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This Internet Archive upload holds declassified Canadian records sent to the National Research Council's Meteor Centre, which filed them as non-meteoritic sightings. Most are RCAF and Canadian Forces message reports from 1965 on lights and objects seen over Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, Cochrane, Whitehorse and other places. The later material dates from 1968. It includes RCMP reports from Shediac and Sydney Mines. The police concluded the Sydney Mines object that hit power lines was probably a meteorite.
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# ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE AIR FORCE POLICE by did Val d ' Ov 97161 REPORT DATE: 31 Jan 67 4% COMMAND AIR LIFE CAMMAND UNIT RCAF Station Val D'Or P. Q. SUBJECT UNIDENTIFIED FALLING OBJECT ASSISTANCE TO CIVIL POLICE LAW STATION VAL D'Or Pq Mr. Robert GAUTHIER (QPP Case) INCIDENT REPORTED TO AIR FORCE POLICE ON(Date): 27 Jan 67 AFHQ ... CHQ ... Cip ... Stn ... SIU ... SID ... ## DISPOSITION Ambunt of Loss. or Damage to Property PUBLIC ... 111 NON-PUBLIC 211 PRIVATE...11 Amount Recovered PUBLIC N/A NON-PUBLIC N/A PRIVATE...N/.. ADM DEDUCTION ... R/A ... SERVICE CIVIL ... K/A... Next...1... RCAP D22 (1955 Rev.) 3,200 Pads of 200-3-50 (24-4173) At 1330 hrs 27 Jan 67, the writer received information from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Detachment at Val D'Or, that it was believed an unknown object had fallen at the rear of a house near Malartic, Abitibi, P. The source of information was a Mr. Robert GAUTHIER, aged 32 years, whose residence is on Route 59, Rivière Heva - 10 miles east of Malartic, Abitibi, P. Postal address is General Delivery, Rivière Heva, bitibi, P. At 1530 hrs 27 Jan 67, RCM Constable Raymond Blang No. 23882 of Val D'Or Detachment, accompanied the writer to the residence of Mr. Gauthier to conduct enquiries regarding this incident. The investigators were unable to contact Mr. Gauthier at this time. However, on a second visit during the afternoon of 30 Jan 67, Mr. Gauthier was interviewed and a statement obtained which is attached to this report as Appendix A". It appears that at 0045 hrs. 27 Jan 67, Mr. Gauthier was asleep in the bedroom of his home when he was awakened by an explosion which shook his house. He thought at first, that this explosion had originated from his house furnace, but when he looked out of his bedroom window and south over Lake RAVILLA, which is adjacent to his property, he saw in the moonlight, a 'black spot' on the ice-covered lake. At 0745 hrs that same morning, Mr. Gauthier went to investigate this 'black spot' and discovered it to be a hole in the ice about twelve to fifteen inches in diameter. This hole was no there previous to the explosion. There were no footprints in the snow surrounding this hole. He probed this cavity with a metal bar and established that some object had smashed through about two feet of crusted snow and then through the thick ice of the lake. The hole was at an approximate angle of forty-five degrees and consistent with having come from a north-westerly direction. This hole was situated at the rear of his home and approximately ten to fifteen yards from the lake beach. Mr. Gauthier had then passed this information to the Quebec Provincial Police who had notified the乡乡. 4 Explanation of the ice was made by the writer and Constable Burgson in company with Mr. Jauthier, but there has been considerable freezing and drifting snow since the incident, there fore it was not possible to pin-point the exact location of the entry of this object. However, Mr. Jauthier indicated the approximate position of the object's entry into the ice. The writer then marked this indicated position with a makeshift flag placed in the ice. 5 Message No. AJ47 dated 30 Jan 67 was sent from this unit to CAB ORCHELD OPS., also for the information of Mr. W.M.A. WARDEN, Regional Representative for Lighting of Unidentified flying Objects, 30 52nd Ave., Lachine, P. This is in accordance with Air Defence Command Instructions, Vol. 2 - 2.01/19.
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