Canada
Country with longstanding but fragmented federal handling of UAP reports: prior pipelines through the RCMP, National Research Council, and transport-canada all closed by 2021. Independent researcher chris-rutkowski archived the Transport Canada UAP file 1999–2022 after government exit.
2025 institutional turn
The office-of-the-chief-science-advisor under mona-nemer launched the sky-canada-project and released a preliminary report on January 15 2025 recommending a dedicated federal UAP body, initially proposed under the canadian-space-agency. The mandate explicitly excludes investigating extraterrestrial life or personal experiences.
Per src-canada-sky-canada-project-2025-02, CSA has stated UAP research is not part of its mandate; MP larry-maguire argues Transport Canada is the better fit. Maguire and Benjamin Bruce Schofield filed a November 2024 petition urging a national UAP task force. Trudeau’s parliamentary prorogation blocked Science Committee study of the recommendations. The 2023 Yukon shootdown is cited as a transparency case study.
The final Sky Canada Project report dropped July 14 2025 (src-canada-sky-canada-final-2025-07): formal recommendation for a dedicated CSA-led federal UAP service, transport-canada destigmatization of pilot/ATC reporting, public-records release, and a bilingual reporting app. Estimated ~1,000 sightings/year. Implementation deferred to Carney government.
Canada lacks a designated UAP contact for international coordination with aaro (United States) and geipan (France), creating a structural gap also discussed in the parallel japan-uap-parliamentary-group proposal.
Historical UAP programs
- project-magnet (Transport Canada, 1950s, “quickly shut down”)
- project-second-storey (DND, 1950s; recommended ending military UAP investigations)
- NRC UAP intake 1967–1995; ~15,000 archival pages at library-and-archives-canada (~9,500 digitized)