AURORACanada's UAP record

Case files · eighteen · graded by sourcing

Eighteen cases, and how well each is documented

Every case here is graded, and the grade is about the paperwork, not the story. Archival or official record means a government or archival document is linked. Mainstream reporting with named sources means the reporting is solid but the file has not been read directly. Thin sourcing means it is here because a marked gap is better than a silent one.

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The index

Strongest sourcing first. Each card opens a standalone page with the record and its sources.

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The two that made Canada's file famous

Shag Harbour, 4 October 1967

Lights over the harbour, then one low fast object into the water about 300 m offshore. The RCMP searched, navy divers worked the bottom for two days in good visibility, and found nothing. Colonel W. W. Turner of National Defence headquarters wrote on 6 October that the sighting could not be explained by “an aircraft, flares, floats, or any other known objects”. The diver-reported debris and the yellow foam trail are the two things that never got resolved, and the last public face of the case, Laurie Wickens, died in 2026.

Archival or official record Nova Scotia Multi-witness
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Falcon Lake, 20 May 1967

Stefan Michalak, prospecting for quartz, found a metallic craft that settled on flat rock with a bright doorway and coloured panels. His glove melted on contact. A panel of small holes rotated towards him and a jet of hot gas set his clothing alight, leaving a grid of burns. The RCMP, the RCAF and DND all investigated; the US Air Force's Project Blue Book and the Condon study reviewed it. The burns were never explained. DND still lists it as unsolved, and a mint coin and a book came later.

Archival or official record Manitoba Physical effect
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The Atlantic record is thinner than the internet suggests

Two nationally famous cases, a scattering of real but small ones, and a lot of nothing in between.

Canada's UFO record is dominated by two events that both happened in 1967, in two different provinces, seven months apart. Around them sits a thin, uneven layer: a handful of airborne encounters over Newfoundland and Labrador, a 1970 RCMP report from Halifax County, a spate of Maritime witness reports that night, and a scattering of twenty-first-century sightings that made the news because of drone footage.

What is missing, and why it matters. The Coastal Guard's MERINT maritime sighting instructions existed and were used rarely. From 2010 to 2022, two reports. The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick hold the papers of Stanton Friedman, the physicist who made Fredericton his home, and it is not established whether they include sighting files. None of the Atlantic cases in this index has been read from the original file; they are transcribed or reported, not verified.

What is not missing. The federal reporting structures, the record groups, the four institutions and the three decades of paperwork. That part is real, it is digitized, and it is indexed on the archive page.

Sourcing mix, eighteen cases
5archival or official record
7mainstream reporting, named sources
6thin sourcing, verify before citing
0confirmed extraterrestrial

Grades are about documents, not conclusions. An archival record can still describe a balloon.