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Military denies Manitoba UFO crash rumors

By T.K. Randall
February 23, 2015 · Comment icon 46 comments

Did a UFO crash in Canada this week or was it just a military exercise ? Image Credit: DoD
Multiple witness reports of a light in the sky were followed up by an unusually high military presence.
Social media was abuzz last week after a UFO was sighted near Jackhead, Manitoba on Wednesday night.

Interest in the event was limited to begin with but quickly gained momentum after photographs were posted online showing a large contingent of Canadian military vehicles arriving in the area. The unusual scene soon prompted speculation that the soldiers were there to investigate the object that had been sighted earlier.
As it turned out however the whole operation had been nothing more than a military training exercise.

"There's no aliens, just my friends in the air force who are out there helping us on this exercise," said Lt.-Col. Paul Davies. "I have the commander of that air force contingent sitting right beside me and, you know, he assures us that that was not a UFO, but that was him."

The exercise involved more than 150 military personnel who were being trained what to do in the event of a plane crash and to help hunt for survivors in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

Source: CBC.ca | Comments (46)




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Comment icon #37 Posted by jerendenlar 10 years ago
wow they can sure pick good ones for a 300 klm skidoo ride and I missed the part where the Canadian Military were going house to house telling First Nation Indians how to survive the wintry wilderness or was that reversed?
Comment icon #38 Posted by Thanato 10 years ago
wow they can sure pick good ones for a 300 klm skidoo ride and I missed the part where the Canadian Military were going house to house telling First Nation Indians how to survive the wintry wilderness or was that reversed? A lot of things break in -40degrees. Perhaps you can expand a little.
Comment icon #39 Posted by jerendenlar 10 years ago
Not limited to or including UFOs?
Comment icon #40 Posted by Iron_Lotus 10 years ago
honestly as an albertan i dont put too much stock into news that comes from first nations folk as for this supposed crash... yeah, no.
Comment icon #41 Posted by Thanato 10 years ago
honestly as an albertan i dont put too much stock into news that comes from first nations folk as for this supposed crash... yeah, no. Well most of it came from friends of friends who known someone who has a third cousin in the First Nation of 250 people
Comment icon #42 Posted by jerendenlar 10 years ago
I'd bet it would be first rate news if the crash was near say: Gimli White people/sigh/thread
Comment icon #43 Posted by Thanato 10 years ago
I'd bet it would be first rate news if the crash was near say: Gimli White people/sigh/thread Well considering that its been proven a hoax and that nothing abnormal happened. not really news worthy, eh?
Comment icon #44 Posted by DONTEATUS 10 years ago
I hear the mod`s clanking the keys down the Hall !
Comment icon #45 Posted by Podo 10 years ago
I realize I'm late to the party, but the article makes it seem pretty clear that this was a crashed aeroplane. As a BC guy, I have to agree with Iron_Lotus' assessment of news coming from a native reserve; some of the ones over here claim to find Sasquatch evidence several times per year, stir up a big hullabaloo, and produce nothing.
Comment icon #46 Posted by Thanato 10 years ago
I realize I'm late to the party, but the article makes it seem pretty clear that this was a crashed aeroplane. As a BC guy, I have to agree with Iron_Lotus' assessment of news coming from a native reserve; some of the ones over here claim to find Sasquatch evidence several times per year, stir up a big hullabaloo, and produce nothing. The funny thing is... it was an airplane landing on the lake. But what happened at Jackhead was broken snowmobiles and the Military had to go pick them up.


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