While a list of cases can make interesting reading, the real information
comes from patterns in the total dataset rather than individual cases.
Some cases can be mistakes or hoaxes, but all witnesses are unlikely to
get together and coordinate their sighting data to exactly match how
weather conditions or water temperatures in remote areas have gone up and
down over the past 50 years.

On examination many interesting statistically robust patterns are found
in US sightings data. At least one curated Canadian dataset I also use
shows the same set of patterns albeit some of the links with polar regions
are stronger in the Cadada data than the US data.

While I noticed J. Vallee (at the bottom) who been doing scientific
investigations of mostly European UFO cases for 60y "doesn't know what UFO's
are" the patterns suggest many things we all are familiar with from movies.

The main take-away is UFO's are not just the one thing. Even aside from
"new physics" and "experimental military aircraft" (both of which show
robust spikes in the relevant stats analysis) there are "many" distinct
groups of things producing the 10% of sightings that cant be explained
away as swamp gas and venus.

Be it an ancient break-away human civilization, a more ancient non-human
terrestrial civilization (that didnt use fossil fuels :), visitors from
other nearby planets, and more exotic visitors -- they all seem to have
links with some part of the available data.

<https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ngvx/canadian-govt-ufo-reports-release>

Here Are 20 Years of UFO Sightings We Got From the Canadian Government

VICE World News obtained nearly 300 pages of documents through freedom
of information requests that include strange sightings from pilots,
soldiers, and police officers.

Daniel Otis
1.3.22

The documents, totalling 290 pages, contain dozens of strange
sightings from commercial pilots, soldiers, and cops. Stock photo by
Getty Images

The Canadian govt has released 20 years of UFO reports.

The 500-plus reports spanning nearly 300 pages contain dozens of
strange sightings from commercial pilots, soldiers, and police
officers. (Here are some of the highlights.) Obtained by VICE
World News through Canadian freedom of information laws, the reports
were made to federal transportation authorities as recently as last
year, when a Canadian military flight spotted a "bright green
flying object" that "flew into a cloud then disappeared" over eastern
Canada.

Other unusual observations include Newfoundland police "tracking two
brightly coloured flying objects" in August 2001 and a Dec 2018
passenger flight from Alaska to Seattle that reported "pulsating
lights" descending from 60,000 feet.

"I would be inclined categorically to believe anybody that reported
something," former Canadian fighter pilot John "Jock" Williams told
VICE World News. "There's no upside to making a fake report."

Williams is an aviation consultant who has also worked as a federal
flight safety officer.

"There is a definite reluctance to report stuff," he said. "I'm amazed
at the amount of the material they sent you, and some of it actually
is pretty good."

All 290 pages of reports have been included at the bottom of this
story as a downloadable PDF.

There are loads of civilian sightings too, such as a large glowing
"object seen hovering quite quickly back and forth just above the tree
line" near Peterborough, Ontario, in Jan 2011.

One uncommonly long report even details a sighting that was confirmed
by military radar. On the night of Dec. 23, 2018, a fisherman in the
Bay of Fundy and a woman at home in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, both
contacted a search and rescue centre to report a light that "was
yellow, steady, and hovering" high above the Atlantic Ocean. When
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) personnel reviewed radar data from
NORAD, the joint Canada-US air defence alliance, they "observed
three primary radar hits" that correlated almost exactly to the time
and location of the sighting. Advertisement

"This is an area that has good low level radar coverage, so there is
no explanation of why there were only 3 points all at exactly
12,800 ft with no points leading up to or continuing on at any other
altitudes," a Canadian Air Defence Sector report states.

The best guess was "independent radar hits on weather and not an
actual airborne object," even though the "no threat" report notes it
was a partly cloudy night with good visibility.

Less than an hour's drive from Yarmouth, the nearby fishing village of
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, was the site of a famous 1967 mass
sighting of a large luminous object that disappeared into the ocean.

The reports also include previously unpublished documents on Canadian
UFO cases covered in earlier VICE World News stories, like
Alberta air traffic controllers who spotted a "solid bright light"
that "appeared too fast to be any commercial aircraft" in Dec
2009, a Manitoba police officer who filmed "an unidentified bright
yellow and orange light" with their cruiser's dashcam in April 2011,
and an April 2018 cargo flight from New York to Alaska that
"reported an object flying sporadically... and moving at Mach 4" over
northern Canada. ...

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--
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

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