How to explain the stunning increase in UFO reports — all those humming, blinking, blinding lights — which have more than doubled in Canada in the last year?
How to explain the
stunning increase in UFO reports — all those humming, blinking, blinding
lights — which have more than doubled in Canada in the last year?
Are observers simply seeing the orange glow of Chinese lanterns floating aloft?
Are they inspired by
guitar-strumming Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to gaze skyward,
seeking the bright light of the orbiting space station and seeing other
strange phenomena?
Is it evidence of
Laurentian University Prof. Michael Persinger’s “tectonic strain theory”
that luminous shapes precede earthquakes?
Or, as ufologists would have it, are more of them watching us?
May was a busy month in the UFO world: Ufology Research, based in Winnipeg, issued its Canadian UFO survey. Not surprisingly, reports peak in the summer months.
In Washington, D.C.,
six former members of Congress — each paid $20,000 for their time — and
40 witnesses met in a series of hearings to plead for a UN-sponsored
world conference on UFOs.
Retired McGill University psychology professor Don Donderi published the book UFOs, ETs and Alien Abductions — A Scientist Looks at the Evidence. He asserts that UFOs are here and we’d better get used to them.
“Polls have shown that one in 10 Canadians believe
they have seen a UFO. That’s three to four million people with UFO
experiences.”
