It is with regret we at PSICAN learned of the passing of our friend, broadcaster Errol Bruce Knapp.
Truly starting his radio career (proudly) on one of the famed pirate radio ships (“Radio Caroline”) in England, Errol became the long serving host of “Strange Days Indeed” on Toronto radio station CFRB which popularised and gave voice to the scions, enthusiasts, experients, and any interested parties of the ufological phenomena. Errol was also the long-time curator of the UFO Updates “List” which through the 90’s and into the early 2000’s under his stewardship was probably the best resource for current information, ideas, and discussions on the phenomen available anywhere.
Errol had an interest in all areas of the paranormal and was also a futurist with a deep interest in digital media and computers.
His resume included things such as writing for The Hillarious House of Frightenstein (as “Errol John”) all the way to being active with the technology show, Fast Forward, and writing for Chuck The Security Guard on The All-Night Show in Toronto before lighting on Strange Days.
With his “great set of pipes” (his excellent voice talent for radio,) ready wit, charm, and enthusiasm, Errol was an original of the likes which is rarely seen in any of the studies of the paranormal.
Errol passed away August 11th, 2016… and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
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Written by Sue Demeter-St.Clair
In early July 2016 I created a personal blog post entitled Fairies: A Canadian Research Project and I asked my readers to share or submit personal encounters with me. The post was shared numerous time and I received a good number of responses including ones from outside Canada. The following report in the witness’ own words is one of those, and despite being outside of Canada and having occurred approximately 20 years ago I thought it definitely worthy of sharing with the PSICAN readership.
The experient writes:
“Hello–though I am American and this did not happen in Canada, it happened close to the New York State-Canadian border. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have about my experience, which changed my life considerably. I still think of it all the time, almost daily.
I live in New York City, but in October of 1996 was visiting my mother and extended family, who then lived in Williamsville, which is outside of Buffalo, New York. It was the middle of October and my mother, my aunt and I had taken a drive out into the country to see the foliage. It was a very beautiful, cool, clear autumn day.
Towards late afternoon, we stopped in the small town of Great Valley to have dinner. My mother and aunt wanted to shop afterwards, and I wanted to take a walk in the countryside which surrounds the town. I walked to the edge of the town and then out into the rolling land around it–open fields in the center with woods on either side. I was in a relaxed, happy and contemplative mood.
I had been walking about ten minutes when, suddenly, I “heard” a kind of sing-song “chanting” in my mind, which “sounded” like a multitude of very sweet, pleasing voices that were all speaking the same words almost simultaneously, in a kind of cascading aural waterfall effect. I had never experienced anything like this before at any time, and the words were, “Don’t you see us? We’re all around you. We’re all around you, don’t you see us? Look—don’t you see us?” Stunned, I stopped walking and took the experience in. There was a smallish tree near me, but otherwise I saw only the open fields, woods at a distance to my right, and a two-lane road beyond on either side. I did look around me, certainly not expecting to see anything unusual, and saw nothing except the autumnal landscape I had come to see. I “heard” the voices for about 90 seconds, and then the voices abruptly stopped.
I walked on for another 20 minutes, and then returned to the town, where I met my family. I said nothing to them about my experience, and reflected upon it on the long drive back to Williamsville.
The next morning I was preparing to take the afternoon train back to New York City, and, having packed, went for a walk on a familiar wooded path behind my mother’s housing development, a path which ran adjacent to Ayer Road, a residential street of traditional old American homes. I had been walking for about 10 minutes when, suddenly, I “heard” the voices again in exactly the same manner I had “heard” them the day before.
The voices said, “We’re here—come this way, walk this way. We’re here,” and I looked to my left and saw another path through the woods that led to Ayer Road, which I could plainly see at the end of it. I turned left and walked down the path, still “hearing” the voices, which, as I approached Ayer Road, came to a stop. Ayer is a fairly quiet street but does get some car traffic, and, somewhat stunned and dazed by this new experience, which seemed to validate my experience of the day before, I walked north past the homes using the lip of the road, as there were no sidewalks. Ayer Road curves slightly at various points, and rounding one of these curves, my eyes fell upon a grouping of four garden gnome statues on the front lawn of one of the homes. The statues were traditionally sculpted and done in what I would call a tasteful and “realistic” manner; they weren’t the kind of mass-produced cartoonish garden gnomes so prevalent today.
The four gnomes were in sitting positions and arranged so that they were facing one another. When I saw them, it was like receiving a blow to the chest, though I realized instantaneously that they were statues. But seeing them at that moment seemed to “identify” the source of the voices to me in a manner which I can only call profound, as if the statues were what I was meant to see when I turned off the initial path and walked down the other towards Ayer.
Several hours later, on the Amtrak train, just as dusk was falling and the last of the day’s light was disappearing from the surrounding farmland, I turned to look behind me at the setting sun, and just as I did so, I heard the voices again in the same manner I had before, and again, the voices were “sing-songy,” but less so than on the previous two occasions. The voices, which I have to paraphrase in this case, said, “You’re leaving us now, and the autumn door is closing. You will forget about us for a long, long while, but we have a date with you in the distant future. “You will meet us again, “ then and at that moment, the sun disappeared behind the horizon. I found this third experience exhilarating and emotionally powerful.
