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This Internet Archive item compiles 1965 to 1968 records from National Research Council of Canada files (RG 77, Vol. 306) on non-meteoritic sightings. It contains fireball and UFO telex reports from RCAF stations, RCC Vancouver and the RCMP, covering lights seen over Sydney, Vancouver, Cochrane, Toronto, Whitehorse and Shediac. It also includes an RCMP investigation of a 12 July 1968 impact at Tobin Road, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, which concluded the object was probably a meteorite, not a UFO.
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## ACK. A description of an unusual flying phenomena given by Mr. Emerson Smith of Brooklyn, N. S. In October he, with two companions, was travelling west about 10:30 p.m. on a country road between Liverpool and Middle parallel to the highway. This was a scenic drive along the Mersey River. The night was very clear and starlit. At the point marked X Mr. Smith and his friends sighted the object which he described to/ me as follows: "It was large and orange-yellow, spherical like the moon or setting sun, and was surrounded by a paler halo of light. It was above the horizon about a distance ten times its diameter. It changed color from orange-yellow to yellow. We watched it for about ten minutes during which time it sank steadily towards the horizon, finally disappearing. The most remarkable thing was the streak of oblong light it left (like an eraser mark) for about a minute." The account is particularly interesting to me because Mr. Smith has always believed that unidentified flying objects exist only in the imagination. signed Nancy Kempton Middlleton, N. S. December 16, 1967
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