Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about UFOs over Winnipeg.
That's correct, UFOs over Winnipeg, specifically over the
Winnipeg River north of Fort Alexander up here in Manitoba,
Canada. Now this first article comes to
us from NDTV, ndtv.com. Title says alien sighting
question mark Canadian couple spots mysterious glowing orbs in
the sky, the objects as bright as the sun.
We're seeing flying S above the Winnipeg Rivers north.
Sure. This is dated June 29th.
Got a spectacular picture here. These two very, very bright
orbs. When they say they're bright as
the sun, they're not kidding around.
And you can see the reflection coming down the water.
It almost looks like a beam of light coming down off these
sinks. In this photograph, a Canadian
couple was left stunned after they saw two glowing UFOs above
the Winnipeg River. Justin Stephenson and his wife
Danielle Daniel Stephenson were driving through Fort Alexander
on May 14th when they spotted the mysterious orbs with yellow
lights. The objects as bright as the
sun, quote UN quote, were seen flying S above the river's North
Shore, disappearing behind a cloud.
Stevenson, a self-proclaimed skeptic of extraterrestrial
life, described the experiences like being in a sci-fi movie,
with the objects appearing as super bright like a fire in the
sky. He began recording footage and
wondered if they were witnessing an extraterrestrial encounter.
What the blank is that? He exclaimed in the footage
shared to Facebook. Yo, I think we're seeing
something. The encounter has convinced him
there is indeed life beyond Earth.
I was skeptical before I saw this, but now this has given me
the proof I need that there's something out there other than
humans, he said, according to the New York Post.
The footage has sparked widespread interest, with many
calling it a strange anomaly and a clear shot of UFOs.
Oh my word, what is that? It's pretty scary.
It's so close to home. Yikes.
A user commented under the video, which now has been viewed
over 650,000 times. Another user claimed it could be
a drone or a UFO, while someone else offered a more logical
explanation. Uh oh, time for the author to
get in some debunking here. While someone else offered a
more logical explanation saying it was quote swamp gas from a
weather balloon mass trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted
light from Venus. Now I really hope that the
author of this article isn't that out of touch let's say
because clearly the person that left that comment wasn't trying
to offer a more logical explanation.
They, they were just using a little irony when they, when
they bring up many of these silly excuses that were given
for UFOs, swamp gas, weather balloons, thermal pockets, Venus
refracted light. So I would not call that a more
logical explanation. I would call that pointing out
the absurdness of these excuses. It goes on here.
It says Canada has seen a surge in UFO sightings with at least
17 reports filed in 2023. Credible sources, including
pilots and crews from WestJet, Air France and British Airways,
have come forward with accounts of unexplained sightings.
In February 2023, two airline pilots reported strange lights
in the sky over Quebec, with one crew member describing the
phenomena as a bit weird. The sightings are documented in
an online aviation incident database maintained by Transport
Canada. Yeah, we've talked about that
before on the program. Really, really strange stuff
that happened there. Now, I want to take a look at
this next article before we move on to a site that actually
happened back in 1967 and the same general area up there.
Lots of UFO stuff happening up in the province of Manitoba.
This next article is from New York post.com.
It says Canadian couple spots, mysterious sun like glowing
UFOs. Yo, I think we're seeing some
aliens. This is written by Natalie
O'Neill dated June 28th, 2024. Says a Canadian couple made it
out of this world discovery when they spotted 4 UFOs glowing as
bright as the sun above a local river.
Now this is up there in Manitoba.
That's a province in Canada, up near Winnipeg, right there in
the middle of the country on the southern kind of toward the
southern end of Canada. Justin Stephenson and his wife,
Danielle Daniels Stephenson, were driving through Fort
Alexander at around 10:00 PM. May 14th when they saw several
mysterious orbs with yellow lights hovering above the
Winnipeg River, they said. Stephenson, 49, began shooting
footage of the cosmically cool site as he wondered aloud if he
was witnessing an extraterrestrial rendezvous.
What the blank is that he could be heard saying in the footage,
Yo, I think we're seeing some aliens.
The jaw-dropping footage shows two objects with sun like lights
flying S above the river's North Shore before two more appear
behind a cloud. Now this picture is even cooler.
The first picture only had two orbs on it.
