Move Over Kentucky Make Way For Ontario Abductions

Ontario is the new hotspot for UFO sightings: investigator

On track for 'record-breaking year'

William Lin

The Ottawa Citizen

Sunday, September 16, 2007

CREDIT: HBCC UFO Research This image shows an unidentified object (Circled by UFO researchers) over Niagara Falls earlier this year. The researchers also marked the tower at the bottom (in the square) to compare the objects' distance and resolution. B.C. UFO researcher Brian Vike says there have been 150 sightings in Ontario so far this year, making up half of the sighting reported in all of Canada.

On Aug. 4, 1977, Paul Shishis was just a regular teenager working at a Scarborough grocery store.

But, it was no ordinary evening shift. He remembers that day well.

That Thursday night, he said, out in an adjacent open field, the 18-year-old saw what most people encounter only in science-fiction movies: a pear-shaped unidentified flying object with rotating multi-coloured lights in the night sky.

"I was dumbstruck with what I was witnessing," Mr. Shishis said, now 48 and living in Oshawa.

Mr. Shishis' experience is recorded alongside thousands of Canadian sightings, and the recent recounting of his story comes at a time when many continue to pose the elusive age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? This year marks the 60th anniversary of the crash landing in Roswell, New Mexico, where some believe the U.S. military covered up evidence of an alien craft. And this weekend, Edmonton's TELUS World of Science, a respected museum complex, hosted a two-day UFO conference exploring the possibility of intelligent alien life.