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In this episode, we're talking about Lake Ontario UFOs.
That's correct, Lake Ontario UFOs.
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Now, this first article that we're looking at comes to us
from toronto.com. Its title says Newmarket Man
claims to have spotted UFO at Oshawa Harbor.
Looks like it's written by Stephanie Swenson.
Originally it was written July 9th, 2016, but it says it's
updated March 13th, 2023. It's got a pretty cool picture
here of a big cargo ship and what looks to me like a flying
saucer just suspended not that far away from this ship, it
says. Daniel Kushtashian claims to
have seen a UFO hovering over the waters of Lake Ontario at
the Oshawa Harbor on the morning of July 20 to two 2016.
Daniel Kushtman photo. Yeah, pretty cool picture goes
on and tells us it says. Daniel Kushtashian said he had a
bad feeling, like he was about to enter a haunted house, when
he showed up to the gates of Oshawa Harbor on June 22nd,
around 9:30 AM alone, to pick up some metal rebar for a company
he drives transport for. Quote, I felt very uncomfortable
all of a sudden, said Newmarket resident.
It felt like someone was watching me, Mr. Kutcherson said
He checked his surroundings, looking left, then right, and
that's when he saw the object hovering over the waters of Lake
Ontario. He managed to snap a couple of
photos with his camera before it took off into the sky.
After I saw it, I couldn't sleep for days.
I had mixed feelings inside me, he explained.
I felt dreadful. Mr. Acoustician described what
he saw as a black object that was a disc shape.
There were no lights, no sounds, nothing.
He said the UFO was far from the harbor.
It was far in the distance. It must have been huge then,
because the thing looks pretty good size in this picture and it
does look kind of a has a dark underside, but almost happens.
That silver collar to it looks like a classic flying saucer to
me, he said. He has always been a believer
that UFOs exist and he thinks he has seen them before, but this
time was different. I had never been close enough to
see it and get proof. I was hoping it'd take me, but
it didn't that day, he joked. Hopefully the men in black don't
show up at my door. Kind of an odd comment.
First off, photographic evidence, all this kind of
stuff, it's it's never proof, but it is evidence, OK, And and
then we have to wait the evidence to decide whether or
not it's valid or not. The word proof is thrown around
a lot. We haven't proved anything yet,
but there's lots of evidence. At the beginning of the article,
he talks about how he had this kind of foreboding feeling, like
he was walking into a haunted house.
It was almost as if his Spidey senses were picking up on this
thing and maybe these weren't the good guys, maybe these were
the baddies. But then at the end of the
article, he says I was hoping it would take me, but it didn't
that day. I'm not sure why you'd want to
go with a, you know, with an entity or craft, whatever, when
you had these kind of negative feelings just before it showed
up. But the pictures really
convincing. Yeah, check it out on coal fire.
Buy me a coffee. It's really cool looking.
Originally taken back in 2016, a kind of a Gray overclass over
overcast day right there. Classic UFO shape, kind of a
dark color to the bottom, kind of a silver on top.
The image seems a little diffuse, but that could be
because, like you said, it was so far off in the distance.
But I'm telling you something, this thing takes up, I don't
know if this freighter is, you know, a couple 100 feet long,
300 feet long. This thing's got to be at least
if it was on top of it, it would be 4050 feet across.
And if it's out over on the, you know, kind of far out in the
lake somewhere, I mean, this thing can be the size of a
football field. It's really neat looking, but
good picture there. Now, the next article that we're
looking at comes to us from globalnews.ca, globalnews.ca.
It says strange things out there inside Lake, Ontario's Bermuda
Triangle. And this is by Max Harston
Harsthorn, dated August 28th, 2021, talking a little bit more
about not just UFOs and stuff, but some of the weird shipwrecks
they've had up there and airplane disappearances.
It says when experienced amateur pilot Ron Scott set out from
Picton Airport in a Cessna 172 in the summer of 1975, there was
no reason to suspect trouble. The sky was clear, the wind was
calm. It was perfect weather for a
short pleasure flight over the shores of Prince Edward County.
But as his plane made its way over Prince Edward Point, the
peninsula at the county's southeastern tip, something
unnerving began to happen. Without any sign of turbulence,
the plane banked sharply to one side and locked itself in that
position. It was if an invisible giant
took hold of the wings, says Scott.
