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1999: UFOs IN CANADA

BY MARK RODEGHIER Mark Rodeghier, Ph.D., is scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago.This article appears in the Summar 1999 issue of the International UFO Reporter. Understanding where and when UFO sightings occur is one of the core activities for UFO investigators and organizations. Without that knowledge, it is difficult to believe we will ever make any advance in our understanding of the UFO phenomenon. Although the importance of gathering statistics on the number and type of reports is considered important, doing so has been honored more often in word than indeed. There are no complete yearly statistics for the United States because there is no central authority who can get the necessary cooperation from the diverse groups […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 5: March 18, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor Greetings, gang! You’d better put on some asbestos gloves before touching the keyboard. This week’s news is sizzling hot! MORE UFOs SIGHTED IN CANADA’S NORTHWEST TERRITORIES A major UFO flap has erupted around the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Between March 3 and March 17, residents of Hay River, a town of 3,268 people on the south shore of the frozen lake, have been seeing UFOs every night. The objects are described as bright lights colored red, white, yellow and blue or as “two wash basins, one inverted on top of another, colored gray, with a blinking red or blue light.” When they appear, the UFOs are seen about one to one-and-a-half miles out on the lake. […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 3: March 4, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor Hi, folks! There’s plenty of UFO news this week, so let’s go to press. UFO CONFRONTS POLICE IN RENO At 5:45 p.m. on February 12, 1996, a black or dark gray spheroid UFO flew west out of the desert and passed over Sparks, Nevada. The UFO was described as about 60 feet in diameter with a bright white light in the bottom hemisphere. The beam from the light, however, was not bright enough to reach the ground. Crossing into the city of Reno, the UFO flew over Paradise Park and headed west along Oddie Boulevard until it reached the Livestock Events Center, just north of Interstate 80 and a mile or so north of downtown Reno and city hall. A Reno […] Read More