This one's got four and all four of them have these very bright
reflective, almost like beams of light coming down that you can
see there. Looks like we're reflecting off
the water. Possibly really neat goes on it,
says. Stevenson, a self-proclaimed
skeptic of otherworldly life, said he's convinced the flying
objects aren't from planet Earth.
It felt like we were in a sci-fi movie, he told Kennedy News and
media. They were super bright, like a
fire in the sky. It's got a picture of him and
his wife here. I was skeptical before I saw
this, but now this has given me the proof I need that there's
something out there other than humans, he said.
Daniel Stephenson, 32, posted a clip of the close encounter on
Facebook, where it has been viewed more than 650,000 times
as a Friday, while observers with observers is calling it a
strange anomaly and a clear shot of UFOs.
Wow, they've got a blown up picture of this thing too.
Yeah, just not sure what this thing is.
It is really, really weird. Some critics pointed out the
objects could be helicopters, drones or flares dropped from
planes and obscured by clouds. And that's, that's just a
fantasy thinking the naysayers going to have their opinions,
but I disagree. Stevenson said.
Well, you don't have to be that observant of a person to realize
that these things are not helicopters or drones.
Really, really great footage there.
And the pictures of the thing are spectacular.
Like I said, I'll put the links over at Kofi.
As always, thanks to the people that support the program there.
It really helps out and it Spotify and also to everybody
that likes, follows and subscribes gives the anomaly on
this program rolling. Now this area, like I said, is
up near Winnipeg. I'll put a link to the map.
If you just go to if, if you just look at a map here, like
Winnipeg is going to be north of North Dakota and Minnesota say
so. If you just head directly north,
I don't know what, maybe a hundred, 150 miles or something,
they have Winnipeg and then you have this Fort Alexander, the
Winnipeg River, that whole area up in there.
They do have a history of UFO encounters and sightings.
I want to take a look at one of these more famous ones.
Now. This next encounter happened at
Falcon Lake, Canada, which is oh, about two hours South, I
suppose. It says here on Google from Fort
Alexander. Now the sighting we just talked
about, that's Fort Alexander. That's at the very southern tip
of Lake Winnipeg up there in Manitoba, the central province
in Canada, and it looks like a very wilderness area outside of
the city of Winnipeg being a little South of there.
I'm just saying that the a lot of a lot of timber in that area.
Now if you go, oh, about two hours more or less S to a little
bit SE, you get on to an area called Falcon Lake.
And there's the lake itself there in this little town.
And this is another kind of area out in the country, but within
driving distance of Winnipeg, where many years ago there was a
another UFO encounter, this one quite involved.
This article here is from cbc.ca.
It tells us Falcon Lake incident is Canada's best documented UFO
case, even 50 years later. This article written May 19th,
2017. Son of man involved in famous
Manitoba UFO case has written a book about ongoing mystery.
It's got a picture of the fellow here.
This gentleman's name was Stefan Stefan or Steven Mekalak and it
says he was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest
and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid like
pattern. Looks like someone just took a
hot griddle and stuck over the top of him.
I mean I'm counting 12345. Like little maybe squares or
circles and there's maybe 5 down and five across.
Picks up most of this guy's Billy and it's really bizarre
looking how that could have happened.
Stan Milichek can still vividly remember when his dad came home
sick and injured after something happened in the Falcon Lake
Woods in Manitoba in the May long weekend of 1967.
It was something that put his family life into upheaval and
remains one of the world's best known UFO encounters.
Quote I recall seeing him in bed.
He didn't look good at all. He looked pale, said Mick Locke,
who was nine years old at the time and was allowed to see his
dad for a couple of minutes on the day after what soon would
become known as the Falcon Lake incident.
Then there was the smell. When I walked into the room,
there was a huge stink in the room, like a real horrible aroma
of sulfur and burnt motor. It was all around and it was
coming out of his pores. It was bad, said Michalak, who
co-authored the book when they appeared, when they appeared
with Winnipeg UFO researcher Chris Rakowski.
And it's got that. It's got a diagram here of his,
of his dad that drew this this spacecraft, and it's got all the
notations on it. Looks like a classic flying
saucer to me. It says Stefan Michalak's sketch
of the strange craft he encountered.
The book will be launched on Saturday.
Of course, this is from a few years ago in conjunction with
the 50th anniversary of the incident.
