Manitoba has seen more than its fair share of UFOs over the years.

The report, which has been compiled from Canadian and US government records, suggests that people have been seeing strange things in the skies over North America for several centuries.

“It’s not a phenomenon that’s a product of television and movies that are going on right now,” said researcher Chris Rutkowski. “These things go back quite a number of years. People have been fascinated with things in the sky and wondering, ‘Are we alone in the universe?’”

The earliest documented Manitoba sighting dates back to 1792 when two explorers reported witnessing a strange object cascading from the sky which “struck the river ice, with a sound like a mass of jelly, was dashed into innumerable luminous pieces and instantly expired.”

Another report, this time from 1967, detailed how Stefan Michalak had observed two disc-shaped objects landing on a flat rock near Falcon Lake. When he approached he heard what he thought were human voices and was instantly hit by an explosion of hot gas which set his clothes on fire.

In 1989 a family had been visiting the Fort Whyte Nature Center when they encountered a white boomerang-shaped object hanging in the sky over Winnipeg. They later recalled how they had watched the craft slowly rotate in the air and noted that it had a peculiar bulge on its underside.

One of the most recent sightings was in 2012 when two witnesses, again in Winnipeg, saw a disc-shaped object with red lights all around its perimeter. As they watched it the craft suddenly swooped towards their vehicle before turning and zooming off in to the distance.

“That doesn’t mean that aliens are invading Canada in any way, but it simply means there are unusual reports of things in the sky,” said Rutkowski.

“It certainly says that we probably are not alone in the universe and that there probably are some sort of alien civilizations out there somewhere but there is no proof of that.”

The Charlie Redstar Flap

The Charlie Redstar Flap is one of the best documented UFO cases in Canadian History. The events of 1975-1976 are a great and entertaining read. I think you will enjoy the information below, it has about everything in that you could imagine, multiple groups of witnesses, drunken teenagers, news crews filming UFOs, radioactive ground material, possible crop circles, crafts of different shapes, sizes, colors and much more.

Charlie Redstar was a name given to some UFOs sighted across Manitoba in 1975–1976, many of them near the town of Carman, Manitoba.  It was described as a red fireball, sometimes stationary and sometimes speeding off rapidly, and similar fireballs were also dubbed Charlie’s “friends” and “cousins”. Other similar UFOs were reported as flying saucers or “Ferris wheel”-shaped. It was often described as playful, friendly, or mischievous by witnesses.

May 16, 1975, near Stephenfield, Manitoba – Three drunk youths were at a party north of Boyne River, when one of them saw a stationary moon-sized red light. After ten minutes, it shone a white searchlight-like beam onto the lake. An underwater object shone below the beam that made the lake bottom visible, then moved towards the shore, creating ripplets. One youth threw a rock at the object, which broke into four, then separated and individually moved “like a conveyor belt” towards the beam of light. The lights in the objects went out, then the hovering object was observed to break in half and the halves moved away from each other in opposite directions. Although they admitted to being drunk, hallucination seemed unlikely as they each saw the same event.

Photo of Charlie

By the end of April 1976 the UFOs seemed to have left the area, There were some sporadic distant sightings but nothing similar two what had occurred in the previous two years. The Charlie Redstar Flap is one of the best documented UFO cases in Canada but one that is rarely discussed or written about today. 

MarkosZen has a first cousin who lives in Notre Dame De Lourdes, not far from Carman, he was a teacher in 1975. He ultimately became the principle of the high school in Notre Dame. In the fall of 1975 he saw a glowing red light that was above the horizon a few hundred meters to the right of his car. For 10 miles it kept pace with the vehicle.  His wife was with him and she collaborates the story. He has no explanation as to what it could have been.

Dab smack in the middle of the eastern Canadian prairie is a tiny town called Somerset, Manitoba.

Somerset is sleepy little place where nothing much eventful ever happens. Farmers, mechanics and a few office workers going about their business. The main recreation in the place is gossiping about neighbors and talking about the latest casualty of old age. The towns population is overflowing with senior citizens. The only growth industry in town is the funeral home.

Eventually the gossip began to speculate that there was a hoarder in town. Now this was interesting, the story really revved up the usually mundane restaurant chatter.  As with all gossip, the facts are usually exaggerated and embellished. The chit chatters usually don’t care if the facts are unknown, they just like the story. But this time it was different.

