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When it came to sharing the story of Shag Harbour’s October 4, 1967, UFO incident, Laurie Wickens believed in going big or going home. Chris Styles paused while on the phone and recalled when he first started travelling the road to the small Nova Scotian fishing community on the southern […]
When Chris Rutkowski, a longtime fixture of Canada’s ufology community, revisited his files for his new book, he found that Canada is far from alien to reports of the unknown in the skies above the Great White North. The Manitoban sits on a patio loveseat in a midtown Toronto backyard, […]
While the world fixates on Washington, D.C.’s slow drip of UAP disclosures, Canada is quietly stepping into the spotlight as host of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies’ 2026 annual conference in Toronto this July. It’s an opportunity that underscores the country’s long-underappreciated but substantive role in bringing scientific rigour […]
Ufologist Grant Cameron is not the same investigator he was when he began studying the phenomenon in 1975. Back then, he was leading tours in southern Manitoba to see the mysterious object known as Charlie Red Star. He said he did not spend much time thinking about the invisible lines […]
The memory of ufologist Stanton Friedman is alive and well in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Carla (Kat) Sheppard, founder of the Fredericton Holistic Fair, started work on the Fredericton UFO and Metaphysical Conference earlier this year. Set for April 11, it brings together investigative and experiential perspectives on documented UFO cases […]
The Native Canadian Centre of Toronto became a safe space for discussions about Sasquatch and other cryptids during a three-day conference that also served as the backdrop for a new documentary on healing through Bigfoot. Indigenous artist Judy Sackaney (Wachi Medowin) returned to 16 Spadina Road from May 30 to […]
Mysterious lights over the Atlantic Ocean have reignited Canada’s long-standing intrigue with UAPs. On December 13, 2024, multiple aircraft reported witnessing unusual aerial activity — “strange lights in the night sky” — about 60 kilometres off the coast of Canso, Nova Scotia. The event was striking enough that NAV Canada […]
If there’s a silver lining to UFO experiences in Canada, it’s that the Canadian government is recognizing these events as culturally significant — and worth a mint. The Royal Canadian Mint, that is, as it released the seventh coin in its Canada’s Unexplained Phenomena series in September. For this moment […]
The road to the second annual Paranormal Symposium has been paved with ghost stories and ticket giveaways for a lucky few. This was the strategy used by Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation President Elliott Van Dusen to generate excitement for the event. “At each public event we’ve travelled to across […]
The Shag Harbour UFO Expo is opening up a room for experiencers to open up with each other to share their stories. Experiencers are those who have reported contact with extraterrestrial beings, which on the Hynek scale would be considered close encounters of the third kind. Event organizer Danny Reid […]