Program · 2022 – June 2025 · Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Ottawa, Canada
Sky Canada Project
Also known as Sky Canada, Projet Ciel Canada
The Sky Canada Project was a review by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Mona Nemer, of how reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) from the public are received and handled in Canada. Launched in the fall of 2022 and announced in early 2023, it was spurred by public interest and by developments in the United States. The office consulted federal departments and agencies (among them National Defence, NORAD, the RCAF, the RCMP, Transport Canada, NAV CANADA and the National Research Council), citizen groups and experts, compared the practice of G7 and Commonwealth countries, and commissioned an online survey of Canadians from Earnscliffe Strategies in 2024.
It deliberately did not investigate sightings or the nature of UAP: it set out neither to prove nor disprove extraterrestrial visitation, and collected no photos, videos or individual reports. Asked about alleged secret reverse-engineering programs, the office said it had neither sought nor encountered evidence of any in Canada.
Its final report (June 2025) found that UAP reports are scattered among many federal and private bodies with no standard system, no public reporting platform and little analysis or scientific involvement, and made fourteen recommendations: a federal lead and a dedicated public service, better reporting by pilots and air-traffic controllers, open data, citizen science, and cooperation with AARO, NASA, France's GEIPAN and Chile's SEFAA.
Sources: Sky Canada report (Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, June 2025; local copy) · Sky Canada Project Q&A
Facts and claims
- documented The office's Q&A: “The Chief Science Advisor launched the Sky Canada Project in the fall of 2022 to study how Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings reported by the public are managed in Canada and to recommend improvements.” Source: science.gc.ca (archived)
- documented The Chief Science Advisor chose to start it on her own initiative; the stated motivations were “to encourage citizen science, provide greater transparency to combat disinformation and prevent conspiracy theories, and support surveillance activities to prevent undetected intrusions into Canadian territory.” Source: science.gc.ca (archived)
- documented Its scope excluded the phenomena themselves: “The project was not meant to prove or disprove the existence of extraterrestrial life or extraterrestrial visitors. The collection or analysis of first-hand data such as photos, videos or individual UAP sighting reports was not part of the project.” Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
- documented Asked whether it found evidence of secret programs reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology, the office answered that it “has not sought, nor encountered, evidence for claims about the existence of any such programs in Canada”. Source: science.gc.ca (archived)
- documented A preview of the findings was published in January 2025 and the final report in June 2025; it offers fourteen recommendations, starting with naming a federal lead for public UAP data and a dedicated service that would “collect testimonies, investigate cases and post its analyses publicly”. Source: doc-sky-canada-report-2025.pdf
Connected files
Documents
- Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada: Report of the Sky Canada Project (June 2025) (documented in) — The final report, “Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada” (June 2025)
People
- Mona Nemer (led by) — “The Chief Science Advisor launched the Sky Canada Project in the fall of 2022”
Mentioned in this file
- Crash retrieval & reverse engineering (Concept)
- GEIPAN (CNES, France) (Organization)
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)
- NASA (Organization)
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