Gander

The record

At about 10:10 p.m. on 10 October a three-year Gander controller-pilot, flying a Cessna at 5,000 ft from Deer Lake, saw a solitary greenish light about 3,000 ft directly below. It stayed after he killed his navigation lights, then sped up, slowed down and lagged behind, repeating for roughly 25 minutes.

A supervisor got it on radar for two sweeps only. It did not show as an aircraft. The track ran northwest to west and was believed to be at treetop level. Goose Bay early-warning was notified.

At about 4:15 a.m. on 11 October a Capital Airlines DC-8 descending into Gander at 7,500 ft had an object of indistinguishable shape or size, flashing red and white, pull alongside on a parallel course for five to seven minutes, then enter cloud and vanish about five miles west. Radar showed nothing but the DC-8.

The file was copied to the Upper Atmosphere Research Section, Astrophysics Branch, at the National Research Council in Ottawa - which had taken over UAP reporting that same year of 1967.

Surviving here as a transcription of the archival file, not the file itself. The originals are worth an access-to-information request; treat the wording as provisional until they are read.