One of the many strange sightings over Alberta near Edmonton.

Edmonton’s fascination with flat, round objects doesn’t stop with pizzas.

Sure, the city came in eighth in the battle for the world’s best pizza, but the Canadian UFO Survey released this week says Edmonton had the fourth-highest sightings of UFOs of any city in Canada.

The city followed Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Among the provinces, Alberta also came fourth. Of Canada’s 1,267 sightings in 2015 – the second-highest number on record-, Quebec had a whopping 450 , Ontario 314, and 224 in B.C.

By comparison, wild rose country had a paltry 101 reported UFO sightings last year.

Edmonton’s 36 UFO reports included orange and green orbs, blinking red and white and fuzzy lights moving across the sky, a “large blurry cloud,” and a “bright round light,” moving slowly, which “seemed to flatten in shape.”

On May 12 last year, a “large green fireball” broke into six pieces and mysteriously disappeared in the city.

About a month later, on July 20, “several discs” in the sky “appeared to change colour and come in and out of focus.” That report was one of only a handful accompanied by photos or video.

The survey was compiled by Canadian-based Ufology Research, which gathers sightings “to provide data for use by researchers trying to understand this controversial phenomenon.”

Like Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Alberta had more reported UFO sightings this year than last.

Before you get excited about a visit from alien friends or foes, only 12 per cent of all UFO reports were classified as “unexplained” phenomenon.

The number of reported UFOs here did not, unfortunately, bring Alberta onto the list of Most Interesting Canadian “Unknowns” in 2015. You’ll have to look east to Saskatchewan or west to B.C. to find those.

Take a January incident in the town of Lumsden, Sask., in which several aircraft reported “a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo, moving northbound in the vicinity” of the community.

About a month later in Vancouver, someone reported a “strange object” which ”appeared to be a cliché flying saucer” floating above the roofs of highrise apartments.

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2015 sightings in Alberta

• Jan. 7: Oscillating sound heard outside for 10 seconds, no lights seen

• Feb. 28: Light in sky making erratic movements

• April 9: Triangle object with lights seen in sky, flying at the speed of a large plane

• April 29: Bright round light moving slowly seemed to flatten in shape

• May 12: Large green fireball that broke into six pieces and disappeared

• May 14: Eight round orange objects moving across sky

• June 22: Bright light seen through clouds that flashed three times as it ascended higher

• July 20: Several discs in sky appeared to change colour and come in and out of focus (photos)

• July 25: Glowing yellow light flying in and out of clouds

• August 23: Lights in sky shaped like a goblet, spread into a semi circle then faded

• August 24: Small dark object captured on film during air show, appeared to be following one of the planes

Sept. 17: Bright light in sky that appeared to have small craft coming out of it

• Oct 11: Three orange lights in a triangle shape

• Oct. 31: Object in sky had three square lights in a row, had an aura of white light flying in a crooked path

• Nov. 3: Small green orb zipped through yard, had a tail

• Dec. 1: Metallic shiny object in sky

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2016/04/12/edmonton-fourth-in-ufo-sightings-among-canadian-cities
video's here

It's all because of our beer. It's very strong. It makes us see things.

Topic: Vanishing UFOs Spotted Over Ontario

http://m.mingle2.com/topic/show/475174/

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http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/canadians-report-near-record-number-of-ufo-sightings-survey-1.2855021/

Canada CTV News: Canadians Report The Second Highest UFO Sightings

http://youtu.be/jQQovSBMuM4/
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Canada CTV News:

Canadians Report The Second Highest Number Of Ufo Sightings In History

Fortean Science Research Group

Published on Apr 11, 2016The Canadian Press

WINNIPEG -- The 2015 Canadian UFO Survey says Quebec leads the country when it comes to sightings of unidentified flying objects.

The annual survey by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research was released Monday and says last year had the second-largest number of sightings in the last three decades, with 1,267.

The year with the most UFO reports -- a whopping 1,981 -- was 2012, which was also supposed to be the year the world ended, according to the Mayan calendar.

Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland reported more UFO sightings last year than the year before, but Quebec alone is responsible for about 35 per cent of all reports in 2015.

That's way up from previous years, when Quebec's percentage was between five and 15 per cent.

There were 97 reports in Montreal alone, followed by 78 in Toronto and 69 in Vancouver; Edmonton was a distant fourth with just 36 sightings.

The study said the typical sighting lasts about 16 minutes and more than half of the reports were of simple lights in the sky.

The study noted the number of reported UFO sightings remains high and suggested several reasons why, including more secret military flights, better access to reporting sightings, or "even that the downturn in the economy is leading to an increased desire by some people to look skyward for assistance."

The study also acknowledged "there is no incontrovertible evidence that some UFO cases involve extraterrestrial contact. The continued reporting of UFOs by the public and the yearly increase in numbers of UFO reports suggests a need for further examination of the phenomenon by social, medical and/or physical scientists."

Have you BEEN to Montreal??!! Get a bellyful of poutine, a litre of Labatt's Blue and a half dozen cigarettes into you and you'll definitely see some weird stuff in the sky, too.

You might be right on that one ...lol
I'm surprised there any at all...ppl allways looking at ther phones nowdays.

WE all have the story's through the years...so . Question?? If they are more intelligence / advance than us ...why no contact ? Are we just there ant farm

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.....according to the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,"

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/apr/30/stephen-hawking-right-aliens/
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"We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."
- Steven Hawking



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8642558.stm/

The junkie part I can relate to ..that was my old life .



That I also ralate to .

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