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UFO case file · UFO-37763

Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1975-05-06 — Cornwall, ON

CE3Canada1975-05-06

Cornwall, ON, Canada

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1975-05-06 — Cornwall, ON
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Canada reported unidentified aerial event — 1975-05-06 — Cornwall, ON

Case description

The supplied Library and Archives Canada catalogue grouping associates this Cornwall, Ontario, packet with 6 May 1975. It comprises twelve cited pages from National Research Council files concerning non-meteoric sightings. The preserved OCR is badly damaged, so its fragments must be distinguished from a checked transcription of the original scans, which were not recovered through the accessible links. Legible passages mention two witnesses, six observed objects, binoculars, street lights and an observation beginning around 9:13 p.m. Other fragments describe objects appearing successively after earlier ones disappeared, with intervals discussed in the report. The exact directions, durations and numerical timing sequence cannot be reconstructed confidently from the supplied text. Six objects should therefore not automatically become six craft simultaneously arranged in a fleet. The OCR also contains discussion of possible ordinary explanations, including orbital objects, but does not preserve a sufficiently clear conclusion to assign a verified identification. No occupant, landed vehicle or entity encounter is established. The plate represents two contextual observers and one unresolved object during a phase of the sequence, explicitly labelling the archival-text limitation rather than inventing a detailed craft.

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Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
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