Canada’s Private Air Traffic Control Company is Keeping UFO Info From the Public

Article by Daniel Otis                                                        July 29, 2021                                                                        (vice.com)

• When professional pilots spot UFOs in Canadian airspace they rely on Nav Canada air traffic control towers and radar installations for verification. Nav Canada directs thousands of flights per day and is also constantly in touch with the Canadian military. But as a private company, Nav Canada is under no obligation to provide records under Canada’s Access to Information Act. And Canadian authorities seem to have no interest in investigating UFOs.

• “We’ve often seen these kinds of situations come up where the government privatizes something, and then you’re no longer able to get the records related to that thing,” said Sean Holman, an associate professor of journalism at Alberta’s Mount Royal University and a researcher who focuses on Canada’s freedom of information laws. “Nav Canada essentially has discretionary power over the release of information… That makes it extraordinarily difficult for anyone seeking a greater understanding of these incidents.”

• Canada became the first country to fully privatize its civil air navigation system with the formation of Nav Canada in 1996. The deal netted the Canadian government $1.5 billion and made Nav Canada the owner and operator of airport towers and radar sites, which were previously run by the federal transportation department, Transport Canada. The private not-for-profit Nav Canada currently employs more than 4,000 people and had pre-pandemic revenue of $1.4 billion in fiscal 2019.

• Nav Canada’s regulations and procedures directs pilots over Canada to immediately alert air traffic controllers of “objects or activities that appear to be hostile, suspicious, unidentified, or engaged in possible illegal smuggling activity.” The company even puts “unidentified flying objects” at the top of a list of examples requiring such an alert. The Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS) digital archive contains around 300,000 entries on incidents from UFOs and bird strikes to drunk passengers.

• When an alert report is made, Nav Canada informs the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 21 Aerospace Control & Warning Squadron in North Bay as mandated by NORAD, the joint Canada-U.S. air defense pact, and to the Transport Canada government office. But there is no indication that Nav Canada, Transport Canada, or any branch of the Canadian Armed Forces investigates UFOs outside of initial security assessment. As soon as it’s been determined a UFO isn’t a Russian fighter jet or a plane full of drugs, Canadian interest seems to officially end. Says Transport Canada: “[T]hese reports…fall outside the department’s mandate.”

• While Canada’s defense department is quite aware of the Pentagon’s recent intelligence report on 143 U.S. military UFO sightings, the growing list of US legislators speaking openly about national security and flight safety implications of UFOs, and the Pentagon and NASA’s intention to continue to study the subject, Canada’s Department of National Defence does not plan to collect data on UFOs. They turn everything over to Nav Canada.This way, UFO data like radar and audio recordings could forever be kept from the public.

• UFO sightings are topic of legitimate concern. Governments around the world are taking this issue quite seriously – far more seriously than ever before. And the public has the right to know. Now in it’s 25th year, Nav Canada may be sitting on some of the country’s most compelling and credible UFO evidence. Here are some incidents reported:

• On the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, Nav Canada staff received reports from four aircraft flight crews of a shiny silver object over Toronto.

• On the night of April 8, 2019, a WestJet flight approaching Regina, Saskatchewan reported a white flashing light moving above 60,000 feet, which is well below most satellites and beyond the reach of any Canadian fighter jet.

• Early on Dec. 15, 2009, tower staff in Fort McMurray, Alberta observed “one solid bright light” that travelled too fast for a commercial jet. The tower delayed an Air Canada Jazz flight until the object was well east of the aircraft’s departure path where it “disappeared into the sunrise.”

• On May 9, 2005, a Delta Air Lines flight from Alaska to Minnesota inquired as to the identity of the traffic well above them and moving right to left over Saskatchewan. A Nav Canada controller advised that there was no known traffic in the area, and the pilot replied that they couldn’t figure out what it was either.

A private company holds some of Canada’s most compelling UFO data—and it has no interest in sharing it.

From air traffic control towers to radar installations, Nav Canada directs thousands of flights per day. That makes the company the first line of contact when professional pilots spot UFOs in Canadian airspace, like on the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, when Nav Canada staff “received reports from four aircraft flight crews of a shiny silver object over Toronto.”

Nav Canada is also in direct communication with Canada’s military, quickly informing them of aviators’ sightings, like on the night of April 8, 2019, when it alerted the air force after a WestJet flight approaching Regina “reported a white flashing light

moving above” 60,000 feet, which is well below most satellites and beyond the reach of any Canadian fighter jet.

Nav Canada personnel have reported UFOs too, such as early on Dec. 15, 2009, when tower staff in Fort McMurray, Alberta, observed an object northwest of the airport that “appeared too fast to be any commercial aircraft and was one solid bright light.” The witnesses even delayed an Air Canada Jazz flight until “the object was

well east of the aircraft’s departure path” where it “disappeared into the sunrise.”

VICE World News asked Nav Canada to comment on cases like these, but was told the company “only releases information pertaining to flights and other related materials, to authorities… for the purpose of investigation of incidents.”

But Canadian authorities seem to have no interest in investigating UFOs like their U.S. counterparts, and as a private company, Nav Canada is also under no obligation to provide records under Canada’s Access to Information Act, which VICE World News has used to unveil documents such as a 2019 UFO intelligence form from the Canadian air force that cites a Nav Canada air traffic control centre as its source.

“We’ve often seen these kinds of situations come up where the government privatizes something, and then you’re no longer able to get the records related to that thing,” said Sean Holman, an associate professor of journalism at Alberta’s Mount Royal University and a researcher who focuses on Canada’s freedom of information laws.

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