1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,080 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:09,760 In this episode, we're talking about the 1990 Montreal mass UFO 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,280 sighting. That's correct, the 1990 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,280 Montreal mass UFO sighting. Now this happened back on 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,240 November 7th of 1990 and it's an intriguing incident. 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,570 And it occurred over Montreal's Hotel Bonaventure. 7 00:00:24,690 --> 00:00:25,970 Hope I'm pronouncing that correct. 8 00:00:26,250 --> 00:00:30,010 Involving a UFO sighting. Now witnesses reported seeing an 9 00:00:30,010 --> 00:00:34,170 unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above the 10 00:00:34,170 --> 00:00:37,490 hotel. The UFO was described as a 11 00:00:37,530 --> 00:00:42,010 bright and unusual object that didn't resemble any conventional 12 00:00:42,010 --> 00:00:45,050 aircraft. Numerous people, including hotel 13 00:00:45,050 --> 00:00:48,210 guests and staff, observe the phenomena and reportedly watched 14 00:00:48,210 --> 00:00:50,570 the UFO for a significant period of time. 15 00:00:50,930 --> 00:00:54,880 I've heard two to three hours. Some witnesses claim the object 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,720 exhibited erratic movements and changes in its luminosity. 17 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,120 Further adding to the mystery, the incident generated 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,000 considerable attention and led to discussions about the 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,880 possibility of extraterrestrial activity. 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,280 However, despite the eyewitness accounts and media coverage, no 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,680 definitive explanation or official confirmation was 22 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,400 provided by authorities, and the event remains one of the many 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,680 unexplained UFO sightings have captured public interest over 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,310 the years. Now I'm going to look at a 25 00:01:22,310 --> 00:01:23,670 couple articles that talk about this. 26 00:01:23,990 --> 00:01:28,350 It seems like a fascinating case of a mass UFO sighting. 27 00:01:28,870 --> 00:01:33,270 Now, this first article comes to us from ufoinsights.com. 28 00:01:33,270 --> 00:01:36,310 That's correct, UFO insights.com. 29 00:01:36,630 --> 00:01:40,830 The title of the article is The Place Bonaventure Incident and 30 00:01:40,830 --> 00:01:44,790 Montreal's Long UFO History and it's written by Marcus Lau, 31 00:01:44,790 --> 00:01:49,910 dated June 1st, 2017 with an update of October 14th, 2021. 32 00:01:50,590 --> 00:01:53,590 It says the UF sighting from the rooftop of the Place Buona 33 00:01:53,590 --> 00:01:57,750 Ventura Hotel in downtown Montreal in 1990 is one of many 34 00:01:57,750 --> 00:02:00,430 strange aerial sightings in this part of Canada. 35 00:02:00,870 --> 00:02:03,510 On that particular evening, dozens of people would witness 36 00:02:03,510 --> 00:02:05,870 the object. These would include journalists, 37 00:02:05,870 --> 00:02:09,870 television reporters, police officers and RCMP officials. 38 00:02:10,990 --> 00:02:13,870 Gazlanin says given both the amount and credibility of the 39 00:02:13,870 --> 00:02:16,590 witnesses as well as photographic evidence of the 40 00:02:16,630 --> 00:02:20,030 objects presence, the incident is largely seen as one of the 41 00:02:20,030 --> 00:02:23,030 most credible and important sightings not only in Canadian 42 00:02:23,030 --> 00:02:26,550 history, but arguably all of Ufology. 43 00:02:26,950 --> 00:02:30,110 Perhaps no surprise then that the files considering the case 44 00:02:30,390 --> 00:02:33,950 have become classified top secret within a day of the 45 00:02:33,950 --> 00:02:36,910 sighting. Now think about that, you have 46 00:02:36,910 --> 00:02:39,750 this mass UFO sighting in in in Canada. 47 00:02:39,750 --> 00:02:44,950 This is back in 1990 even, and within 24 hours they classified 48 00:02:44,950 --> 00:02:48,860 everything as top secret. Doesn't sound like disclosure, 49 00:02:49,020 --> 00:02:50,820 doesn't sound like transparency to me. 50 00:02:52,060 --> 00:02:54,820 Now the author goes on and says that Montreal itself is 51 00:02:54,820 --> 00:02:59,100 considered a hotspot for U for UFO activity and that there have 52 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:03,060 been several notable sightings there before and after this mass 53 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:07,740 sighting in 1990. And he's also got a what about a 54 00:03:07,740 --> 00:03:09,860 2 minute video clip here talking about this. 55 00:03:10,180 --> 00:03:14,980 I'll post a link to this article in this video at the Buy Me a 56 00:03:14,980 --> 00:03:18,020 Coffee website and you can go there and check it out and and 57 00:03:18,020 --> 00:03:20,980 of course there's always a great thank you to all the people that 58 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:23,100 support the program over there. Really appreciate it. 59 00:03:23,820 --> 00:03:27,780 Now the article continues and says siding from the rooftop. 