By By DON PEAT
SUN MEDIA2-20-09
More Canadians than ever saw something unexplained up there last year.
The Ufology Research Group says in 2008, Canucks saw a record number of unidentified flying objects across the Great White North.
The Winnipeg-based volunteer group recorded 1,004 sightings last year - the highest number since the group started tallying sightings in 1989.
"My position is there is something that is being seen by people," research coordinator Chris Rutkowski told the Sun today. "There's no proof that aliens are coming to Canada in any great numbers but what we're saying is that there are enough reports and many of them are unexplained so we think science should take a better look at it."
There could be a variety of reasons why reports are up, Rutkowski said, including more space junk, more people embracing astronomy and even the economic downturn.
"It could be the economy, maybe people are looking upward for some help in the economy since it doesn't seem like anybody else is helping," he said.
Rutkowski says the vast majority of sightings turn out to be explainable objects like airplanes but around 10% didn't have a ready explanation.
"That got whittled down to a little over 1% that are what we call higher quality unknowns where there was some decent investigation, the witnesses were cooperative, some diagrams, maybe some photos," he said.
The strangest sighting of the year was in Wadena, Sask., in March.
Two cars travelling on a highway there had to brake suddenly when both drivers saw a gray and metallic object fly directly across the road in front of them.
"Maybe the aliens have to be ticketed for flying too low? I don't know," Rutkowski said with a laugh.
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Origin: aquarius-project.blogspot.com
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