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Sighting record / 1975

Borda Tobacco Farm Landing, Mount Pleasant, Ontario

July 6, 1975 · Joe Borda's tobacco farm, Mount Pleasant, Brant County, Ontario, Canada
26Thinly documented UAP Disc / saucer 19 sources 2 videos

Sunday, July 6, 1975. Late afternoon on a tobacco farm at Mount Pleasant, Ontario. Joe Borda looked across his field and saw something shiny about 400 yards away. A silver, dome-shaped object, sitting among his tobacco plants. At first he took it for a neighbour's irrigation tank. No neighbour had equipment out that day. Two days later the traces turned up. A circle of flattened, burned plants. A strange oily residue on the ground. Police sent samples to a forensic lab. The answer came back as lightning. The full report was never released, and Borda believed until the day he died that something had landed.

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Context

Mount Pleasant is a village in Brant County, Ontario, southwest of Brantford. In 1975 Joe Borda grew tobacco there. That year would later be remembered by Chris Rutkowski as Canada's summer of UFOs.

Sources (19, most influential first)

  1. Borda Tobacco Farm Incident · The Black Vault· 2017-07-04 · Research organisation · org report
  2. From UFOs to Nazi flying saucers: how conspiracy theories can foster hate · TVO Today· 2023-01-06 · Press, book, documentary · news
  3. 1975 chronology · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  4. UFO Incident at Pleasant Ridge · The UFO Chronicles (republishing Brant News, Victoria Gray)· 2015-07-20 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
  5. 50 years ago: Canada's summer of UFOs · Chris Rutkowski (Substack)· 2025 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog