Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the 1990 Montreal mass UFO
sighting. That's correct, the 1990
Montreal mass UFO sighting. Now this happened back on
November 7th of 1990 and it's an intriguing incident.
And it occurred over Montreal's Hotel Bonaventure.
Hope I'm pronouncing that correct.
Involving a UFO sighting. Now witnesses reported seeing an
unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above the
hotel. The UFO was described as a
bright and unusual object that didn't resemble any conventional
aircraft. Numerous people, including hotel
guests and staff, observe the phenomena and reportedly watched
the UFO for a significant period of time.
I've heard two to three hours. Some witnesses claim the object
exhibited erratic movements and changes in its luminosity.
Further adding to the mystery, the incident generated
considerable attention and led to discussions about the
possibility of extraterrestrial activity.
However, despite the eyewitness accounts and media coverage, no
definitive explanation or official confirmation was
provided by authorities, and the event remains one of the many
unexplained UFO sightings have captured public interest over
the years. Now I'm going to look at a
couple articles that talk about this.
It seems like a fascinating case of a mass UFO sighting.
Now, this first article comes to us from ufoinsights.com.
That's correct, UFO insights.com.
The title of the article is The Place Bonaventure Incident and
Montreal's Long UFO History and it's written by Marcus Lau,
dated June 1st, 2017 with an update of October 14th, 2021.
It says the UF sighting from the rooftop of the Place Buona
Ventura Hotel in downtown Montreal in 1990 is one of many
strange aerial sightings in this part of Canada.
On that particular evening, dozens of people would witness
the object. These would include journalists,
television reporters, police officers and RCMP officials.
Gazlanin says given both the amount and credibility of the
witnesses as well as photographic evidence of the
objects presence, the incident is largely seen as one of the
most credible and important sightings not only in Canadian
history, but arguably all of Ufology.
Perhaps no surprise then that the files considering the case
have become classified top secret within a day of the
sighting. Now think about that, you have
this mass UFO sighting in in in Canada.
This is back in 1990 even, and within 24 hours they classified
everything as top secret. Doesn't sound like disclosure,
doesn't sound like transparency to me.
Now the author goes on and says that Montreal itself is
considered a hotspot for U for UFO activity and that there have
been several notable sightings there before and after this mass
sighting in 1990. And he's also got a what about a
2 minute video clip here talking about this.
I'll post a link to this article in this video at the Buy Me a
Coffee website and you can go there and check it out and and
of course there's always a great thank you to all the people that
support the program over there. Really appreciate it.
Now the article continues and says siding from the rooftop.
At just after 7:20 PM on the 7th of November 1990, a woman in the
swimming pool on the roof of the Place Bonaventure Hotel noticed
strange glowing lights in the sky above.
Shining a combination of green, amber, and yellow, the lights
appeared. Part of a solid large craft, It
moves silently towards them, coming from the direction of the
nearby stock market building. It's settled directly over them,
remaining silent and motionless. Now.
I can't even imagine being on the rooftop of this hotel on the
swimming pool and having this giant spaceship fly overhead,
not making a noise with these lights coming down.
I mean, I'd be thinking about abduction, it says.
Before long, around 30 people, including the hotel staff and
management, had made their way to the hotel's roof.
All of them stood in awe at the magnificent site above them.
One of those on the roof that evening was Marcel La Rouche.
He arrived at just after 9:00 PM, when the object had been
visible for nearly two hours. The photographs he managed to
obtain are still regarded by some as proof that this was
definitely a solid object. On occasion, the lights on the
object would appear to go brighter.
Fearing this might be some kind of warning or primitive or
preemptive signal, hotel management would contact the
police officer Francois Lipe was the first to arrive at the
hotel. Within minutes, he would contact
the superiors to come and look for themselves what was above
the city Of Montreal. Now they actually have a couple
of these pictures here. Of course it's 1990, but you can
still see there's definitely just a bright light filling the
frame of this camera. It says.
The Chief Police officer, Robert Mason, arrived at the scene and
immediately saw the object in question.
It appeared exactly as a report requesting his assistance had
stated, he told a Canadian TV show examining the case in in
2005. Quote I am convinced that I saw
something that wasn't made by any inhabitants of this planet.
There's no doubt in my mind it came from somewhere else other
than Earth. Massey would oversee initial
police activity that evening until the arrival of the RCMP
officers nearby. Spotlights that lit up a
construction project across the road from the hotel were turned
off. The object in the sky was still
visible, ruling out that it might have been a bizarre
reflection of them. Mason would make contact with
both the local airport and a nearby military radar facility.
Neither can see the object on radar, although Mason would
later state that he had the feeling the person in the
military was hiding something from him and not being
completely honest in his answers.
