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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.
“Edmonton”9 pages
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Southview, Avenue Kentville, N. S. relative to a sighting at 3 a.m., 7 January 1968. She reported that the object she saw was orange in colour with a blue tinge on the bottom which resembled a series of exhausts coming from the bottom of the object. The object appeared to be approximately the size of the sun, but of course not as bright. The object moved in from the north, slowed and stopped, hoovered for approximately an hour and a half over what would be, from her observation point, the Cornwallis River. She reported that it at times gave off "balls" of fire from the bottom part of it, which resembled what one might see from the exhaust of an engine when the carbon would be well burned and you would get a blue flame. Eventually, the object turned and came towards their house, at which time Mrs. Forbes headed for bed. She was asked why she did not call her husband to see this, but her answer was that it would probably have disappeared by the time he got there and he would have been somewhat annoyed at being disturbed. There were reflections on the windows and blue flashes from this object, with these so-called "star balls" falling from the bottom. She heard nothing and was and was, by her own admission, too scared to open the door to view it from that point. At one time she thought it might have the appearance of disintegrating, but it did not. These were the times, I presume, when there would be spurts of balls of fire falling "from underneath". All in all, a remarkable experience. I am attaching a copy of the rough notes I made on it when she phoned this sighting in.
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