60 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:33,580 At just after 7:20 PM on the 7th of November 1990, a woman in the 61 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:37,860 swimming pool on the roof of the Place Bonaventure Hotel noticed 62 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:41,100 strange glowing lights in the sky above. 63 00:03:41,740 --> 00:03:44,740 Shining a combination of green, amber, and yellow, the lights 64 00:03:44,740 --> 00:03:47,860 appeared. Part of a solid large craft, It 65 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:50,820 moves silently towards them, coming from the direction of the 66 00:03:50,820 --> 00:03:54,660 nearby stock market building. It's settled directly over them, 67 00:03:54,980 --> 00:03:58,180 remaining silent and motionless. Now. 68 00:03:58,180 --> 00:04:00,620 I can't even imagine being on the rooftop of this hotel on the 69 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:05,020 swimming pool and having this giant spaceship fly overhead, 70 00:04:05,220 --> 00:04:07,620 not making a noise with these lights coming down. 71 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:10,630 I mean, I'd be thinking about abduction, it says. 72 00:04:10,630 --> 00:04:13,390 Before long, around 30 people, including the hotel staff and 73 00:04:13,390 --> 00:04:15,750 management, had made their way to the hotel's roof. 74 00:04:16,390 --> 00:04:20,070 All of them stood in awe at the magnificent site above them. 75 00:04:20,790 --> 00:04:23,750 One of those on the roof that evening was Marcel La Rouche. 76 00:04:24,070 --> 00:04:27,990 He arrived at just after 9:00 PM, when the object had been 77 00:04:27,990 --> 00:04:31,350 visible for nearly two hours. The photographs he managed to 78 00:04:31,350 --> 00:04:35,110 obtain are still regarded by some as proof that this was 79 00:04:35,110 --> 00:04:39,180 definitely a solid object. On occasion, the lights on the 80 00:04:39,180 --> 00:04:40,700 object would appear to go brighter. 81 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:45,140 Fearing this might be some kind of warning or primitive or 82 00:04:45,260 --> 00:04:48,580 preemptive signal, hotel management would contact the 83 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:52,900 police officer Francois Lipe was the first to arrive at the 84 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:55,420 hotel. Within minutes, he would contact 85 00:04:55,420 --> 00:04:58,300 the superiors to come and look for themselves what was above 86 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:01,380 the city Of Montreal. Now they actually have a couple 87 00:05:01,380 --> 00:05:04,460 of these pictures here. Of course it's 1990, but you can 88 00:05:04,460 --> 00:05:08,160 still see there's definitely just a bright light filling the 89 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,720 frame of this camera. It says. 90 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,240 The Chief Police officer, Robert Mason, arrived at the scene and 91 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,280 immediately saw the object in question. 92 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,880 It appeared exactly as a report requesting his assistance had 93 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,480 stated, he told a Canadian TV show examining the case in in 94 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,000 2005. Quote I am convinced that I saw 95 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,560 something that wasn't made by any inhabitants of this planet. 96 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,960 There's no doubt in my mind it came from somewhere else other 97 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,360 than Earth. Massey would oversee initial 98 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,920 police activity that evening until the arrival of the RCMP 99 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,400 officers nearby. Spotlights that lit up a 100 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,840 construction project across the road from the hotel were turned 101 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,960 off. The object in the sky was still 102 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,960 visible, ruling out that it might have been a bizarre 103 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,000 reflection of them. Mason would make contact with 104 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,400 both the local airport and a nearby military radar facility. 105 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,740 Neither can see the object on radar, although Mason would 106 00:05:58,740 --> 00:06:01,780 later state that he had the feeling the person in the 107 00:06:01,780 --> 00:06:04,780 military was hiding something from him and not being 108 00:06:04,780 --> 00:06:06,380 completely honest in his answers. 