So I never “saw” anything visually (other than the garden gnome statues), but I have, for some years now, come to the tentative conclusion that the “voices” were “fairy” voices. What struck me most, and still strikes me now, is that “they” thought I would “forget” them and the experience, which I certainly never have, nor have I ever come to think of it as unimportant.
I also want to state that, before the three experiences, which all took place within just over a 24 hour period, I did not believe in fairies or elves by any means. I had never had an experience of “hearing” voices mentally, nor have I since. The experience did profoundly change the way I think about reality and my own life. Due to the nature of these experiences, they’re very difficult to put accurately into words as I experienced them. ”
“I am absolutely sure the gnome figures I saw were stone statues. I was very close to them when I walked down the wooded path–they had been placed so that they were facing one another in a loose circular formation and there was a large red mushroom, also stone or cement, in the middle of their ‘circle.’ The gnomes were similar to those in the attached photos (though they were all in the same sitting position), which I would consider ‘realistic’ looking. These kind are rarely seen any more.
But I was walking down the path out of the woods towards Ayer Road, having just heard the ‘voices’ again, saying, “Come this way…..we’re here!” very enthusiastically, in the same sing-songy voice, and as I approached Ayer Road, certainly not expecting to see anything, I was astounded, stunned, to see the gnome statues grouped there–it took my breath away for a moment. For a moment, it was frightening, and I am not easily frightened.
They were large for garden gnome statues–about 2 feet or more–and beautiful constructed and painted. It was as if the statues were what I was meant to see to identify the ‘voices.’ But I’m sure they were statues.
T.S. Eliot talks about the ‘objective correlative’–“the artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it,” and that’s what I think the statues were and were intended to be or represent. That they were only stone statues took nothing away from the experience for me, ultimately, because I was led out of the woods and down that particular path by the ‘voices’–and right to where those statues were. Today, of course, I would have taken out my iPhone and taken a photo of them, to retain a record. ”
I did have one other ‘paranormal’ experience, which was, in its own way, almost equally profound. It took place on the early morning of June 23rd, 1994, just after 1:00 a.m.
I had been sitting up watching the NBA finals with my roommate (John*), in which the New York Knicks were playing the Houston Rockets. I was very excited about the game, and very disappointed when the Knicks lost. John had gone to bed, and I was reading in my room. At the time, I has lost my job and often stayed up late reading, but at no point had I been asleep.
Our apartment was a ‘penthouse’ apartment (7th floor) in an old brownstone in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, quite close to the East River, so that we had a spectacular view of the then-World Trade Center buildings in Manhattan.
I got out of bed to get a drink from the refrigerator, and as I was standing in the kitchen in the dark, I remembered there was supposed to be a moon that night, and looked out the large, tall kitchen window, which faced west, to see if I could see it.
Just as I did, a huge, bright greenish figure, shaped like a ‘minnow’ or an elongated teardrop turned side-wise with the larger end forward, ‘flew’ into view in the open air and space over Williamsburg.
I was not a believer in ‘unidentified flying objects’ of any kind; my initial reaction was, “The nerve of that thing, to be flying right over the rooftops of houses and buildings!” Below on the corner there was an Orthodox Jewish School, and I could see two school buses parked outside, so it gave me a good comparison of its size–it was about the size of the two standard school buses placed back to back.
It flew with what I call a ‘trundling’ motion–it flew forward, hovering at some points, but moved slightly up and down as it did so, as if shaking. It flew into my rage of vision, but at an upward angle, then ‘flew’ sideways and backwards so that moved between two very tall housing projects, still ‘trundling,’ and then, in an incredible burst of speed, zoomed straight out of sight into the clouds over the World Trade Center, where, as the entered the cloud bank, the clouds briefly trend green with its light. And then it was gone.
I woke up John, I called the police to report it and ask if anyone else had, and the next night, walked down to the waterfront bars along the East River on the Williamsburg side to see if any of the ‘hipsters’ who drank there had seen or reported it. No one else had reported it, and though the police were polite, they really didn’t have much of a response. Afterward, I told my friends, my family, everyone.
It did not look like ‘a craft from another planet’ or any kind of craft at all. It looked like clear blown-glass teardrop, as I said, with bright green smoke or liquid swirling inside it, almost the color of antifreeze. There were no other lights on it, no ‘doors’ or panels or windows. Nothing at all to make it look like a ‘craft.’ I know this sounds eccentric, but it almost looked like a bright green ‘cartoon,’ or ‘animated,’ image, superimposed over ‘reality,’ like the cartoon characters in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’
Nothing about it physically suggested it was ‘manned’ or created by man–though it certainly behaved like it was or was guided by intelligence. I grew up along a canal system in North Miami Beach, Florida, and it reminded me of a scene I had witnessed hundreds of times as a teenager–a little fish swimming briefly into view along the shallow waters of the shore and then quickly darting out of sight again.
The thing that struck me, and strikes me still, is how low over the city it was flying–I was on the 7th floor, so it was flying at, I would say, about a 9th or 10th floor level. When it moved backward and sideways between the two housing projects, there were many floors of those buildings above it. So if someone living in one had been awake I was, they would have seen it at eye-level.
