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04/21/21 1:42:29 PM
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xewj/air-canada-westjet-porter-pilots-ufo-sightings
By combing through thousands of reports in a government flight incident database, VICE World News has uncovered dozens of recent UFO sightings from Canadian and international airlines.
They include a pair of WestJet flights near B.C.s Okanagan Valley that allegedly saw a bright, white strobe-type light above them on the night of March 16, 2017, and a pre-dawn Jan. 10, 2015 encounter outside Regina, Saskatchewan, when multiple aircraft reported a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo that appeared to descend from above 41,000 feet.
The sightings come from the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS), a searchable digital archive operated by Transport Canada, the federal department that oversees road, rail, marine, and air transportation. With over three decades of data, CADORS contains nearly 300,000 aviation incident reports on everything from mechanical failures to rowdy passengers to bird strikes. It also provides a fascinating record of UFO sightings by professional aviators in Canadian airspace.
Pilots are probably not reporting about 90 per cent of the things theyre seeing, because they know it could have lengthy career implications, former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilot John Jock Williams told VICE World News.
Williams is an aviation consultant, television commentator, and civilian pilot who spent 36 years in the Canadian military, including over two decades flying fighter jets. He also worked as a flight safety officer at Transport Canada for more than a dozen years.
For most pilots, its not worth it, Williams said. Thats why I believe that each of these guys saw what they reported.
Although brief, CADORS cases can still be enigmatic, such as a single-sentence entry from the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, when air traffic controllers received reports from four (4) aircraft flight crews of a shiny, silver object over Toronto at roughly (30,000 feet), which turned sharply and moved rapidy [sic] to the southeast over Lake Ontario. Many are scant on detail, like one from the night of Nov. 12, 2015, when an undisclosed flight 34,000 feet above Saskatchewan reported a bright white light high above the aircraft and advised it was not a meteorite or other aircraft. Very few explicitly use terms like UFO, such as a Qatar Airways flight south of Grande Prairie, Alberta, that reported an unidentified flying object in broad daylight on Dec. 18, 2016 in an account that offers no visual clues. The PS4 does look great though.
In a statement to VICE World News, a Transport Canada spokesperson said it is not in a position to discuss individual aviators observations.
The events that are entered into CADORS are entered as they are reported to Transport Canada, the spokesperson said. Transport Canada endeavours to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data contained within CADORS. However, the information within should be treated as preliminary, unsubstantiated, and subject to change.


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