109 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,220 At one point in the evening, a cargo plane visible on the radar 110 00:06:10,220 --> 00:06:14,060 of the airport passed between the roof of the hotel and the 111 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:18,980 object above, knowing the cargo plane was flying at 6000 feet. 112 00:06:19,260 --> 00:06:22,740 This allowed Mason to estimate that the object itself would 113 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:25,460 have been around 8 to 10,000 feet above the ground. 114 00:06:25,940 --> 00:06:29,760 Given how large it appeared, he could now estimate its size. 115 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,400 Mason would state years later that the size of it would have 116 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,960 been around 5 full football fields. 117 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,360 We're told the cloud, already thick in the evening, continued 118 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,440 to thicken as the night went on, so much so that just after 10:00 119 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,640 PM, clouds completely enveloped the object. 120 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,320 How long it remained over Montreal after that is unknown, 121 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,160 but the fact that something was over in Montreal that evening is 122 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,660 without a doubt. Perhaps it is a little 123 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:57,140 suspicious then that all the records of the encounter, 124 00:06:57,140 --> 00:07:00,500 including police statements, became classified within 24 125 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:03,580 hours of the siding. This is for the approved Mason, 126 00:07:03,580 --> 00:07:06,300 suspicious that the person he spoke with at a military radar 127 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:07,860 facility was hiding something from him. 128 00:07:08,380 --> 00:07:11,580 Given the amount of witnesses to the event, we can't dismiss the 129 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:14,300 incident entirely. However, it has quietly 130 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:17,220 disappeared from public interest without explanation. 131 00:07:17,540 --> 00:07:19,980 You have to assume that there must be an explanation for the 132 00:07:19,980 --> 00:07:22,340 events that evening. If the files are still 133 00:07:22,340 --> 00:07:24,800 classified. Well, you know, sometimes people 134 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,800 are like goldfish. They've had about a 7 second 135 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,120 memory and the government knows. Well, I should say the people 136 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,080 that control us know that if they can just come in and just 137 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,440 sit on the story for a few days, that it'll fall out of the news 138 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,320 cycle and pretty soon it'll be forgotten. 139 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,400 Because for most people there is no way back machine. 140 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,360 They have no longterm memory. Now it says, Interestingly, UFO 141 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,320 researcher and former NASA scientist Doctor Richard Haines 142 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,040 and investigated the incident in 1992. 143 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,880 This 25 page report would conclude that the evidence for 144 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,920 the existence of a highly unusual hovering, silent, large 145 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,840 object is indisputable. Well, you had 30 people there 146 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,360 watching it and ask a little video attached. 147 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,080 Here you can take a look at It Goes on. 148 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,510 It says many other recent sightings in Montreal. 149 00:08:13,510 --> 00:08:16,390 Very recently. In 2014, thousands of viewers 150 00:08:16,390 --> 00:08:19,590 would see a strange glowing green orb during a live TV 151 00:08:19,590 --> 00:08:22,550 broadcast. Reporter Colette Preventure is 152 00:08:22,550 --> 00:08:25,950 speaking to the camera when the objects is clearly visible on 153 00:08:25,950 --> 00:08:29,230 the left side of the screen. Interestingly, the same reports 154 00:08:29,230 --> 00:08:33,070 would come from Ontario and as far as New Jersey of similar 155 00:08:33,470 --> 00:08:37,590 glowing orbs, It says only the previous year. 156 00:08:37,590 --> 00:08:41,030 In 2013, a report of three orange lights moving back and 157 00:08:41,030 --> 00:08:42,789 forth in a weird manner surfaced. 