© AP PhotoCanada Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The Canadian Government has authorized open public access to thousands of federal government documents concerning UFOs. A total of 9500 digitized documents spanning the years 1947 to the early 1980s have been made available through the Library and Archives Canada
website. Titled "Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown" the files include correspondence, reports, memos and procedures, some of which specifically deal with UFOs. The files come from Canada's National Defense Department, the Department of Transport, the National Research Council, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Canada's release of its UFO X-Files follows closely upon the release at the end of January of Denmark's UFO
files. Britain continues to release thousands of UFO files through a program of gradual releases it began in May 2007 through its national
archives with the most recent being on October 2008. The French Space Agency had earlier announced on March 22, 2007, that it was making public its secret UFO files through a government
website.