Case file · Government program
The Canadian UFO Survey begins
From Winnipeg, Chris Rutkowski and Ufology Research began an annual statistical survey of Canadian UFO reports in 1989, collected from police, airports and civilian groups.
1989 CE · 49.90, -97.14 · status: official
The account
After the federal government stopped collecting reports in the 1990s, the survey became the main national dataset. It typically records about a thousand reports a year and finds that most have ordinary explanations, while a few percent stay unexplained.