CANADA-NRC-UAR-N-200 — NRC UFO file UAR/N/200: Falcon Lake, Manitoba, May 1967 (Stefan Michalak)

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Missing page 44 – even the file took a nap.

• NRC PDF UAR/N/200, National Research Council, 20 May 1967, Falcon Lake, Manitoba.
• Reports Michalak's burns, two saucer-shaped objects, witness statements, medical and RCMP notes.
• No official conclusion in the file

AI summary

A 1967 document details Stefan Michalak's report of encountering two saucer-shaped objects near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, in May 1967. The text includes witness statements, medical reports, and investigation notes from military and RCMP sources. It describes Michalak's burns, the object's appearance, and sounds he heard, with a physician noting first-degree burns but no radiation. The document covers multiple search efforts, inconsistencies in his account, and analysis of burned clothing, along with sketches, photographs, and notes from officials. It mentions a circular depression, radiation samples, and a burned shirt, with no conclusive evidence of an unidentified object. Radiation levels were detected but not hazardous, and the report includes photographs and correspondence about the incident. The text also references a 1969 letter from the National Research Council discussing radioactivity linked to the 1967 sighting and parliamentary debates on the event.

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PCB129VV PWA241HA103 UU MaY 23 20 25'67
PP RCCWC
RCWPT 116 23/18362 O.P.1. cfoc
P 251830Z MAY 67 PRIORITY
FW RCC WINNIPEG
TO CANFORCEHED Da OPS 421 2l
BT
UNCLAS A0662 232100
FOR CFOC. UFO REPORT
A 1700E 20 MAY 67
B CLOUDY SKY
C MR S MICHALAK, 14 LINDSAY ST WINNIPEG 9 MANITOBA• PHONE
489-3162
D FALCON LAKE MANITOBA. 49AIN 9515W
E NIL
F TWO OBJECTS ON GROUND APPROX 35 TO 40 FEET IN DIAMETER, EIGHT
FEET HIGH, SAUCER SHAPED, COLOUR OF UNPOLISHED STEEL ON CROUND
AND CHANGING TO HEATED METAL COLOUR ON DEPARTURE
G EXCESS OF ONE HALF HOUR
N MR MICHALAK OBSERVED THE TWO UFOS FROM A SHORT DISTANCE FOR ONE
HALF NOUR AND OBSERVED ONE DEPART VERTICALLY THEN HEAD SOUTH.
HE WENT UP TO THE REMAINING ONE, OBSERVING AN OPEN DOOR WITH A
VIOLET LIGHT PREVENTING HIM FRON SEEING INSIDE• AS HE APPROACHED
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PACE 2 RCWPC 116 UNCLAS
HE COULD HEAR A WHIRRING SOUND AND INDISTINGUISHABLE VOICES
FROM WITHIN. UPON TOUCHING THE OBJECT VITH NIS GLOVED LEFT HAND
NIS GLOVE BURNED, THE DOOR CLOSED AND THE OBJECT STARTED ROTATING
COUNTER-CLOCKVISE THEN DEPARTED VERTICALLY ALSO HEADING SOUTH.
HIS SHIRT WAS BURNED FROM THE EXHAUST PANELS ON THE OUTER EDGE
AND KE REQUIRED MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR BURNS ON HIS STOMACH• HE
HAS LOST TVELVE POUNDS SINCE AS HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO EAT•
WHILE HE WAS APPROACHING HE COULD SMELL WHAT NE RELATES TO AS AN
TAKE OFF ELECTRICAL FIRE. THE NOISE INCREASED IN PITCH TO A MIGH WHINE ON
BT
13 200
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MESSAGE FORM PILE V2000-4(D0M)
EN/SIGNALS USE NUMBER
ENCE ACTION PRECEDENCE-INFO DATE TIME GROUP SAGE INSTRUCTIONS
PRIORITY DEFERRED 23/6ZMAY67
FROM CANPORCEHED WREFIX
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BECURITY CLASSIFICATION
TO CANTRAINICOM
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GINATON
INFO OPS H21
SUBJECT UFO REPORT.
REFERENCE ROC WINNIPEG AO 662 231836% MAY.
MAY A RESPONSIBLE OFFICER INVESTIGATE THE SUBJECT UFO REPORT
AND ADVISE GFHQ ATTE DOPS.
