Event · 25 September 2005 · University of Toronto, Canada

Paul Hellyer's Toronto speech (“as real as the airplanes”)

On 25 September 2005, Paul Hellyer, Canada's Minister of National Defence in the 1960s, told the Exopolitics Toronto symposium at the University of Toronto that UFOs "are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head".

Coming from a former defence minister, the remark became one of the most widely quoted moments of the disclosure movement. Hellyer went on to make further, more speculative claims about extraterrestrial visitors in later talks; his statements are filed with his record.

Sources: Hellyer talk (video)

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Key moments: Exopolitics Toronto - Paul Hellyer Speaks of UFO Disclosure - 9/25/2005 - Part 1

  1. 2:51 Paul Hellyer: Hellyer: as Minister of National Defence 40 years earlier he received reports of unidentified flying objects but was too busy to take an interest.
  2. 3:37 Paul Hellyer: Hellyer recalls being asked to dedicate the world's first flying saucer landing pad, in St. Paul, Alberta, on 3 June 1967, which he then saw as an imaginative centennial project.
  3. 8:01 Paul Hellyer: Hellyer calls Philip Corso's book The Day After Roswell “the unimpeachable source” of his talk, repeating Corso's claim that a UFO crashed near Roswell around 4 July 1947.
  4. 9:37 Paul Hellyer: Hellyer relays Corso's claim that he was told by Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau to feed recovered technology into U.S. industry. The claim is Corso's and has not been corroborated.

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