What does Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) reveal?

Mrs. of Maple Ridge, Carleton County, New Brunswick reported a cross-shaped red blinking object on 1 May 1972 at 12:15 A.M, observed for approximately 20 minutes; an identical sighting occurred the following night beginning at 12:40 A.M. Weyburn, Saskatchewan UFO report on 22 May 1972 at 11:15 PM CST: round object, initially about half the size of the moon…

Which agency produced Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)?

Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) is a primary-source record from Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council. Its original classification was UNCLASSIFIED.

When is Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) dated?

Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) is dated 1972. It was disclosed 2010-01-01.

What programs and topics appear in Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)?

Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) references NRC Meteor Centre, RCMP Operational Manual CO-Air 1195, Upper Atmosphere Research Section, RCMP UFO report, Canada and fireball.

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Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)

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.

Brief

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.

Metadata

Agency: Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council
Release: 2010-01-01
Type: PDF • .pdf
Length: 359 pages
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Programs: NRC Meteor Centre, RCMP Operational Manual CO-Air 1195, Upper Atmosphere Research Section
Tags: RCMP UFO report, NRC Meteor Centre, Canada, 1972, fireball, radar-negative visual, cross-shaped object, red glowing object, greenish-blue light, photographic analysis

Key points

Mrs. of Maple Ridge, Carleton County, New Brunswick reported a cross-shaped red blinking object on 1 May 1972 at 12:15 A.M, observed for approximately 20 minutes; an identical sighting occurred the following night beginning at 12:40 A.M.p.1
Weyburn, Saskatchewan UFO report on 22 May 1972 at 11:15 PM CST: round object, initially about half the size of the moon at approximately 1,500 ft, color varying from dull orange to bright orange almost like fire, followed by a police car NNW from Weyburn for roughly 1.5 hours.p.3
Nampa, Alberta sighting on 23 April 1972 at approximately 9:30 AM MST: Mrs. reported two circular greenish-blue lights with bright halos approximately 10 feet off the ground, about 4 inches in size, accompanied by a screeching siren-like sound; husband heard the noise but did not see the object.p.6
NRC Upper Atmosphere Research Section examined the Cape Forchu, Yarmouth County, NS photograph taken 31 March 1972 and concluded the red speck was caused by a scratch fully penetrating the emulsion, with characteristics consistent with a meteor fireball.p.7
Calgary sighting on 11 March 1972 at 10:10 PM: object approximately 10 times brighter than a star, yellow with blue fringes ranging to brilliant white through 8x30 field glasses, estimated altitude 5,000-6,000 ft; McCall Field Control Tower 30-mile radar search returned negative.p.22
Ebenezer, Saskatchewan: glowing red oblong light reported nightly between 11:45 PM and 12:30 AM from the last week of April through 5 May 1972, apparently in the area of Good Spirit Lake NW of Ebenezer.p.9
Prince George, BC sighting 14 May 1972: circular bright white light approximately 3 times the size of the stars, moved eastward in a zig-zag path, then oscillated in one spot before resuming a zig-zag motion; no sound, sky clear.p.11
Salt Pond, Newfoundland fireball on 19 March 1972 at 3:30 AM: caretaker of the Burin District Vocational School described a red ball approximately two feet in diameter with a one-foot red tail and 100-foot white streak, falling roughly 2,000 feet from his position; subsequent ground search of the frozen pond returned negative.

Verbatim

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 FIRE
p.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'' AP4RT
p.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 RAPID
p.22

Most interesting

The RCMP's standardized UFO reporting telex follows a lettered field schema (A through H) covering date/time, sky conditions, witness, location, description, duration, and additional notes, a structured format adopted decades before AARO's modern UAP intake form.
The NRC Upper Atmosphere Research Section, headed by A.G. McNamara, served as the federal scientific clearinghouse for RCMP UFO reports through the Meteor Centre, with detachments routing telexes via radiogram per Operational Manual CO-Air 1195 paragraph 6.
The Calgary witness on 11 March 1972 contacted McCall Field Control Tower in real time during the sighting, prompting a live 30-mile radar sweep that returned no contact, a contemporaneous sensor-vs-eyewitness comparison preserved in the file.
Prof. R.E. Folinsbee at the University of Alberta in Edmonton received a direct telex copy of the Calgary sighting alongside Ottawa and Canforcehed, indicating an academic node in the 1972 Canadian UAP reporting chain.
RCMP investigators routinely added explicit reliability assessments to their reports, with the Maple Ridge file noting the witnesses were 'very upstanding citizens in their community and sources of good reliability', a practice that gives modern researchers a direct credibility annotation from the investigating officer.

Cross-references

PDFCanada UFO FOIA Release, Part 15 (Pages 4201–4500)Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council
PDFCanada UFO FOIA Release, Part 01 (Pages 1–300)Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council
PDFCanada UFO FOIA Release, Part 05 (Pages 1201–1500)Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council
PDFCanada UFO FOIA Release, Part 20 (Pages 5701–6000)Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council

Common questions

What is Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)?: 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.
What does Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) reveal?: Mrs. of Maple Ridge, Carleton County, New Brunswick reported a cross-shaped red blinking object on 1 May 1972 at 12:15 A.M, observed for approximately 20 minutes; an identical sighting occurred the following night beginning at 12:40 A.M. Weyburn, Saskatchewan UFO report on 22 May 1972 at 11:15 PM CST: round object, initially about half the size of the moon…
Which agency produced Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)?: Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) is a primary-source record from Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council. Its original classification was UNCLASSIFIED.
When is Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) dated?: Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) is dated 1972. It was disclosed 2010-01-01.
What programs and topics appear in Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)?: Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) references NRC Meteor Centre, RCMP Operational Manual CO-Air 1195, Upper Atmosphere Research Section, RCMP UFO report, Canada and fireball.
What does Canada UFO FOIA Release, Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759) say, in its own words?: "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~" (source p. 1).

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