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The Canadian UFO Podcast
Hosted by Peter from BC · ENGLISH
You don't need a three-hour deep dive to fall in love with a UFO case.
I'm Peter. I'm from Burnaby, BC. I've been obsessed with this subject my whole life — and when the US government started dropping classified UAP files and politicians started saying "non-human biologics" in official hearings, I realized something embarrassing.
I knew nothing about Canada's own UFO history. Nothing.
Turns out? It's incredible. Cases with more physical evidence than Roswell. Government files that were never explained. Stories that should be famous and somehow aren't.
The Canadian UFO Podcast is your quick download on the cases, the people, and the moments that got buried north of the border. Episodes are short. The rabbit hole is not. Think of it less like a lecture and more like your UFO-obsessed friend just found out something wild and had to tell you immediately.
Season 1 out now.
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10. Why is Canada so silent
3d ago00:19:51Tap to summarizeTen episodes. One question.We started this season with a YouTube video — a former Canadian Defence Minister talking about alien species like it was the most normal thing in the world. We've spent ten episodes trying to understand what he was pointing at, and why Canada has been almost completely absent from the most significant moment in UFO history.This is the finale. And this episode tries to answer the question.Canada was ahead of almost everyone on this subject. In 1950, a Canadian engineer named Wilbert Smith set up Project Magnet — an official government program to study UAP propulsion — before Project Blue Book, before almost anyone else. Canada has nearly 10,000 digitized government UFO documents sitting in Library and Archives Canada, free and public, that almost nobody knows exist. A Manitoba MP wrote Canada's Defence Minister in 2023 suggesting Canada had participated in a secret multi-nation UAP recovery program. Canada's own chief scientist called for a UAP office in 2025. Nothing happened.And in 2023, Justin Trudeau ordered something shot down over the Yukon. The Canadian government had a photo of it. They held it back because releasing it — and this is a direct quote from an internal email — "may create more questions than confusion."That sentence is the answer.This episode also covers what's in the most recent PURSUE document releases — including a classified US military report describing 25 orbs that reacted to weapons fire in the Gulf of Oman, whose behavior the source described as "they knew they were flying together," and whose video footage inexplicably corrupted. And two FBI reports from the same location on consecutive nights, where a witness discovered his analog watch was 25 minutes fast after the encounter — the only clock in the vicinity that showed a different time. Time distortion near UAPs has been reported for decades. Now it's in a federal file.Plus: Ross Coulthart's most recent reporting on Skywatcher — a private UAP research group that abruptly went dark from its Texas operations — and what he claims happened in February when the FAA suddenly shut down El Paso's airspace with no explanation.Governments are not passively watching anymore.Whatever this is — they're hunting it.Canada is not silent because nothing happened here. Canada is quiet because someone decided it should be. And if the real plan is controlled disclosure stretching past 2030 — Canada's silence isn't negligence.It's consistent.Season two is coming.
Transcribe →9. Do you believe?
2w ago00:13:54Tap to summarizeNine episodes in, we've covered the evidence. Government files. Congressional testimony. Whistleblowers under oath. Canadian cases with more physical evidence than Roswell. A sitting US Congressman describing classified footage of intelligent plasma orbs. The needle has moved. The case has been made.So this episode isn't about the evidence.It's about why you care.There's a professor at Notre Dame named Diana Walsh Pasulka who studies religion — and who has spent years studying the UFO phenomenon through a religious studies lens. Her thesis: for a significant number of people, belief in UFOs is functioning like a religion. Not in a dismissive way. In a serious, academic, this-is-what-religion-actually-does-for-humans way. The need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Something that connects us to a bigger universe. Something that gives meaning to the fact that we're here, on this small planet, in the middle of an incomprehensibly vast cosmos.This episode is Peter's honest answer to that thesis. Why does he care? What does this subject actually do for him? And is wanting something to be true a problem — or is it just part of being human?It also covers the question that keeps coming up as disclosure accelerates: what would proof even look like in 2026? In an age where you can generate photorealistic video of anything in four minutes on a laptop, the bar for evidence has become almost impossible to clear. The more convincing something looks, the more suspicious people become. We have built a world where truth is the least believable thing.And then there's the psyop question. Ross Coulthart publicly raised concerns this month that the disclosure movement itself may be managed — that what the public is being shown is being curated, not opened. The CIA built a deliberate debunking policy in the 1950s. We know governments do this. The question is whether they're doing it now.Plus: what the skeptics are actually getting right, why even they are starting to hedge, and what Diana Walsh Pasulka gets right about why the search for all of this is — whatever else it is — deeply human.The season finale is next week. But first — do you believe?
