UFO Map

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Country

Canada

cases
8
years
1924–2023

Unexplained: 5 Disputed: 2 Explained: 1

  1. 1920–1929

    1. 1924 Bigfoot (Sasquatch) · Unexplained Albert Ostman's Sasquatch Abduction Near Toba Inlet, British Columbia A Canadian gold prospector claimed a family of sasquatches carried him off in his sleeping bag and held him for six days – he told the story only 33 years later.

  2. 1960–1969

    1. 1967 Close encounters with beings · Unexplained Falcon Lake Incident Near Falcon Lake, Manitoba Prospector Stefan Michalak touched a landed object and was burned by a blast of hot gas – leaving a grid-like pattern of marks on his chest.
    2. 1967 UFO crashes and debris · Unexplained Shag Harbour UFO Incident Bay at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Residents of a fishing village saw a luminous object plunge into the sea – Canadian authorities admitted they did not know what it was.
    3. 1968 Lake and river monsters · Disputed Art Folden's Ogopogo Film Okanagan Lake near Peachland, British Columbia A driver pulled over by the highway and filmed a large wake moving across the lake – the footage is among the most frequently shown “proofs” of Ogopogo's existence.

  3. 1970–1979

    1. 1974 Close encounters with beings · Unexplained Langenburg Saucer Nests Langenburg, Saskatchewan Farmer Edwin Fuhr saw five spinning domes over a canola field – after they left, rings of flattened vegetation remained.
    2. 1978 Explosions and falls from the sky · Explained Crash of the Soviet Satellite Kosmos 954 Near Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories In January 1978, a Soviet satellite with a nuclear reactor burned up over Canada, scattering radioactive debris over a vast area.
    3. 1978 Discs and flying saucers · Unexplained Clarenville UFO Sighting Clarenville and Random Island, Newfoundland and Labrador Twelve witnesses, including a police officer, spent an hour watching an oval object hovering over the water near Clarenville, Newfoundland.

  4. 2020–2029

    1. 2023 Military and radar sightings · Disputed 2023 Yukon Object Shootdown Central Yukon, near Mayo A U.S. F-22 fighter shot down an unidentified cylindrical object over Yukon – its debris was never found.