Subsequently, I have read a lot about ‘green fireballs’ seen throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in America and elsewhere, and wonder if what I was what those people also reported, though what I experienced looked nothing like a meteor, a rocket, or anything else. It moved carefully and decisively, as if alive or intelligently guided. But I do not believe it was an ‘alien craft,’ and today do not believe in the ‘alien spacecraft’ explanation for unidentified flying objects.” * The name has been changed to John in order to protect privacy
The Canadian Humanoid Encounter Wave of 1968
UFO historians and researchers have always pointed out time periods or years in which encounters seem to increase in overwhelming numbers, they have labeled these time periods as ‘Waves’. The summer of 1947 is considered the first modern UFO wave in history (mostly in the United States). Other notable waves were in 1952 (basically the whole year and again concentrated in the USA). There were minor waves after that with concentrations worldwide, then came the summer of 1965 in which a worldwide wave was recorded, starting in South America, this incredible wave continued throughout 1966 and well into 1967, the next notable wave, acknowledge by those UFO historians and researchers is of course the fall 1973 (starting in the USA, mainly the southern states). One year which has been mostly ignored as a wave year or a period of intense activity was of course 1968, which included Argentina, Spain, France, Australia, New Zealand, and of course my main focus of attention in this article Canada (specifically the Province of Quebec). Encounters with strange entities were numerous and steady and mostly ignored by non-Canadian researchers. Following is a summary of known entity or humanoid encounters in Canada for the year 1968.
The first one in my files is dated 1968 without a specific date and is of course from Quebec:
1.
Location. Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada
Date: 1968 Time: night
An anonymous adult male reported seeing a strange figure in a wooded area. It had glowing red eyes on a dark background. No other details could be seen. 3 German shepherds with the witness do not react. The witness had seen on December 24 1967 a group of 10 luminous and silent bowl-shaped objects passing over his vehicle.
HC addendum
Source: CASUFO file, Marc Leduc, F. Bourbeau “Contact Magazine” # 158
The second case is straight out of the RCMP official files, is extremely high strange in nature, even though humanoids were not specified. Is from Saskatchewan.
2.
Location. Near Carrot River, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date: January 10 1968 Time: late night
Two witnesses were parked 3 ½ miles north and 1 mile west of this location when one of them glanced out the window to the west and saw a light. It was a very brilliant blue. It flashed and then moved over to the east side of the car where the other witness saw it. It was the same light, it flashed again and then they saw it in the southwest and again the same light. They could see it for about 2 seconds and then it would flash. Then about 5 minutes later it would appear again in a different direction. The light would be about 1 ½ to 2 miles away. When it appeared in the southwest it stayed for about ten minutes. At this time it changed color from a dark blue to a light blue and to a white. All these colors were bright, during this time they heard noises in the bush, on all sides of them, but only one side at the time. They could hear trees breaking and then a thump-thump-thump. This noise lasted for about 5 minutes.
They then saw three to five objects pass ahead of them, they couldn’t say what these objects were, they could have been some kind of animal, and they saw their tracks. They could have been animal tracks; the tracks were about 100 feet from them. They again heard noises between 1:00am and 1:30am. They decided to start back to town then. The lights followed them all the way to town. It moved in jerks, it was all over the sky but in no set pattern. They got to town between 2:00am and 2:15am. They drove up the main street a couple of times with the light following them all the time. They stopped by the public school facing south and they could see this light to the west of them above the insurance building. It was almost above them at this time. This time when they stopped the light stopped also but kept on shining. They left the area and proceeded to a friend’s house. When they turned onto Codette Road they both started to feel funny. The main witness got a terrible headache while the other one got a strange feeling in his head; it was a sort of numbness on the right side of his head. This strange feeling would run from his head, down the back of his neck and down his spinal column. They then parked in front of their friend’s house. The light followed them all the way. They watched it for about another 10 minutes. At this time it was on the southwest of them about a mile away. It would move towards them and then move back and disappear for about 2 seconds and then reappear.
At this time they noticed a formation of ice on the hood of the car, one of the witnesses made a diagram of it. It was the outline of a face. When they saw this they both went into the house. One of the witnesses then decided to drive home and again saw the brilliant blue light and a luminous cone-shaped object that briefly followed him. The object seemed to have an exhaust with sparks coming from it.
HC addendum
Source: Constable H. H. Esson RCMP in http://saskfiles.com/1968.html Type: C?
The third case suggests a visitation from ‘MIB’ types to a witness in an isolated location in British Columbia.
3.
Location. Keats Island British Columbia Canada
Date: January 29 1968 Time: afternoon
The witness who lived alone in an isolated cabin by herself had for several days seen mysterious lights and unknown objects maneuvering over the area and over a nearby lake. Two men in neat dark coveralls that claimed to be from the water company visited her that afternoon. The men acted nervously and seemed surprised she lived there alone. They finally left disappearing down a nearby footpath.
HC addition # 1079
Source: Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report
Summer 1974, quoting John Magor
The next case is also from the Province of British Columbia and is from the files of the group UFO BC.
4.
Location. Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Date: Spring 1968 Time: 01:00 a.m.
The two witnesses were in their car waiting for a third party to arrive, when one of them observed a bright white light moving among some trees. The other witness turned to look but the light had disappeared. After a few minutes they both saw the white light. They watched the light move to the edge of the woods. At this point they saw a figure come out of the woods. It looked like a small glowing humanoid, very bright, resembling a fluorescent light. They could not see any details as far as facial features and clothing. The being moved about very quickly and then went back into the woods. They both watched the bright white light moving away among the trees.
