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UFO seen whizzing over city
Winnipeg Sun ^ | Mon, April 19, 2004 | NATALIE PONA,

Posted on 04/19/2004 3:32:44 PM PDT by presidio9

The truth is out there. And it may have zoomed over Winnipeg last month. Three air traffic controllers at Winnipeg International Airport were among the witnesses who reported seeing an unidentified flying object streak thorough the sky on March 28 about 9:45 p.m.

"I don't think this was the 5:15 from Mars on an approach, but certainly we have to classify it as unexplained. We don't have any evidence to classify this as an extraterrestrial. It's puzzling," said Chris Rutkowski, a Winnipeg UFO researcher.

Didn't appear on radar

Rutkowski interviewed the three air traffic controllers who saw the object.

"It sounded a little like an airplane ... but they were absolutely positive (it wasn't)," he said, adding the object did not appear on the airport's radar.

One eyewitness, who asked to remain anonymous, said the object looked like a bright red point of light travelling low in the southwestern sky.

"I don't particularly believe in Martians but I have an open mind. There is something else out there," the man said.

It seemed to be flying at more than 400 kilometres per hour from west to east, he added.

"It was kind of angling away," he said.

He watched the object for 30 seconds, until it imploded into a smaller white light then disappeared.

Another witness, who also asked not to be named, said he had no idea what the object was.

"I've seen a lot of things and we can't find an explanation for this," he said.

Rutkowski said there were nine reports of UFOs that were similar in description from across Canada that same night.

"So in this case, now we have very qualified multiple observers," he said.

There are about 700 documented UFO sightings each year in Canada, he said.

Rutkowski is hoping to locate more people who saw the object.


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; atc; ay; canukleheads; et; extraterrestrialbeer; hoserinthaskyay; swampgas; ufo; whizzing; winnipeg
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To: gargoyle
LMAO!! Conehead rednecks. too funny!
61 posted on 04/19/2004 5:16:50 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: presidio9
UFO seen whizzing over city

Don't eat the yellow snow ...
62 posted on 04/19/2004 5:24:00 PM PDT by fnord (Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence)
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To: Fedora; andysandmikesmom; areafiftyone; bigfootbob; Ecliptic; El Sordo; Ghengis; green team 1999; ..
THANKS

and PING.

I don't know that it's a particularly earth shaking report but . . . in case you're interested.
63 posted on 04/19/2004 5:32:37 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Mass hysteria is an exceedingly inapt label attached to most such.

For one, the witnesses are usually disonnected and even quite unaware of each other.

For another, there's no clinical evidence of hysteria.

"Mass hysteria" --to my shrink's mind--is a term usually used by media or other powers that be which don't want to deal with an uncomfortable topic--whether per orders or personal discomfort related preference.

It sounds plausible to the uninitiated and uninformed. But really--it doesn't mean anything in the contexts regarding UFO's in which it's applied.

Now, if, a bonafide unique and very certainly mostly normal composition cloud but a cloud with a very unusual but natural shape wandered by in the sky, and everyone crossing the busiest intersection of main street down town at that moment suddenly came down with the same conviction that the cloud was Martians filled with little green men--until the cloud dispersed quickly in the noonday hot sun as in slow wispy moves normally as clouds are wont to do . . . THEN, perhaps one could talk about "mass hysteria" that MIGHT have existed for a FEW BRIEF MOMENTS.

I think it's a bogus term thought up as part of the typical disinformation stuff.
64 posted on 04/19/2004 5:38:59 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: NutCrackerBoy
Two extraterrestrials were whizzing over Winnipeg.

They're lucky it was Winnipeg and not the United States. We're Americans, and Americans whizz back!


65 posted on 04/19/2004 5:44:52 PM PDT by In_25_words_or_less (It's more a guideline than a rule ;o)
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To: Quix
I'm (not really) surprised these guys don't have a report on this. They've been pretty constant over the years, but, then again, they seem to be more US oriented.
66 posted on 04/19/2004 5:57:13 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray for our patriot armed forces in harm's way - and the families awaiting their safe return)
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To: verity
Cats and Dogs living together.
67 posted on 04/19/2004 6:05:33 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Fedora
THANKS.
68 posted on 04/19/2004 6:10:38 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: small voice in the wilderness
"MMMMebs, y'all."
69 posted on 04/19/2004 6:12:31 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Quix
The government's disinformation campaign of the 50's and 60's was quite effective. Even now, anyone who even reports a UFO is considered a nut. Many people stil equate UFO with flying saucer.

I always figured there was more to the UFO situation since the government spent so much time and money to demonize people who made reports, especially people like airline pilots and military personnel.

70 posted on 04/19/2004 6:13:17 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (I am thankful for government waste. Just think if we got all the government we paid for.)
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To: glock rocks
Thanks.
71 posted on 04/19/2004 6:15:32 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Quix
Danke, Quix.
72 posted on 04/19/2004 6:18:00 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
I think it says, documented...

Duh..... Time for new glasses or time to get off the Internet? :^)

73 posted on 04/19/2004 6:18:11 PM PDT by Samwise (The day may come when the courage of men fails...but it is not this day....This day we fight!)
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To: Samwise
lol......
74 posted on 04/19/2004 6:21:25 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: mhking
hrmn...
75 posted on 04/19/2004 6:29:20 PM PDT by King Prout (You may disagree with what I have to say... but I will defend to YOUR death MY right to say it.)
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To: presidio9
Why are those UFO's gracing Canada with their visits. What's wrong with the good ole USA. They're welcome to come to my area anytime!
76 posted on 04/19/2004 6:30:28 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: presidio9
One egg, sunny side up!
77 posted on 04/19/2004 6:35:11 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Lawgvr1955
I STRONGLY AGREE.

Anything the gov spends so much time, energy, resources on telling us there's 'nothing there, move on' about . . .

must be serious business indeed.
78 posted on 04/19/2004 6:39:13 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: winker
UFO seen whizzing over city

I suppose even aliens can get a bad case of swamp gas and have to go somewhere...
79 posted on 04/19/2004 6:39:34 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (So you're a feminist - isn't that cute!)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
"However, I wasn't referring to those types. I was referring to trained, credible professionals such as air traffic controllers, pilots, cops, doctors engineers etc.."

Yep, any of those can see a UFO - I just wonder how air traffic controllers, pilots, cops, doctors engineers go about being trained to identify an EXTRATERRESTRIAL intelligently controlled object.
80 posted on 04/19/2004 6:43:35 PM PDT by RS (Just because they're out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
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