Transcribe →8. Montreal's wild UFO story
3w ago00:24:17Tap to summarizeCanada's government is quiet on UFOs. No hearings. No task force. No Canadian equivalent of David Grusch. But Canadians? A completely different story.This episode is about the grassroots conversation happening in this country — the one that doesn't make it into Question Period or government press releases, but is very much alive.We start with the fourth PURSUE drop from the Trump administration — 40 new files including the now-viral "floating brain" video, a UAP intrusion at a nuclear weapons facility, and growing frustration in the serious UAP community that the most important files still aren't being released. Plus: Congresswoman Nancy Mace says agencies may be actively hiding files from Trump. The releases are real. But they might not be the whole picture.Then: Chris Rutkowski — Canada's most prolific UFO researcher and director of the Canadian UFO Survey — just published a major new book this week called Canada's UFO Secrets. And his latest survey shows Canadian UFO sightings at their highest point since the COVID pandemic, with the average sighting duration jumping from 16 minutes in 2023 to 47 minutes in 2025. People are seeing more. And what they're seeing is lasting longer.Then we get into the main story. Area 52 is a Montreal-based UAP podcast that has become one of the most listened-to in the world. Its producing partner, Luigi Vendittelli, became the youngest MUFON member on the planet at age 12 and eventually ran all UFO investigations across Canada as National Director of Investigations for MUFON Canada. In a recent episode of Area 52 — sharing it publicly for the first time — Luigi described two cases from his investigation years that he has never been able to explain. One involves photographs of a being taken by a Montreal woman on the 14th floor of her apartment building, held by a Montreal police officer for three years. The other involves a woman in rural Quebec who predicted — in front of nine witnesses including that same police officer — that a craft would fly directly over the house at exactly 11:11. It did. And what happened after that, involving a little girl named Lily and two people who had never met, is something you need to hear directly from Luigi.This episode also features real accounts from Canadians who responded to posts about UFO sightings — a family encounter near the tallest mountain in BC's interior, an orb-like being seen in a bedroom that wasn't remembered for fifteen years, a craft that came out of the water near a naval base in Esquimalt, and a private message describing purple-red plasma propulsion unlike anything in any UFO documentary.Canada is not silent. The people have been seeing things for years. They just haven't had anywhere to put it.
Transcribe →7. X-Files vs Disclosure Day
Jul 1300:14:40Tap to summarizeIn 1993, a TV show started filming in Vancouver. It ran for nine seasons, had 20 million viewers at its peak, and shaped how an entire generation thinks about government secrecy and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The X-Files was made in BC. And thirty years later, Steven Spielberg's UFO film Disclosure Day opened number one at the box office, the White House is releasing classified UAP files, and former intelligence officers are testifying before Congress under oath.How did we get from "the truth is out there" to the truth actually being released?This episode traces the cultural shift — from UFOs as entertainment to UFOs as news — and looks at three specific moments that changed everything. It also covers something the CIA just admitted in the most recent document release: that in the 1950s, the government ran a deliberate policy of debunking UFO sightings to protect secret military programs. The stigma that kept people quiet for seventy years wasn't an accident. It was engineered.Plus: what Age of Disclosure — the documentary with 34 government insiders on camera, currently on Amazon Prime — gets right about why the secrecy started. And the Spielberg question: why did the most culturally powerful UFO filmmaker in history return to this subject at this exact moment, and why did he call it Disclosure Day?Canada made the fiction. Canada is absent from the reality. That tension is what this episode is about.
Transcribe →6. Age of the Orbs
Jul 600:19:29Tap to summarizeThe most commonly reported UAP shape according to NUFORC — the main civilian UFO reporting database in North America — is the orb. Not saucers. Not triangles. Orbs.And when you look at Canadian cases specifically, the pattern is impossible to ignore. Shag Harbour 1967 — orange lights over water. Falcon Lake 1967 — a golden glow near the ground. CADORS aviation reports — commercial pilots describing orbs keeping pace with aircraft over Canadian airspace. And a growing community of Canadians reporting orbs over water, over fields, on rural highways at night.This week the Trump administration released new classified UAP files including a video called "Orbs Over the Pond" — a plasma-like sphere hovering above water, stationary for 45 minutes, then gone. Congressman Eric Burlison described seeing plasmoid footage in a classified government briefing that he calls "unshakable." David Grusch described the phenomenon as including "sentient plasmoid life."This episode connects all of it — the Canadian cases, the current files, the Congressional testimony, and the directed energy weapons the Pentagon just publicly demonstrated for the first time. Plus: what do orbs actually mean? Are they craft? Plasma? Something we don't have a category for yet?Canada has been documenting this shape for nearly sixty years. Nobody has been paying attention. That's changing.