HC addition # 3384
Source: UFO BC
Next we return to Quebec with another bizarre entity encounter.
5.
Location. Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Date: April 1968 Time: 2005
The witness, Mrs. Tremblay had gone outside her home on her way to a restaurant when she drops her bag and looks up to see a hovering UFO at about 100m in altitude. A beam of light from under the object seems to be scanning the area. The witness shuts her eyes as the beam of light strikes her. When she reopens her eyes the UFO has disappeared. A few minutes later when she comes back home her attention is attracted to something white and she sees a being, human like, of small size and with a sculptural body. She is unable to see the face only a pair of dark blue eyes is visible. He seems to be about 50-55 years of age and appears to be sad (?). The humanoid is wearing a seamless white overall and is standing only at about 2 meters from the witness’s house. Others in the house do not see him. He vanishes instantly after a few seconds.
HC addendum
Source: Dossier OVNI (Casault), CASUFO files M. Leduc
Next we revisit Keats Island where the strangers made a return visit.
6.
Location. Keats Island British Columbia Canada
Date: May 2 1968 Time: morning
The witness was out collecting bark in a spot near the lake, when the same two men she had met previously approached her; both wore dark “neat” coveralls. One of the men was young, about 20 years of age, and seemed to hide behind the other man as the witness approached. The younger man stared intently at the witness during the conversation she had with the older man and only spoke once.
HC addition # 1080
Source: Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report
Summer 1974, Quoting John Magor
Activity seems to have picked up in the summer starting with this interesting entity report from Ontario.
7.
Location. Near Sarnia Ontario Canada
Date: Summer 1968 Time: evening
The 10-year old witness had gone to the back door to turn off some outside lights and was looking out the window when she noticed a glowing white humanoid figure sitting on a bench outside the garage. The figure stood up and appeared to be at least six-foot tall with a round glowing head, no facial features were discernible. The witness ran screaming to get her parents. Her dad searched the area with a flashlight but found nothing.
HC addition # 1146
Source: Bonnie Wheeler, Cambridge UFO Research
Ontario Canada
Next we go back to Quebec with another bizarre visitation that same summer.
8.
Location. Laval-des-Rapides Quebec Canada
Date: Summer 1968 Time: 2130
Mrs. B. L. and Mrs. A. B. had been shopping and were walking beside a vacant lot at the Rue Bon Pasteur when the full moon, which was on the horizon, was suddenly eclipsed. After several seconds of darkness it reappeared, but the women now saw against its disc two figures floating several feet above the ground, slowly approaching them. They could see that they were wearing very close fitting one-piece clothing, and had expressionless faces; “they were all black.” One appeared to be 5’6” in height and the other about 5’2”; one was holding a 2 tiered pitchfork, with which he seemed to be probing the ground. The witnesses ran home.
Humcat 1968-91
Source: Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides
For the next case we visit far north Canada, the Yukon to be exact.
9.
Location. Barhead, Yukon, Canada
Date: June 1968 Time: night
A farmer observed an object like an inverted dish emitting colored flames. In a compartment at the top two figures were visible who seemed to be controlling the craft. As it drew near the figures seemed to spot the witness and the object immediately accelerated away. The witness’s employer, a farmer and businessman reported the matter to the press.
HC addendum
Source: Bill Hayduck in Saucers, Space and Science 55, p. 8
The following case is perhaps one of the first Canadian UFO abductions reported, but unfortunately with very few details, is from Ontario but the city or town is not specified.
10.
Location. Ontario (city unstated) Canada
Date: July 1968 Time: unknown
A woman had just finished preparing food for her dogs in her kitchen when “I was just taken, immediately, right from inside the house.” She found herself outside, standing paralyzed, watching a thirty foot diameter disk descending. Three aliens came out and dragged her about the ship. The rooms were all like pie-slice wedges and she went by several until coming to the “medical center.” There she was placed on a levitating bed and told that they were going to do “brain surgery.” They calmed her with a wave of the hand and opened the front of her skull. They resealed it without a trace. “What I believe is that they were using a tracking device.” Then she was returned. She believes that this was the first of several abductions.
HC addendum
Source: Michael D. Swords, “Grassroots UFOs”
Comments: Unfortunately there is no description of the aliens.
Next in line is another abduction/contact from a repeater witness in British Columbia.
11.
