canoe.com : 20/04/2004 10h02

Trois contrôleurs aériens affirment avoir vu un OVNI

Trois contrôleurs de la circulation aérienne de l'Aéroport international de Winnipeg ainsi que plusieurs autres personnes ont rapporté avoir vu un objet volant non identifié (OVNI) le mois dernier.

"Ce n'était probablement pas le vol 515 de Mars qui s'apprêtait à atterrir, mais nous ne savons quand même pas ce que c'était, a déclaré Chris Rutkowski, un spécialiste des OVNIs de Winnipeg. Il n'y a aucune preuve qu'il s'agissait d'un vaisseau extraterrestre."

Selon les trois contrôleurs de la circulation aérienne et les autres témoins, l'observation s'est produite le 28 mars, vers 21h45.

«Cela faisait un peu le bruit d'un avion, mais les contrôleurs sont convaincus que ce n'en était pas un», de préciser M. Rutkowski.

Quoi qu'il en soit, le radar de l'aéroport n'a pas détecté l'objet.

Un des témoins a décrit l'OVNI en question comme un point rouge vif volant lentement dans la partie sud-ouest du ciel. Après environ 30 secondes, la lumière rouge est disparue et il n'est resté qu'un point blanc plus petit. Le phénomène a ensuite disparu complètement.

Selon M. Rutkowski, neuf OVNIs similaires ont été rapportés la même nuit à travers le Canada. "Mais dans ce cas-ci, ajoute-t-il, nous avons plusieurs témoins très qualifiés".

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(Merci Winston ;-) )

Un article en anglais sur la suite des évènements :

Wed, April 21, 2004

City nuts for UFOs

Story spurs more reports

By NATALIE PONA, STAFF REPORTER

Winnipeg has developed an eerie resemblance to Area 51 in the last couple of days. Since a story about local air traffic controllers who saw a light zoom through the sky appeared in The Sun on Monday, the newspaper has been flooded with e-mails from people who say they witnessed a similar phenomenon.

A husband and wife, who did not include their names, wrote to say they frequently see alien aircraft.

"All we have to do is look out our apartment window, look towards the city centre and sometimes we see them I sometimes think we are going nuts."

Small, bright object

A woman named Deb said she spotted a small, bright object in the sky while she was on a plane.

"It appeared lower than the plane but in the distance. I followed it across the sky in the opposite direction ... until it grew too small to see. And it was fast. I remember thinking that I couldn't come up with any logical explanation as to what the object was," Deb wrote.

A man named Steve e-mailed about the story's headline: UFO seen whizzing over city.

"So I hope nobody got wet!" Steve's note quipped.

Doug Creamer, a pipe fitter from Alberta, said he saw two white disks floating through the sky earlier this month.

It was the first time he saw a UFO, he said.

"You don't want to say it out loud ... people would just think I'm nuts," Creamer said.

Area 51 is the U.S. military base located north of Las Vegas that is frequently associated with UFO conspiracy theories.

Chris Rutkowski, a Winnipeg UFO researcher, said sightings are up this year across Canada. The country averages 700 yearly, he said.

"People are returning to having a sense of awe and wonder about their place in the universe," he said.

Nervousness about world politics may be provoking more people to look for meaning in life.

"People are looking above and beyond for help. A lot are looking introspectively," Rutkowski said.

Rutkowski said there were nine national reports of UFOs of similar description on the night the object was seen by the air traffic controllers.

The new sightings will help with his investigation into the origin of the UFO seen by the controllers.

"For the most part, people who report UFOs are actually seeing something in the sky. We can usually explain it with an actual (astronomical) event," he said.

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Un autre site, ufologique cette fois, mais en anglais lui aussi, parle de cette affaire. Au moins ils font le recoupement avec d'autres témoignages sur la même période et dans la même région :

http://www.ufocasebook.com/canadiancluster.html