How Canada Woke Up To The Reality Of UFOs

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Written by Dave Scott, host of Spaced Out Radio - 7 June 2022

Believe it or not, Canada has always had a deep vested interest in UFOs.

It's actually true!

For instance, in the 1950's, Transport Canada established 'Project Magnet' that looked into UFOs.

And the project’s director, Wilbert Smith, a Senior Radio Engineer, eventually concluded the phenomena were probably extraterrestrial in origin.

Smith died in 1962, five years before a UFO flap hit Canada.

The chain of events commenced on 20 May 1967, where an amateur geologist named Stephan Michalak came into contact with two UFOs in the famous Falcon Lake, Manitoba, incident.

This interaction left Michalak with radiation burns on his body, namely his stomach, and clothing.

To date, this could be the best evidence we have of human interaction with a UFO.

Fast forward to 3 October 1967, when a large craft was witnessed by civilians, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), as well as the Canadian and American Navy, crashing into the water of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.

A few decades later in 2005, the Right Honourable Paul Hellyer, Canada's former Minister of Defense, started making claims that UFOs and extraterrestrials were real and visiting earth.

These bold claims, at the time, made Hellyer the highest-ranking government official in the world to talk seriously about UFOs publicly. Hellyer once told me that there is a group that studies UFO and occupies one floor of the National Research Council building.

A former Mountie confirmed to Hellyer in writing that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was involved with investigating UFOs, and inadvertently told Hellyer that Canada had been in touch with two alien species on the assumption that he was in the loop but soon stopped correspondence as soon as they realized that wasn’t the case.

Hellyer passed away at the age of 98, two days after his birthday in 2021.

Canadian government officials were always quiet and ignored Hellyer's claims of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth even though he sat on the Queen's Privy Council for Canada until his death.

Little did Hellyer know that an old farm boy from the province of Manitoba would soon take up the cause.

Canada’s New Interest In UFOs

Member of Parliament Larry Maguire has been a sitting member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He recalls sitting on his tractor into the long nights staring up into the stars wondering what was out there.

Although Maguire has never seen a thing outside of the odd satellite, he is curious.

That curiosity was triggered in December of 2017 when the New York Times printed an article about the United States Government looking into what they were calling Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAP.

That’s where Maguire’s journey started; listening to radio shows, podcasts, reading articles in papers and online to learn more about the subject. Armed with information, he wondered if UFOs presented an issue to Canada as well.

And as both a neighbour and ally, he wondered: shouldn’t Canada be supporting the USA in its own UFO investigation, which now has its own office, as legislated by Congress?

"It's important I think that the United States isn't the one tackling this by themselves," Maguire recently remarked on a one-hour exclusive interview on Spaced Out Radio.

Here is the video to the entire show:

Maguire, who was first elected in 2013, and represents the district of Brandon-Souris in Manitoba, has made the following comments about UFOs and what he thinks should be done to conduct further investigations:

"These items, ... they're everywhere. They don't honour borders. They could be anywhere and we don't know what they are. And I think its very important that the objective should be to have an unbiased group to find out what the intent and the objective of these items are."

In his research into UFO incursions over Canada, Maguire and his team have interviewed Canadian and American dignitaries, scientists and fellow political colleagues in Ottawa (home of Canada’s Parliament) and the United States.

Maguire has also recalled his own transition from viewing the phenomena as fiction to the present day reality now facing politicians across North America:

"It takes some time.

You have to talk to a lot of people. There's a lot of stigmas attached to this and many years in the past.

But when people like top military leaders come out and they start talking about these 'things' publicly.

About having reports done by Congress, passing legislation, ... to bring this to the forefront of the American public,... I think that's what really led me to believe that there's more to this than fiction and we need to be a part of that in Canada as well."

Maguire has found that historic Canadian UFO reports are dispersed between the Department of National Defense, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Transport Canada, Nav Canada, and other alphabet government agencies.

This has led Maguire to conclude that it is now time for Canadian political parties to collaborate and establish a new UFO agency, where all reports are filed under one centralized location. Maguire remarked on this idea:

"I made a suggestion, in a press release, that our chief science advisor, Dr. (Mona) Nemer should be the one to tackle this. Then the Defence wouldn't feel encumbered by it.

Then we could call who ever we wanted as witness. Now in Canada, it's a different system than in the United States, so, as Opposition members here, we can't put forward ideas that cost the government money and motions and committee work. But we can study things in committee, and I think that's an important place to have this discussion take place.

But I think it has to go further than that. It has to have a parallel as to what the U.S. just did in its congressional hearings ... last week. That is that they will set up an independent body and they're in the process of putting someone in charge of it, so that all of the information can be gathered in one place and be made public."

Maguire has met with many people on both sides of the border regarding the UFO topic, on the basis of exploring the implications to Canada’s air safety and national security.

His research has led to meetings and discussions with high-profile figures regarding UFOs, from the United States, including former AATIP head, Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, who was the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, Jr.

Both Elizondo and Mellon were instrumental in releasing UFO videos nicknamed 'Go Fast', 'Gimbal' and 'Tic Tac', which led to a bombshell New York Times article in 2017, revealing the Pentagon’s secret interest in UFOs.