Location. Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Date: July 1968 Time: late night
The witness, Joan Howard, (involved in other encounters) had gone to bed that night and before she slept she distinctly heard two men talking about her in German. She believes these two men were her spirit guides, which were killed in WW2 which she named Franz and Josef. She believes they were “paving the way for what came next”. She must have fallen asleep. Next thing she knew she was in a place that looked like a cross between Luna and Mars. There were buildings, and people covered from head to foot in obviously protective clothing or “space suits.” Some wore black; a few of them wore red, green and blue. She guessed (correctly) that these denoted rank. A red suit approached and began talking fast and asking questions about her opinions and attitudes on everything, especially human relations. She could not see his face but knew he was a male. She demanded to know what the devil she had been brought here for. As he talked she became increasingly aware that something was being done to her physical body. She could feel all her innards and head being thoroughly examined as though by a medical team. Still listening to the man in the red suit, she wanted to know what was going on, on Earth. She arrived suddenly back at her body and felt the electricity of several beings around her body. They told her not to be afraid. She was lying there in a slight daze, wondering what kind of experience or contact this was, she had never known ordinary guides to carry on like this. Before the alarm went off she saw several visions of “flying saucers”. Also at the same time someone was trying to teach her how to transmit whole sentences by a sort of pulsating beat. Next night she was waiting for “them” when she saw a vision of the space suits and began to repeat the Lord’s prayer, slowly and deliberately, transmitting the way they had taught her as her mind seemed to be suddenly hooked up to some powerful beam which bored into her head like a mild laser and stepped up her own feeble mind-instrument. No one was more surprised that the witness when “they” answered. From then on for several weeks, every night she was shown, spacecraft, inside and outside, control panels, instruments, gadgets of all kinds, people in uniforms (not spacesuits); a weird terrain on what she felt was Uranus or Neptune, with wild looking formations of frozen ammonia, greenish blue white, rearing up on the strange skyline. Then came movies of space itself; huge vastnesses with unfamiliar constellations; beautiful close-ups of other solar systems; all awe inspiring but frustrating. She began to question them, how as the Universe constructed, both the “visible” and the “invisible” part of the electromagnetic spectrum, each night they “tested” her even on the lesson ahead. In the ensuing years she has seen UFOs (in daytime and nighttime) had “physical contacts” experienced hostile attacks (two in her life) by “their” enemies; astral trips onboard spacecraft, taken down reams of dictated communications, everything but a ride in a ‘flying saucer” in her physical body. Joan Howard claims that her “instructors” call themselves “Interstellar Wayfarers” a division of those highly-developed beings who raise the children of the various “planetary orbs”.
HC addendum
Source: http://www.mysterious-america.net
Our next case is brief in details and is from Ontario, the activity begins to pick up.
12.
Location. Wooler Ontario Canada
Date: July 2 1968 Time: 2200
Several witnesses see a bright object land on some nearby brush. Later several shadowy beings enter nearby homes and take several items. No other information.
HC addition # 2409
Source: FSR Unknown volume
Next the activity in Quebec starts in earnest, the next two cases occurred on the same date in Quebec.
13.
Location. St. Alexis de Montcalm Quebec Canada
Date: July 2 1968 Time: 2114
A woman saw a green object shaped like a hat or mushroom, which passed at the height of the window. She believed she saw in it up to 20 small men, all of green color, with rather pointed noses, resembling sculptures in the African Pavilion at the Montreal Expo.
Humcat 1968-85
Source: Saucers, Space & Science Type: A
14.
Location. St. Thomas Quebec Canada
Date: July 2 1968 Time: 2130
Constable M. Michaud and another police officer were reported to have seen two naked little men run through a drainage ditch and flee. Reports had the “little men” disappearing as they were about to be apprehended. Some reports had them as only two feet high, with shoulders the size of adults and disproportionately large heads. The appearance of a large meteor at the time merely complicated matters.
Humcat 1968-42
Source: Saucers, Space & Science, fall 1968 Type: E
The next two cases were also from Quebec and on the same date, both unfortunately with very brief details, but interesting nonetheless:
15.
Location. St. Bruno Quebec Canada
Date: July 22 1968 Time: evening
Six young girls, ages 7 to 13, reportedly saw a figure they described as “The Virgin Mary.” The apparition appeared before them hovering in the air; four of the girls merely saw the figure, whereas two, heard a voice they described as “soft and slow.” It advised them to pray and promised to return in October 7.
Humcat 1968-48
Source: John A. Keel, UFOs Operation Trojan horse Type: E?
The above case appears to have been what is called a “Marian” apparition or The Holy Virgin Mary, which seems to indicate that different type of phenomena due seem to occur at the same time in the same area.
16.
Location. St. Basile Quebec Canada
Date: July 22 1968 Time: evening
A boy reported seeing a man like figure that was apparently airborne and “seemed to be walking in the sky, without any visible means of propulsion.” No other information.
Humcat 1968-47
Source: John A. Keel, UFOs Operation Trojan horse
Quebec seemed to be the focus of events in the late summer with the following three cases occurring in Quebec within days of each other:
17.
Location. Riviere Du Loup Quebec Canada
Date: July 26 1968 Time: 1500
Two young boys riding their bicycles near the airport stopped by the hangar and sighted a short three-foot tall gray skinned humanoid. The humanoid ran away joined by a second similar being, both moved in stiff movements. No other information.
HC addition # 24
Source: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants & Critters Type: E
Was the above case an early encounter with the “Grays”?
18.
Location. St. Stanislas De Kostka Quebec Canada
Date: July 28 1968 Time: 2100
Five young people, including Paul Sauve, 20, and his sisters, Nicole, and Joanne, and Regent Leger and his brother Dennis, saw two circular objects with brilliant red halos, one of which was seen to land about 1000 ft away. They went out with a flashlight to investigate and encountered a being, 50 ft away that terrified them so that they ran back to the house. It was about 4 ft tall, had a big head ‘imbedded in the shoulders” without a neck, and large round eyes, a flat nose, and having a black or brown skin that was “wrinkled, scabby, with bumps.” When caught in the flashlight beam, it lifted a hand, which was very large, black, and rough, “like the skin of a toad,” and opened and closed its mouth. Then it backed off toward the barn. After they were back in the house, it came up to a window and knocked on the pane, making a “mooing” sound “like a cow.” Later they saw the object take off vertically. A 15-foot circle of crushed grain was found at the landing site.
