AURORACanada's UAP record

Case map · 18 locations · 9 provinces and territories

Where the file has a place

Eighteen cases with coordinates. Colour encodes sourcing quality, not how strange the event was: cyan is a government or archival record, blue is mainstream reporting with named sources, amber is thin sourcing. Click a marker for the case; the list beside the map does the same without a mouse.

Case files · 18 · oldest first
    Boundaries: Natural Resources Canada CanVec · basemap: OpenFreeMap (OpenStreetMap)

    What the geography shows

    • The Maritimes dominate the famous cases. Nova Scotia holds two of the eighteen, and the two most-documented in the country. New Brunswick holds four, mostly modern witness reports rather than official files.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador is the aviation cluster. Gander 1951, Gander 1974 and Stephenville 2013 are all airborne; the last two involved multiple aircraft and were filed as vital-information reports, the kind of record that survives.
    • The north has the modern intercepts. The Yukon marker is the 11 February 2023 NORAD downing: not a mystery sighting, but the clearest instance of a Canadian UAP being tracked, intercepted and recovered.
    • The Prairies hold the strangest one. Falcon Lake is the only case in this index with a documented physical effect on a person that remains unexplained.

    How to read the colours

      A marker is a place, not a proof. Each circle is a case file with a source list; the grade tells you how hard you will have to work to stand behind it.

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      Canadian UAP case files with dates, locations and sourcing grades
      DateCaseProvince / territory RegionCoordinatesSourcing
      10 February 1951GanderNLAtlantic48.95, −54.60Thin sourcing — verify before citing
      20 May 1967Falcon LakeMBPrairies / North50.10, −96.55Archival or official record
      June-November 1967Falcon Lake region, 1967 waveMBPrairies / North50.75, −97.10Mainstream reporting, named sources
      4 October 1967Shag HarbourNSAtlantic43.85, −65.50Archival or official record
      4 October 1967The Night of the UFOsNSAtlantic44.37, −64.31Mainstream reporting, named sources
      1 January 1969Prince GeorgeBCWest53.92, −122.75Thin sourcing — verify before citing
      10-11 October 1974GanderNLAtlantic48.95, −54.60Thin sourcing — verify before citing
      26 October 1978ClarenvilleNLAtlantic48.16, −55.88Thin sourcing — verify before citing
      7 November 1990Bonaventure Hotel, MontrealQCQuebec45.50, −73.57Mainstream reporting, named sources
      11 December 1996The row of lightsYTNorth60.72, −135.05Mainstream reporting, named sources
      14 February 2002New Brunswick protected airspaceNBAtlantic45.85, −66.75Mainstream reporting, named sources
      19 June 2012Saint JohnNBAtlantic45.27, −66.06Mainstream reporting, named sources
      31 March 2013StephenvilleNLAtlantic48.55, −58.75Archival or official record
      4 June 2014KensingtonPEAtlantic46.57, −63.57Thin sourcing — verify before citing
      29 December 2014MonctonNBAtlantic46.09, −64.77Thin sourcing — verify before citing
      24 November 2018Baffin IslandNUNorth66.50, −61.25Archival or official record
      11 February 2023Yukon shootdownYTNorth63.50, −136.00Archival or official record
      26 July 2023FrederictonNBAtlantic45.95, −66.65Mainstream reporting, named sources