The centre’s Chris Rutkowski said the total of 1,243 sightings is one of the highest recorded in a single year.Ī longtime astronomer suggests people are simply watching the night sky more during the pandemic. Winnipeg-based Ufology Research released a survey in March that indicated sightings of UFOs across Canada - levitating discs, erratic lights and floating triangular objects - increased by 46 per cent in 2020. It lit up the whole sky and then it was gone.”Ī comet fragment burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere did light up the early-morning sky over Alberta and Saskatchewan in February. It was spectacular and the whole thing lasted about six or seven seconds total. And then there was this big, huge fireball and it was leaving a lit trail that stayed for a second or two behind it as it fell,” Davis said.
The sun was coming up behind me and all of a sudden there was a flash. The aliens are coming.’ Sometimes it’s making sure that they don’t actually have someone breaking into their house when they’re mistaking it for some extraterrestrial kind of experience.”Įvan Davis of Shellbrook, Sask., had his own close encounter while driving to work early in the morning in late February.
“We have situations where people are (saying) … ‘No, it’s legit. “It makes you chuckle (and) you say, ‘No, I’m pretty sure you’re all right’. aerospace company founded by business magnate Elon Musk.ĭuval said there are some people who are convinced that aliens have already landed and are trying to break into their homes.