158 00:08:43,030 --> 00:08:46,470 In 2012, a daytime sighting occurred as Montreal resident 159 00:08:46,470 --> 00:08:49,790 Scott Warring filmed a strange red object that appeared to 160 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:52,590 float the sky. Warring managed to film the 161 00:08:52,590 --> 00:08:55,430 object for several minutes, although he would claim it was 162 00:08:55,430 --> 00:08:57,670 visible for nearly 3/4 of an hour. 163 00:08:58,270 --> 00:09:01,790 At times the object would change from red to black and back 164 00:09:01,790 --> 00:09:03,990 again. It would also move with both 165 00:09:04,390 --> 00:09:06,990 with and against the wind, suggesting it was under 166 00:09:07,110 --> 00:09:08,910 independent, intelligent control. 167 00:09:09,510 --> 00:09:12,150 It's got a video of that here too, so you can see there's lots 168 00:09:12,150 --> 00:09:13,910 and lots of activity going on here. 169 00:09:14,270 --> 00:09:15,950 And they had another sighting. In 1985. 170 00:09:15,950 --> 00:09:19,190 A report would appear concerning the sighting of a UFO by a 171 00:09:19,190 --> 00:09:20,870 middle-aged woman known as Mildred. 172 00:09:21,230 --> 00:09:23,870 Mildred, along with her husband, awoke suddenly at 1:00 AM to the 173 00:09:23,870 --> 00:09:25,950 sound of hundreds of firecrackers exploding over 174 00:09:25,950 --> 00:09:28,630 their house. The pair leaped from their bed 175 00:09:28,790 --> 00:09:31,550 and across to the bedroom window, and their house was 176 00:09:31,590 --> 00:09:34,470 opposite of Jerry Park, which is now glowing brightly from a 177 00:09:34,470 --> 00:09:37,910 fiery red ball low in the sky. The object would move 178 00:09:37,910 --> 00:09:40,510 deliberately to the northeast of the city. 179 00:09:41,110 --> 00:09:43,750 Mildred would later tell reporters that the object had a 180 00:09:43,750 --> 00:09:48,350 beehive effect, and the sky lit up for around 90 minutes as well 181 00:09:48,350 --> 00:09:50,790 as a firecracker. Sounds were the uncomfortable 182 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:53,550 noise, like the static from hundreds of radios. 183 00:09:55,370 --> 00:09:58,090 Incidentally, Dorval Airport would receive two separate 184 00:09:58,090 --> 00:10:00,650 reports of a red Oval like object that evening. 185 00:10:00,650 --> 00:10:03,650 The reports came between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM, suggesting that 186 00:10:03,650 --> 00:10:06,690 it was likely the same object that Mildred had seen. 187 00:10:06,890 --> 00:10:10,250 And the opening days of January 1977 came the first major UF 188 00:10:10,530 --> 00:10:14,650 official UFO report in Montreal's history. 58 year old 189 00:10:14,650 --> 00:10:19,390 Florida Malibu would witness a large oyster shaped craft moving 190 00:10:19,390 --> 00:10:21,510 through the sky. Even stranger, according to 191 00:10:21,510 --> 00:10:25,390 Malibu, the craft landed but 60 feet away on the top of a nearby 192 00:10:25,390 --> 00:10:29,230 building. 2 tall thin beings, each dressed in tight white 193 00:10:29,230 --> 00:10:32,630 uniforms, exited the craft, surveyed the area for several 194 00:10:32,630 --> 00:10:35,310 minutes before returning to their vehicle and taking off. 195 00:10:35,710 --> 00:10:37,950 The whole area was under a blanket of snow at the time. 196 00:10:38,310 --> 00:10:40,870 The following morning Malborough informed her son of the 197 00:10:40,870 --> 00:10:43,310 encounter. Upon investigating the building 198 00:10:43,310 --> 00:10:45,670 where his mother had seen the craft, he saw a circle of snow 199 00:10:45,670 --> 00:10:48,470 had vanished. Further to this, he could see 200 00:10:48,470 --> 00:10:51,950 clearly strange footprints in the snow near to the circle. 201 00:10:53,470 --> 00:10:56,190 Now there's also the sighting in 1978 of Mark Leduc. 202 00:10:56,670 --> 00:10:59,670 It says story appeared in the Montreal Gazette recording a 203 00:10:59,710 --> 00:11:02,070 report of an entire fleet of UF O's. 204 00:11:02,550 --> 00:11:05,310 The sighting occurred 5 years earlier, in 1973. 205 00:11:05,310 --> 00:11:08,340 According to the witness UFO investigator Mark Leduc, After 206 00:11:08,340 --> 00:11:10,940 receiving dozens of reports of lights in the skies over 207 00:11:10,940 --> 00:11:13,580 Montreal and investigating for himself, he noticed a legion of 208 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:16,700 strange lights that moved as fast as shooting stars. 209 00:11:17,180 --> 00:11:20,260 What's more, Leduc, who has a reputation for brutally 210 00:11:20,260 --> 00:11:23,580 discrediting many UFO sightings, what claimed the following 12 211 00:11:23,580 --> 00:11:25,900 months was to be a busy year for such activity. 212 00:11:26,300 --> 00:11:29,260 Incidentally, he would be quite correct with many sightings not 213 00:11:29,260 --> 00:11:32,540 just in Canada, but worldwide. There were several abduction 214 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:34,620 cases for the United Kingdom's train sightings in Australia, 215 00:11:34,620 --> 00:11:37,480 New Zealand and as well as generally increased reports of 216 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,240 activity across the United States. 