The hoarder himself admitted that he was one.  Constantijn Vanderrassle admitted to the local bartender that he had in fact been hoarding since the early 1990’s. It started after he retired from the railroad. He loved the things he bought from thrift stores, auctions and the picks he went on. And for the life of him he just couldn’t get rid of any of the stuff.

Constantijn’s house

A big structure with over a dozen rooms

After repeated requests Constantijn allowed the bartender Cletus LaFlesche to take a look. Cletus brought along his super dependable cannon XZ-500 digital camera and promptly snapped a picture of the living room.

Ignore the date in the bottom right corner, Cletus never did figure out how to set the clock on his camera. Since Constantijn was 92 years old Cletus wondered what in the hell he was doing with a little red wagon. Top left.

A few weeks after the visit something was bugging Constantijn that was causing him to drink more heavily than usual. He finally confided to Cletus that the damn house was haunted. He was seeing all kinds of weird entities. These phantoms, demons or whatever the hell they were, would throw the clustered hoarded things around in the middle of the night. Constantijn just couldn’t get any sleep.

One night, after the two buddies had drank many sambuca shooters and draft beers, they would go head first into the evil cauldron and Cletus would snap some pictures. The things in the pictures made the hair on Cletus’s neck stand on end. It was something out of a horror movie nightmare. Entities from hell!!

Bedroom

Bloody demon clowns!

WTF!!

Jesus Fricken Murphy!! The rancid breath that thing must exude.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to go for a leak and stumbling into this monstrosity.  A guy could shit his pants!

From which hell pit did this quad eyed hideous mutation crawl up from? God help us all!!

And Constantijn did just that, he hired a servant of God to rid the house of the demon trolls.

Constantijn promised Cletus that if the Exorcist is successful, he will bring in the A&E hoarder psychiatrists and movers and get rid of all his stuff once and for all.

Clearly anticipating the obvious question concerning the accident and his psychic abilities, Blair Robertson joked to the Arizona Republic that “I didn’t foresee it happening.”

It’s remarkable that Robertson could laugh about the event, considering the dramatic nature of the car crash which occurred in late May.

As he and a friend were having lunch at a restaurant in Ontario, a car suddenly came smashing through the window next to them and sent Robertson soaring through the air.

The Arizona resident wound up wedged between the car and a wall, suffering serious leg injuries as well as a number of other aches and pains from the ordeal.

Ironically, the friend that Robertson was dining with is also a psychic and he, too, did not have any premonition about the crash.

So while the pair of prognosticators may be scratching their heads over why their sixth sense gave no indication of the impending accident, at least they can rest easy knowing that Robertson’s sense of humor is still rather sharp.

With everybody constantly having their eyes and attention glued to the screen, many interesting situations go unnoticed. There are all kinds of ‘out of this world’ experiences happening near people all the time. It just takes a look around to see them. But many people just can’t stop staring into the mind engrossing twinkling little screen. They don’t know what they are missing.

Oh my!

The stars of a long-running British ghost hunting television program believe they have finally succeeded in capturing an apparition on film.

The show ‘Most Haunted’ was investigating a location known as the Wentworth Woodhouse, specifically a stable block at the site purportedly home to the ghost of a large man.

During the filming of the episode, two of the ghost hunters suddenly stop after they hear unexplained footsteps at the end of a hall.

The pair attempts to communicate with any spirit that might be in the area, but their call quickly stops when they spot what appears to be the figure of a person walking away from them.

Although they are stunned by what they just saw, the duo bravely takes off after the potential ghost, yet find nothing at the end of the hall.

One of the series’ other stars, Yvette Fielding, marveled that “this has to be the most ground-breaking footage we have ever recorded.”

However, in keeping with the elusive nature of the ghost phenomenon, Fielding noted that the encounter left them with more questions than answers, despite seemingly capturing a spirit on film for the first time.

Of course, as with all paranormal television programs, viewers would be wise to exercise caution before jumping to conclusions.

When loads of money is involved, strange things can be undertaken. Was there some CG or other man-made magic involved here? Hard to say.

The Mirror