SUBJECT: UFO REPORTS GATHER DUST IN ARCHIVES FILE: UFO2442 Here are some articles provided by David Thacker of AUFOSG in Alberta: ---- UFO REPORTS GATHER DUST IN ARCHIVES Mystery too tough, scientist says MARK KENNEDY Ottawa Citizen November 27, 1993 Somewhere in the bowels of the National Archives, there's a rather unusual three-page police report from rural Alberta that might as well not exist. In Ottawa, it seems, no one in government has paid it much heed. For although RCMP File No. 92-0653 is professionally prepared, it was headed straight for the dust-covered files the moment its subject matter was revealed at the top of the first page. "RE: UFO SIGHTING. Near Taber, Alberta, 92 JUL 06." Here are the highlights: A 15-year-old girL watching TV at 3:23 a.m., saw a large "sphere-shaped" object hovering outside the window. She ducked under the covers of the living room couch and blacked out. The next day, "fresh impressions" that were "roughly circular in shape" were discovered out in the field. The Mounties followed procedure. They sent the report to the National Research Council just a stone's throw from the prime minister's residence on Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Since 1968, the NRC's solar terrestrial physics section has been responsible for collecting all reports of unidentified flying objects. The federal agency receives about 100 such reports a year from police forces, the military and the transport department. Some are clearly just meteor sightings. Others are more intriguing. There's an amazing similarity to many descriptions: flying "triangular-shaped" objects that flash white, blue and red lights, and hover motionless. So what does the NRC do? Does it send out a squad of investigators? Does it track the sighting reports for trends? Nope. It tucks the reports in its own files, and after a year, ships them across town to the archives for posterity. Ron Burrows, who headed the NRC's solar terrestrial branch for 13 years until this fall, is a top-notch scientist with a reasoned explanation. The government simply doesn't have the money to investigate such a complex phenomenon as UFOs, he says. "I mean, does anybody ask the government of Canada to go out and prove that there is a God? It just isn't something that is amenable to the scientific method of investigation." Burrows says he doesn't doubt the sincerity of people who report UFOs, and the last thing he wants is for them to be told: "Go away and don't bother me, you're crazy." "Maybe they saw something and take comfort in feeling they've done the right thing in talking to the authorities. Part of the role of the policeman is to be adequately reassuring." Reassurance is fine, says Burrows, but answers are unreasonable. "I don't think you can expect the government to solve all the mysteries in life." ---- MYSTERIOUS EVENTS FROM GOVERNMENT FILES MARK KENNEDY Ottawa Citizen November 27, 1993 Some recent sightings of unidentified flying objects, from the files of the National Research Council: Hull, Que., Sept. 3, 1993 Two witnesses saw a "blue ball, very clear and condensed, with halo" behind their house. "There was a power outage in the house, but the stereo kept on playing." Afterwards, Hull police reported computers in patrol cars were disabled for unknown reasons. Mission B.C., Aug. 2, 1993 At 11:30 p.m., a woman was sitting by her backyard pool with her 14-year-old daughter who "starting yelling to 'look at that' .... I looked up and all I could say was 'Oh my God' over and over. It was a triangular shape, darker than the night sky with round or oval dull, reddish brown lights. There was absolutely no sound at all ... it banked to the right and disappeared with the brightness of the moon." Duration: 15 seconds. Miquelon Lake, Alta., June 28, 1993 Witness saw UFOs flying in a circle, then a straight line. "At one point, they formed a triangle shape. Color: Light orange." Witness said her animals seemed jittery and excited, the dogs barked and wanted in. Edmonton, May 11-12, 1993 Between 11:35 p.m. and 6 a.m., several people in a backyard saw "triangular shaped" objects flying at high speed. Two other witnesses reported similar "shiplike objects." Williams Lake, B.C., Jan. 29, 1993 About 11:45 p.m., a man and his wife went outside "and saw a large light . . . the shape of a moon, but it was too large. It sent a beam of light directly toward our house." RCMP found a tree with no snow on it knocked over in the area the light may have been coming from. Woodstock, N.B., Jan. 22, 1992 Woman saw a UFO from her house and then borrowed a camcorder and "recorded nine to 10 minutes of the object . . . described as triangular in shape with a round, wide bottom and narrow at the top. On the film, the object can be seen from what appears to be different angles which seems to indicate it was moving." Over Alberta, Dec. 28, 1992 A United Airlines 737 jet was heading west at 37,000 feet at a speed of 460 knots. "Object was first sighted about five to six miles south at 39,000 feet, speed 460 knots, heading east. Object had lights in front and strobe light in the middle. Edmonton air traffic control said there were no other aircraft in the area. Radars did not track the object." Taber, Alta., July 6, 1992 At 3:23 a.m., a 15-year-old girl was watching TV at her grandfather's home. She looked out a window and saw "a series of red, white, yellow and blue lights slowly flashing on and off. She then went to the larger kitchen window and observed a compressed sphere shaped object, dull grey or black in color." The object was "huge" and hovering at treetop level. The RCMP report noted there was no crop growth beneath the area where the object is said to have hovered 10 minutes. ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************