What governments, legislatures, militaries, space agencies and courts have done about unidentified aerial phenomena, in date order, each entry resting on its document. Every nation that has acted. Newest first.100 entries since 1946.
In June 2025 the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada published the report of the Sky Canada Project, a review of how public reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) are handled in Canada. The office consulted federal departments and agencies, experts and other organisations, examined historical records and foreign approaches, and commissioned Earnscliffe Strategies to survey Canadians in 2024. The report found that UAP reports are scattered across government and non-government bodies with little coordination, that there is no official platform for the public to report sightings, and that reports are rarely analysed unless they pose safety or security risks. It made recommendations on reporting, research and international collaboration with bodies including AARO, NASA, GEIPAN and SEFAA.
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Some public sources estimate that Canadians report between 600 and 1,000 UAP sightings annually (p. 5).
In the commissioned survey, one in four respondents said they had personally witnessed a UAP, only 10% reported their sightings, and 40% would not know whom to contact (p. 5).
Most federal departments do not compile the UAP reports they receive, and few investigate sightings unless they bear on national security, transportation safety or public safety (p. 5).
The report recommends that the lead organisation establish partnerships with international entities such as AARO and NASA (U.S.A.), GEIPAN (France) and SEFAA (Chile) (p. 7).
It cites the United States, France and Chile as examples of coordinated, transparent and scientifically driven approaches to UAP reporting (p. 5).
The release on file is attributed to Library and Archives Canada, and the document is an Internet Archive compilation dated 10 December 2015 of declassified Canadian UFO records. The text shown is drawn from National Research Council of Canada files (RG 77, Vol. 306): fireball and unidentified flying object reports from 1965 to 1968, sent by RCAF stations, rescue coordination centres and the RCMP to Canadian Forces Headquarters, the NRC Meteor Centre and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. The reports record sightings across Canada. An RCMP file on a 12 July 1968 incident at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, concluded that the object was probably a meteorite and closed the file. The text does not give a date for the digitisation itself.
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The files carry the reference National Research Council of Canada, RG 77, Vol. 306, and were routed to the NRC Meteor Centre and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
A 30 July report from Station Moosonee records Mr Norman Butler of the Department of Lands and Forest describing a disc-shaped object with a cylindrical bubble underneath near Inglis fire tower, north of Cochrane, Ontario.
On 31 July a Vancouver report states that the air traffic control tower could not locate the object either visually or by radar.
An RCMP report on the 12 July 1968 Sydney Mines incident states that rock and soil samples went to John Douglas of the Geological Survey of Canada, and that 'it is felt that the object was a meteorite and not a U.F.O.'
A Frobisher Bay memo of 20 June 1968 records the Department of Transport meteorological officer's opinion that an object seen there was an experimental or weather balloon above 100,000 feet.
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