Transcribe →5. Shag Harbour vs David Grusch
Jun 2900:11:17Tap to summarizeShag Harbour is called Canada's Roswell. But that label undersells it. Roswell's entire story is built on absence — missing records, retracted press releases, witnesses coming forward decades later. Shag Harbour has contemporaneous government documentation. The Canadian government filed it as an unidentified flying object the same night it happened. In writing. Never retracted.But the official record is only half the story.According to off-record testimony gathered from military personnel over years of investigation — the object didn't just sink. It traveled 25 miles underwater to a government submarine detection site. Naval vessels tracked it on sonar. And then a second craft arrived. The prevailing interpretation: it came to help the first. The military watched both objects on the seafloor for nearly a week. And then they left.This episode covers the full Shag Harbour story — what was seen, what was filed, and what witnesses say happened beneath the surface. Plus: how the Trump administration's recent UAP file releases, David Grusch's new comments about sentient plasmoid life, and a major scientific UAP conference coming to Toronto this July all connect back to a Nova Scotia fishing village in 1967.Canada documented this fifty-nine years ago. Nobody paid attention. That's changing.
Transcribe →4. Falcon Lake vs Bob Lazar
Jun 2200:24:46Tap to summarizeIn 1967, a Manitoba man spent a long weekend prospecting near Falcon Lake. He came home with burns on his chest, radiation in his system, and a story nobody could explain. The RCMP investigated. The Canadian Air Force investigated. Project Blue Book — the US government's official UFO program — investigated. Nobody explained it. This is Canada's most documented UFO case. It has more physical evidence than Roswell. And you've probably never heard of it.The Falcon Lake Incident is the UFO case everyone should learn first — before Roswell, before the Tic Tac, before any of it. A Manitoba industrial mechanic named Stefan Michalak had a close encounter in May 1967 that left physical evidence documented by government agencies in two countries, investigated by Project Blue Book, and never explained in fifty-seven years.This episode covers what happened that day, why the evidence is stronger than almost any other case in UFO history, and how Michalak's description of the craft connects to things Bob Lazar would claim to have studied twenty-two years later.Plus — breaking news. A US Congressman pushing for UFO disclosure just met quietly with a Manitoba MP. And it's not the first time a Manitoba Conservative MP has gone looking for answers that Ottawa won't give them.Disclosure with a small d is happening. Canada is part of it. Just very, very quietly.
Transcribe →3. the original whistleblower
Jun 1600:16:03Tap to summarizeIn 2005, a former Canadian cabinet minister stood up at a public event and said the US government had been secretly recovering non-human craft for decades. He named alien species. He said governments were covering it up. Everyone laughed. His name was Paul Hellyer. And eighteen years later, a decorated US intelligence officer said basically the same thing — under oath, before Congress. This episode is about the Canadian who called it first, why it matters, and what it tells us about where we are now.Paul Hellyer was Canada's Minister of National Defence in the 1960s. He unified the Canadian Armed Forces. He served under Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. He was, by any measure, a serious person with serious credentials.And in 2005 — at 82 years old — he became the first cabinet-level minister of a G8 nation in history to publicly say that UFOs are real, governments know it, and the suppression of that information is one of the great injustices of the modern era.He was called a conspiracy theorist. He kept saying it anyway. Until he died in 2021 at 98.This episode looks at what he actually claimed, where his information came from, and how those claims look in 2026 — now that Pentagon insiders with verified classified credentials are saying the same things he was.SHOW NOTES / RESOURCES:Paul Hellyer — watch these:→ Paul Hellyer — Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, Washington DC, 2013 (YouTube) — his most detailed public statement→ Paul Hellyer — RT Interview, January 2014 (YouTube) — the species claims in full→ Paul Hellyer — In-Depth Interview at his residence, 2017 (YouTube): youtube.com/watch?v=3PPDHaIkVYA→ Paul Hellyer — Final interview raw footage (YouTube): youtube.com/watch?v=5pv3AuHG1LAThe corroboration:→ Dr. Hal Puthoff — Diary of a CEO podcast, May 2026 — search on YouTube or your podcast app→ David Grusch congressional testimony, July 26 2023 — full testimony on YouTube→ The Debrief: "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin" — June 5 2023, thedebrief.orgBackground on Hellyer:→ The Canadian Encyclopedia — Paul Hellyer biography: thecanadianencyclopedia.ca→ Parliament of Canada biographical record: parl.gc.caBook referenced in this episode:→ "The Day After Roswell" — Colonel Philip Corso (1997) — the book that triggered Hellyer's public statements. Available on Amazon.Further reading:→ "Light at the End of the Tunnel" — Paul Hellyer (2010) — his own account of his UFO research and conclusions