At one point in the evening, a cargo plane visible on the radar
of the airport passed between the roof of the hotel and the
object above, knowing the cargo plane was flying at 6000 feet.
This allowed Mason to estimate that the object itself would
have been around 8 to 10,000 feet above the ground.
Given how large it appeared, he could now estimate its size.
Mason would state years later that the size of it would have
been around 5 full football fields.
We're told the cloud, already thick in the evening, continued
to thicken as the night went on, so much so that just after 10:00
PM, clouds completely enveloped the object.
How long it remained over Montreal after that is unknown,
but the fact that something was over in Montreal that evening is
without a doubt. Perhaps it is a little
suspicious then that all the records of the encounter,
including police statements, became classified within 24
hours of the siding. This is for the approved Mason,
suspicious that the person he spoke with at a military radar
facility was hiding something from him.
Given the amount of witnesses to the event, we can't dismiss the
incident entirely. However, it has quietly
disappeared from public interest without explanation.
You have to assume that there must be an explanation for the
events that evening. If the files are still
classified. Well, you know, sometimes people
are like goldfish. They've had about a 7 second
memory and the government knows. Well, I should say the people
that control us know that if they can just come in and just
sit on the story for a few days, that it'll fall out of the news
cycle and pretty soon it'll be forgotten.
Because for most people there is no way back machine.
They have no longterm memory. Now it says, Interestingly, UFO
researcher and former NASA scientist Doctor Richard Haines
and investigated the incident in 1992.
This 25 page report would conclude that the evidence for
the existence of a highly unusual hovering, silent, large
object is indisputable. Well, you had 30 people there
watching it and ask a little video attached.
Here you can take a look at It Goes on.
It says many other recent sightings in Montreal.
Very recently. In 2014, thousands of viewers
would see a strange glowing green orb during a live TV
broadcast. Reporter Colette Preventure is
speaking to the camera when the objects is clearly visible on
the left side of the screen. Interestingly, the same reports
would come from Ontario and as far as New Jersey of similar
glowing orbs, It says only the previous year.
In 2013, a report of three orange lights moving back and
forth in a weird manner surfaced.
In 2012, a daytime sighting occurred as Montreal resident
Scott Warring filmed a strange red object that appeared to
float the sky. Warring managed to film the
object for several minutes, although he would claim it was
visible for nearly 3/4 of an hour.
At times the object would change from red to black and back
again. It would also move with both
with and against the wind, suggesting it was under
independent, intelligent control.
It's got a video of that here too, so you can see there's lots
and lots of activity going on here.
And they had another sighting. In 1985.
A report would appear concerning the sighting of a UFO by a
middle-aged woman known as Mildred.
Mildred, along with her husband, awoke suddenly at 1:00 AM to the
sound of hundreds of firecrackers exploding over
their house. The pair leaped from their bed
and across to the bedroom window, and their house was
opposite of Jerry Park, which is now glowing brightly from a
fiery red ball low in the sky. The object would move
deliberately to the northeast of the city.
Mildred would later tell reporters that the object had a
beehive effect, and the sky lit up for around 90 minutes as well
as a firecracker. Sounds were the uncomfortable
noise, like the static from hundreds of radios.
Incidentally, Dorval Airport would receive two separate
reports of a red Oval like object that evening.
The reports came between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM, suggesting that
it was likely the same object that Mildred had seen.
And the opening days of January 1977 came the first major UF
official UFO report in Montreal's history. 58 year old
Florida Malibu would witness a large oyster shaped craft moving
through the sky. Even stranger, according to
Malibu, the craft landed but 60 feet away on the top of a nearby
building. 2 tall thin beings, each dressed in tight white
uniforms, exited the craft, surveyed the area for several
minutes before returning to their vehicle and taking off.
The whole area was under a blanket of snow at the time.
The following morning Malborough informed her son of the
encounter. Upon investigating the building
where his mother had seen the craft, he saw a circle of snow
had vanished. Further to this, he could see
clearly strange footprints in the snow near to the circle.
Now there's also the sighting in 1978 of Mark Leduc.
It says story appeared in the Montreal Gazette recording a
report of an entire fleet of UF O's.
The sighting occurred 5 years earlier, in 1973.
According to the witness UFO investigator Mark Leduc, After
receiving dozens of reports of lights in the skies over
Montreal and investigating for himself, he noticed a legion of
strange lights that moved as fast as shooting stars.
What's more, Leduc, who has a reputation for brutally
discrediting many UFO sightings, what claimed the following 12
months was to be a busy year for such activity.
Incidentally, he would be quite correct with many sightings not
just in Canada, but worldwide. There were several abduction
cases for the United Kingdom's train sightings in Australia,
New Zealand and as well as generally increased reports of
activity across the United States.
