28 October 1978 (The Vancouver
Sun, Canada)
An RCMP officer sighted an oval
shaped UFO (hovering at about 1,000 metres ) over Random Island (Newfoundland
and Labrador, Canada) on 26 October 1978, at 1:45 a.m., according to the
article:
Random Island is located just
to the east of Clarenville.
Quote from the article:
“The name of the officer who
saw the object has not been released.
However, RCMP here do say that
the officer watched the object through a telescope and provided a detailed
description of it.
It had a pyramid-shaped fin on
the top of an oval shaped white body and it flashed red, blue and white lights
for more than an hour before ‘it went straight up and disappeared.’
A report of the incident has
been filed with the National Research Council in Ottawa.
RCMP officers here have refused
to provide the names of those who saw the object and reported it.
‘All I can tell you is that
nothing has been logged,’ he (spokesman at the Air Traffic Control centre at
the Gander International Airport) said. However, if the object had stayed below
3,500 metres
and was relatively small, it could have eluded conventional radar devises, he
said.
A military spokesman at Gander
confirmed what the controller had said.”
