[{"name":"Open Government Data Catalogue (CKAN API)","org":"Government of Canada","url":"https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/package_search?q=UFO","note":"Live JSON. Every dataset on open.canada.ca is queryable. Swap the q= term.","examples":["?q=UFO","?q=%22unidentified%20aerial%20phenomena%22","?q=CADORS"]},{"name":"CADORS occurrence data, Open Government Portal","org":"Transport Canada","url":"https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a348c1d1-2392-4595-b5e2-c6a244a7e87f","note":"The bulk Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System data, as CSV, with field metadata. No UFO filter — occurrence type has to be read out of the rows. The only machine-readable file on this list that contains Canadian aviation occurrences at scale.","examples":["occurrence information CSV","occurrence event information CSV"]},{"name":"Library and Archives Canada - Canada's UFOs","org":"Library and Archives Canada","url":"https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/science-technology/ufos.html","note":"Scope page: four origin departments, 1947 to the early 1980s, about 9,500 digitized documents, and the searchable fields."},{"name":"LAC UFO database - browse by department","org":"Library and Archives Canada","url":"https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/ufo/001057-110.01-e.php?q7=National+Research+Council&interval=50&sk=0","note":"The live index. The q7 term is the record group; sk pages through results."},{"name":"LAC UFO database - browse by province","org":"Library and Archives Canada","url":"https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/ufo/001057-110.01-e.php?q4=NB&sk=0","note":"q4 filters by province or territory. NB, NS, NL, PE all return records."},{"name":"LAC research guide - 1967 Shag Harbour sighting","org":"Library and Archives Canada","url":"https://recherche-research.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/public/list/43130","note":"Curated path to the Shag Harbour material, including RG 77 volume and microfilm references."},{"name":"CanVec administrative boundaries (FTP, zip)","org":"Natural Resources Canada","url":"https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/canvec/shp/Admin/canvec_15M_CA_Admin_shp.zip","note":"The shapefile this site's map is drawn from: 15 m Admin theme, geo_political_region_2, under the Open Government Licence - Canada. 634 KB. Plain HTTP directory listing at the parent path.","examples":["canvec_1M_...zip (11.6 MB, higher detail)","canvec_5M_...zip","canvec_15M_...zip (634 KB)"]},{"name":"CanVec on the Open Government Portal","org":"Natural Resources Canada","url":"https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/306e5004-534b-4110-9feb-58e3a5c3fd97","note":"Catalogue record, licence and citation for the same dataset."},{"name":"Sky Canada Project - report page","org":"Office of the Chief Science Advisor","url":"https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/office-chief-science-advisor/sky-canada-project","note":"Landing page for the June 2025 federal report on UAP reporting in Canada."},{"name":"Sky Canada Project - report in full text (HTML)","org":"Office of the Chief Science Advisor","url":"https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/office-chief-science-advisor/sky-canada-project/management-public-reporting-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-canada","note":"The whole report as HTML, including all fourteen recommendations, the five named gaps and the CSA's message. The easiest of the three to cite from."},{"name":"Sky Canada Project - full report (59 pp, PDF)","org":"Office of the Chief Science Advisor","url":"https://www.science.gc.ca/site/science/sites/default/files/documents/sky-canada-report.pdf","note":"ISBN 978-0-660-78645-2. Fourteen recommendations, the history of federal reporting, and the 2023-2024 consultation."},{"name":"Government of Canada Publications catalogue entry","org":"Public Services and Procurement","url":"https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.954480/publication.html","note":"Bibliographic record with MARC formats."},{"name":"House of Commons - Written Question 3227 (Yukon object, 2023)","org":"Parliament of Canada","url":"https://www.ourcommons.ca/written-questions/44-1/q-3227","note":"Tabled 28 November 2024 by MP Larry Maguire. Asks how many unidentified objects were tracked since 1 January 2023. No answer on file at time of writing."},{"name":"House of Commons - Written Question 1320 (five-year breakdown, 2026)","org":"Parliament of Canada","url":"https://www.ourcommons.ca/written-questions/45-1/q-1320","note":"Asked 15 June 2026 for UAP incidents in Canada by month with location, summary and cause."},{"name":"House of Commons - all written questions on UFOs","org":"Parliament of Canada","url":"https://www.ourcommons.ca/written-questions/questions?parlsession=44-1&text=topic%3A%22Unidentified+flying+object%22&view=list","note":"Searchable index of the parliamentary paper trail."},{"name":"LAC Discover podcast (Falcon Lake, two parts)","org":"Library and Archives Canada","url":"https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/engage-learn/podcasts/discover/episode-053.html","note":"Interviews with Stan Michalak, Chris Rutkowski and Palmiro Campagna, drawn from the archived files."},{"name":"Internet Archive - CanadaUFO collection","org":"Internet Archive","url":"https://archive.org/details/CanadaUFO","note":"An 8,000-page mirror of the declassified Canadian file, filed under original government file numbers. Useful for download; provenance is LAC to NetContents to a 2021 scan."},{"name":"The 2025 Canadian UFO Survey (Ufology Research)","org":"Ufology Research","url":"https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/c23c8b29-268f-4742-a45e-2dba156b0e52/Final%20-%20The%202025%20Canadian%20UFO%20Survey.pdf","note":"The successor to the Canadian UFO Survey after ufologyresearch.ca went offline. 26 pages: 1,052 Canadian reports in 2025, and a five-way split of conclusions."},{"name":"CTV News - unusual lights over Quebec, February 2023","org":"CTV News","url":"https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/multiple-flights-reported-strange-lights-in-the-sky-over-quebec-during-one-day-in-2023/","note":"Daniel Otis, 26 January 2024. At least three flights reported lights high above the flight path early on 12 February 2023, from air traffic control audio. The closest thing to a published count of pilot-reported UAPs in Canada; the Sky Canada Project report cites a section index rather than this article, and gives only the ratio, not a number."},{"name":"Transport Canada - high-altitude object incidents","org":"Transport Canada","url":"https://tc.canada.ca/en/binder/4-high-altitude-object-incidents","note":"The civil aviation guidance page for objects encountered at altitude - the closest thing Canada has to a UAP reporting procedure."},{"name":"Transport Canada - CADORS Manual TP 4044","org":"Transport Canada","url":"https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/aviation-publications/civil-aviation-daily-occurrence-reporting-system-cadors-manual-tp-4044","note":"What CADORS collects, who files, and how occurrence reports are handled."},{"name":"NUFORC - Canadian report index by province","org":"National UFO Reporting Center (US)","url":"https://nuforc.org/subndx/?id=lNB","note":"A civilian US reporting centre's index of Canadian cases. Blocks non-browser clients; NB shows 229 entries, NS 257, NL 63, PE 28, MB 270, ON 2,732, QC 476, AB 779."},{"name":"Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society - visitor centre","org":"Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society","url":"https://www.shagharbourincident.ca/plan-your-visit/","note":"The interpretive centre on Highway 3, and a live annual gathering. Sixty years on, the case is still generating visitors."},{"name":"CBC Terms of Use","org":"CBC / Radio-Canada","url":"https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/terms-of-use-digital-services","note":"The rightsholder's own terms for the news footage linked on the media page."}]