Canadian Prime minister's plane has close encounter with UFO
Canadian Press, Canada - 3/29/2004
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Canada's prime minister Paul Martin and his entourage were cruising above Alberta when their Challenger jet came within an otherworldly whisker of a luminous object streaking through the night sky.
OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's prime minister Paul Martin and his entourage were cruising above Alberta when their Challenger jet came within an otherworldly whisker of a luminous object streaking through the night sky. In a report to Edmonton air traffic controllers, the pilot of Martin's plane noted seeing a "very bright light falling" through the air, with smoke trailing, while the aircraft passed over Suffield, Alta., on Sun., March 21.
People aboard at least two other planes also saw the plummeting object, which was travelling "at a very fast rate of speed" from a high altitude, says the report.
An amateur astronomer in Calgary captured the blazing streak on videotape. And it appears one or more such fireballs were seen by people across the Prairies and as far east as Quebec.
Ufology Research of Manitoba publishes an annual study on UFO sightings in Canada, including many cases involving meteors.
The group's recently released 2003 survey found that a record 673 reports of unidentified objects were made to various organizations and investigators in Canada.
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