The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Sudbury Star, Ontario, Canada, page 3, on February 7, 1969.
The unidentified object observed in the sky over Mason Township Wednesday night is just one of many similar sightings, according to officials at Canadian Forces Base, Falconbridge.
"It was essentially the same as many of the other sightings reported," said Chief Warrant Officer H. W. Grant. "We don't bother much with them. We have orders to take the information and pass it on to the National Research Council in Ottawa."
He added that because of the automatic nature of the equipment at Falconbridge, it would be very unlikely that an operator would have noticed the object if it did appear on the screen.
He said that all data from the Falconbridge station goes directly to North Bay and a computer which picks out any suspicious objects. "The scopes are only used to check the equipment," Grant said.
There was apparently a rash of sightings at one time in the past, and reported sightings have become a common thing for the men at the radar station. Grant said that it is unlikely that the computer had picked up anything suspicious, since it is programmed to pick up planes flying southwards. "It may have kicked out something about this because it didn't fit any programmed pattern," Grant said, but he noted that he had heard nothing about such an occurrence.
The sighting Wednesday night was made first by Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Chartrand, of Noelville, who saw the reflection of the object in the snow on their field.
Cons. D. G. White, of the OPP, went to the scene expecting a crank call, and instead observed the object through binoculars for three to four minutes as it slowly sank behind trees on the horizon.
He said that it was bell-shaped and was first orange, turning a silver grey and then, back to orange again.