REFERS TOI MESSAGE DRAFTER'S NAME
PAGE OF PAGES 22b.
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FON FIME NTOTEM OFERATOR DATE TEM CECZASING OFFICEN'S SIGHATUNE
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RE YOWR OPS 421 23210OZ MAY. SL BISSKY TCHQ INVESTIGATING
MIGNALAE BEPORT IN CONJUNCTION WITH RCMP. RCMP HAD CONDUCTED
TWO AND ONE HALF NOURS INTERVIEW BEFORE SL BISSKY APPOINTED,
THEREFORE MOT INTENDED TO INTERVIEW REPORTER UNTIL TRANSCRIPT RECEIVED
FROM RCMP. VISITED GENERAL AREA FALCON LAKE 25 MAY AND OBSERVED
FROM HELICOPTER LOW LEVEL ALSO GROUND PARTY COVERED GENERAL AREA
DESCRIBED BY MR MICHALAK VITH NIL RESULTS. PROPOSE VISITING AREA 3O
MAY VITH MR NICHALAK, RCMP, RADIAC DETECTORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER, IN
ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AREA, PARTICULARLY OUTER SHIRT WHICH APPARENTLY
WAS BADLY BURNED AND LEFT AT SCENE OF INCIDENT. MR MICHALAK HAS
BEEN UNDER DOCTORS CARE SINCE INCIDENT AND HAS BEEN UNABLE TO
ACCOMPANY INVESTIGATORS UNTIL 30 MAY
BT 10fom Cantraincom
to Canforicked. 200
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PARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE MINISTÉRE DE LA DÉFENSE NATIONALE
2000-4 FLYTRG)
Training Command Headquarters
Westwin, Man
27 Ju67
Referred to D
Chief of Defence Staff JUL 5 1967
Canadian Forces Headquarters
Department of National Defence
Ottawa 4 Ont Chg'd. to
Attention: DOps 4 (W/C Robertson)
INVESTIGATION OF UFO SIGHTING
FALCON LAKE - 20 MAY 67
Forwarded herewith is the m/n report regarding the alleged
UFO sighting by Mr. Steven Michalak at Falcon Lake on 20 May 67.
Also enclosed is an addendum to the report containing the latest
information as of 26-27 Jun 67.
2. Any additional information on this report will be passed
when received.
P. Bissky
T2 Squadron Leader
for Commander Training Command
Enc
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3c//7
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Experts may probe man's UFO claim 3 hay
land, bad watched i for ot scriptions given here colncide persons who've reported simi- welds or riveta cannot His family doctor saw him
By HEATHER CHISVIN Lar incidents. And the amell be seet. Monday and saye he gave
minutes, and had touched clnoely with those given of Mr. Michalak sayn i coming The one difference is that him something.
Tribnne Staff Writer it. UFOe apotted in the past. the door that opens is Asked If be thought the pa-
Last Friday reaidents of His chest is burned and he "There in no variation frem somewbere withins him round. Mr. Michalak said it Lient should be checked for
Parkdale, residential devel- claima the exhamat from the at all," be aaid today, refer has also been reported by othi-. was agaure with taree levels. radiation, the doctor replied:
opmont halfway to Lockport. flying objoct which gave off (ers, BAys the APRO member. Two silding kto the sides of The burn E juat on the
reported seeing an tmident. a red liglt when it moved - claims to have deen at smell comes from inside, but the machine and coe open- sullace, Mr, Michalak says Jtn Irem blast of sir frous some
fined flying object in the alr. cauaed it The apaed It maved Falce. ing "Iike I was moving by algraft he's never soen be
he said. "I'm going to pass Uhis lo- Bunt edors. hydraulic M Michalak, a 50
Ing ring of best around is and Although Saturday's alght- formation on to usy erganita- Although very few UPOs Today induatrial mechanic. from outer space.
speedi they aid. tocok oit at an indeocribalile ing has precipitated rah of tion and they'll have beets algted by trained year-old in bed. Although his
check into IL." obtervers, says mearly Is home he's leeling a bit bet- stomach so I gave him
Saturday, Winnipeg inan He nays oven the hurns en ewryore has Faved BoI mayn thing. I think he'lt be all
told The Trlbume similar of the Aerini are simi- LeF, he wtill hdan't eaten aince
story from Falcen Lake, He Mr. Michalak' body aother machines, claiming seams, the experience.
said he had setn the craft Tucson, Arit. maye the de- lar to thosn gotfered by 43
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When Mr. Michalak was treat-
ed in the casualty ward at
Man's UFO Report Misericordia Hospital, he told the
doctor that he had received the
hurns from an airplane exhaust.
