Here's how the Canadian government and military handle UFO reports
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From reports of a 'red disc with a ring' near Montreal to an object 'flying sporadically' over northwestern Canada, CTVNews.ca investigation has pieced together how the Royal Canadian Air Force, Transport Canada and other government entities handle UFO reports.
Late one night in April 2018, a cargo flight from New York to Alaska reported "an object flying sporadically, estimated at (18,000 to 24,000 metres) and moving at Mach 4" over northwestern Canada.
The report to Canadian air traffic controllers triggered alerts to transportation officials and the military. Outside of an email to a civilian researcher in Manitoba, there appears to have been no official investigation or follow-up.
The unusual report is just one among many discovered by CTVNews.ca in an aviation incident database maintained by Canada's federal transportation department. Numerous access to information requests have uncovered more details on cases like these, as well as procedural documents that show how the Canadian government and military actively record, share and then largely ignore reports of unidentified objects and lights from police officers, soldiers, air traffic controllers, members of the public and pilots on flights operated by WestJet, Air Canada Express, Delta and more.
As the Pentagon, NASA and U.S. lawmakers continue to investigate what they call UAP --- short for unidentified anomalous (or aerial) phenomena --- the Canadian government's top scientific advisor has also begun their own study, which will culminate in a public report in 2024.
"The Sky Canada Project was launched in the Fall of 2022 to study how Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) reports from the public are managed in Canada and to recommend improvements," the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada's website explains.
This is what CTVNews.ca has learned about Canada's UFO procedures.
In Canada, most reports of unidentified flying objects are captured by procedures known as "Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings," or CIRVIS for short. First developed by the U.S. military during the Cold War to document potential threats, today CIRVIS reports in Canada trigger a flurry of alerts that link air traffic controllers, government officials at Transport Canada and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
