{"id":27568,"date":"2019-12-15T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=27568"},"modified":"2019-12-15T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T11:13:40","slug":"rutkowski-donates-30000-ufo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/rutkowski-donates-30000-ufo-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rutkowski donates 30,000 UFO reports to Canadian University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Rutkowski, a Canadian science writer and prolific ufologist has donated his collection of over 30,000 documents to the University of Manitoba in Canada.<\/strong>
\nRutkowski has been collecting reports of UFOs since 1975. In the past 40-plus years, he has published articles and ten books on the subject of unidentified flying objects, with most of his research highlighting Canada’s history of the strange happenings.<\/strong>
\nThe documents were submitted to the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections and await digitization for public<\/a> access. It includes photos, research notes, reports, publications, and UFO zines the ufologist has amassed over the years.
\nRutkowski donated his collection which also contains over 20,000 UFO reports documented over the past 30 years and over 10,000 UFO-related files from the Canadian government.<\/strong>
\nQuite a number of these files concern an infamous Falcon Lake incident, a UFO encounter that Rutkowski reported to be Canada\u2019s best-documented UFO case.
\nAccording to Rutkowski, the Falcon Lake incident is more critical than Roswell because the US still does not recognize that anything happened over New Mexico.<\/strong>
\nMeanwhile, both Canadian and US authorities cannot explain the unusual Falcon Lake incident.
\nReportedly, the Falcon Lake incident happened on May 20, 1967, when amateur geologist Stefan Michalak was looking for quartz near Falcon Lake in Manitoba, a Canadian province that starts over above North Dakota and stretches almost 800 miles into the frigid north.
\nA flock of agitated geese swopping past him startled the young researcher. The geese were purportedly fleeing from two glowing, cigar-shaped objects flying in the sky. One of these objects eventually flew off, and the other landed nearby on a rocky terrace.<\/p>\n

Stefan Michalak drawing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Michalak decided to draw the strange craft, and those sketches are still today part of the University of Manitoba\u2019s collection.
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\nThe young geologist, after sketching, went further to take a closer look at the strange flying object. On approaching the craft, he was scorched by hot gas that set his clothes on fire and left a grid of welts on his body.
\nHis injuries were treated in a hospital in Winnipeg.
\nMichalak reported the incident to the Canadian authorities and was subjected to a psychological and physical evaluation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, which determined him to be of sound mind.
\nYears after the incident, a twisted piece of metal was reportedly recovered from the Falcon Lake landing site. The metal was found to be highly radioactive in several tests. Until today, neither the US nor the Canadian military has been able to explain the event.<\/p>\n

Rutkowski’s similar UFO sightings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Roswell UFO Incident:<\/strong> W.W. \u201cMac\u201d Brazel, a rancher came across a mysterious 200-yard long wreckage near an Army airfield in\u00a0Roswell,\u00a0New Mexico.
\nLocal papers reported it was the remains of a flying saucer. The US military issued a statement saying that it was just a weather balloon, though the newspaper photograph suggested otherwise.<\/strong>
\nThe flames of the conspiracy were further fanned in the 1950s when dummies with latex \u201cskin\u201d and aluminum \u201cbones\u201d that looked eerily like aliens fell from the sky across New Mexico and were hurriedly picked up by military vehicles. To those who believed in the earlier Roswell sightings, this seemed like a government cover-up.
\nFlying Saucers:<\/strong> This was the first well-known UFO sighting that occurred in 1947 when businessman Kenneth Arnold<\/a>\u00a0claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in\u00a0Washington<\/a>\u00a0while flying his small plane.
\nArnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved like saucers skipping on water<\/strong>.
\nIn the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped, hence the term flying saucer.
\nArea 51<\/strong>: In the 1950s and 60s, multiple UFO sightings were reported around\u00a0Area 51<\/a> in Nevada, a site used variously by the CIA, US Air Force, and Lockheed Martin to test flights of experimental aircraft or black aircraft.<\/strong>
\nDeclassified documents show Area 51 was home to a Cold War program called Oxcart dedicated to creating a spy plane that would be undetectable in the air and could be used to gather information behind the\u00a0Iron Curtain<\/a>.
\nThe resulting SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, and Archangel-12 (A-12) traveled at speeds upwards of 2,000 miles an hour. These mysterious planes helped fuel rumors that Area 51 was used to conduct experiments on extraterrestrial life and their spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Rutkowski, a Canadian science writer and prolific ufologist has donated his collection of over 30,000 documents to the University of Manitoba in Canada. Rutkowski has been collecting reports of UFOs since 1975. In the past 40-plus years, he has published articles and ten books on the subject of unidentified flying objects, with most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}