I could not straighten it out. Without the ability to counter,
Scott feared that his plane would flip over entirely and
fall into a spin, which at 1000 feet would have been tough to
pull out of. His plane began to write itself
after about 10 seconds. Then the same thing happened
with the other wing. Somehow, despite all the mid air
chaos, Scott was able to make it down safely, though he was
understandably rattled. It shakes you up a bit, like
what just happened. Scott, 46 years later, still
wonders. Yeah, just flying along and all
of a sudden this plane starts doing things on its own, like
it's being toyed with. He has flown in just about every
kind of weather imaginable, but he has no explanation for what
occurred that day. It was just totally weird, said
Scott. I've experienced nothing like
that ever before or since, and I've never heard of anything
like that. There are strange things out
there. This story is hardly an isolated
tale. At nearly the same spot in 1952,
Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Barry Allen Newman plummeted
from 20,000 feet into the lake and AP51 fighter.
His body was never recovered these days, Prince Edward
County's best known division for sandy beaches and up and coming
wineries. But there is a much darker side
to the region that few sightseers ever learn about.
Dubbed the Marysburg Port Vortex or alternately, the Graveyard of
Lake Ontario, the small stretch of water off the shores of
Prince Edward County has for centuries played host to
shipwrecks, airplane mishaps, strange sightings and mysterious
disappearances. Global News has identified at
least 270 and as many as 500 ships that met their watery inn
in this part of the lake, and at least 40 planes have met a
similar grizzly fate in and around the shores.
A far higher concentration of shipwrecks and plane crashes
than can be found in the famous Bermuda Triangle in the North
Atlantic Ocean on May 28th, 1889, the schooner Bavaria On
May 28th 1889, the schooner Bavaria entered the final
stretch of its journey, hauling timber from Toledo OH to Garden
Island near Kingston ON. The vessel was part of a tree of
ships under tow by a steam barge.
No sooner did the boats round the edge of Prince Edward County
when they were caught in what Captain Anthony Malone of the
Barge described in the paper as a living Gale.
Unable to withstand the force of the heavy winds and mountain the
seas. The tow line snapped, sending
sending the Bavaria careening into one of the other schooners.
Fearing the worst, Malone circled his ship back to the
Bavaria to offer assistance, but there was no one there to
assist. The Bavaria appeared to still be
in working condition, but the entire crew, including Captain
John Marshall, was missing. Even more mysterious was when
the ship run aground at a nearby island.
It was found to be entirely undamaged.
Save for a missing lifeboat. Everything in the cabin is dry.
Even a pan of bread set in the oven to bake is still there,
wrote Kingston, the daily British Whig.
The Oswego Daily Palladium noted that Captain Marshall was a good
man and one not likely to act rightly or without thought.
What possessed the captain and his crew to jump ship in the
middle of a terrible storm? Since Barbaria was carrying
timber, it was never at risk of sinking.
If the crew had simply stayed on board, investigators concluded,
everyone would have been safe. In total, eight men and women
disappeared that day, and their bodies were never recovered.
It was as if they had fallen through a crack in the lake, to
borrow a common phrase in the Great Lakes shipping lore.
Yeah, you would have thought that the bodies would have
washed up on the lake. I mean, it's not like it's out
in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean or something that's weird.
It's almost like they were just abducted.
Very strange. The tragic fate of Bavaria's
crew is one of dozens of mysterious tales from the
eastern shores of Lake Ontario. They're documented in Hugh
Cochran's 1980 book Gateway to Oblivion.
The locals were aware of the strange stories that came out of
this area, he says. And then it goes on and says,
but it was the but Cochran, but it was Cochran who came up with
the name The Marysburg Vortex. The vortex is generally thought
to encompass the eastern part of Lake Ontario, bounded by Prince
Edward Sound on the West, Kingston to the east in Oswego,
NY to the South. So what you have is a regular,
just hot spot there for all sorts of weird stuff.
UFO sightings, shipwrecks, airplane mishaps, as they say.
The mysterious region says, includes and gets its name from
the southern tip of Prince Edward County, historically
historically known as Maryburg Township.
That name took on a life of its own, says Catalog.
It became a code for anything that didn't quite go right in
your life. Like, I'm late for work.
Sorry I got lost in the vortex. Yeah, it does seem sometimes the
word's a little bit overused, but I think in this case it's
appropriate. Somewhere between 5008 thousand
shipwrecks in the in the Great Lakes.
Well, it can be dangerous there, but there's also just so many
strange things happening in this area, especially here around
Lake Ontario with these ships disappear where people off the
ships disappeared. It has listed this as the
Bavaria 1889. Drifted into Gallo Island during
a storm. Ship ship intact, but crew was
missing 1900. The Picton, it says, disappeared
in the storm between Rochester and Kingston.
No remains save a mysterious message in a bottle that was
washed up on shore. That's why I don't get I mean,
they're lost at sea. You think the bodies would come
to the top? I mean, you wouldn't think the
body would just float to the bottom of the lake and that
would be the end of it. You'd think that at least one
body would have washed back up on the shore somewhere.
He had one. HMS Speedy at eighteen O 4 says,
sinking a storm off Presquil Peninsula in a route to a high
profile. Trial and execution. 20 dead,
including several major political figures, and it just
goes on, has quite a few more listed here.