"Father was just afraid that he
By HUBERT BEYER craft; he said they were the most would be laughed at." his son
Steve Michalak, who claims to perfect joints he had ever seen: said.
have touched two unidentified and father should know, he's a "He knows what he saw, and
flying objects (UFOs) north of what he touched. He doesn't
Falcon Lako Saturday. is still mechanic." Octwve that tnese objects are
recovering from shock at his When he was close enough to necessarily from outer space.
home at 314 Lindsay Street. the object, Mr. Michalak report- They could easily be some new
"I've lost 12 pounds in the last edly saw a door open, emitting a military invention being tested.
two days, and I've Been laughed brillinnt violet color. Noises of "No, dad never had any hailu-
at, but I thought it was my duty air hissing into out cinations. He was only sick once
to report what I had se the craf were clean and that was years ago from
zine poisoning." -
50-year-old Mr. Michalak said Tn His son also said that Mr.
a telephone interview Tuesday. Michalak was never keenly in-
Mr. Michalak also said he terested in science fiction and he.
received two telephone calls but nothing happened. voices never really believed in flying
from two people who said they saucers.
had seen similar objects in the "I didn't see any figures; all I However. there had been no-
same area Saturday. could hear were voices which thing to back up Mr. Michalak's
They said they didn't want were distorted by the whirring claim. And that is what he was
the publicity and didn't want to and hissing sound the craft made." afraid of right from the start, his
be laughed at. But they des- 'When the craft finally took son said. "That's why he didn't
cribed the objects to me and I off, he said, it blew him over to tell the doctor." A check with the RCAF radar
came to the conclusion they had the side. Within a minute or Mr. Michalak said Tuesday. site at Beausejour also revealed
seen the same thing." less, it had disappeared on the "I still don't feel too weil. Not nothing. They hadn't heard of
Suffering from chest burns he norizon. only have I lost 12 pounds in any unidentified flying objects
ciairs he received from the heat "I eramined the spot where these two days, I still vomit and and nothing registered on the
emitted by one of the two objects the craft had nettled down and I I still can feel a sort of foul screen that day.
Mr. Michalak, 314 Lindsay couldn't see any prints that small coming from inside me." Officials of the department of
Street, wasn't talking Monday. might have been left by legs of Mr. Michalak had observed transport's radar installation at
Mr. Michalak described the two any kind. All I saw was a bare this pecular smell immediately Winnipeg International Airport
objects as about a5 feet long. spot. circuiar in ahape, with all after he had gone through his also said that nothing unusual
eight foet high with a three-foot leaves and grass removed by perience, was observed in its territory
protrusion on top. Resembling the heat. I presume," The RCMP at Falcon Lake said last Saturday.
stainless steel. the objects, he Michalak said. Mr. they had heard no reports of Residents and businessmen at
said, gave off a glaring red light. 'It was when the craft took any UFOs. Mr. Michalak says ne Falcon Lake resort were "eaught
Mr. Michalak's son Mark, 19, off that father received burns tried to tell the RCMP, but they by surprise" when they heard of
in an interview Monday, said at his chest." his son said. The advised him that they couldn't the news on radio.
Father says he watched one burns aren't even at random: do anything about it.. "I hadn't heard the first thing
of the two objects, which had they resemble ar pattern, geo- An RCMP conatable of the about it." a service station
Innded, for about half an hour metrically burned like a checker Falcon Lake detachment said be operator said in a telephone in-
and then cautiously approached board, one sguare has a number didn't personally talk to Mr. terview. "Nobody else saw any.
it. He was surprised to find no of dots in it, whije the next one Michalak, and that was all he thing. dr I would have heard
welding and no bolting on the in bare." could say about the matter. about it.
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Winnideq tidie 2e Iay67.
