The status of Disclosure in Canada
Following the release of Steven Spielberg’s epic Disclosure Day, speculation abounded by fans who saw elements of UFO tropes and real-life claims as evidence that the film was based on real events and scenarios. And if the US government really has pieces of crashed saucers and alien bodies (or living aliens), is it possible that Canada has been playing a part in the global cover-up of The Truth?
Some of the speculation about US secrecy regarding UFOs and aliens is based on the lack of official government documents on the subject following the closure of the infamous Project Blue Book in 1969. After that year, little had been known about official American investigations until 2017, when the Pentagon acknowledged that a classified UFO program had existed between 2007 and 2012.
(This changed in 2026 when several “tranches” of UFO documents were released by the US Department of War regarding objects seen or videoed by military personnel around the world.)
But in Canada, we have had a continuous record of government involvement in UFO studies from 1947 to the present day! The National Research Council of Canada commissioned the RCMP to investigate UFO reports on its behalf from 1967 until 1995, and I have published details of many cases from that period. After 1995, I continued to discover and receive details on Canadian UFO cases through official channels such as the Canadian Forces, Transport Canada, and the RCMP, reported by civilians, pilots, air traffic controllers, and military personnel.
In some ways, Canada has actually been much more transparent about UFOs than the USA. In fact, considering just one notable recent case, Canada has released literally hundreds of pages of military documents about the shooting down of objects over Canada by American jets in 2023, including a briefing for Prime Minister Trudeau. Yet not a single page has been released by the USA to date.
A 2023 memorandum to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau advising him of UAP#23 which had been tracked over Canada. It was later shot down by a USAF jet aircraft.
It’s also significant that the American approach to UFOs has largely been from a military perspective historically, and only relatively recently has there been an attempt to get the scientific community involved. Contrast that with Canada, where the Royal Canadian Air Force recommended in 1967 that the National Research Council be in charge of UFO investigations. The University of Toronto itself created a program to study UFOs in the 1960s, emphasizing how a scientific approach to the UFO phenomenon was the direction of choice. Fast-forward to 2025, when the Office of Canada’s Science Advisor released a study of how Canada has been and should be contributing to our understanding of UFOs. The OCSA even recommended that the Canadian government create an office where UFO sightings could be reported, and suggested that Canadian scientists be more involved with the subject.
It can be argued, therefore, that “Disclosure” has been a moot point in Canada, since we already have produced a wealth of documented cases, discussions, and research on UFOs. In my collection alone, I have thousands of Canadian government documents on UFO cases, in addition to the nearly 10,000 that are already publicly available through Libraries and Archives Canada.
Oh, and let’s get the debate about what to call them out of the way. While the USA seems to now favour “UAP,” in Canada our government refers to “UFOs,” as noted in daily reports by Transport Canada of incidents reported by pilots.
In my forthcoming book Canada’s UFO Secrets published by Dundurn (July 2026), I present many details about how the government has viewed the subject, what was said and done about it, which politicians were involved, and why Canada is at the forefront of research.
And look over there! What’s that odd light moving in the sky?
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