I was very afraid. My dad had been injured and I
didn't know anything about it, Michael Lock told CBC News in
recalling that Saturday 50 years later.
Within a couple of days, however, not only did he know
more, so did much of the public. The story about his dad being
burned by a UFO ran in the Winnipeg Tribune newspaper.
And that's when everything pretty much hit the fan,
Michalak said. Stefan Michalak was an
industrial mechanic by trade and an amateur geologist who would
like to venture into the wilderness around Falcon Lake,
about 150 kilometers east of Winnipeg, to prospect for course
and silver. So he's about 100 miles away.
He had staked some claims for prior year and set out on the
May long weekend in 1967 to explore some more.
On May 20th, 1967, Stephen was near a vein of courts along the
pregame along the Pre Cambrian Shield in the area when the 51
year old was startled by a gaggle of nearby geese that
erupted into a chattering of honks, according to his
accounts. As he reported in newspapers at
the time and since repeated in books, magazines and on TV shows
like Unsolved Mysteries, Stefan looked up and saw two cigar
shaped objects with a reddish glow hovering about 45 meters
away. So these things look like
they're what, about 150 feet away or something?
One descended, according to Stefan's account, landing on a
flat section of rock and taking on more of a disk shape.
The other remained in the air for a few minutes before flying
off, believing it to be a secret U.S. military experimental
aircraft. He sat back down and sketched it
over the next half hour. Then he decided to approach
later, recalling the warm air and smell of sulphur as he got
closer, as well as a whirring sound of motors and a hissing of
air. So this thing was sitting here
for quite a while. It sounds like it's got a
picture of his shirt here he's worn.
He's got this kind of, you know, muscle man shirt on, sleeveless
T-shirt. And it's got some pretty serious
burn damage done to it. And then it's also got a couple
pieces of metal. Looks like he recovered.
It goes on here. It says a piece of radioactive
metal that was retrieved from the crash site in 1968.
It was found in the cracks of the pre Cambrian rock.
So this little chunk of metal had fallen down in between those
rocks. Apparently.
He also noted a door open on the side with bright lights inside.
And he said he heard voices muffled by the sounds of the
craft. This is one of these, another
one of these situations where you seem to have a craft that
maybe it's disabled and the occupants inside are trying to
figure out how to correct the situation.
A recurring theme, it seems like.
He goes on and says he also noted a door open on the side
with bright lights inside and said he heard voices muffled by
the sounds from the craft. He said he called out, offering
mechanical help to the Yankee boys if they needed it.
The voices went quiet but did not answer.
So Stefan tried to tried in his native Polish, then in Russian,
and finally in German. Only the whirr and hiss of the
craft responded. He claims he went closer and
noted the smooth metal of the ship with no seams.
He then looked into the bright doorway, pulling on the welding,
putting on the welding goggles he used to protect his eyes
while chipping at rocks during prospecting.
Inside, Stefan said he saw light beams and panels of various
colored flashing lights but could not see anyone or any
living thing. When he stepped away, 3 panels
slid across the door opening and sealed it.
He reached to touch the craft which he said melted the
fingertips of the glove he was wearing.
So this thing must have been hot, but I wonder if if the heat
was radiating off it or if the heat was just located on the
middle itself because it seems like he walked up to it OK, and
if it was hot enough to melt his gloves.
Under normal situations, you would think that that heat would
have been radiating off that craft and it would have been hot
as you approached it. But it almost seems like the
heat was just contained to the skin of that craft until he
touched it. It says the craft then begin to
turn counterclockwise and Stefan says you notice a panel that
contained a grid of holes. Shortly afterward, he was struck
in the chest by a blast of air or gas that pushed him backward
and set his shirt and cap ablaze.
So he sees this panel, this grid panel, the same grid pattern
that he has on his belly. And it seems like what happened
was this craft is it blasted off hot air and gas came out through
that grid panel. And that hot air and gas is
probably what just what just fried his skin right there.
And that was that. Some radiation or burns or
whatever. He ripped away the burning
garments as a craft lifted off and flew away.
Disoriented and nauseous, Stefan stumbled through the forest and
vomited. He eventually made his way back
to his motel room in Falcon Lake, then caught a bus back to
Winnipeg. He was treated at a hospital for
burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised
sores on a good like pattern, and for weeks afterward he
suffered from diarrhea, headaches, blackouts and weight
loss. Once the story was out, the
RCMP, the Air Force, the media, various government agencies and
hordes of gawking members of the public descended on.
