From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:42:00 -0400
Archived: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:42:00 -0400
Subject: UFO Seen by RCMP Over Canadian PM's Home




Source: Dundurn Press' Blog - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://dundurn.com/ufos/

April 13, 2009

UFO Seen by RCMP Over Canadian Prime Minister's Home, 1969
by Chris Rutkowski

I'm currently working on my paper for presentation at the 2008
MUFON UFO Conference in Denver, in August. The thing about the
MUFON conference is that invited papers must be pre-submitted by
the end of April, four months ahead of the conference so that
the Proceedings can be printed and available there. Hence, I'm
spending a lot of nights typing and editing.

The topic of my talk is the 20-year longitudinal study of UFOs
in Canada, based on our annual Canadian UFO Survey. As I was
editing a section in which I describe parenthetically that many
of the reports obtained in the survey come from government
sources, I read through a blurb about the so-called "recent
release" of UFO reports by the Canadian government. I've blogged
about this several times before, so I won't go into why it's not
accurate.

But in doing so, I came across a comment by David Haisell about
a letter received by Canadian ufologist Arthur Bray from the
Department of External Affairs, in which they state:

"The Canadian Government does not underestimate the seriousness
of the question of UFOs, and this matter is being kept under
consideration and study in a number of departments and
agencies." (Letter to Arthur Bray from the Dept. Of External
Affairs, dated April 13, 1971)

So the Canadian government stated in 1971 that "a number" of
official departments were studying UFOs. However, what's most
interesting to me is that the Prime Minister at the time was
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and that made me recall a UFO sighting
that occurred over Ottawa in 1969, while he was in office.

Since the National Archives has scanned in many early UFO-
related documents, I went looking for the case. Sure enough, I
found it without too much trouble.

The case is interesting for several reasons. First, the
witnesses were highly reliable. Specifically, they were RCMP
officers! Second, they filed their reports on the UFOs through
official channels. Third, we have their reports on file and for
public examination. And fourth, the sightings took place while
the RCMP officer was stationed at the Prime Minister's
residence! In total, at least seven RCMP officers saw the UFO.

[scan of RCMP report]

Now, it's quite possible (and likely) that Trudeau was told
about the incident. He had been asked about UFOs on several
occasions, and he apparently had at least a passing interest in
the subject. In fact, the subject of UFOs was brought up in the
Canadian Parliament in Novermber 1968, during Trudeau's term as
 well.

This, of course, is not the first time that Canadian Prime
Ministers and UFOs have intertwined. In 2004, as I have noted
elsewhere, a UFO was seen by the pilot of the Canadian
equivalent of "Air Force One" while the Prime Minister was on
board. And Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was said to have been
present in a limousine near the United Nations in New York as a
witness when the infamous Manhattan "abductions" were taking
place.

Maybe Canadian Prime Ministers are briefing American Presidents
about UFOs, and not the other way around, as some conspiracy
theorists claim.

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Chris Rutkowski is the offical receiver of UFO reports submitted
to Canadian Government Agencies...



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