2013: Hellyer takes up the cause of believers in UFOs

By JOHN WARD OTTAWA (CP) – Paul Hellyer, onetime cabinet minister and a political chameleon who went through Liberal and Tory colors before founding two political parties of his own, has a new cause – UFOs. Hellyer is to be a featured speaker at a UFO conference in Toronto later this month and organizers are making much of his credentials as a former defense minister in the Pearson administration 40 years ago. Skeptics are, well, skeptical. The 82-year-old Hellyer says he believes not only that UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors, but that some governments – the United States at least – know all about it and are covering up. He says he believes American scientists have re-engineered alien wreckage from a supposed UFO crash at […] Read More