217 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:41,880 Now let's look at one last article on this mass sighting 218 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,200 from 1990. So I found this article which 219 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:51,120 seems pretty interesting regarding this hotel bona vicher 220 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,080 there in Montreal where this UFO was cited at by so many people 221 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,400 and this is called Haunted montreal.com. 222 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,240 And it's one of these things where sometimes we see an 223 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,520 overlap between these UFO sightings and paranormal 224 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,720 activity. And it kind of gets into this a 225 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:06,840 little bit. Just to give you a little 226 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,600 background on this on this hotel it says Montreal's Hotel 227 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,880 Buonovich are is nestled on the top two floors of the sprawling 228 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 17 story place. Buonovich are once the city's 229 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,090 main Convention Center with 397 spacious rooms including five 230 00:12:22,090 --> 00:12:26,610 luxurious luxurious suites, conference halls, the fancy cube 231 00:12:26,650 --> 00:12:29,450 restaurant and a heated rooftop pool. 232 00:12:29,810 --> 00:12:33,490 The four-star hotel is described as a true Garden of Eden 233 00:12:33,810 --> 00:12:36,090 overlooking the bustling streets of the city. 234 00:12:36,450 --> 00:12:40,210 The Hotel Bonovich Yard was also has also witnessed unexplained 235 00:12:40,210 --> 00:12:45,610 paranormal activity, notably a well documented UFO sighting on 236 00:12:45,610 --> 00:12:49,130 November 7th, 1990. It goes on, it says before the 237 00:12:49,130 --> 00:12:51,490 construction of placed Bonavinciar, there was an 238 00:12:51,490 --> 00:12:56,210 enormous gaping hole in downtown Montreal that contained the 239 00:12:56,210 --> 00:13:00,410 tracks of Canadian National Railways leading from the Mount 240 00:13:00,410 --> 00:13:04,250 Royal Tunnel toward the now defunct Bonavinciar train 241 00:13:04,250 --> 00:13:08,290 station. In February 1963, the railway 242 00:13:08,290 --> 00:13:12,210 company began seeking proposals to develop to develop the air 243 00:13:12,210 --> 00:13:14,810 rights above the train field pit. 244 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:17,740 The Concordia Estates Development Company submitted 245 00:13:17,740 --> 00:13:20,620 plans for a major project originally called the Canadian 246 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:23,660 Trade Center. Measuring 2,000,000 square feet, 247 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:27,020 the company plan to lease space for conventions and exhibitions 248 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:29,940 and rent out offices and a wholesale Trade Center. 249 00:13:30,580 --> 00:13:34,100 When a building boom in the 1960s spurred the Expo 67 250 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:36,340 World's Fair, Montreal was about to undergo a major 251 00:13:36,340 --> 00:13:38,820 transformation. The concept for the Place 252 00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:42,500 Buenovich area was finalized in October 1965. 253 00:13:43,030 --> 00:13:46,510 A gigantic concrete complex would be built over the rail 254 00:13:46,510 --> 00:13:48,430 yard when it opened two years later. 255 00:13:48,430 --> 00:13:51,230 The Place of Bonaventure was listed as the world's largest 256 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:56,030 building at the time. At 3.1 million square feet, it 257 00:13:56,030 --> 00:13:58,790 exceeded the size of the Empire State Building, constructed with 258 00:13:58,790 --> 00:14:01,470 sandblasted concrete in the brittle style of the exterior. 259 00:14:01,470 --> 00:14:04,950 Walls were built ribbed and angular, creating a very 260 00:14:04,950 --> 00:14:08,310 imposing structure. Now when the complex opened 261 00:14:08,310 --> 00:14:12,970 during the Expo 6067 craze, it began hosting exhibitions of 262 00:14:12,970 --> 00:14:15,370 various types from around the world and Concordia Hall. 263 00:14:15,570 --> 00:14:18,530 One of its most interesting events for those fascinated by 264 00:14:18,530 --> 00:14:23,410 the paranormal was called the Montreal ESP Psychic Expo. 265 00:14:23,610 --> 00:14:26,970 The event, which ran for several years, promised an entertaining 266 00:14:26,970 --> 00:14:29,450 and enlightening weekend filled with Mystic, psychics, 267 00:14:29,450 --> 00:14:32,010 astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyance vendors, mediums, 268 00:14:32,290 --> 00:14:35,010 healers and much more. So that was in 67. 