Simone Smith
On July 30, pilots of two separate aircrafts — one military and one commercial — reported seeing a mysterious green UFO vanish into the clouds over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the Atlantic coast of Canada.
Unlike the U.S. defense department, Canada’s Department of National Defense does not track UFO sightings. Regardless, there is no shortage of civilian enthusiasts north of the border. For years, UFO sightings have been documented, and in December 2019, a private collector donated more than 30,000 UFO-related documents to the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg — including scores of documents on the Falcon Lake incident, Canada’s most infamous UFO case
The Falcon Lake incident is about a man named Stefan Michalak, an industrial mechanic by trade, and an amateur geologist who liked to venture into the wilderness around Falcon Lake — about 150 kilometers east of Winnipeg — to prospect for quartz and silver. On May 20, 1967, Stefan prospecting along the Precambrian Shield when the 51-year-old was startled by a gaggle of nearby geese that erupted into a clattering of honks. Stefan looked up and saw two cigar-shaped objects with a reddish glow hovering about 45 meters away.
According to Stefan’s account, one descended and anding on a flat section of rock and taking on more of a disc shape. The other remained in the air for a few minutes before flying off.
Believing it to be a secret U.S.military experimental craft, Stefan sat back and sketched it over the next half hour. After sketching for a while, he decided to approach, later recalling the warm air and smell of sulphur as he got closer, as well as a whirring sound of motors and a hissing of air. Shortly afterward, he was struck in the chest by a blast of air or gas that pushed him backward and set his shirt and cap ablaze. To date, it is still one of the most famous cases of a UFO sighting in Canada.
Getting back to the most recent citing, according to a report posted Aug. 11 to the Canadian government’s aviation incident database, both flights witnessed a “bright green flying object” that “flew into a cloud, then disappeared.” The report noted that the object did not impact the operations of either flight.
