Exopolitics Toronto, a citizen grass-roots watchdog group based in Toronto, Canada has issued an online report exposing the Canadian government's policy of covering up UFO and extraterrestrial-related sightings and interactions. After studying the Canadian government's release of 9500 files on its Archives Canada website, Exopolitics Canada concludes, "Although the UFO files compiled by high level government officials provide an interesting chronology of Canada's accumulation of UFO sightings, many of the files also tell a dramatic story about how high level government officials orchestrated meetings, agendas, memoranda and Ministerial letters designed to play-down and ultimately cover-up the UFO issue with measures similar to those used by the American government."

Canada's low-key release of UFO and ET-related files

Exopolitics Toronto points out that although the U.K. Ministry of Defence, the French and Danish governments released secret UFO/ET-related files in 2007, 2008, and through February 2009 to much orchestrated media coverage of a public disclosure process, the Canadian governmental agencies release of secret UFO/ET files relating to the period 1947-1983 took place in August 2005 and December 2007 with no orchestrated public media coverage.

A spokesperson for Exopolitics Toronto observes, "Our evaluation has revealed startling instances of several memoranda and letters, written by high level officials of the Canadian Department of National Defense that not only illustrate how officials attempted to minimize the immense frequency and ubiquitous nature of UFO sightings in Canada but also clearly demonstrate how the Department of National Defense orchestrated intra-departmental tactics and policy designed to explain all UFO sighting reports as fitting its preconceived and predetermined conclusion that all UFOs were nothing but weather phenomenon, meteors, man-made misidentifications or hoaxes."

U.S. policy towards UFOs and extraterrestrial life visiting Earth has not changed since the Durant Report of the 1953 C.I.A. Robertson Panel, which required all such reports to be subject to public ridicule.

Canada's contradictory UFO/ET policy mimics U.S. UFO/ET cover-up

Exopolitics Toronto's investigation has led them to conclude that Canada's 2005 and 2007 release of UFO/ET-related files differed significantly from the UFO/ET-related releases by France, the U.K. and Denmark. According to Exopolitics Toronto, the government of Canada may have conspired to cover-up UFO and extraterrestrial-related sightings by employing an internally contradictory, confusing policy.

The Exopolitics Canada report states, "One memo identifies how the Canadian government planned to use a policy strategy employed by the United States Air Force (USAF) to "play-down" UFO reports made to them by citizens. A second memo discusses plans to actually deal with landings of UFOs. (Ed. Note: The use of the word "landing" in this memo implies, in aeronautical terminology the controlled descent and safe alighting of an aircraft, further implying Canadian officials considered the possibility such unidentified craft may be under intelligent control.) In a third letter the Minister of National Defense Douglas Harkness states in no uncertain terms to a Canadian citizen that no department within the government had instructions to withhold information about objects that may be of extraterrestrial origin."

Canadian UFO and extraterrestrial reports relate to 4 governmental agencies:

1. The National Defense Department,

2. The Department of Transport,

3. The NRC (National Research Council) and,

4. The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)

An independent press investigation

Exopolitics Toronto has called for an independent press investigation of what it terms a conspiracy within the government of Canada to cover-up UFO and extraterrestrial sightings and landings on Canadian territory and airspace.

Their report concludes: "These three files may represent the political 'smoking gun' needed to launch an all-out investigation by the Press. There is every reason to believe that if the Canadian media, and even those in the international media, were to press the Canadian government for an investigation of these issues, such an investigation would expose the most momentous cover-up in history; Earth has been visited by craft of unknown origin, craft that may represent the presence of technologically advanced off-world civilizations. Why mainstream press continues to disregard these Canadian file releases as well as other overwhelming evidence is perhaps an even greater media mystery if not a journalistic tragedy."

Exopolitics Toronto introduces Hon. Paul Hellyer

On Sept. 25, 2005, Exopolitics Toronto held a forum at the University of Toronto, which introduced the Hon. Paul Hellyer, former Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and his views on public policy towards extraterrestrial civilization. At that Forum, Heller stated, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning."

During Canadian centennial celebrations on June 3, 1967 while Minister of Defence, Hellyer flew in by helicopter to officially inaugurate an Unidentified flying object landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta. St. Paul had built the landing pad as a symbol of keeping space free from human warfare. The sign beside the pad reads: "The area under the World's First UFO Landing Pad was designated international by the Town of St. Paul as a symbol of our faith that mankind will maintain the outer universe free from national wars and strife. That future travel in space will be safe for all intergalactic beings, all visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul."

Canada UFOs: The Search for the Unknown section of Archives Canada is at: Library and Archives Canada [Link]