269 00:14:35,410 --> 00:14:38,770 And you think 23 years later we have this mass UFO sighting. 270 00:14:39,010 --> 00:14:42,360 Organizers invited people to listen to free lectures about 271 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,720 paranormal, receive personal psychic messages, and learn how 272 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,000 to use psychic gifts to create a more fulfilling future. 273 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,880 Their slogan was Step out of the ordinary and into the 274 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,480 extraordinary. For the extraordinary. 275 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:59,520 The Montreal ESP Psychic Expo could not have chosen a better 276 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,720 location. Indeed, many people at the Place 277 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,680 Bonniventure witnessed an unprecedented UFO sighting on 278 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:11,370 November 7th, 1990. It all began at around 7:20 PM 279 00:15:11,610 --> 00:15:15,330 when an American tourist was enjoying a swim in a magnificent 280 00:15:15,330 --> 00:15:18,930 heated rooftop pool of the Hotel Bonaventure. 281 00:15:19,450 --> 00:15:23,530 As she spliced about in the warm water surrounded by 2 1/2 acres 282 00:15:23,530 --> 00:15:26,330 of beautiful gardens, she suddenly spotted something 283 00:15:26,330 --> 00:15:30,090 unusual in the cloudy sky gilding toward the hotel. 284 00:15:30,610 --> 00:15:33,930 A combination of green, amber, and yellow light beams appeared 285 00:15:33,930 --> 00:15:38,170 to emanate from a gigantic, round metallic object. 286 00:15:38,710 --> 00:15:42,030 The UFO coasted silently toward the hotel, coming from the 287 00:15:42,030 --> 00:15:44,630 direction of the nearby stock market building. 288 00:15:44,950 --> 00:15:48,030 When it arrived, the UFO stopped directly over the Hotel 289 00:15:48,030 --> 00:15:51,870 Bonaventure, where it hovered silently and almost without 290 00:15:51,870 --> 00:15:54,550 motion. Unable to believe her eyes, the 291 00:15:54,550 --> 00:15:57,310 American woman alerted the female lifeguard to the strange 292 00:15:57,310 --> 00:16:00,670 UFO flighting above the hotel's pool and a state of awe. 293 00:16:00,990 --> 00:16:03,590 The lifeguard called the hotel security guard. 294 00:16:04,150 --> 00:16:07,030 It wasn't long before about 30 people had made their way to the 295 00:16:07,030 --> 00:16:09,630 hotel's roof to gaze at the strange object. 296 00:16:10,070 --> 00:16:13,230 Hotel guests, staff and management stood in amazement at 297 00:16:13,230 --> 00:16:15,430 the bizarre sighting unfolding above them. 298 00:16:15,950 --> 00:16:18,390 Occasionally, the lights emanating from the UFO would 299 00:16:18,390 --> 00:16:21,870 appear to go brighter. Fearing this might be some kind 300 00:16:21,870 --> 00:16:25,830 of warning or preemptive signal, the hotel management immediately 301 00:16:25,830 --> 00:16:29,150 contacted the police. You know, it's kind of funny 302 00:16:29,390 --> 00:16:33,310 when we see this giant UFO, you know, the size of multiple 303 00:16:33,310 --> 00:16:37,110 football fields and the first response is to call the police. 304 00:16:37,430 --> 00:16:41,150 Francois Lipe was the 1st police officer to arrive at the hotel. 305 00:16:41,670 --> 00:16:44,590 Baffled, he contacted his superiors and asked them to come 306 00:16:44,590 --> 00:16:47,910 and look for themselves at the object that was floating above 307 00:16:47,910 --> 00:16:50,470 the city Of Montreal. The chief of police, Robert 308 00:16:50,470 --> 00:16:52,630 Mason, soon arrived at the scene, and he immediately 309 00:16:52,630 --> 00:16:54,550 spotted the bizarre object in question. 310 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,560 Mason would oversee the initial police investigation that 311 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,520 evening. Thinking it could be an optical 312 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,520 illusion, he ordered nearby spotlights illuminating a 313 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,720 construction project across the street from the hotel to be 314 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,119 turned off. However, the object in the sky 315 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,839 was still visible, ruling out that it might have been some 316 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:12,160 sort of reflection. Well, you can see us. 317 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,920 Natural human reaction is his giant spaceship with his lights 318 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,160 on it, and the first thing they think is, well, it's got to be 319 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,680 caused by something we're doing. It turns out it wasn't. 320 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,520 Mason contacted both the local airport and a nearby military 321 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,560 radar outpost. Neither facility claimed to have 322 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,640 seen anything unusual on the radar. 