Cigar over Calgary, AB · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were walking our dog through a green space in N.E Calgary when we noticed something coming from the west flying faster than any satellite we’ve ever seen glowing a fluorescent bright blue and flying higher than airplanes but lower than space. We watched it coming towards us rapidly for around 5-10 seconds and then it changed direction instantaneously and flew S-S.E and it was out of site between 5-10 seconds tops, we were both dumbfounded and stuck in our spots wondering what we just saw! It wasn’t a plane because the entire craft was lit up and it was easily 2-3X’s bigger than a jumbo jet both in length and diameter and it wasn’t a satellite because it was moving way too fast and we could see the defined shape of whatever it was and it looked like a giant pill capsule or a tic tac. I’m an amateur star gazer and have been looking at stars and planets and satellites for years and whatever it was it definitely wasn’t any of those, I’m 52 and I’ve never seen anything like it before or since but it will stay with me for the rest of my life!! I would’ve reported it sooner but I had no idea where to report it until today
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177451). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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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.
Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2021-10-18 → 2021-11-04
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