Mickalack's small River Heights bungalow in Winnipeg.
Has a picture of this fellow here wearing the goggles that he
had. That's who Mickalack refers to
in the title of the book, Whose endless visitors and phone
calls, the media and people camping on the lawn, The people
who would follow Mickalack to school one day, peppering him
with questions. It just flipped our lives over,
he said. It took several years before it
finally died down. After that, and until the day he
died in 1999 at the age of 83, Stephon believed he never should
have said a thing, Michael Act said.
But at that time, he felt it was a duty.
He wanted others, if they were to see the same thing, to avoid
it and not get hurt, Michael Act said.
And Poland, before Stephon moved his family to Canada, he was a
military policeman with a set of moral guidelines that he lived
by. That is, if something happened,
it should be reported. Michalak said.
In addition to constant probing from authorities, the family
endured condemnation and criticism in the public.
Stefan's sanity was questioned and Michalak was bullied in
school. All that depersoning for
reporting a UFO sighting though, he wished he hadn't seen
anything. Stefan never backed away from
the story either. He also claimed to have seen
aliens and still considered it a secret military craft.
If you ask him what it was he saw, he could describe it in
intimate detail, but he would never say, oh it was definitely
extraterrestrials because there was no evidence to prove that,
said Michalak. He might ask, what do you think
I saw? But right up until he died, his
story never changed one iota. Nothing about it or how he told
it and all those years since and with some 300 pages of
documentation on the encounter, there's nothing so far that has
flawed his story, Michael X said.
So what does he think? I'm not so close minded that I
can't entertain the possibility that it's otherworldly.
I can't discount that. But without specific evidence to
show me that it is, I don't know, Michael X said.
What I can tell you is that I'm an aviation fanatic, a huge
aviation buff, and I am very familiar with how aviation
technology has advanced in the past 50 years, and there was
nothing even close to that and that works anywhere at that
time. The case was investigated
intensely by a number of levels of government, and the official
conclusion, even from the United States Air Force, was that the
cause was unexplained, Grotowski noted.
The Falcon Lake incident is possibly Canada's best
documented UFO case, he said. That even beats Roswell, the
alleged flying disk that landed in New Mexico in 1947, because
the United States still doesn't recognize that anything happened
in Roswell. Out of the ordinary items were
later retrieved from the encounter site, including
Stephen's glove, shirt and some tools, which were subjected to
intensive analysis at the RCMP crime lab.
None. No one could determine what
caused the burns. At the landing site was a circle
about 15 feet in diameter, devoid of the Moss and
vegetation growing in other areas of the same rock
outcropping. Soil samples, along with samples
of clothing, were tested and deemed to be highly radioactive.
So were pieces of metal that were chipped out of the cracks
in the rock. About a year after the incident,
the metal had somehow been melted into the cracks.
Many of the items have long since been lost as they were
transferred through various authorities and agencies,
however. Rakowski and Miclach still have
one piece of the metal, which remains radioactive.
Still sick in 1968, with recurrences of burns showing up
on his chest and suffering from blackouts, Stefan went to the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Doctors did a thorough
investigation and even sent him to a psychiatrist who came back
with a report that that this is a fellow who's very pragmatic,
very down to earth, pardon the pun, and does not make up
stories. Mutowski said.
If dad hoax this, remember we're talking about a blue collar
industrial mechanic. If he hoaxed it, then he was a
freaking genius, said Mccallack. Well, I think he just had an
honest experience, reported what he saw, reported what happened
to him and had the physical evidence in the forms of these
burns or injuries on his on his stomach to show that something
absolutely had happened. You can see this T-shirt here,
part of it's burnt, it has this grid pattern just just drilled
right into it, like almost like dots or or large, you know, some
of them are almost kind of a square shape repeatedly just
just burnt into the cloth of this T-shirt.
What whatever came out of that thing, besides being hot, it had
some of the property about the radioactivity or whatever that
caused the injuries of this man, caused the damage to the
clothes, but more than that showed that he definitely came
in contact with something. Lots of weird things going on in
Winnipeg and have been for a long time.
Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.