Transcribe →1. ok so hear me out
Jun 1600:14:49Tap to summarizeHi, I'm Peter. I live in Burnaby BC and I've been obsessed with UFOs basically my whole life. This is the first episode of the Canadian UFO Podcast — a show about the UFO and UAP conversation happening right now, told from a Canadian perspective. We're not here to debate whether this stuff is real. That debate, in my opinion, is over. We're here to catch you up — and to ask why Canada has been so quiet while the rest of the world is talking.In the first episode of the Canadian UFO Podcast, host Peter introduces himself, the show, and the question driving Season 1: why, in the most significant moment in UFO history, is Canada essentially silent?Peter talks about growing up obsessed with the X-Files, finding a YouTube video in a Yaletown condo in 2006 that changed how he thought about all of this, and the embarrassing realization — after years of consuming UFO content — that he knew almost nothing about Canada's own history with the phenomenon.This isn't a debate show. The phenomenon is real. Governments know about it. Credible people are saying so under oath. The question now is what it means — and where Canada fits in.SHOW NOTES / RESOURCES:Where to start if this is new to you:→ "The Phenomenon" (2020) — James Fox documentary. The best single entry point for the modern UFO conversation. Available on Amazon Prime.→ "Age of Disclosure" (2024) — 34 government insiders on camera. Available on Amazon Prime.→ David Grusch congressional testimony, July 26 2023 — watch it on YouTube. Search "Grusch Congress testimony 2023." Under oath. Remarkable.→ Grusch on Capitol steps, June 9 2026 — search "Grusch Capitol 2026" on YouTube for the most recent statement.The PURSUE system — Pentagon's public UAP file release:→ Pentagon PURSUE portal: aaro.mil→ Initial release coverage: ABC News, May 8 2026The show Peter mentions finding in Yaletown:→ Paul Hellyer — Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, Washington DC, 2013 (YouTube)→ Paul Hellyer — RT Interview, January 2014 (YouTube) — this is likely the video Peter foundCanadian UFO history resources:→ Library and Archives Canada UFO Collection: bac-lac.gc.ca — nearly 10,000 digitized government documents, free and public→ Chris Rutkowski / Ufology Research — Canada's most prolific UFO researcher: ufologyresearch.blogspot.com
Transcribe →2. the video that changed everything
Jun 1600:20:07Tap to summarizeIn 2004, US Navy pilots encountered something off the coast of San Diego that they couldn't explain. In 2017, the New York Times put it on the front page. The Pentagon confirmed it was real. And the world kind of shrugged. This episode is about the Tic Tac — what happened, why it mattered, and why even after everything that's followed, people still don't seem to care that much. Plus: what Canada has quietly been doing while all of this unfolds in Washington.The Tic Tac encounter is the moment the modern UAP conversation went mainstream. Navy pilots. Pentagon confirmation. New York Times front page. It should have been earth-shattering. And in some ways it was — but the general public reaction was a lot of "huh, interesting" before moving on.Since then, the evidence has only stacked higher. Congressional hearings. Whistleblowers testifying under oath. The White House releasing classified files. And yet Capital D Disclosure — the moment someone in a suit stands at a podium and says here's what we know — still hasn't happened.This episode also asks: while all of this is unfolding in Washington, what is Canada doing? The answer is more interesting than you might think. And more frustrating.SHOW NOTES / RESOURCES:The Tic Tac encounter:→ David Fravor on 60 Minutes (2021) — the clearest, most accessible account of what happened. Search "Fravor 60 Minutes" on YouTube.→ David Fravor on Joe Rogan Experience #1361 — longer, more detailed, great listen→ NewsNation: "The Tic Tac incident — inside one of the most consequential UFO encounters of all time" — newsnationnow.com→ The original New York Times article, December 16 2017: "Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program" — nytimes.comDavid Grusch:→ House Oversight Committee hearing, July 26 2023 — full testimony on YouTube→ The Debrief original reporting, June 5 2023: thedebrief.org — first major outlet to break the Grusch story→ Grusch on Capitol steps, June 9 2026 — YouTubeThe PURSUE files:→ Pentagon PURSUE portal: aaro.mil→ CBS News coverage of second tranche release, May 2026Canada's UAP situation:→ VICE: "The Canadian Military Is Quietly Logging UFO Sightings" — available via vice.com search→ CBC: Canada's history of UFO documentation — search "CBC UFO Canada ATIP"→ Sky Canada Project report, July 2025 — Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada: science.gc.ca→ CTV News: "UFO conference lands in Canada as Trump administration continues to release documents" — ctvnews.ca, June 15 2026
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