323 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:32,920 As news of the UFO spread, it wasn't long before the RCMP, the 324 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,720 military, and even NASA were investigating the situation. 325 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,520 At one point in the evening, a cargo plane that was visible on 326 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,840 the radar of the airport passed between the roof of the hotel 327 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,000 and the UFO above. Knowing the cargo plane was 328 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,750 flying at 6000 feet, Mason estimated the estimated the 329 00:17:50,790 --> 00:17:55,310 object to be around 8000 to 10,000 feet above the ground and 330 00:17:55,310 --> 00:17:58,510 that it was the size of around 5 football fields. 331 00:17:59,270 --> 00:18:02,750 Now Marco Larouche Marcel Raluche, A journalist from the 332 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:05,670 La Presse, was dispatched to the hotel to investigate. 333 00:18:06,150 --> 00:18:10,910 He arrived just after 9:00 PM, when the object had been visible 334 00:18:10,910 --> 00:18:14,040 for nearly two hours. Armed with a camera, he snapped 335 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,120 several pictures of the strange phenomena. 336 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:19,120 His photographs are still regarded by many people as proof 337 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,160 that the UFO was definitely a solid object. 338 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,400 As the evening progressed, the clouds continued to thicken. 339 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,680 Just after 10:00 PM, the cloudy sky began to obscure the UFO 340 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,640 until completely enveloping it around 10 minutes later. 341 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,240 How long it remained over Montreal after that is unknown 342 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,970 because it was never seen again. And they go on, they say while 343 00:18:40,970 --> 00:18:44,010 the story was all over the media the following morning, all 344 00:18:44,010 --> 00:18:47,090 official files related to the case were classified as top 345 00:18:47,090 --> 00:18:50,970 secret within less than 24 hours of the UFO sighting, prompting 346 00:18:50,970 --> 00:18:53,410 all sorts of conspiracy theories. 347 00:18:53,770 --> 00:18:57,730 Well, you know, that's really kind of a a silly thing to say, 348 00:18:58,250 --> 00:19:00,570 prompting all sorts of conspiracy theories. 349 00:19:01,050 --> 00:19:05,050 People simply asking questions as to why official reports on a 350 00:19:05,050 --> 00:19:10,290 UFO sighting were classified within 24 hours doesn't mean 351 00:19:10,290 --> 00:19:13,250 they're conspiracy theorists. It just means they simply ask 352 00:19:13,250 --> 00:19:16,130 why was the government hiding something from the public? 353 00:19:16,210 --> 00:19:17,930 Did they know more than they let on? 354 00:19:18,210 --> 00:19:20,410 Well, that's also kind of a silly question. 355 00:19:20,410 --> 00:19:22,570 Obviously they're hiding something for the from the from 356 00:19:22,570 --> 00:19:24,650 the public. They just made this stuff 357 00:19:24,650 --> 00:19:26,770 classified information so the public couldn't see it. 358 00:19:27,050 --> 00:19:30,770 That's the whole point of making something classified, to hide 359 00:19:30,770 --> 00:19:32,850 it. Several years later, Police 360 00:19:32,850 --> 00:19:37,050 Chief Robert Mason would state that he had the feeling that the 361 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:38,970 military was hiding something from him. 362 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:42,020 Yeah, no kidding. They classified everything. 363 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:45,940 And not being completely honest in answering his questions, in 364 00:19:45,940 --> 00:19:48,780 2005 he told a Canadian television program investigating 365 00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:50,580 the story. I am convinced that I saw 366 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:53,620 something that wasn't made by any inhabitants of this planet. 367 00:19:54,020 --> 00:19:56,860 There's no doubt in my mind it came from somewhere else other 368 00:19:56,860 --> 00:20:00,340 than Earth. It goes on and says 1992. 