UFO. Canada

Toronto, Ontario, GLOBE AND MAIL, November 11, 1953, page 19

Flying saucers? North Bay still sees strange disks in the sky

North Bay, November 10-Two years ago, when the first flying saucer was reported in this city in northern Ontario, people were skeptical.

Today, there is hardly a person in the city who would not believe that the luminous disks are regular visitors to the Northern Bay.

This week, US Major Donald Kehoe strongly supported this opinion. His new book about the Flying Saucer reports says that it was the appearance of strange objects in the North Bay area in early 1952 that first convinced the RCAF and the Canadian government that the saucers were not just a hoax.

The North Bay daily newspaper has a dossier of 16 people who reported sightings of orange-colored disks. Half of the reports were not published because they were provided by people who asked not to disclose their names. Daily Nugget reports that all accounts carefully check the size, color, speed and movement of flying objects.

Three weeks ago, a North Bay resident told about dozens of night observations of a "funny orange globe" that appeared from the northeast sky, wandered back and forth on the horizon, and then disappeared.

Most recently, two residents of Sturgeon Falls chased a low-flying glowing disk along Highway 17, a few miles west of the city.

All observations are confirmed by convincing details. In the fall of 1951, three people reported daytime sightings over Lake Nipissing. Everyone saw it from the other shore and did not know any other messages. Nevertheless, their report on the time of observation, the appearance of the "silver round star" and the strange maneuvers that it performed, has been checked and rechecked.

But the most authoritative are the reports of employees of the RCAF station in the North Bay on New Year's Day 1952.

Here's how US Major Kehoe tells about it. "On the night of January 1, 1952, an orange-red disk appeared over North Bay, where the RCAF has a new jet base. For eight minutes, the car circled, dived and zigzagged over the field. the height in the stratosphere of the object was one of the largest ever seen. It was moving at supersonic speed ."

"When the first report was published, RCAF intelligence declined to comment. Then a second saucer was reported, again over the North Bay. Approaching from the southwest, it stopped right above the air base. After hovering for a while, it quickly changed direction. Rising at an angle of 30 degrees, it disappeared with great speed."

Qualified pilots with experience in determining the height, speed and size of flying objects made observations and sent intelligence reports to Ottawa.

As a result, a conference was held in Ottawa, and the RCAF, together with the National Defense Research Council, launched a serious investigation. The project is on the top secret list.