Maguire has also met with members of the Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies, including Robert Powell. That meeting also included legendary U.S. Government engineer and researcher, Harold (Hal) Puthoff, who at one time helped research the CIA's 'Project Stargate' program, which investigated the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications.

Growing Support Throughout Canadian Parliament

Maguire's purpose has been to gain knowledge of the UFO subject, so he can engage with fellow politicians and gain support for his initiative.

So far Maguire has support from his own Conservative Party of Canada.

He's also held discussions with New Democratic Party MP Matthew Green, and earned the support of Green’s party.

Talking about the growing political interest inside Parliament, Maguire commented:

"They're backing the of studying it. We know that the Defence Minister from a year ago, Mr. (Harjit) Sajjan was debriefed on this.

“Don't know whether the Prime Minister (Justin Trudeau) or the present Defence Minister (Anita Anand) have been? But I know that the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources (John Hannaford) knows about it because we've asked those questions!"

My show, Spaced Out Radio learned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was read into the UFO topic back in 2019, between the months of August and December of that year, by former Canadian Ambassador to the United States, David MacNaughton.

Sources indicate that McNaughton was briefed by U.S. representatives with knowledge of the subject before he flew back to Canada to debrief Prime Minister Trudeau and his Defense Minister at the time, Harjit Sajjan.

Maguire was familiar with this information, but had no official paperwork from the Prime Minister's office to confirm. Commented on the alleged meeting, Maguire said, "I knew of it, (the debriefing) but we haven’t seen an order paper on that, there has been no response."

When pushed on the matter as to whether or not he felt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dodging the UFO topic, Maguire replied:

"Well I don't know what he knows about it, so I wouldn't be able to answer that. They haven't made it public. They haven't talked about it, so I have to assume that they're not ready to do that yet."

Concern About UFOs Over Nuclear Facilities

Part of the concern that piqued MP Maguire's interest in the topic was learning of UFOs seen over Canada's nuclear energy facilities in the province of Ontario.

He was able to gather information confirming that there have been sightings of UFOs over nuclear plants, eerily similar to those that had been seen in the 1960's and 70's over United States nuclear weapons facilities, such as Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

Former Air Force Captain Robert Salas has gone on record stating unidentified objects had the capability to arm and disarm nuclear missiles at their own regard.

Canada, of note, does not have any nuclear, chemical or biological agents in its weaponry, namely missiles. Canada, however does possess six nuclear power stations, including the BRUCE system which is the largest nuclear energy facility in the world.

To date, there have been numerous sightings of UFOs in and around nuclear power plants, which Maguire has been paying close attention to, although to date there have been no concerns of a 'threat' per se, from these objects, Maguire remains worried, stating:

"We don't know if there's any defence 'alerts' to be had here or not?”.

“….There's been a number of those sightings there... in our nuclear facilities."

Asked if any of these craft have been caught on tape in what is supposed to be secured air space in Canada, Maguire has remarked to me:

"Well we asked for details on that. That was certainly one of the questions I had for the Canadian Nuclear Security Commission."

However, the Commission’s response was a little underwhelming according to Maguire, who said:

"You've got extensive surveillance equipment around these types of plants. We didn't get a clear answer as to how far that would go? How near to a plant it would be before they considered that a concern. Those are unanswered questions at this point, but definitely questions that need to be answered."

As of this point, no one has gone through Canada's 'Access to Information' (our own FOIA) to see if the videos could be released.

What Comes Next?

With the hot button topic of 'UFO Disclosure' south of the border (the USA), and what it should entail, Maguire believes the Canadian government should just put its cards down on the table and open the files to everyone.

Maguire reflected:

"I think if you're going to disclose something, you need to let people know what you know."

This is the big reason why Maguire's next goal is to try and get a committee formed to talk publicly and openly about the UFO issue in the ‘Great White North’, as Canada is known.

Maguire feels information access in Canada when it comes to UFOs is a Canadian problem.

Canada’s relationship with the United States, especially through NORAD will continue, but that shouldn't stop all of the Canadian agencies from coming together collectively under one committee, regardless of what Canada's allies to the south are doing regarding the UFOs.

Sean Cahill, eyewitness to the 2004 USS Nimitz 'TicTac', formerly of Sky Fort and close friend of Luis Elizondo has noted the importance of Canada and the role of MP Larry Maguire due to his public approach to the UFO topic.

Cahill commented:

"I think this is where it starts, (for Canada), because this is where the bread crumbs lead through. The right people who work at the most recent programs, that have the most recent sight pictures of what's going on, should be the first people to brief leaders and such to give them the 'NOW' picture."

Legendary Canadian UFO researcher, Grant Cameron, who has been studying the UFO topic for almost 50 years, feels it's time the Canadian Government starts acknowledging the issue publicly.

Cameron said:

"I give him (Maguire) full credit for stepping out and doing this. Hopefully he can get the committee (together). I hope he will step forward, onto the floor of the parliament, request a committee to look at this."

Although displaying abundant caution to not hit the 'extraterrestrial' road just yet, Maguire calls this phenomenon an out of Earth experience that needs continued study from all sides of the federal government in Canada.

In the coming months the topic is expected to escalate further in the USA, following the first Congressional hearing into the issue in over 50 years. Pressure will only grow on Canada to take action, especially with NORAD expected to become increasingly engaged.

Should that happen, expect the spotlight to shine brightly upon Larry Maguire.

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