Now let's look at one last article on this mass sighting
from 1990. So I found this article which
seems pretty interesting regarding this hotel bona vicher
there in Montreal where this UFO was cited at by so many people
and this is called Haunted montreal.com.
And it's one of these things where sometimes we see an
overlap between these UFO sightings and paranormal
activity. And it kind of gets into this a
little bit. Just to give you a little
background on this on this hotel it says Montreal's Hotel
Buonovich are is nestled on the top two floors of the sprawling
17 story place. Buonovich are once the city's
main Convention Center with 397 spacious rooms including five
luxurious luxurious suites, conference halls, the fancy cube
restaurant and a heated rooftop pool.
The four-star hotel is described as a true Garden of Eden
overlooking the bustling streets of the city.
The Hotel Bonovich Yard was also has also witnessed unexplained
paranormal activity, notably a well documented UFO sighting on
November 7th, 1990. It goes on, it says before the
construction of placed Bonavinciar, there was an
enormous gaping hole in downtown Montreal that contained the
tracks of Canadian National Railways leading from the Mount
Royal Tunnel toward the now defunct Bonavinciar train
station. In February 1963, the railway
company began seeking proposals to develop to develop the air
rights above the train field pit.
The Concordia Estates Development Company submitted
plans for a major project originally called the Canadian
Trade Center. Measuring 2,000,000 square feet,
the company plan to lease space for conventions and exhibitions
and rent out offices and a wholesale Trade Center.
When a building boom in the 1960s spurred the Expo 67
World's Fair, Montreal was about to undergo a major
transformation. The concept for the Place
Buenovich area was finalized in October 1965.
A gigantic concrete complex would be built over the rail
yard when it opened two years later.
The Place of Bonaventure was listed as the world's largest
building at the time. At 3.1 million square feet, it
exceeded the size of the Empire State Building, constructed with
sandblasted concrete in the brittle style of the exterior.
Walls were built ribbed and angular, creating a very
imposing structure. Now when the complex opened
during the Expo 6067 craze, it began hosting exhibitions of
various types from around the world and Concordia Hall.
One of its most interesting events for those fascinated by
the paranormal was called the Montreal ESP Psychic Expo.
The event, which ran for several years, promised an entertaining
and enlightening weekend filled with Mystic, psychics,
astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyance vendors, mediums,
healers and much more. So that was in 67.
And you think 23 years later we have this mass UFO sighting.
Organizers invited people to listen to free lectures about
paranormal, receive personal psychic messages, and learn how
to use psychic gifts to create a more fulfilling future.
Their slogan was Step out of the ordinary and into the
extraordinary. For the extraordinary.
The Montreal ESP Psychic Expo could not have chosen a better
location. Indeed, many people at the Place
Bonniventure witnessed an unprecedented UFO sighting on
November 7th, 1990. It all began at around 7:20 PM
when an American tourist was enjoying a swim in a magnificent
heated rooftop pool of the Hotel Bonaventure.
As she spliced about in the warm water surrounded by 2 1/2 acres
of beautiful gardens, she suddenly spotted something
unusual in the cloudy sky gilding toward the hotel.
A combination of green, amber, and yellow light beams appeared
to emanate from a gigantic, round metallic object.
The UFO coasted silently toward the hotel, coming from the
direction of the nearby stock market building.
When it arrived, the UFO stopped directly over the Hotel
Bonaventure, where it hovered silently and almost without
motion. Unable to believe her eyes, the
American woman alerted the female lifeguard to the strange
UFO flighting above the hotel's pool and a state of awe.
The lifeguard called the hotel security guard.
It wasn't long before about 30 people had made their way to the
hotel's roof to gaze at the strange object.
Hotel guests, staff and management stood in amazement at
the bizarre sighting unfolding above them.
Occasionally, the lights emanating from the UFO would
appear to go brighter. Fearing this might be some kind
of warning or preemptive signal, the hotel management immediately
contacted the police. You know, it's kind of funny
when we see this giant UFO, you know, the size of multiple
football fields and the first response is to call the police.
Francois Lipe was the 1st police officer to arrive at the hotel.
Baffled, he contacted his superiors and asked them to come
and look for themselves at the object that was floating above
the city Of Montreal. The chief of police, Robert
Mason, soon arrived at the scene, and he immediately
spotted the bizarre object in question.
Mason would oversee the initial police investigation that
evening. Thinking it could be an optical
illusion, he ordered nearby spotlights illuminating a
construction project across the street from the hotel to be
turned off. However, the object in the sky
was still visible, ruling out that it might have been some
sort of reflection. Well, you can see us.
Natural human reaction is his giant spaceship with his lights
on it, and the first thing they think is, well, it's got to be
caused by something we're doing. It turns out it wasn't.
