1 - July 13, 1974: Daytime sighting. Time: Approx. between 3:00 and 4:30 p.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear and sunny. I remember seeing an object hovering at treetop level. It was sphere-shaped and looked metallic as the afternoon sun reflected off its surface. I have in my possession official documents that confirm sightings of these objects, both in Hanmer and Sudbury, during the same time period.

My original sketch and a representation of a silver sphere

Three UFO reports from the National Archives of Canada,
dated July 12, 1974

2 - October 9, 1990: Evening sighting. Time: Between 8:30 and 8:55 p.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear and cool. Figure 1- Looking to the south, I saw an object as bright as a planet come down from the sky at an angle and then "floated" above the rocky hills, slowly heading east.

Figure 2 - After stopping at the house to grab my binoculars, I drove up to the woods at the end of another street and from there, I noticed that the object's brilliance had dissipated and it appeared to be egg-shaped and white in colour.

Figure 3 - As I looked between the bare branches, I noticed that the object was moving from side to side about three times, then stopped for a second or two. Then suddenly blinked out, as if someone had flipped a switch. The object then reappeared at a slightly lower elevation.

Figure 4 - After leaving the woods, I proceeded to drive my car up a hill that would allow me an excellent view of the surrounding valley. As I was driving, I could not see the object anywhere. But as I crested the hilltop, I scanned the skies looking for it, panning from my right to my left until I noticed a large pinkish-red, oval-shaped light in the area when I knew the Falconbridge Radar Base was located. It hovered next to it for several minutes, pulsating like an emergency road flare. Throughout the entire sighting, there was absolutely no sound.

Top, left to right: UFO sighted at two different locations - looking south.
Bottom: UFO sighted near CFS Falconbridge - October 9, 1990

3 - November 26, 1990: Daytime sighting. Time: 11:40 a.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear and sunny. I saw a large white disk-shaped object with a thick tail moving across the clear blue sky, from the northwest to the southeast. I watched it for several minutes, until it looked like a white cotton ball in the distance. When I first observed it, the object was less than one mile away. There was no sound.

Strange object seen crossing the sky until disappearing in the distance.

4 - December 5, 1990: Daytime sighting. Time: 9:05 a.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear and sunny. I saw what appeared to be a vapour trail in the sky. Suddenly, it began to curve downward and reverse direction, heading back south. When completed, the "vapour traiI" looked like a white candy cane. Despite the bright sun, I never saw any object or reflection at the leading edge of this trail, indicating to me that this was not a conventional aircraft.

Unusual object with long tail.

7 - September 18, 1995: Evening sighting. Time: Between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear and cool. After being contacted by a friend in Sudbury who said he saw something heading towards Hanmer, I drove my car to my favorite hilltop in order to have a good view of the sky above the village. After having looked towards the east, I took a glance towards the west, just in time to see two fast-moving, rapidly-flashing strobe lights as they flew towards the town of Capreol; they were less than half a mile away from me. The objects moved very fast, just like jets, but there was no sound. The leading object was further ahead, followed by the second. As they flashed past me, they reminded me of two sea urchins.

Two silent objects traveling at jet speed towards the north.

8 - May 2, 1996: Daytime sighting. Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear, sunny with large clouds. I was outside doing some gardening for my mom when, from the corner of my eye, I noticed something in the eastern sky, moving from south to north. I grabbed my camcorder and began to video tape the object. A friend of mine had seen unusual lights at about 3:00 a.m. the night before, so I had decided to set up my camcorder on its tripod, just in case I would see something. The object looked like a short cigar, moving amongst the clouds. Through my binoculars, I couldn't see any lumps, dark spots or shadowing on the object that would indicate it had wings, a tail fin, or a cockpit. The colour of it was pure white, but much brighter than the clouds. After entering and exiting a cloud bank, it took on a round shape. It later changed back to a cigar shape before finally going out of sight. There was no sound. I continued to watch the object with my binoculars after putting down the camcorder. One of my friends who saw the footage, described it as a piece of burning phosphorous.

Daytime UFO Sighting

10 - August 24, 1996: Evening sighting. Time: 9:32 p.m. Location: Hanmer, Ontario. Weather: Clear and warm. I saw and video-taped an orange light as it flew between the Moon and Jupiter, from the northwest to the southeast. It looked like a faint oval light with a halo around it. On two occasions, it became almost as bright as Jupiter. Its appearance reminded me of the Hale-Bopp comet, with the exception of the colour. There was no sound.

Nightime UFO Sighting

11 - June 28, 1997: Night time sighting. Time: Between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. Location: Blind River, Ontario. Weather: Clear and warm. I saw two different objects appear out of nowhere near the Big Dipper, in the presence of three other people. The first object was deep red in colour and triangular in shape, with jagged edges. Within a split second, it was gone! A second and a half later, the second object appeared. It was oval-shaped and dark grey and flared up to a very large bright light every two seconds as it crossed the sky to the north. We watched it as it flared up eleven times before disappearing behind the treetops. No sound.