All these strange things happening here on Lake Ontario.
It also has some UFO accounts here, it says.
One of the things Prince Edward County resident Sidwell's
recalls most vividly when he first moved, there was the
shimmering black sky I used to drive out at night just to sit
and look at the stars, he says. It was absolutely magnificent.
You could just touch the stars. It was during one of these
nights in 1986, out on the deck at a dinner party in South Bay,
when Wells saw something he had never seen before.
I saw this object just hovering, and it was a diamond shape.
It was twirling in the shape of a diamond.
Wells rushed back inside to grab the other guest.
I said, hey, come on, get out on the deck.
Here. You got to see this for what I
felt like an eternity in reality.
Only a few minutes. The guest stared in awe at the
glowing white mass that hung over the lake close to the
horizon. We knew we were watching
something very special, but then, as if someone had flipped
the switch, it was gone. For Wells, now 76, the
experience was life changing and it spurred an ongoing interest
in ufology. He would go on to witness at
least a half a dozen more strange sightings over the years
in Prince Edward County. I don't believe in conspiracies
at all, but I believe in things happening that their own that
there are no explanations for and we need to find out
explanations, he says. Wells isn't the only area
resident to see something over the lake that they can't
explain. During the course of reporting,
Global News came across two previously undocumented accounts
of UFO sightings from local fishermen.
On November 14th, 2017, pilots on a Toronto bound Porter
Airlines flight from Ottawa noticed a large unidentified
airborne object directly in their plane's flight path, 9000
feet over Lake Ontario. The pilots jerked the plane into
a dive to narrowly avoid a mid air collision, giving two flight
attendants minor injuries. The Transportation Safety Board
has yet to figure out what the pilots saw that day, but they
don't believe it was a drone. We have no idea, ATATSB
investigator told CTV News Says many fantastic sightings on Lake
Ontario have clear explanations on weather.
Phenomenon known as thermal inversion can cause ships and
even entire land masses to appear upside down or in some
cases as if they're floating in the air.
Typically, the higher you go on elevation, the cooler it gets.
Sometimes, however, the air at ground level can cool more
quickly than the air at higher elevations.
This creates what meteorologists call a thermal inversion and can
have some bizarre optical effects.
Light hitting the warm waters on of the atmosphere will curve
downward due to refraction, and this can make distant objects
loom high above the horizon. The inversions can be a regular
occurrence on the Great Lakes, says Global News meteorologist
Russell. It's all about temperature
contrast, and we live in a part of the world that sees frequent
air mass changes during each season.
On August 16th, 1894, residents of Buffalo, NY woke up to the
site of Toronto hovering high over the horizon, according to
Scientific American article posts.
Later that year, despite being located more than about 60 miles
to the South, Buffaloans were treated to a panoramic view of
the Toronto skyline in Immaculate detail, and even the
church inspires could be counted with the greatest of ease, the
Scientific American article said.
Key Law Two has witnessed the effects of a thermal inversion
in Amerisburg vortex first hand. The difference is of course we
know that. We know that there are
temperature inversions that can cause optical illusions, but
that's not the same thing as seeing a a spacecraft or a
flying saucer. Just post itself, you know out
over the lake a little, a little bit different thing.
I really find it interesting these cases in Ontario because
the people just report them so matter of factly.
And yes, there are cases of temperature inversions, which
creates some strange images, but that's, you know, it's real, but
it's a different thing than what people are seeing as far as
these UFOs are concerned. Now let's go on here to this
next article and then we'll finish up.
Now I want to finish up with this last article from
southeasternontario.ca. It seems like when we talk about
certain areas sometimes where there's repeated UFO sightings,
there also frequently is other paranormal strange stuff
happening in that area. And they often they'll use the
word triangle to describe this geographical, you know, place
where these strange things are happening at.
And this article's from, like I said, southeastern ontario.ca.
The title says The Strangest Mysteries of Southeastern
Ontario is by Roseanne Lake. And she goes on and she says,
Have you heard of these mysteries?
In that? First on the list is the local
Bermuda Triangle. Did you know that a stretch of
water near Prince Edward County is awash in mystery?
A small stretch of water off the shores of Prince Edward County
has played host to shipwrecks, airplane mishaps, strange
sightings, even disappearances. Known as the Marysburg Vortex,
it got some immediate attention over the summer when Global News
identified more than 300 ships that have met their watery in
there. Also, at least 40 airplanes have
plummeted into the water altogether.
That's a higher concentration of shipwrecks and planes that have
crashed in the legendary Bermuda Triangle.
