Drone encounters
The conventional explanation, broadcast alongside the Saint John sighting it explained.
Case file · Atlantic · Mainstream reporting, named sources
Saint John
An object over Saint John, New Brunswick, near the Irving Oil refinery, left one man shaken. CBC's own report paired it with the drone explanation - the media's default reading.
The record
The sighting landed in the middle of a busy refinery district, which is exactly the situation in which commercial drones and aircraft are common and a witness is likely to be told what they saw.
CBC's package included a video segment on drone encounters, which is the useful part: the mainstream explanation was available the same morning.
It is included here as a case file because it shows the modern reporting pattern - witness, video, conventional explanation within 24 hours - that the 1967 files never got.
Sourcing quality
Mainstream reporting, named sources
This case rests on named mainstream reporting. The underlying files exist but have not been read directly here.
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