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This week boasts the one day on the calendar dedicated to extraterrestrials and their flying ships.
July 2 is World UFO Day, a 24-hour time span set aside for people to gather and watch the skies for unidentified flying objects. The end goal is not to see a grey in the flesh, but to raise awareness of the existence of UFOs and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.
The day happens to coincide with the supposed UFO crash in Roswell, N.M. back in 1947.
The Roswell mystery
As the story goes, debris from a UFO crash was found by a rancher near Roswell, but the U.S. military quickly cleaned up the site and supposedly recovered an extraterrestrial spacecraft. After the crash, the U.S. Air Force said they had recovered a flying disc, but the narrative was changed a day later with the flying disc transforming into a military balloon.
Under the direction of U.S. President Donald Trump, the Department of War has released three file dumps relating to Unidentified Flying Phenomena (UAP).
Another U.S.-based site — Pentagon UFO Files — has the UAP videos in a coherent order.
Canadian UFO sightings
Closer to home, a ccording to the 2025 edition of the annual Canadian UFO Survey, there were a total of 1,052 UFO reports across Canada. Approximately 3% were considered unexplained after analysis.
Lights in the evening sky triggered an invasion of chatter about UFOs in North York in July 2014. A video posted to YouTube by Sarah Chum showed a series of unexplained lights hovering over the Yonge St.-Sheppard Ave, area.Multiple police officers in North York reported unexplained lights hovering over the city for hours. Division 32 received calls from across the area. Officers witnessed the lights directly. One Toronto Police officer said the lights originated from something called a “quadcopter.”
Sgt. Barry White said several officers saw the lights and also thought it may have been a toy helicopter but could not find anyone flying such a craft.
NORAD saw nothing unusual on radar over the skies of Toronto and received no calls reporting the incident, according to spokesman Julie Roberge.
Sightings per province and territory
Ontario led the way with 307 UFO sightings last year, followed by Quebec (210), Nova Scotia (131), Alberta (117), Manitoba (111), Saskatchewan (55), New Brunswick (34), Prince Edward Island (29), Newfoundland and Labrador (24), Yukon (23), Northwest Territories (5), and Nunavut (3).
— With Toronto Sun files