Nonetheless, we continue to move forward shifting through the information we find and when something catches my eye, I like to post it here. Tonight, I came across a Canadian news story from May 19, 1967 that some experts claim may be one of the best human/alien/UFO encounters to date. I am talking about the Stephen Michalak unidentified flying object encounter.
Stephen Michalak was a weekend prospector working the area around a place called Falcon Lake in the Whiteshell Provincial Park, in southeastern Manitoba, Canada.
According to Michalak, around noon on May 19, 1967, he saw two unknown objects, he described as "flying saucers" One landed near him in the woods, near where he was prospecting. He had heard a noise, similar to a flock of Canada Geese, when he looked up, two cigar-shaped objects, a brilliant red color were coming down towards him. One of the unidentified flying objects stopped in the air, while the other landed on a big rock about 160 feet from where he stood. While he watched, the UFO still in the air, changed it's color from red to grey, and flew away, to the west, he watched until it disappeared in the clouds. Turning his attention back to the craft that had landed, he said that it had turned to grey as well, but then to an incandescent stainless steel.
He moved towards the unidentified object and upon reaching it, he touched it with a gloved hand. When he did, it suddenly took off, leaving him with a patterned burn on his abdomen. The burn was obstensibly from the exhaust of the flying craft, and radiation. Following his encounter Michalak became very sick, with severe burns on his chest, and nausea, he did the best he could to mark the site of the encounter and left to seek medical treatment.
Stephen Michalak's injuries are considered among some of the best documented "physical "evidence regarding UFO's. Remember, in many cases, there is not much physical evidence regarding unidentifed flying objects, as for one thing, they are usually flying....That Michalak actually 'touched' the object and had burns on his body, adds credence to the story. His story is also different from other close encounters of the third kind stories, like alien abduction stories, in that, he did not see anyone in the unidentified object, even when the door opened and apparently he was able to get a glimpse inside the craft. Below is a picture of Michalak showing the burn pattern on his abdomen.
Michalak's encounter was investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and other governmental and civilian UFO groups. Some of these investigations into the mystery differed on their findings, one (The U.S. Condon Committee) suggesting that there wasn't much radiation in the area and another, led by the Canadian Government found significant radioactive signatures near the landing site.
"(The Condon Committee was the informal name of the University of Colorado UFO Project, a study of unidentified flying objects, undertaken at the University of Colorado from 1966 to 1968 under the direction of physicist Edward Condon. The committee was rife with problems, including the idea that they may have been influenced by the U.S. Air Force. Up until that time, the Air Force had been responsible for investigating UFO's aka (Project Blue Book) which ran from 1952 - 1969 with the two goals, 1) determining if UFOs were a threat to national security, and 2) to scientifically analyze UFO-related data. Project Blue Book is often criticized as not very valid, that the results were dubious, and that possibly it may have actually been covering up UFO evidence. Some conspiracy theroists, perhaps even yours truly, believe that the U.S. Air Force may still be collecting UFO information, even if they deny it publicly.)"
Regardless of the findings of the investigations, the story took on a life of it's own and even made it to the television show, Unsolved Mysteries:
HERE IS PART 2
RELATED LINKS
Stephen Michalak UFO-Joe
The Falcon Lake UFO Encounter - Billy Booth
RCMP Incident Report
Project Blue Book
Reference: truth-just-ahead.blogspot.com
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