By HEATHER CHISVIN 'I was burned by UFO' - city man it. And, be says, there seems thing. Air seemed to be com- He tried to tell the RCMP
Tribune Staft Writer to be a smell "coming from ing In or going out somehow." at Falcon, but they told him says her husband is definite- Mrn. Michalak however,
imide me and I can't get rid of it." Still alightly shaken up by they could do nothing about
Steve Michalak is suffering the experience, he said the it be says. ly not acting normally. He
from chest burns be claims Mr. Michalak was out look- joints on the UPO were "the And he didn't tell the doctor hasn't eaten since be's been
be received Saturday from an ing at some land north of most perfect joints I've ever home, has been vomiting and does have a strange odor
unidentifiable flying object he Falcon about noon on Satur- zeen. he thought he would be laugh- about him.
touched just north of Falcon day when be heard a pair of "I can't underatand bow it ed at. br Michalak hays he does
Lake. geese start to cackle insane- was doue, There was no weld- The doctor on charge in not know it the UFO was a
It was about as feet long. by, he says. ing, no rivets, no bolting, and
eight foet high with a three- I looked up and saw these when the doar closed I could casualty at the time, says be flying saucer or not.
foot protrusion on top, looked two objects caming from a see nothing." did treat Mr. Michalak for "Our technology doesn't
like stainiess steel when it south south-westerly direction. When he finally decided to burns Saturday night, but said have anything like it, but it
landed, but gave off a glaring They were glaring red. I can't approuch the thing, he heard there was nothing unusual could have been a new innova-
red light when it started to describe how fast they were voices coming from it that about them at all. tion being tested frotm the
move through the air at a going. You just can't put it were "definitely human." But ,As for their spreading, be U.S. It came from that diree-
speed the 50 year-old indus- in time. he couldin't understand them says this is quite normal for tian and took off to the same
trial mochanic says he can't "One was cruising about 10 because of the sound of the even surface burns. They space,
even begin to describe." feet above the ground and craft, he says. sometimes soem to spread at "But I do know one thing.
And there were voices com- one lancdod. I watched it for "I spoke English, Russian, first, rather than disappear. It wasn't a meteor. I studied
ing from it. he said in an about a half-hour before go- German, Italian and Polish, But, he says, he noticed no geology for years and, when a
interview at his 314 Lindsay ing near it." but the door closed, heat came unusual amell about the pa- meteor crasbes, it splits. This
Ave, home Sunday. voices He aays it locked like stain- from a pattern of holes in the tient and except for a alight thing landed in one plece and
that sounded human but were less steel as we know it, but aide, it started to move in an hand trembling when be tried took off again.
obscured by a whirring sound gave off kind of rainbow re- anti-clockwise direction and to show the doctor how upset "If they had seen me they
the UFO made all the time it flections. And when a three- took off." he was, there was no sign of probably wouldn't have even
wan on the ground. depth door finally epened, all He claims it was this heat shock. landed.
He has remnanta of an un- he could see wad a hriliant that started to burn his shirt. He was talking quite flo- "Mayhe I should contact the
dershirt with a geometrically- vinlet color. although he told a docter at ently and, although his hand air force, but maybe I should
patterned burned spot an it, A "It zeemed to be making a the Misericordia Hospital he trembled alightly when he not tell
hat with a bole burned through sort of whistiing nolse, like i was suffering from burns from showed it to te, it was quile "But it wasn't a mirage.
was sucking in air or soene- an airplane exhaust. till when he put it down." I'm too sober a man for iI-. lusions."
P.21/2.
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6680-1M
MEMORANDUM
Westwin, Man,
26 May 67
S/L P Bissky
SSO AIROPS/TC
Re: Telephone Communication
Mr. Steve Mychalak
1. I have at your request contacted the physican who examined the
above named, Saturday evening 20 May at Misericordia General Hospital Winnipeg,
following Mr. Mychalak's reported exposure to an UFO:
2. At the time of examination the physician was unaware of the
circumstances surrounding Mr. Mychalak's burns.
3. At examination the physician found'an area of first degree burns
over the upper abdomen, covering an area of 7-8 inches and consisting of
several round and irregular shaped burns the size of a silver dolzar or less.
These were a dull red in color, the hair over the lower chest was singed as
was the hair on the forehead with some questionable redness of the right
cheek and temple.
4. Subsequently Mr. Myehalak complained d feeling ill and his-clothes
and blood were checked for radiation and found to be negative.
