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UFO Sighting Involved a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer

October 23, 2020
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Article by Elizabeth Keith October 10, 2020 (narcity.com)

• A historic UFO incident in Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada in 1978 is still so popular that the Canadian Mint has recently made a $130 glow-in-the-dark coin to commemorate it. The 5,000 coins in the limited edition are 90% sold out.

• Responding to a call on this evening in 1978, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Constable James Blackwood went to the location and saw “something” hovering about 100 feet in the air over some water between Clarenville shoreline and Random Island. Blackwood turned on the lights on his police car and the floating object responded by flashing its own lights. It hovered there for two hours.

• The Clarenville UFO event isn’t Canada’s only suspicious sighting. In 1967, a man reported seeing some glowing objects in the sky at Falcon Lake, Manitoba. Then a 35-foot craft landed nearby. The man got close enough to touch it before it took off again. In the weeks after the sighting, he became sick with very suspicious symptoms that doctors could not diagnose. That same year, in St. Paul, Alberta, they built the first-ever UFO landing pad in the world.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, its a weird disc floating in the sky? It may sound straight out of a sci-fi film but something just like that happened in Canada.

The Clarenville alien sighting from 1978 is one of the country’s biggest mysteries. It’s so wild that the Mint even made a glow-in-the-dark commemorative coin about it.

What happened in Clarenville?

One night, back in 1978 an RCMP officer named Constable James Blackwood responded to a call in Clarenville, Newfoundland where witness had noticed something weird in the sky.

According to an interview with a local paper called The Packet, Blackwood saw something hovering about 100 feet above the water between Clarenville and Random Island. He says its was there for two hours.

**Commemorative Coin both normal and ‘glow in the dark’**

He reportedly turned on the lights on his police car and the floating object responded by flashing its own lights.

It later left without a trace and still remains a mystery.

**waterway where UFO hovered for two hours**

What does the glow-in-the-dark coin look like?

It’s spooky season and potential UFO sightings are undoubtedly spooky and Canada’s official coin creators seem to be aware of that too.

To mark the weird event in history, the Canadian Mint just launched a commemorative coin depicting the saucer hovering over the Newfoundland town.

The square shape is unique enough on it’s own but this coin also glows in the dark.

The mint only made 5,000 of the money-pieces, which sell for a whopping $129.95 each and they are already 90% sold out.

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Two of Canada’s Famous Unsolved UFO Mysteries

July 12, 2018
ExoNews Editor

July 2018 (cbc.ca)

• Here are two of Canada’s best known UFO encounters, both occurring in 1967.

• Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia – On October 4th, 1967, the night skies above the village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, were lit up by a string of as many as four flashing lights that crashed into the waters of the Shag Harbour. People could see a large round, orange object, glowing in the water as it sunk. An attempt was made to rescue the crashed ‘aircraft’ but the local Coast Guard and divers could find no debris. No planes were reported missing and eventually the case was labeled as a UFO. Shag Harbour now has a UFO center and every summer holds a festival dedicated to the incident.

• Falcon Lake, Manitoba – On May 20, 1967, Stefan Michalak was walking along the shore of Falcon Lake, 150 kilometers east of Winnipeg when he saw two strange shapes hovering in the sky. One landed near to him. Thinking it was some sort of military aircraft he walked up to an open door on the craft. It suddenly took off and Stefan was singed by a blast of hot air. When he got home he saw that he had burns on his chest in a grid pattern, like the vents he’d seen on the ship. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated the site and found bits of melted metal. In April of 2018, the Royal Canadian Mint released a special coin to mark the Falcon Lake Incident. (see previous ExoNews article on the Falcon Lake incident and commemorative coin here)

A UFO, or an unidentified flying object, is something moving in the sky that can’t be explained. Many times these objects turn out to be satellites, weather balloons or planes, but some sightings remain mysteries. Some people even believe that UFOs are actually alien spacecraft. Even if no one knows for sure what UFOs are, it’s fun to imagine visitors from other planets. What’s more, Canada has had some UFO sightings of its own. Let’s find out about two of our best known UFO mysteries.

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

On October 4th, 1967, the night skies above the village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, were lit up by a string of as many as four lights. The lights flashed on and off before seeming to crash into the waters of the harbour. People watching saw a large round object, glowing orange in the water before it sunk. Thinking that a plane had crashed, the RCMP organized a rescue attempt. But nothing was found by local boats or the Coast Guard. Divers were called in to search the seafloor, but they too found nothing. No planes were reported missing and eventually the case was labeled as a UFO.

The witnesses aren’t sure what it was, but they know they saw something. Shag Harbour now has a UFO centre and every summer holds a festival dedicated to the incident.

Falcon Lake, Manitoba

The year 1967 was a busy one for UFOs, because on May 20th there was another mysterious sighting — this time about 150 kilometres east of Winnipeg, on the shores of Falcon Lake. Stefan Michalak was an amateur geologist looking for valuable rocks when he saw two strange shapes hovering in the sky. He wasn’t scared, thinking that they were military aircraft and even made sketches of one when it landed nearby. Stefan decided to approach the craft and saw bright lights from an open door on the ship. It took off and Stefan was hit with a blast of hot air that burned his clothes. He managed to get back home and discovered that he had burns on his chest in a grid pattern, like the vents he’d seen on the ship.

**Stefan Michalak with grid pattern burns**

The RCMP investigated and found melted bits of metal, along with Stefan’s burned clothing at the site. No one could say what the strange ships were, and while Stefan never claimed to see aliens, it is considered one of the best-documented UFO encounters in Canada. In April of 2018, the Royal Canadian Mint released a special coin to mark the Falcon Lake Incident as one of Canada’s most famous mysteries!

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