Canada's 2025 UFO Sightings Reach 1,052 — Highest Since the COVID-19 Era but Below the 2020 Peak

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Canada logged 1,052 UFO sightings in 2025—more than any year since COVID but short of 2020—most were explained as ordinary things like planes or satellites with 3.42% unexplained, Ontario and Quebec accounting for most reports and Toronto and Vancouver leading the cities, sightings clustering around 10 p.m. in late summer and winter, lasting about 47 minutes on average (up from previous years), a pattern Chris Rutkowski says helps distinguish explanations since longer events tend to be astronomical and shorter ones fireballs, and Nova Scotia rising partly due to social media with about one in ten Canadians saying they’ve seen a UFO.