John Patrick McManus was leading a night navigation exercise in Manitoba when he looked up and saw a “very bright” light.
“The light all of the sudden just zapped to the left,” the retired Canadian lieutenant-colonel told VICE World News. “It moved at a speed that I could not comprehend.”
Over the past month, odd encounters between UFOs and the U.S. military have been featured in nearly every major North American news outlet, including NBC, FOX, CNN, and CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Through access to information requests, public records, and exclusive interviews, VICE World News has discovered close to 70 years of cases involving the Canadian Armed Forces—such as a “large tubular object” tracked by radar in 2002, a “white spot, turning blue and red” seen “travelling in zigzag formation” above Ontario’s CFB Borden base in 1978, and “an orange pulsating symmetrical light” witnessed silently speeding over Ottawa by a pair of Air Force officers in March 1950.
“What’s most striking is that this is not a new phenomenon,” Timothy Sayle, the director of the University of Toronto’s International Relations program, told VICE World News. “The fact that reports were filed in the early 1950s suggests these are not recent, commercially available drones.”
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