Mason contacted both the local airport and a nearby military
radar outpost. Neither facility claimed to have
seen anything unusual on the radar.
As news of the UFO spread, it wasn't long before the RCMP, the
military, and even NASA were investigating the situation.
At one point in the evening, a cargo plane that was visible on
the radar of the airport passed between the roof of the hotel
and the UFO above. Knowing the cargo plane was
flying at 6000 feet, Mason estimated the estimated the
object to be around 8000 to 10,000 feet above the ground and
that it was the size of around 5 football fields.
Now Marco Larouche Marcel Raluche, A journalist from the
La Presse, was dispatched to the hotel to investigate.
He arrived just after 9:00 PM, when the object had been visible
for nearly two hours. Armed with a camera, he snapped
several pictures of the strange phenomena.
His photographs are still regarded by many people as proof
that the UFO was definitely a solid object.
As the evening progressed, the clouds continued to thicken.
Just after 10:00 PM, the cloudy sky began to obscure the UFO
until completely enveloping it around 10 minutes later.
How long it remained over Montreal after that is unknown
because it was never seen again. And they go on, they say while
the story was all over the media the following morning, all
official files related to the case were classified as top
secret within less than 24 hours of the UFO sighting, prompting
all sorts of conspiracy theories.
Well, you know, that's really kind of a a silly thing to say,
prompting all sorts of conspiracy theories.
People simply asking questions as to why official reports on a
UFO sighting were classified within 24 hours doesn't mean
they're conspiracy theorists. It just means they simply ask
why was the government hiding something from the public?
Did they know more than they let on?
Well, that's also kind of a silly question.
Obviously they're hiding something for the from the from
the public. They just made this stuff
classified information so the public couldn't see it.
That's the whole point of making something classified, to hide
it. Several years later, Police
Chief Robert Mason would state that he had the feeling that the
military was hiding something from him.
Yeah, no kidding. They classified everything.
And not being completely honest in answering his questions, in
2005 he told a Canadian television program investigating
the story. I am convinced that I saw
something that wasn't made by any inhabitants of this planet.
There's no doubt in my mind it came from somewhere else other
than Earth. It goes on and says 1992.
A 25 page report called details surrounding a large stationary
object above Montreal. But you wouldn't want to call
the UFO, would you? Was prepared by UFO researcher
Bernard Gwinnett and Richard F Haynes, a former scientist with
NASA. Their report suggested that some
of the the report suggested that some sort of huge physical
object about 540 meters wide. So what's that Like a quarter
mile or something was responsible for the beams of
light, but it failed to identify where the UFO came from or why
it was visiting Montreal. The report concluded that the
evidence of the existence of highly unusual hovering a silent
large object is indisputable. Yeah, given the credibility of
many witnesses involved, plus the photographic evidence of the
objects presence, the incident is seen as one of the most
credible and widely reported UFO sightings in Canadian history.
Indeed, the story was covered by a French television program in
an episode called La Equator du Paranormal.
CBC also made a documentary about the strange encounter.
Yeah, it would have been nice if they could have got some of
those classified files though, wouldn't it?
1 Little known fact is that Montreal is actually considered
to be a hot spot for UF activity.
There had been several notable sightings in the city both
before and after the incident at the Hotel Bonavincio.
Wow. And it goes on and continues a
little bit there and talks about some of the other sightings that
we've mentioned. Lots of activity up there in
Montreal, there's no doubt about that.
But this siding of this giant, and I mean giant, we're talking,
I don't know, it says 5 football fields, maybe a quarter mile
across. They've got a picture here of
how much the city that would have covered, you know, in
illustration rather. But you have this giant, massive
UFO witnessed by, you know, at least 30 reliable witnesses,
photographs taken of this thing where you can see this giant
light shining in the sky. And then the government comes in
within 24 hours and classifieds, all official information.
So tell me, if you see a UFO and you report it to law
enforcement, and then the federal government comes in and
classifieds that report that you just made, the federal that you
just made to your local law enforcement, how does that aid
in disclosure? This is why we're talking about,
you know, reporting to sites such as MUFON or or wherever is
so much better, I think, than wasting your time going through
some kind of a government bureaucracy to report what
you've seen. And this, this massive UFO
sighting from back on November 1990.
Just goes to show how you can have these incredible sightings.
And how when the government wants to, they can just kind of
come in and just encapsulate all this information, classify
everything, put the lid on everything, put the mainstream
media and the debunkers to work. And then the thing just kind of
falls into the memory hole where people forget about it.
When actually it was one of the IT was one of probably the most
well documented mass UFO sightings we've had in the last
100 years. Until next time, this is UFO
warning. Over now.