Campbellton triangles over Sugarloaf Mountain

Campbellton sits in Restigouche County, in the far north of New Brunswick. Just south of the urban area rises Sugarloaf Mountain, a summit of 281.1 metres in the northern Appalachians. In 1989, Canadian sightings were being counted for the first time in a systematic way. In Winnipeg, Chris Rutkowski's Canadian UFO Survey began with that year's data, and a national tally of 141 sightings was reported in April 1990. Its highlighted cases came from Quebec, Newfoundland and Manitoba. Campbellton was not among them.

November 1989. Night. Two sisters living in Campbellton saw three triangular objects. They hovered just over Sugarloaf Mountain. They made no sound.

Then the objects began to move. One at a time. Each triangle rapidly pulled backwards. Then it shot forward, even more quickly, into the night sky. Then the next. Then the last.

A later retelling places the sisters on Van Holm Crescent. It describes three large triangular craft with distinct lights, able to move forward, backward and then at incredible speeds before vanishing into the darkness.

Very little. The account survives as a single unreferenced paragraph on Wikipedia. No newspaper report from 1989 or 1990 has been found. No government record, no civilian investigation file. The sisters have never been named, and no first hand account has surfaced.

The fuller version comes from Static Radio, in a January 2026 episode with Franky Corcoran of Corcoran Entertainment, who is from Miramichi. The show notes say the sighting was reported to local authorities, eventually acknowledged as unexplained by the RCMP, and that NORAD was consulted. No RCMP file or NORAD record has been found to support this.

Search summaries now claim the Campbellton triangles appear on a glow in the dark coin from the Royal Canadian Mint. They do not. The 2020 coin in the Canada's Unexplained Phenomena series shows the 1978 sighting at Clarenville, Newfoundland, and the Mint's announcement never mentions Campbellton. On Wikipedia, the Campbellton section sits directly after the Clarenville section, which ends with that coin. The two stories have blurred together. The podcast notes repeat a version of the error, dating the coin to 2021, the year of The Montréal Incident.

No conventional explanation has ever been published. Without a day, none can be tested. The obvious questions stay open. Were aircraft or military flights over the Restigouche valley and Chaleur Bay that night? Could lights near the summit, or on the horizon behind it, account for what the sisters saw? Could an object turning away and then speeding off look as if it moved backward, then forward?

Late that same November, the Belgian UFO wave began, with its silent black triangles. There is no known link, but Campbellton belongs to the same family of black triangle reports. The leads are modest: the Campbellton Tribune on microfilm for late 1989, and Rutkowski's full 1989 case list. Until then, the story stands as it began. Two sisters. One mountain. Three silent triangles, leaving one by one.