5. As of this date Mr. Mychalak is reported to be feeling better.
6. If anything further is descovered the physician has offered to
call me
SGD
(D J SCOTT) SgLCDR
Deputy Base Surgeon
542
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Dy HUBERT BEYER S. UFO Expert In Winnipeg Proleaar Ray Craig, anso- people are afraid of being a scientific team preparing a missianed by the air force to
If you believe that unidenti- cinte professor of plynical ridiculed." report for the U.S. Air Farce prepare an extensive report
sclence at the Boulder, Col. Prof. Craig said that It was on UFOa, With a background to give the public the com-
fied flying objeets (UFOur univeraity, arrived in Winni- better to report a sighting of elght years in the field of plete truth of the situatien re-
are nothing but hallucina- peg Saturday to conducta that might turn out to be a nuclear phywics, he doesn't garding UFOs.
tionn, or the invention of pub- three to four - day investiga- balloon, or any other object. commnit himself to a definite "There has always been
tion. than to run the risk of not statement on the probability the thought that the public is
licity : hungry individuals, Prof. Craig zaid in as in- reporting something valuable. of the existence of UFOs. not given the whole truth
there is nothing in the world. terview Saturday that the People should get ac- "We are attempting to give For this reason there was
that could conclusively prove mais aim of his atay in Win- quainted with the thangs in an bonest evaluation: we preasure brought upon the
you wrong. nipeg was to gather as much the sky, There are ballocns. have on open mind: the re- government, and for this rea-
Reports of recent sightings informatios as posaible about. there are images created by port we received fromn Winni- son we are now engaged in
Manitoba, however. the sightings, certain weather conditions. peg was certainly interesting our investigations"
aroused enough inderest "I hope I can get people These things can be explain- enough to warrant an investi- The report. Prof. Craig.
ha the University of Color- to come forth with informa- ed, but there are also a lot gation; that's why I'm bere." said, was expected to cone
do hias sent someone to Win- tion, We still don't get 1o per of thinge that cannot. The toam of which - Prof. out at the end of this
ipod to investigate. cent of all reperts because Prof. Craig is a member of Craig is a member was com- and will be made publig
.
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No trace
of UFO
located
north of Falcon Lake where a A search of the area just
watched an unidentified flying Winnipeg man claims to have
duced nothing yet. object for 45 minutes, has pro-
ate prolessor of physical aci- But Prof. Ray Craig, associ-
rado, says he hasn't given up ence at the University of Colo-
yet.
claims by Steve Michalak, a 50- In Winnipeg to check out
who says he was burned by a year-old incustrial mechanic
he intends to go back to the UFO May 20, Prof. Craig said
spot and search again.
G-HOUR SEARCH
Mr,Michalak 314
trace of the UFO.
interview. eald is
there the whole soene has "Butgwhen you
changed. There were no leaves then and now you can't even
see 50 feet ahead of you." Prof. Craig, a member of a
port on UFOs for the USAF. scientific team preparing a re-
entific measurements, simply says he's not taking any aci-
UFOs in the area. checking out |any reports of
stories about UFO sightings are He saya although no two
typical" ever alike, Mr. Michalnik's is
HARD TO TELL
had on his chest, Prof. Craig As for the burns Mr. Michaiak
ed and difficult to tell what says they are pretty well heal.
kind they are,
until Wednesday. He expects to remain in town
UFOs are from outer space, he As to whiether he believes
until the study has been com- said he can't make any decision
pleted.
this man had a significant ex- "But there's no doubt that
perience, He apparently con-
RCMP
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MONDAY, MAY 22, 1967
TRIBENE PAGES 13 to 24
Steve Michalak, after hospital treatment lor burns, shows his sketch of the UFO. Tribune phote by Fred Jewcil.
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Case - Greatest
Scientific Interest'
the University of Colorado's interview, Mary-Lou Armstrong, An investigating committee of In a long distance telephone Street. reporled seeing t w o UFOs.
come to Winnipeg to check into set up by the U.S, Air Force to feet long, eight feet high, with a UFO project department may of the Colorado UFO team. He said they were about 35
a Winnipeg man's claim that he conduct research into and pre- three-fqot protrusion on top and flying object near Falcon Lake saw and touched an unidentified pare reports on UFO activities, gave off a glaring red light.
