As reported

Flash over Penticton (Canada), BC · Canada

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

saw 3 lights blink on in sky. Two shot away and dimmed out, third shot across horison.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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What would the paper say?

Canadian military and radar records answer to the Access to Information Act; historic UFO files are held by Library and Archives Canada. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.

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Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 1998-05-18 → 1998-06-04

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