Humcat 1968-51
Source: Wido Hoville Type: C
19.
Location. Upton Quebec Canada
Date: July 28 1968 Time: near midnight
A man, his wife, and two children were awakened by the barking of their dog. When he arose to investigate, he saw a sparkling, rotating “cloud” in the yard. It flew just over him and went to a nearby field. About 12ft in diameter, it was dark on the bottom, but luminous on top. The cows in the field were being chased by 4 or 5 small entities, perhaps 3 ft tall with heads shaped like bottles. As the UFO flew above them, they disappeared. The cattle seemed ill for weeks afterwards.
HC addition # 23
Source: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants & Critters Type: C
We next jump forward to August, to Ontario to be exact with a strange poorly documented contact yarn:
20.
Location. Near Toronto Ontario Canada
Date: August 1968 Time: unknown
A man was walking near the downtown area when a car pulled up to him and two men inside asked him to come in for a ride. He was taken to the countryside to a landed disc shaped object. Five men wearing dark brown uniforms invited the witness inside. He was told that the captain of their ship was a female, which the witness did not see. He was also given information on the craft’s propulsion system.
HC addition # 313
Source: Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore
We visit British Columbia next with another bizarre contact/encounter claim, much better documented than the one from Ontario:
21
Location. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date: August 1968 Time: late afternoon
The main witness (involved in other encounters) and some friends where playing with bb-guns on the grounds of the Shaugnessy Golf course when they saw a small metallic “flying saucer” on the ground. The main witness went up to it, to show off to his friends and actually played “bongos” on it. The object was as big as a VW beetle (but round). He then walked to one side to get a better view of the silver object and saw a small “non-human man” next to it. The figure was very pale, almost blue in color and was wearing a white suit with a blue sash around his waist and looked like “the man from the Glad television commercials”. The witness said, “My name is Kim” and put his right hand on his heart. The creature responded by holding his palms upward and made a sound, but he didn’t seem to “have a tongue”. At one point he put out his right arm and nodded for the witness to do the same thing with his left, and he was allowed to compare his hand with the alien’s and except for the pallor they were very similar. At this point he heard a voice in his head that spoke the words, “Would you like to pray”? And he bowed and put his arms pointing down with palms towards the witness. He was a bit embarrassed and to get a laugh from his friends who were literally “stunned” he made a gesture towards this BB gun in his right pocket. The alien seemed to sense this and the witness had to apologize for this and explained that it was only a bb-gun and was not real, the alien seemed to understand. The witness said a few more things and then waved at the alien and the alien waved back. The witness then rejoined his friends and they left the area.
HC addendum
Source: http://www.ufobc.ca/sightings/
Not to be outdone in August, Quebec again becomes the focus of the next encounter, we go to Montreal:
22.
Location. Montreal Quebec Canada
Date: August 4 1968 Time: 05:00 a.m.
Three young men, aged in their early 20’s had spent the night visiting the fair at La Ronde amusement park and were now returning back home. The three, Guy Gagne, Jean-Guy Girouard, & Carol Marquis were near Perras Boulevard when at about 150 feet from them they spotted a strange creature that seemed to be walking around with extreme difficulty, it seemed to use its hands to balance itself on the ground, similarly to a monkey. However the being was about 3ft tall with a head much larger than a normal primate. As the strange figure reached a street lamp it performed an abnormally high jump and immediately vanished from view of the witnesses, it then appeared briefly on the other side of the road, apparently it had managed to make a leapt of about 30 ft, it then disappeared for good. The stunned witnesses immediately called the police who assured them that there was no circus in the region and that nobody had reported an escaped “monkey”. A few days before this encounter several witnesses at nearby Boscoville had seen a luminous UFO flying overhead.
HC addition # 2
Source: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants
& Critters and Henri Bordeleau
Quebec also features in the next brief report:
23.
Location. Near St. Gertrude Quebec Canada
Date: August 6 1968 Time: 2130
Four adolescent boys were outside, when they heard the dog barking furiously and saw it tugging on the rope. They heard a creaking sound, and saw a 4ft tall luminous entity leave the hedge where the dog was barking. It had large shoulders and long arms which hung down. It instantly disappeared in front of them.
HC addition # 21
Source: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants & Critters
Still in Quebec our next case was heavily investigated and has several witnesses, considered a classic in Quebecois Ufology:
24.
Location. Coleraine Quebec Canada
Date: August 29 1968 Time: 1830
A group of children on four consecutive days saw a strange being hanging onto a boulder overlooking a cemetery. He was a dwarfish humanoid about 4 ft tall, with a shaven head, naked chest and a heavy black beard, and with a red and bumpy skin, “like that of a lizard.” This being would disappear into thin air unexpectedly. Also a roaring noise was heard in an excavation at the foot of the boulder, and a kind of “flying saucer” was seen, about 30 ft wide and colored blue, white and red; it left a long trail of smoke, and each time it “looked as if it were trying to land behind the boulder.” The children were Denis Bogus, 7, who saw the object; his brothers Michael and Andre, and their uncle, George Bogus; other adults who subsequently observed the phenomena were Normand Daigle and Luc Cadorette.