Saturday. said that every aspect of the In a telephone interview
And Prof. James McDonald of checked. Winnipeg case would be Weduesday, Mark Michalak, 19,
the Institute of Atmospheric "If we are satisfied that there who answers all the calls for his
Physics, University of Arizona, may be enough new information would not disclose the exact father, said that Mr. Michalak
said the Winnipegger's observa- available, we will send a team location of his sighting to the
tion matched in detail dozens of to Winnipeg to check further
others he has investigated. "I into the case," she said. press.
firmly believe there is some- News of the UFO sighting "We have been asked by a
thing of the greatest scientific erupted Monday when Steve terent involved." group wanting to investigate not
Michalek, 50, i Lindsay Please See UFO Page -Cont
UFO Case Stirs U.S.
CONTINUED Interest
to tell anyone where the object department would have no
landed. As soon as my father report to investigate.
feels a little better, we will go But if a report is made,
.out with these people and show Operation Blue Book
them." worksinconjunctie
Mr. Michalak was treated in NORAD as a joint U.S.-C
hospital here for burns he said operation -will be notifed,
he received as the UFOs took sald. Denatd bhamed public
off. officials and defence depart-
The group young Mr. Micha- mend. peraansel for not dealing
lak referred to is the National seriously enough with the iswue.
Investigations Committee on He said that he had investigated
Aerial Phenomena, a privately- some planations of UFO
supported body with head. sightings given by the air force,
quarters in the U.S. and they were more fictitious
It has a representative in than any UFO report could ever
Winnipeg. The group is not a be.
body of scientists. 'It is. of course, not for us to
Mr. Michalak said his father say where the objects come
was fecling better. The burns from and what they want, but
had not spread, contrary there are just too many cases
previous reports, but that involve absolutely reliable
healing. and credible persons which
"He still can't eat. but cannot be explained, We have
reached a point where this
feels a lot better now." problem can no longer be
Mrs. Armstrong said that her ignored.
department - 25 members "When the first railroads
composed largely of scientists startad running 100 years ago,
- operates on a $300,000 USA 40 aldn't foresee jet travel or
grant, but that it acts ekets to the moon and to
pentently.
"We have investigated dorens ay is it so hard to admit
of cases and all we are obliged there is a possibility that
to do for the air force Is to other civilization is maybe 100
submit a report by the end of ahead of us, expecially
the year, But they can't tell us scientists tend to agree on
what to do and what not to do." possibility of life. on other
Prof. MeDonald. who for the 15?"
past year has done UFO research . McDonald also said that
not only in North America but from contact with the
also in Europe and Australia, had been reported be-
said in a Iong-distance telephone fore In some cases, he said,
interview he has thrown his full these burns were radioactive,
support behind the theory of their Prof. McDonald said he be-
existence. lieved that an answer may well
I have investigated cases be found within the next year or
myself wbere the individual has two, "In my opinion there's
claimed he saw and touched a definitely more to thcse reports
landod craft. I have not had any than public officials, the defence
reason to doubt the credibility depariment and newwpaper
of these individuals. Frae Parcss editors will believe at the
"I firmly believe that there is moment."
mething of the greatest scien- In Ottawa, a national delynce
interest involved. The department spokesman aaid
number of incidents of Tuesdsy Canadian UFO reports
Aimost suggests a are referred to Operation Blue
I deer't mnderstand it. Phich hns ite headquarters
pattern is Chere, never- United State
200 neuting on
who sat
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ADDENDUM TO REPORT
1. At l8o0 hrs 26 Jun 67, S/L Bissky received a telephone
call from Mr. Michalak who advised that he (Mr. Michalak) had been
back to Falcon Lake over the weekend and had located the alleged
UFO landing site and that he had samples of his burned shirt and
moss which he was prepared to turn over th S/L Bissky.
2. S/L Bissky advised Brig Tedlie of the latest developments
and arranged for an RcMP to visit Mr. Michalak at l930 hrs.
3. Both the RCMP and S/L Bissky arrived at 1930 hrs. The
presence of the RCMP was a noticible surprise to Mr. Michalak, who
wanted to know how the RCMP had found out about his being out to
Falcon Lake again. This was very inconsistant with his previous
verbal agreement with Cpl Davis (RCiP) that the next time he visited
the area with the intention of locating the site, he (Mr. Michalak)
would ask for the assistance of the RCMp at Falcon Lake and perhaps
have one of them accompany him to the area to corroberate the finding.