So it just gives you an idea of how much really negative kind of
stuff is going on there. I'm taking back to the comments
of that first experience you made when he said he felt like
he was walking into a haunted house just before he saw that
UFO. They tell us the Saint Lawrence
and Kingston area has long since been known for sightings of sea
serpent type creatures. Thousand Islands Life magazine
notes that a sea Serpent was documented numerous time in the
mid 1800s on the state side of the Saint Lawrence River across
from Genoke. Could it be the same one that
got to be famous around Kingston?
Between 1833 and 1933, there were hundreds of sightings of
Sea Serpent near Kingston and Lake Ontario.
It even earned the fable creature a nickname of Kingston.
Stories swirled about the snake like beast, at least 40 feet
long, with a ride along with a Ridge along its back and sharp
teeth. Almost all people who saw the
serpent said they thought it was a log floating on the surface of
the water until it started to move in 1913.
The steamer America was reportedly settling around Bells
Point at the head of Wolf Island when the passengers and crew
spotted a large creature, which they guessed to be almost 20
feet long. The stories have long since
faded into lore, but the newspaper articles at the time
heightened fears so much that ladies refused to even dip their
toes into the water to avoid an Imagine attack.
There must have been some long summers.
Well, you know, sometimes we have cryptids associated with
these UFO sightings in the counters, and I wonder if that's
not what's going on there, it says.
Years later, a mammoth fish of a different sort was apparently
hooked in the Bay of Quinta Area.
In the book The Strange Tale, The Strange But True Tales from
Eastern Ontario, it notes that in 1952, a father and son duo
were fishing in the Bay of Quint area and reeling the giant
sturgeon, weighing in at more than 200 lbs, measuring 7 1/2
feet. Well, we always hear about the
sturgeons whenever somebody reports a sea serpent or
something strange in the water. 7 1/2 feet is not 20 feet.
And now we're going to talk a little bit about UFOs here, it
says. UFOs and SEO.
Back in 1915, the 1000 Islands region had a UFO invasion that
is largely unexplained according to the Historical Society of
Ottawa. And as historically reported in
the Globe, on February 14th of that year, Brockfield's mayor
Allen Donaldson and three police officers saw two aircraft
passing over the Saint Lawrence River and moving in the
direction of Ottawa. As they moved across the river,
they dropped fireballs into the water.
Then a third and 4th flying machine passed over Brockville.
The mayor of Guineke had heard two unknown aircraft overhead 2
just moments before. They prompted Mayor Donaldson to
report to the Prime Minister, Robert Borden.
Telling of the unidentified aircraft crossing the Saint
Lawrence and heading toward Ottawa.
Borden leaped into action as only six months previously
Canada became involved in the First World War and local
tensions were high. The chief of the Dominion police
ordered the lights of Parliament Hill extinguished and blinds
drawn in the city for fear of an air raid.
In the following days it came to light that celebrations across
the border had set off fireworks with fire balloons.
However, the public stayed skeptical.
Now this to me really sounds sketchy.
I mean, really, for one thing, fire balloons.
Not a good idea up there in Canada with all this timber
around. I mean, well, what a great way
to start a fireball if people were actually doing that.
Well, shame on them, it says. According to the book,
mysterious, mysterious Ontario Hotel soon came east from north
of Toronto about hovering aeroplanes over residential
areas and from gleth about 3 soundless lights passing over
the agricultural college on the same day as the Brockville
sightings. You know, what I see here is
even back in 1915, so sure, they'd heard of the Zeppelin and
the, you know, the very old airplanes, but that's not what
we're talking about. We're talking about UFOs having
been cited. And then it's crazy 1915.
They get the parallel narrative cranked out.
Oh, well, that was somebody from across the lake sending up fire
balloons. Well, these guys saw it, said
they saw UFOs dropping fireballs into the lake.
OK, it's kind of like today. Oh, well, those are weather
balloons. Those are hobby balloons.
Those are drones flying around the airport in the path flight
of passenger airplanes. It's just as stupid to do that
as it is to release a fire balloon over a heavily forested
area. So I don't know, man, it
sometimes, sometimes the stories they come up with, you're
thinking, well, which is worse, To have a, a unexplained UFO
sighting or to have some complete mental Midget out there
endangering the lives of hundreds of people on an
airplane or thousands of people by causing a forest fire.
You know what? What we're up against, it's
amazing. Well, it goes on.
It has a few more stories that really don't really know what
we're talking about. But I find it interesting that
so often times when we have these unexplained UFO hotspots,
so, so much other weird and cool and wonderful stuff that happens
around there. Just like with here, you know, I
guess it wouldn't be want want to be in a in a ship going
through this little particular stretch of water or maybe flying
through it with an airplane. But you kind of get an idea that
this thing is not just a UFO hotspot, but a paranormal
hotspot up there on Lake Ontario.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning.
Over and out.