According to a memo written by the Department of National Defence, sightings of unidentified flying objects in Canada occurred throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
[5] In April 2018, the Royal Canadian Mint released a $20 silver coin depicting the alleged event as the first of its Canada's Unexplained Phenomena series, stating "According to Stefan Michalak’s account, two glowing objects descended from the sky on May 20, 1967, near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, where one landed close enough for him to approach.
On October 1, 2019, the Royal Canadian Mint released a $20 silver glow-in-the-dark coin depicting the sighting as the second of the Canada Unexplained Phenomena series.
[8] In Prince George, British Columbia, three unrelated witnesses reported a strange, round object in the late afternoon sky on January 1, 1969.
[9] Around 10:30 a.m. on September 1, 1974, Langenburg, Saskatchewan area farmer Edwin Fuhr claims to have seen five saucer-shaped objects hovering approximately one foot off the ground near a slough.
[2] A single sighting of a UFO by twelve individuals in the early morning October 26, 1978 occurred in Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador near Random Island.
[15] Individuals who spotted the object called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the dispatched officer, Constable James Blackwood, witnessed the UFO hover 100 feet (30.5 m) above the water for around one or two hours before vanishing.
[20] On November 7, 1990, in Montreal, Quebec, witnesses reported a round, metallic object of about 540 metres wide over the rooftop pool of the Bonaventure Hotel.
[22] The sighting was commemorated in 2021 on a $20 silver glow-in-the-dark coin as the fourth installment of the Canada's Unexplained Phenomena series by the Royal Canadian Mint.
[27] While putting out a bonfire late in the evening of June 4, 2014, John Sheppard witnessed unusual lights in the sky over the Gulf of St. Lawrence and captured 22 minutes of it on his cellphone.
[30][31][32][33][34][35] At around 9:00pm on Saturday, July 26, 2014, Sarah Chun witnessed a string of six or seven diagonal flashing lights in the sky from the window near her dining table in her condominium in North York before going outside to her balcony to observe.
[34] The event was witnessed by many people, including Roxanna Maleki, a local musician, who had exited a movie theatre due to a fire alarm and who had posted a video to her Facebook account.
[37] It was also reported that there were some minor power outages in Toronto, including at the subway station in North York, and at the Cineplex movie theatre which briefly tripped the fire alarm.