Case file · Official inquiry
Kosmos 954 falls on the Northwest Territories
On 24 January 1978 a Soviet nuclear-powered reconnaissance satellite re-entered over northern Canada, scattering radioactive debris from Great Slave Lake towards Baker Lake.
1978 CE · 62.50, -112.00 · status: explained
The account
Canada and the United States ran 'Operation Morning Light' to find the fragments across about 124,000 square km of snow and ice. Canada billed the USSR for the clean-up and settled for 3 million dollars in 1981. It is the clearest case of a real object falling from the sky being hunted by the military in Canada.