Monday 9 December 2019

UFO Lecture:
“Falcon Lake UFO Lecture”


7 November 2019
(University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

Source: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“The Falcon Lake UFO Files Talk by renowned Canadian Ufologist, Chris Rutkowski. Also featuring Stan Michalak, son of Stefan Michalak.

Falcon Lake is the site of one of the most famous incidents in Canada. On May 20, 1967, Near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Stefan Michalak claimed he was burned by one of two flying saucers that he encountered.”


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Chris A. Rutkowski, Canadian Astronomer, UFO Author,
Lecturer & Researcher
(University of Manitoba/youtube.com image)

UFO News Article (Excerpt):
Article About Airship Sighting
In San Francisco, California


24 November 1896
(San Francisco Chronicle, California)

Source: Newspapers.com

Quote from the article:
“… Sutro by his employes at the Cliff House, the airship was seen in that vicinity about two weeks ago. Speaking about the matter yesterday, the Mayor said: ‘It was about dark one evening, about two weeks ago [on around 10 November 1896], when I reached the Cliff House, and, as I alighted from the car, a number of my employes rushed up to me and began telling me about having seen a strange object hovering over the Seal rocks. According to their story, the object came in from the sea and passed directly over the Cliff House, stopping its rapid speed only for a second while over the Seal rocks. It seemed to be about 500 feet above the earth, and it was too dark to get a view sufficient to describe it. The bright light that seemed to be attached to the rear end of the object, apparently a searchlight, was visible to all, and as it passed rapidly out of sight, going in the direction of the city, it left my men full of wonderment as to what it could be.’ ”

My comment: This is one of the 1896-1897 airship reports which clearly describes a highly advanced aircraft. It is not possible to misunderstand the following sentence: “ ‘According to their story, the object came in from the sea and passed directly over the Cliff House, stopping its rapid speed only for a second while over the Seal rocks.’ ”

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9406598/san_francisco_chronicle/

Wikipedia article: “Cliff House, San Francisco”:


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Third Cliff House, ca. 1900 (text by Wikipedia)
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Satellite photo of San Francisco, California (tageo.com)
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UFO News Article:
“ ‘This Thing Like a Ball of Fire’…Just Gas?”


3 April 1966
(Detroit Free Press, Michigan)

Source: Newspapers.com

This is a large, brilliant article (includes a map of the sightings) about the March 1966 Southern Michigan UFO flap.

Quote from the article:
“ ‘. . . A whirlwind came out of the north, and a brightness WAS about it … the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.’
                                                                                                          —Ezekiel 1:4
‘It WAS an object . . . I don’t care who believes me. I believe me.’
     —Frank Mannor
           Dexter, Mich.

When the strange object landed on the banks of the river Chebar thousands of years ago, the Biblical prophet ‘beheld . . . four living creatures . . . in the likeness of man, every one with four faces.’

The object Frank Mannor beheld in the swamp behind his farm home near Dexter, in Washtenaw County, March 20 disgorged no living creatures.

But he’s absolutely certain that ‘we seen this thing like a ball of fire, maybe more like a shooting star, come out of the west, then drop below a clump of trees half a mile behind the house.’

The 47-year-old sometime truck driver’s account of his experience, as graphic as Ezekiel’s in the Bible, was the dramatic highlight of Michigan’s biggest ‘flying saucer’ spree.

WHAT LENT IT widespread credibility was the corroborating testimony: Reports of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) similar to Mannor’s description, by dozens of southeastern Michigan police officers trained to prevent mass hysteria rather than encourage it.


THE PHENOMENON started March 14 during a routine patrol by Car 19, Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department. Here’s how it appears on the official reports:

‘3:50 a.m. Received call from Deputies (Robert) Bushroe and (John) Foster. Stating that they saw some suspicious objects in the sky. Disc, star like colors red and green, moving very fast, making sharp turns, having left to right movements, going in a northwest direction.

‘5:04 a.m. [most likely at 4:04 a.m.] Livingston County called and stated that they also saw the objects. . . .

‘4:05 a.m.—Ypsilanti Police stated that the object was seen at the location of US-12 and I-94.

‘4:10 a.m. Monroe County called and they also saw the objects.