At least this was the understanding of both S/L Bissky and Cpl Davis.
4. As it turns out, Mr. Michalak called a complete stranger, a
Mr. Hart whom he had never met but spoken to on the telephone only
once before, and asked if he could accompany Mr. Hart to Falcon Lake
on 2h Jun if Mr. Hart was planning to go for the weekend, It appcars
that Mr. Hart had offered Mr. Michalak the use of a cottage at Falcon
again. Lake whenever he intended to pursue the locating of the alleged site
5. Tha following morning (Sunday 25 June) eleven hours were
spent in painstakingly retracing the alleged route initially folloved
by Mr. Michalak and after allegedly passing the area once, returning
to the actual location. Mr. Hart accompaniad Mr. Michalak on this
search and was on site during the actual finding. Mr. Michalak ootainad
what remains he couid locate of his burned outer shirt and samples of
burned moss from the area which apparently still retains the outline
of the fifteen foot diameter circle supposedly caused by the UFo. Mr.
Michalak stated he took some photograyhs with his own camera and would
provide S/L Bissky with some when developed.
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6. Also located at precisely 4o paces from the circle was the
metal tape which Mr. Michalak stated previously he had left at the site.
Tnis tape together with samples provided by Mr. Michalak will be forwarded to CFHq for analysis.
7. When asked to provids the location of the site, Mr. Michalak
objected very strongly on the basis that during his 25 June hunt he
had in fact located what he had searched for originally and until such
time as he could stake his claim, he had no intention of having anyone
go near the area. It was pointed out to him there was no intention of
jumping.his claim and that it was in the interest of the Canadian Public
that he show the site to S/L Bissky. Mr. Michalak stated that no matter
what anyone thought of him, he would not cooperate until his clain was
filed. It turns out, hovever, that he now has to share his claim with
his new-found partner, Mr. Hart, whom he has never met before. This
was particularly surprising since he was vary noticably suspicious of
the RC.-P during the visit, so much so that he did not invite the RCiP
into the baseiment to examine sone the latest samples brought back from
the latest "hot find". He did show these to S/L Bissky, but would not.
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release even a small sample for analysis for radio activity.
He did volunteer to have the samples checked in the basement,
which will be done at his convenience. He permitted the samples to
be tested for magnetic field, and each of the larger section of ore
had a reaction on a hand held compass. Smaller particles were
subject to pick-up by a small magnet which Mr. Michalak had in
the basemant. From an uninitiated amateur viewpoint, this would
indicate very high metal concentration in the two samples. In fact
both samples looked like crystalized metal. Asked if he, (Mr. Michalak)
though there may be any uranium or radio active material in the
samples, Mr. Michalak stated that he would have recognized it immediately
had there been any present.
8. A considerable amount of ore was concentrated in the basement
at Mr. Michalak's workoench. Only tha two larger pieces were
permitted to be examined by S/L Bissky. The entire load was allegedly
brought back from an area very close to where Mr. Michalak had
encountered the UFo, hence his reluctance to release the site location
until his claim was filed. He hestitated to estimate the length of
time this may require as he was filing for the maximum permissable
of l8 claims. No amount of persuasion or inducement could sway Mr.
Michalak into showing the location on a map.
9. As for Mr. GerahiA.V. Hart, the RCMp did a cursory check on
his background and it appears he has somewhat of a shady background
with a record of his past activities already registered with the RCMP.
He is recorded as having very "anti-everything" tendencies on general
principles, boarding on possible mental disturbances.

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Same topic: title & summary match

• CANADA-NRC-UAR-N-215-225 — NRC UFO file UAR/N/215-225 (1967), including Falcon Lake follow-up
• CANADA-NRC-UAR-N-201-214 — NRC UFO file UAR/N/201-214 (1967), including Falcon Lake and Lower Woods Harbour material
• CANADA-NRC-UAR-N-116-125 — NRC UFO file UAR/N/116-125 (1967), including Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

Same period: 1967

• CIA-UAP-010 — Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR
• FBI-UAP-D012 — Newark Field Office, 1952-1967
• DOW-UAP-D092 — Department of the Air Force Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967