Unusual egg-shaped object crossing the sky towards the north.

16 - March 26, 2000: Evening sighting. Time: 8:30 p.m. Location: Sudbury, Ontario. Weather: Clear. My colleague Todd Fraser decided to cut his visit short, so I accompanied him outside and as we both stood there talking, I happened to look up in the sky (approx. 90 degrees) and spotted something strange in the sky. I saw what looked like a single bright flash*, then barely noticed a second one from the corner of my eye. As Todd looked on, I told him I was going upstairs to get my binoculars. When I came back, he said he'd seen two more flashes and told me to point my binoculars in the direction of the Big Dipper (south to north). Todd said the flashes seemed to be heading that way in a straight line. I kept looking up but never saw them again. In total, we estimate we saw four flashes at different points in the sky. These looked similar, but brighter than those I had seen during the summer of 1991.

* I call these lights "Jumpers" because they seem to flash once in one spot, then flash again somewhere else...sometimes a third or fourth time, then disappear for good. These are not the lights of an aircraft, helicopter or satellite.

17 - August 25, 2000: Late evening sighting. Time: 10:25 p.m. Location: Sudbury, Ontario, overlooking Lake Ramsey. Weather: Warm and clear. My buddy and I were taking a long walk along Lake Ramsey, watching a freight train as it rumbled by until it disappeared around the bend in the distance. As I looked toward the direction of the train, I noticed a red light which seemed to be at the water's edge. As we walked a few more yards, we watched in amazement as the red light suddenly zipped across Ramsey Lake, from west to east, more or less parallel to us. Within 5 seconds, it had disappeared behind another shoreline to our left. It seemed to travel at level flight with a speed comparable to that of a jet fighter. The light never flickered, remaining bright red, with an estimated size of a basketball or a beach ball at that distance. We waited and watched the lake for a few more minutes, but there was no wake or ripples on the water. Lights from surrounding camps and homes reflected in the lake on all sides, placing the object approximately in the middle of the lake. I estimated its height above the water between 5 and 10 feet, but I couldn't see any reflection from it on the surface of the water. We were at a higher vantage point, looking down at it at about a 20 degree angle or less. I have since gone back there in daytime, took a few pictures of the area, which does look different than at night time. But I am still positive we saw something highly unusual. The following daytime images show the movement of the red sphere as it was seen, that evening.

ADDENDUM: On Thursday, September 5, at around 7:40 p.m. while waiting for my bus to go home, an ultralight glider flew over my head at approximately 600 feet. I watched it as it veered high above the New Sudbury shopping centre parking lot, heading south-east, until it went out of sight. At that distance, it looked nothing like the unknown object I spotted on July 10. This confirmed the fact that the object I had seen could not have been an ultralight aircraft...which would have been the only logical explanation for it, had the object been a conventional aircraft.

24 - 27 - July 11 & 12, 2009: Evening/night sightings. Locations: Blind River and Lake Duborne, respectively. After hearing about a lot of UFO sightings in Wiki, Elliot Lake and Blind River, I decided to go spend the weekend at my friend's place on the Mississagi River Indian Reserve, east of Blind River. Having seen UFOs there in 1997, I certainly was not surprised to see more, on those two separate evenings.

The first night was spent skywatching near the North Channel until 4 a.m. I was in the company of my friend Joan, her sister Marge, an OPP officer and her husband, along with Matthew Fish, documentary filmmaker. It was about 11:06 p.m. when we stood there and watched as the first object appeared from the west, near The Big Dipper, and headed east. It was bright white in color, and I estimated its height to be about 6,000 to 15,000 feet. No sound and no flashing lights.

Then later, at around 1:45 a.m., a second object appeared from the same direction as the first, and moved along the same trajectory. Matthew managed to get this one on digital video tape.

The second night was spent at Lake Duborne, north of Blind River, after having visited the lake in the daytime, and we stayed up, skywatching, until 3 a.m. At around 11:30 p.m., an orangy-red object appeared from behind a rocky outcrop to our left, moving from west to northeast. As it moved across the sky, its color changed to a light orangy-yellow, but still bright, and remained so until it disappeared behind the treeline on the other side of the lake. Again, I would say that its height was between 6,000 and 15,000 feet...maybe 20,000. And again, no sound or flashing lights of any kind.

Then, at around 1:15 a.m., a second object appeared from the west, and looked like something with a bright light at the front. At first, when I saw it, it looked like a brilliant light. But then, as it got half way over the lake, I noticed that half the object was dark, and the front portion was projecting light at the front, away from our eyes. It was weird because no light shone from the back as this thing moved away. No sound and no flashing lights. On both nights, I was using binoculars to observe the objects.