Canadian cities with the most UFO sightings
There were 986 sightings in the country last year; 11 per cent of them couldn't be explained.
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–30 Jul, 2012
Last week we reported UFO sightings across Canada are hitting nearly record-high levels, with almost 1000 sightings in 2011.
While none of those were linked to alien activity, it appears Canadians in some of our country's major urban hubs have a better chance for a close encounter than others.
A grand total of 986 UFO sightings were reported last year, lasting an average of eleven minutes each.
As Nadine Bells reports, 11 per cent of them couldn't be explained, leaving some room for the imagination to run wild.
A closer look at the three cities in Canada that had the highest rates of UFOs reported:
Toronto: 34
Torontonians are often accused of thinking their city is the centre of Canada — perhaps the aliens agree. You could chalk up the high number of UFO sightings in Toronto to it being the most populous city in the country, but what's the fun in that?
Locals even claim to have seen UFOs as recently as last week, when Southern Ontario was hit by a major lightning storm.
Below is a video, posted by a Toronto resident, of the storm, in which he claims something flew out of the clouds, after he pans to the left (you might need to go fullscreen to see it):
Calgary: 26
If the aliens are going to hit anywhere, Alberta is probably the best prepared.
The town of St. Paul is home to a UFO landing pad.
It also hosts a hotline, in case of UFO sightings: 1-888-SEE-UFOS.
While St. Paul is still a six hour drive from Alberta's largest city, it's reasonable to think extraterrestrials might fly by Calgarym on their way to the world's only UFO landing pad.
Bernie Axenchuck, who staffs the UFO sighting hotline, says most calls she receives are actually from rural areas.
"It's usually some unidentified form of light, moving in a weird or odd rotations.
"Most are not moving in a pattern a plane would fly.
"It's either moving up and down, or in a circular motion,"Axenchuck told the Calgary Herald.
She adds she likes to believe all her callers, even those who remain anonymous, are honest in their sightings, as many seem quite panicked when they report their findings to her.
Kelowna: 19
With an estimated population of 118,500, Kelowna, B.C., has the highest number of sightings per capita of the top three cities.
Residents give highly detailed accounts of seeing UFOs over the course of 2011, like this sighting near Tachet, when a man says he saw something that "looked like a flying saucer, and had five or six different colored lights, like circus lights you see strung up at a circus," BC Local News reports.
Kelowna is no stranger to odd sightings either, as it has its fair share of Sasquatch sightings, and is near Okanagan Lake, reputed home of Ogopogo.
Either residents of Kelowna have a taste for the supernatural, or those aliens are just looking for company.
