Document · June 2025 · Ottawa, Canada
Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada: Report of the Sky Canada Project (June 2025)
Also known as Sky Canada report
The final report of the Sky Canada Project, published in June 2025 by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada after a preview in January 2025. It reviews how reports of unidentified aerial phenomena from the public are received in Canada, the history of federal UFO reporting from Project Magnet to the end of the National Research Council's collection in 1995, the practice of other countries, and the results of a 2024 survey of Canadians. It opens with a message from the Chief Science Advisor, Mona Nemer, stressing that it concerns reporting services, not the phenomena themselves.
It finds UAP reports scattered across federal and private bodies, no standard system or public reporting platform, little analysis and little scientific involvement, and recommends fourteen measures: a federal lead and a dedicated service that would investigate cases and publish its analyses, better reporting in civil aviation, a public communications strategy against misinformation, open data and citizen science, and partnerships with AARO, NASA, GEIPAN and Chile's SEFAA.
It draws no conclusion that UAP are extraterrestrial; it notes a strong scientific consensus that they are not, while allowing that new evidence could change that view. Its background section recalls the 2023 shoot-downs, including the Yukon object, and lists Falcon Lake among Canada's best-known cases.
Sources: Report of the Sky Canada Project (Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, June 2025; local copy)
Facts and claims
- documented The report (Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, June 2025; Cat. No. Iu37-59/2025E-PDF) “offers fourteen recommendations for improving reporting and data collection on UAP sightings in Canada.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented Gaps it identifies include the “Lack of a cohesive and standardized system for reporting and follow-up” and the “Absence of public engagement: There is no official, accessible platform for Canadians to report UAP sightings, obtain potential explanations or review reliable information about UAPs.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented Recommendations 1 and 2: “Identify a lead: A federal department or agency responsible for managing public UAP data should be identified.” and “Establish a dedicated service: This service would collect testimonies, investigate cases and post its analyses publicly.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented Recommendation 3 asks Transport Canada to “encourage pilots, cabin crews, and air traffic controllers to report UAP sightings without fear of stigmatization”, and recommendation 13 that the lead organization “establish partnerships with international entities dedicated to UAPs, such as AARO and NASA (U.S.A.), GEIPAN (France), and SEFAA (Chile).” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented Of other countries it says that the processes in the United States, France and Chile “provide interesting examples of coordinated, transparent, and scientifically driven approaches to UAP reporting.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented Its 2024 survey of Canadians (Earnscliffe Strategies) found that “one in four respondents say they have personally witnessed a UAP in their lifetime. However, only 10% reported their sightings and 40% of respondents would not know whom to contact for reporting.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented On the scientific view of the phenomenon it states that the improbability of a nearby technological civilization, the absence of SETI signals and the challenges of interstellar travel “are the main reasons why there is a strong consensus among scientists that UAPs are not extraterrestrial vehicles”, adding that new evidence could change that assessment. Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented On the history: from 1967 to 1995 the National Research Council was the main federal body receiving UAP reports, filed as “non-meteoritic sightings” under Dr. Peter Millman; “In 1995, the NRC stopped collecting UFO reports altogether”, and the files went to Library and Archives Canada. Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented On the military side, Defence Research and Development Canada told the office “that it has no formal program on UAPs and no capacity or mandate to collect, receive or analyze citizens’ reports on UAPs.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
Connected files
Programs
- Sky Canada Project (documents) — The final report, “Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada” (June 2025)
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (cites as model) — The United States is one of the countries whose processes “provide interesting examples of coordinated, transparent, and scientifically driven approaches to UAP reporting”
- Project Magnet (describes) — Its history of UAP reporting in Canada starts with the Department of Transport's Project Magnet
People
- Mona Nemer (issued by) — Report of her office; she signs its opening message as Chief Science Advisor of Canada
Organizations
- GEIPAN (CNES, France) (cites as model) — France is one of the countries whose processes “provide interesting examples of coordinated, transparent, and scientifically driven approaches to UAP reporting”
Incidents
- Falcon Lake: Stefan Michalak's reported landing and burns (Manitoba, 1967) (mentions) — Listed among five well-known Canadian cases commemorated by the Royal Canadian Mint
- Yukon object shot down by a NORAD F-22 (11 February 2023) (mentions) — “NORAD ordered the downing of a smaller balloon over Yukon Territory”
Mentioned in this file
- NASA (Organization)
More documents
- NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team report (2023)
- GEPAN Technical Note 17: the 'Amarante' case, 21 October 1982 (published 21 March 1983)
- GEIPAN case file: Trans-en-Provence, 8 January 1981 (GEPAN Technical Note 16)
- RCMP file on the Falcon Lake case, 1967 (LAC, RG 18, vol. 3379, file HQ 400-Q-5 pt. 1)
- Lok Sabha unstarred question 2024: the unidentified object over Imphal airport (answered 14 December 2023)
- Press conference transcript: Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono (September 15, 2020)