO MM O N S CONSTITUENCY OF PICE Mr. Homer Homlllon t fO J ~·' t. . munont CANAO~ P 0. Box 1809 \VInkl•r. Manltobo 328·9155 (1u "-"11, OnriJirlo l!~.t -IU 10 .-,. :;, - ... , -c .' (" ~.-. ~. ,,, ,_ ~ r J .::::;• .. ..c. ;:. ,."" " ., .wiAC~l[ Hon. Otto Lang , Minister of Transport, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario. January 19th, 1977 . Dear Sir: I am writing to you further to an unusual request from one of my constituents. I would appreciate it if you could look into the following matter, since your department would most likely know which resourcos to follow. My constituent is doing a research project on a man by tho name of Wilbur Smith who was at one time with the Department of 2 f.ba nsport in the 1950 ' s. M r. Smith was responsible for the filing of Unidentified Flying Object cases for the department of Transport. According to my constituent there are apparently reports filed which are located within your department somewhere in Ottawa. I would appreciate it if you could look i nto the above meutioned matter for me, in order that I may reply to my constituent . The constituent of which I speak in involved with the International UFO Registry foY' Canada and is most anxious to know the where abouts of Mr. Smith's reports. Thank you in advance for your help in this most unusual requoat. ~sgar - Manjtoba ., • MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT - MIN ISTEIU DES TRANSPORTS Office of the Ceblntt du Ottawa, K t A ONI Oa te •• \ . ·'· ••••••••••••••••••• ••••• •. / ••••••• •• •• . •• ••.•• 0 TO: AU : DEPUTY MINIITER SOUl MIN ISTRE ..(1 TO: ,~AU : DEPUTY MINtiT£R'S OA=ICE CABINET DU SOUl MINIITRE • ALIO RlfiiU,ID TO : AU Ill TRANIMII AU : D S PEC IA L AD V I S.OR CO NSEILLER SPEC IAL PLEASE - I'll VOUI PLAIT D PREPARE REPLY FO R SIG NATURE O F: PRE PARER R£PONSE POUR L A SIG NA TURE Dl: · D SEN D C OMM ENTS TO : FA IRE PA RV EN IR VOS COMMENT A IRES A U . D D D 0 D D D M INISTER M IN ISTRE SPEC I A L A DV ISOR C ON SE I LL ER SPEC I AL EXECU TIVE A SSISTANT A DJ OINT SPEC IA L ASSI STANT - SPECI AL MOJECTS ADJ OINT - PROJETS SPECIA U X SE NI OR ADMINISTRATI V E O FF I CER A OM I NI STRATfUR PRIN CI PA L PARLIAMENTARY A SSISTAN T SEC RETA IIU PA RLEMEN TA IRE UNOE RS IG ~ E O SOUSSI GNE J1 FOR D IRECT REPLY ·~ POUR REPONSE DI RECT£ 0 Fg R PERUSAL AND A PPROPJIIATE ACli O N P U A L EC TURE ET SUI TE NECESSA I A 0 FOR IN FO RMA TION POUR INFORM ATION REMARKI - OIIERVA TION D THIS LETTER HAS N OT BEEN A C !iNOWL EDO ED , N OUS N ' A VONS PAS A CCU SE RE CE PTION DE C ETTE LETTRE, 03·0072 SIONATURE
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' ll understand that. ~or either d e vice i1me t o aet int erest ed . - · Ln :.! wcake fro ro now nt t hfl hd.es t 111Y adtlres!l will be ••• • ojo Rongard- . .:orrl.son , Royt•l ll~t nk lllctncr . lf!Ol OrtviVillo , l!ulif ttK Hs . n;J::!l'j IHJU 'lBO Ltutly 1 1 ho VonUurAt tmjen Rosoarch' oompRny by '/o:.'N , Ph • I> • I' . J • .'ne ol<l.ur , ou~n ioor invention ?hS ot'r'arad on "euarruneo of eatln• facL10n , 01 ' rfltu r·n tho oqulp or.o.~nt. l'or a ful l :refund, qu11.o unu11u~l for ao:roopuoe-equi[Mdllt , llu1. ~hen i t c:~uld be t'lown like n ~Sliacr ma tt.n t finul lue roquirlnt: l uok nnd lnn-iini, 4tnt! 1:ould ra-.e a l'ilot who lm11 boor. c ~lidor pllot n1. ono t i~o in hin beckeround ,