‘4:20 a.m. (Bushroe and Foster) saw four more in the same location moving at a high rate of speed. . . .

‘4:54 a.m. Two more were spotted coming from the southeast, over Monroe County.

‘5:30 Dep. Patterson & I (Cpl. Broderick) looked out of the office and saw a bright light that appeared to be over the Ypsilanti area. It looked like a star, but was moving from north to east.’

Bushroe added this note when he returned from patrol.

‘This is the strangest thing that Deputy Foster and myself have ever witnessed. We would not have beleaved [sic] this story if we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes. These objects could move at fantastic speeds, and make very sharp turns dive and climb, and hover with great maneuverability. We have no idea of what these objects were, or where they could have come from. At 4:20 a.m. there were 4 of these objects flying in a line formation, in a northwesterly direction, at 5:30 these objects went out of view and were not seen again.’

That same morning, Dexter Patrolman Robert Hunawill was on patrol with Patrolman Richard Alexa and two county deputies. He said:

‘We first saw them in the early morning, maybe about 4 a.m. . . . We saw red and white lights off in the distance, about four of them.’

HUNAWILL later reported eight other sightings and took photographs several times.

‘Again in the 20th,’ he said, ‘my wife and I saw four objects hovering over the Mannor farm while the deputies were searching the swamp. Later that night, we’d just come home and were pulling into the driveway when one of the objects came over the house at no more than 3,000 feet. Took a couple of minutes to pass over. A couple of deputies followed it out of town and saw it hover over Island Lake Road in the direction of the Mannor farm.

‘It’s not marsh gas. My reaction to Dr. Hynek is the same as the rest of the people around here. He made us look like fools. I don’t think he’ll get any co-operation out of these people any more.’

THURSDAY morning, March 17: Washtenaw Deputies David Fitzpatrick and Nuel Schneider had been called out on a minor accident.

Fitzpatrick’s account:

‘We seen three different objects in the sky to the south of us. Two of these objects were close together and the other farther to the east. On one of these object we could see on one side white light and on the other a green light.

‘We headed south towards Milan on Marion Road. At this time we stopped the patrol car and looked back to the west and at the same time looked toward the east and seen a real bright object hovering over what looked like US-23.

‘We then drove to Arkona and Carpenter Roads and Deputy Hennes let us use his field glasses. At the time we seen this strange object and some colors. The top of it was yellowish blue-green, and the bottom bright red with what looked like black marks across it.

‘The object itself looked like a toy top. When at the above location, we were about five to 10 miles from this object.

‘This seems very unbelievable and something right out of these science fiction movies on TV!’

NEXT: The Mannor sighting.

‘We all run out on the porch and we seen this thing like a ball of fire, maybe more like a shooting star, come out of the west, then drop below a clump of trees maybe half a mile behind the house.

‘Me and Ronnie (Mannor’s 19-year-old son) decided to come down for a look. My wife, Lena, kicked up an awful fuss, Said we might get radioactive.

‘I told her if they was anything radioactive we’d get it just as bad in the house as down in the swamp. I asked my two sons-in-law to come, but their wives wouldn’t let ’em.

‘We come over that knoll just this side of the swamp and there it was, about eye-level with us, no more than 500 yards away. It had a blue light in front, and in the back a light that kept changing from red to white, like it was rotating, like the light on a police car.

‘It was almost flat on the bottom, and kinda high and peaked on top. We couldn’t see much except the outline and the lights at the end, because the whole thing was wrapped in a light like a halo, and it kept shimmering.’

The next night, Mrs. Mary Leonard and her three children returned from buying groceries to their home just southwest of Ann Arbor.

‘There was just one light,’ said Mrs. Leonard. ‘It glowed off and on, and it zig-zagged a little. It was greenish and reddish, and it looked like it had a little light on it. We saw it in the southwest about 8:30 p.m., more than half way up from the horizon.’ 


Wikipedia article: “Dexter, Michigan”:


Wikipedia article: “Ypsilanti, Michigan”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypsilanti,_Michigan

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Frank Mannor
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Satellite photo of Dexter, Michigan (tageo.com)
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Satellite photo of Ypsilanti, Michigan (tageo.com)
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County map of Michigan (lib.utexas.edu)
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