369 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:03,980 A 25 page report called details surrounding a large stationary 370 00:20:03,980 --> 00:20:07,380 object above Montreal. But you wouldn't want to call 371 00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:10,620 the UFO, would you? Was prepared by UFO researcher 372 00:20:10,620 --> 00:20:15,220 Bernard Gwinnett and Richard F Haynes, a former scientist with 373 00:20:15,220 --> 00:20:18,260 NASA. Their report suggested that some 374 00:20:18,260 --> 00:20:21,580 of the the report suggested that some sort of huge physical 375 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:27,020 object about 540 meters wide. So what's that Like a quarter 376 00:20:27,020 --> 00:20:29,980 mile or something was responsible for the beams of 377 00:20:29,980 --> 00:20:35,260 light, but it failed to identify where the UFO came from or why 378 00:20:35,260 --> 00:20:39,070 it was visiting Montreal. The report concluded that the 379 00:20:39,110 --> 00:20:43,150 evidence of the existence of highly unusual hovering a silent 380 00:20:43,150 --> 00:20:47,550 large object is indisputable. Yeah, given the credibility of 381 00:20:47,550 --> 00:20:50,070 many witnesses involved, plus the photographic evidence of the 382 00:20:50,070 --> 00:20:52,630 objects presence, the incident is seen as one of the most 383 00:20:52,630 --> 00:20:56,110 credible and widely reported UFO sightings in Canadian history. 384 00:20:56,430 --> 00:20:59,390 Indeed, the story was covered by a French television program in 385 00:20:59,390 --> 00:21:03,150 an episode called La Equator du Paranormal. 386 00:21:04,350 --> 00:21:07,830 CBC also made a documentary about the strange encounter. 387 00:21:07,990 --> 00:21:09,430 Yeah, it would have been nice if they could have got some of 388 00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:10,830 those classified files though, wouldn't it? 389 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:14,030 1 Little known fact is that Montreal is actually considered 390 00:21:14,030 --> 00:21:15,990 to be a hot spot for UF activity. 391 00:21:16,430 --> 00:21:19,430 There had been several notable sightings in the city both 392 00:21:19,430 --> 00:21:23,950 before and after the incident at the Hotel Bonavincio. 393 00:21:24,630 --> 00:21:27,070 Wow. And it goes on and continues a 394 00:21:27,070 --> 00:21:30,230 little bit there and talks about some of the other sightings that 395 00:21:30,230 --> 00:21:33,160 we've mentioned. Lots of activity up there in 396 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,720 Montreal, there's no doubt about that. 397 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,040 But this siding of this giant, and I mean giant, we're talking, 398 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,720 I don't know, it says 5 football fields, maybe a quarter mile 399 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,200 across. They've got a picture here of 400 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:46,280 how much the city that would have covered, you know, in 401 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,520 illustration rather. But you have this giant, massive 402 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:54,320 UFO witnessed by, you know, at least 30 reliable witnesses, 403 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,880 photographs taken of this thing where you can see this giant 404 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,360 light shining in the sky. And then the government comes in 405 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:05,280 within 24 hours and classifieds, all official information. 406 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,640 So tell me, if you see a UFO and you report it to law 407 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,680 enforcement, and then the federal government comes in and 408 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,320 classifieds that report that you just made, the federal that you 409 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,240 just made to your local law enforcement, how does that aid 410 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,600 in disclosure? This is why we're talking about, 411 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:26,050 you know, reporting to sites such as MUFON or or wherever is 412 00:22:26,050 --> 00:22:29,210 so much better, I think, than wasting your time going through 413 00:22:29,210 --> 00:22:31,570 some kind of a government bureaucracy to report what 414 00:22:31,570 --> 00:22:34,530 you've seen. And this, this massive UFO 415 00:22:34,530 --> 00:22:37,970 sighting from back on November 1990. 416 00:22:37,970 --> 00:22:40,490 Just goes to show how you can have these incredible sightings. 417 00:22:40,890 --> 00:22:42,770 And how when the government wants to, they can just kind of 418 00:22:42,770 --> 00:22:47,610 come in and just encapsulate all this information, classify 419 00:22:47,610 --> 00:22:51,090 everything, put the lid on everything, put the mainstream 420 00:22:51,090 --> 00:22:54,230 media and the debunkers to work. And then the thing just kind of 421 00:22:54,230 --> 00:22:56,830 falls into the memory hole where people forget about it. 422 00:22:56,830 --> 00:23:00,070 When actually it was one of the IT was one of probably the most 423 00:23:00,070 --> 00:23:03,590 well documented mass UFO sightings we've had in the last 424 00:23:03,590 --> 00:23:05,870 100 years. Until next time, this is UFO 425 00:23:05,870 --> 00:23:06,790 warning. Over now.