Humcat 1968-62
Source: Saucers Space & Science, fall 1968
Our next case does not really involved the presence of humanoid or entities but it present a very high-strange scenario, a bizarre brief journey into another realm:
25.
Location. Burnt Creek, near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Date: August 31 1968 Time: afternoon
The witness was a successful practical minerals prospector working for a Canadian company operating out of Vancouver. He and his partner had flown in from Yellowknife, where after a battle with the elements, they got to their camp at Willow Lake (just a cabin in the wilderness). The two of them moved south a bit and set up a secondary camp which was merely a tent—here is where they would strike out each day in search of mineral signs. They sometimes worked together as a team, but most often they ranged alone. During the two and a half months they were there, the only unusual thing that occurred was the discovery of a strange type of “rock” shaped like a double blade of a fan or windmill that they (and later geologists) were not able to classify. On their last day in the field, a bizarre incident occurred.
On that day they were as usual on their own, the witness exploring around Burnt Creek and north in the hills, but returning to camp empty handed his friend was not there yet, so he just sat and meditated on the hills. Bored he got up and walked to the edge of a small (still 50 foot drop-off) cliff, and looked down into the gouge below. This gouge was peculiar, about 50 foot long and only 4 feet wide and flat. In it were some “bubbly looking rocks” and a “tubular fog bank”. The apparent minerals were odd, but the unmoving fog bank more so. He felt nervous just looking at it, but decided to go down into the gouge and explore. There he found more of the unusual unidentified mineral and it seemed to be associated with a small mining activity, (even though there was supposed to be no such thing in this area). Puzzled by the rocks, but still in the presence of the unmoving mist, he finally decided to walk into the fog bank.
Approximately two steps into the mist he saw a grassy field for as far as his vision was capable of seeing at that time. The grass was about one foot tall at that point. The more he advanced towards the grass, the higher the grass became, there was a wind blowing from the grass away from him. On entering the mist his vision was limited to his left and right. He advanced until the grass, brown colored, was approximately three feet tall. Then he decided to retreat, which he did. He does not remember what the sky looked like, gray colored seemed correct. He decided to walk back into the mist and cautioned himself not to walk into the grass. He went as far as the first time and things were the same. As he advanced, the grass got taller (but he seemed to be now walking beside it, not in it) approximately 4 foot now, and his vision left and right got wider. Far off to his right there was an oasis with medium sized trees in a circle with two tall palm trees growing in the center of the circle. At that point he had enough. At that time his mind went completely blank except for one little piece of his brain powers intact and he got out of there in record time.
He told neither his buddy or anyone else what had happened to him, but he never could shake the thought that he had passed into another dimensional reality for those few minutes. He wondered about the strange stones which should not have been there and the small mining operation which likewise should not have been.
HC addendum
Source: SETI Institute, and string theorist Lisa Randall (In Your True Tales unknown month or year)
We return to Ontario for our next peculiar but brief case, again we are in Toronto:
26.
Location. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: September 7 1968 Time: unknown
A woman reported meeting a being wearing an “astronaut suit” which gave her a stone of a very strong and unique composition. After tests perform on the stone it was revealed that it had strong nickel content. It is hinted that the extraterrestrial also had sex with the witness. No other information.
HC addendum
Source: Jean Ferguson, “Enigmas of time present”
For our next case we return again to Quebec where the wonders of 1968 apparently never ceased:
27.
Location. Drummondville Quebec Canada
Date: September 14 1968 Time: evening
A group of three young girls saw a small man dressed in black with a kind of ‘overcoat’, hat and a ‘plain’ front that approached them moving like a robot. The stranger suddenly stopped and looked up staring at the children with a ‘terrified’ face. He then hastily disappeared the moment the children turned away for only seconds. The next day, Sunday on September 15 at 20:15 the same witnesses and a fourth girl saw a ‘boy’ about four feet in height which was encased in a circle of red light. The little figure stepped out of the circle of red light and appeared to be wearing dark blue clothing, he then hid behind a large tree trunk and the children lost sight of it. A neighborhood dog would not stop barking during the incident. The strange figure was seen one last time walking behind the tree trunk in the strange robot-like manner. The next day traces were found on the sand that did not resemble those of a dog. The name of four of the witnesses were disclosed as, Joelle Henaire, aged 13, Suzie Fontaine, aged 10 and Helene Laforce and Celine Bedard about the same age.
Humcat 1968-97
Source: Henri Bordeleau, Donald Cyr
We continue on in, you guessed it! Quebec!
28.
Location. Coaticook Quebec Canada
Date: September 21 1968 Time: 2130
Two young girls said they saw a “Martian” on the roof of the Coaticook High School. By 2000, a crowd of nearly 50 persons had assembled. Shirley Green said that at 2130 she saw “green face with no nose, mouth or hair,” and that the man emitted intermittent sparks. In a field owned by a Mr. Boivin, grass was burned in a circle 42 ft in diameter; some tracks were found.
Humcat 1968-98
Source: Saucers Space & Science # 54
This next case is again from Quebec and is accompanied by a fine illustration courtesy of Donald Cyr:
29.
