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Canada's top scientist releases new UFO report: here's what you need to know

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Summary

CTV News reports on the final sky-canada-project report (“Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada”), released July 14 2025 by mona-nemer’s office-of-the-chief-science-advisor (OCSA). This is distinct from src-canada-sky-canada-project-2025-02, which covered the January 2025 preliminary report. The final report formally recommends Canada “establish a dedicated service” to standardize, collect, investigate and publicly post UAP cases, again pointing to the canadian-space-agency as a “trusted” lead in collaboration with government and academic partners. It urges transport-canada to encourage pilots, cabin crews and air traffic controllers to report UAP without stigma, and calls for combatting disinformation, public records release, and a bilingual reporting app. The Sky Canada Project estimates as many as 1,000 UAP sightings per year in Canada and notes ~15,000 pages of NRC-era files at library-and-archives-canada (~9,500 digitized). Nemer says her office is currently focused on supporting the new Carney government but is “ready to help” with implementation.

Key Claims

  • Final sky-canada-project report published July 14 2025; titled “Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada”.
  • Recommends a dedicated federal service to collect, investigate and publish UAP analyses; canadian-space-agency cited as trusted candidate lead.
  • transport-canada urged to destigmatize UAP reporting by pilots, cabin crews, and air traffic controllers.
  • Other recommendations: counter disinformation, release records publicly, build a bilingual reporting app.
  • Estimated up to ~1,000 UAP sightings/year in Canada; reporters span pilots, military, police, and civilians.
  • Departments routinely receiving UAP reports: transport-canada, DND, CSA, RCMP — but few investigate unless within mandate.
  • RCMP welcomes recommendations; “often the first point of contact” for unusual sightings.
  • DND held only “introductory level discussions” with the project; not involved in its work.
  • Historical precedents cited: project-magnet (transport-canada, 1950s, “quickly shut down”), project-second-storey (DND, recommended ending military UAP investigations), NRC intake 1967–1995. ~15,000 archival pages at library-and-archives-canada (~9,500 digitized online).
  • International peers named: U.S. (aaro — 21/757 cases merited further analysis in 2024), France (geipan — 3,200+ cases since 1977, 102 unidentified), Chilean Air Force section, Chinese military task force.
  • Project explicitly not tasked with proving/disproving extraterrestrial life or analyzing first-hand data.
  • paul-delaney (York University emeritus, not involved) estimates 1–2% of UAP cases remain truly unidentified.
  • Nemer: implementation deferred while OCSA focuses on Carney government priorities.

Notable Quotes

“The Sky Canada Project recommendations provide a realistic framework for the consistent and efficient management of UAP sightings in Canada. I am confident that our leaders will take these recommendations seriously.” — mona-nemer

“In general, our colleagues in the federal government have been cooperative. Unfortunately, they often had very little to share.” — mona-nemer

“UAP reports are deserving of scientific study in that they represent a real phenomenon that has been witnessed by reliable and responsible observers.” — chris-rutkowski

“Some one to two per cent remain truly unidentified and that remaining per cent needs clarity not speculation or disinformation.” — paul-delaney (York University)

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