Ufology Research

Yes, I know it's a bit late. But it does take time to examine all the hundreds of Canadian UFO reports and enter them one at a time into the database. It's the least glamourous part of UFO research. (Note you don't see UFO Hunters doing any of this on TV.)

Geoff Dittman and I are close to finishing a set of 2010 and 2011 case data. We'll see how they compare with previous years.

In the meantime, I just received a report from December 1965. What often happens is that a recent news story about a UFO sighting jogs people's memories and they report something they saw many years ago. In this case, it's not anything unexplainable, but it shows what we get.

December, 1965
Toronto, Ontario.

I was driving home from work travelling East on the 401 Highway North of Toronto. It was around 6:00 pm and I was still on the North West side of the city. Suddenly, the traffic slowed to a stop and people started getting out of their cars and looking toward the South, toward Lake Ontario. I got out of my car and looked in the same direction .

What I witnessed was astonishing. A huge fireball was travelling towards us in what appeared to be slow motion. It was like a huge lump of glowing coal with sparks and bits falling away from it as it went overhead. We all watched it as it travelled North and then disappeared over the horizon. I watched for news of the sighting and kept my ears pierced for any local talk about the incident. There didn’t seem to be an inordinate amount of coverage, except for vague reports about a meteorite landing in the Algonquin Park region North of the city.

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