Location. Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
Date: September 28 1968 Time: 2145
A family was watching television when the wife called her husband to see a green rectangle, in the sky, which became brighter and greener. From it emerged a yellow orange disc with three circular lights beneath it. The husband and his brother in law then drove after the object which entered a cloud, turning it green. Soon afterwards a brilliant ball of light emerged from the cloud. The men stopped at a house and some boys also saw the object. The men walked towards it but became afraid when it flooded them with light. Meanwhile back at the house, the wife and sister in law saw two humanoids walk from the object, seemingly in space. The object then slowed, and moved towards Windsor emitting a green light from its rear.
HC addendum
Source: John Brent Musgrave in: “UFO Occupants and critters”
The next case is from the same location and very similar perhaps the same one? It has some different details though:
30.
Location. Asbestos Quebec Canada
Date: before October 9 1968 Time: unknown
A man, his wife, his brother in law, and his sister in law saw in the sky a rectangular green shape. After some minutes “a real saucer” came out of the cloud, with a yellow-orange light around it # 3 circular lights beneath it. The men got into a car & followed the UFO toward St. Claude; watching from the home, the women distinctly saw humanoids walk from the object seemingly into space.
Humcat 1968-101
Source: Saucers, Space & Science # 54
We finish the year of high-strangeness in Canada, again in the far north, where the humanoids were seen by the crewmembers of an aircraft!
31.
Location. 150 miles w of Yellowknife Northwest Territories Canada
Date: November 1968 Time: 02:30 a.m.
The flight engineer of a chartered cargo aircraft flying at 170 mph from Copper Mine to Yellowknife noticed in the clear night sky a stationary object emitting pale blue light. This object approached to within 1000 ft of the airplane, & flew along with it for 5 minutes, after which it departed suddenly at great speed. It was disc shaped & had a row of large rectangular windows; in the middle window was visible a dark form which the witness thought to be an occupant of the UFO. The pilot and the copilot also saw this, and reported it by radio to the air traffic control center in Yellowknife.
Humcat 1968-104
Source: Jeff Holt for UFO Quebec
There Were have it, 31 stories, reports, anecdotes, whatever you want to call them, of strange and unusual occurrences, all from Canada in 1968. Many of the reports were investigated by local well-balanced and intelligent men such as Marc LeDuc, Donald Cyr, Henri Bordeleau, Jean Ferguson, etc. You be the judge. I contend that the above cases were part of the much larger and mostly ignored UFO/humanoid wave of 1968.
Photo above of orb triangle taken by airline pilot of 20 years.
For most, the evening hours of August 26th, 2014 was clouded with memories of an eventful summer and with the anticipation of an approaching holiday long weekend.
But the evening of the 26th was going to be like none other – and it was just the start to something extraordinary. There was something in the sky, a large fire-like sphere, witnessed stationary, then maneuvering unlike any recognized celestial object or conventional aircraft. The same object was seen nightly, at different times across Canada and the United States as well as in New Zealand, from the 26th until September 3rd.
On some nights the object appeared in the same geographical location doing the same maneuvers, but at different physical times. On other nights it appeared at relatively the same time, doing the same maneuvers but appeared in different locations geographically.
While most witnessed a singular object, some witnessed a group of objects. Most witnessed the object or objects at a great distance while one witness in particular saw the object very close and even managed to take a photo. Witnesses ranged from truck drivers, police supervisors, air plane pilots and military personnel.
As reports started appearing on social media sites, You Tube and Internet forums, more witnesses came forward reportedly seeing orange-like orbs in the sky.
In New York, many saw orbs floating above their city but it was determined that the orbs here were nothing more than Chinese Lanterns released into the night sky.
In California, reports poured in about orbs lighting up the night sky. These lights were seen by several residents in Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Vista. They turned out to be flares from a nighttime training exercise at Camp Pendleton.
Others report that it could be an exaggerated Sprite Anomaly:
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=99619&PHPSESSID=os0rlci7uv3fnk3ln3j20sv7a7
These simple explanations, however, cannot be attributed to the vast majority of the eye-witness testimony from across Canada, the United States and near ChristChurch New Zealand.
The orbs and UFOs witnessed do not represent Chinese Lanterns, Military Flares, Space Junk, Satellites, Meteors or any known natural phenomenon.
So what is going on? What is the relationship between each of these extraordinary events?
Geographically, they tend to follow a relative path (with the exception of the New Zealand reports).
Up the Eastern United States, into Ontario Canada, across into the United States toward the Pacific coast, up into the mountain states, back into Canada and finally into Alaska witnessed heading in a South Western direction.
South West of Alaska.
Remember this report?
A Partial Listing of eye-witness testimony and the photographic evidence appears below. For a detailed listing of Ontario UFO reports for the time periodclick here for Ontario UFOs
AUGUST 26TH
Witness Sees Glowing Ball of Light in Sky
Location: Aiken, South Carolina
“I was out on my porch at about 9:30 when I saw something in the sky grab my attention. It was a very unusual star. It was large and orange in color and seemed to be fading in and out. As I stared at the star I noticed that it started to move slowly downward (or away toward the horizon) and then suddenly it changed direction and shot up over my head in an instant. There was no sound but there was a brilliant flash of white light for an instant or two. When it shot off it looked like an orange ball on fire.”
Thank you all so very much for sharing
Steve Ramsey- Calgary – Alberta