UFO case file · UFO-37087
Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1969-07-20 — Bishop's Falls, NFLD
Bishop's Falls, NFLD, Canada
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Case description
This Library and Archives Canada grouping is catalogued for 20 July 1969 around Bishop’s Falls and Grand Falls, Newfoundland. It brings together National Research Council and RCMP pages. The supplied OCR includes a time near 12:05 a.m. and descriptions of a light seen beneath cloud cover. The original scans could not be recovered through the accessible links, so damaged passages remain unresolved.
Clearer fragments describe a round or pointlike white light with reddish or greenish glow, a lack of audible sound and observation through binoculars. Other colour words and references to young witnesses occur alongside police reporting, but the text does not reliably recover the full sequence or which observer supplied each detail. A passage mentions approximately ten minutes of watching; this should not be turned into a more precise reconstructed timeline.
The report supports an unresolved aerial-light account, without a described occupant or manufactured hull. Its imported coordinates point to Ontario and conflict with the Newfoundland place names. The plate follows Bishop’s Falls/Grand Falls, showing representative police observers and a light below clouds. Uniforms, vehicle, colours and viewpoint remain illustrative, with the OCR limitation stated explicitly.
Recorded details
- Coordinate precision
- Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
- Date precision
- EXACT_DAY
Sources and further reading
- LAC RCMP packet, cited page 37024-9031-6780
- LAC 37024-9032-6781 — National research - Radio and Electrical Engineering Division - Unidentified flying objects, sighting of
- LAC 37024-9033-6782 — National research - Radio and Electrical Engineering Division - Unidentified flying objects, sighting of
- LAC 37024-9034-6783 — National research - Radio and Electrical Engineering Division - Unidentified flying objects, sighting of
- LAC NRC packet, cited page 4677-951-7761
- LAC 4677-952-7762 — Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics - Reports on non-meteoric sightings, unidentified flying objects, UFO's
- LAC 4677-953-7763 — Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics - Reports on non-meteoric sightings, unidentified flying objects, UFO's
- LAC 4677-954-7764 — Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics - Reports on non-meteoric sightings, unidentified flying objects, UFO's
- LAC 4677-955-7765 — Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics - Reports on non-meteoric sightings, unidentified flying objects, UFO's
- LAC 4677-956-7766 — Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics - Reports on non-meteoric sightings, unidentified flying objects, UFO's
- LAC 4677-957-13182 — Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics - Reports on non-meteoric sightings, unidentified flying objects, UFO's
- LAC explanation of federal UFO archive and search limits