Canada’s 2025 UFO Survey: 1,052 Sightings from 1,006 Witnesses and a Call for a Federal UFO Data Office

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Leanne Sallenback, the communications specialist for Ufology Research, describes the 2025 Canadian UFO Survey which logs 1,052 sightings from 1,006 witnesses across Canada including 131 in British Columbia and draws on data from Transport Canada, the National UFO Reporting Center, pilots, and public posts, notes that many cases go unreported as stigma fades and urges reporting at canadianuforeport.ca, explains that after ruling out ordinary explanations the Unknown category accounts for 3.42% of sightings, that about half involve nocturnal lights with the majority seen by a single observer averaging 1.72 witnesses and lasting about 47 minutes, that Unknown does not imply aliens since durations can reflect ordinary objects and data remain under analysis, and that researchers advocate a federal office to collect and catalogue UFO and UAP reports, noting that since 1989 about 26,000 Canadians have had sightings documented including at 100 Mile House in the Cariboo region.