📼THE NASA STS-80 "SMOKING GUN" FOOTAGE In November 1996, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-80, beginning what would become the longest mission in Shuttle history at the time: more than 17 days in orbit. Columbia was traveling in low-Earth orbit approximately 218 miles above the planet. But the footage you’re watching became famous for a very different reason. It was preserved by Martyn Stubbs, a Vancouver television professional who used access to satellite equipment to record NASA’s li...

John F. Magor: The Canadian Journalist who spent a decade covering UFOs John Magor was a career newsman (Columbia J-school, RCAF WW2 vet, ex-publisher of the Prince Rupert Daily News & Cowichan Leader). In 1969 he launched Canadian UFO Report from a small office in Duncan, BC. Over 10 years and 35 issues, he covered Canadian sightings with journalistic rigor. He treated witnesses like sources, digging into everything from Arctic "UFO bases" to "Strange lights spotted over a Canadian naval bas...

On November 9, 1974, at around 4:00 a.m., Dorothy Izatt said she woke to find a huge craft hovering in the sky near her home in Richmond, British Columbia. From that point on, she began filming strange lights, objects, and beings she believed were appearing around her. ------ Most of her content is very difficult to find. She has a ton of UFO photos, which are not included in my article - but can be found in some of the included source links. I also included a link I found on archive.org to a...

A super-exciting paper on the Palomar transients by physics professor Ariel Zhitnitsky at the University of British Columbia. He proposes that the Palomar transients could be ball-lightning-like phenomena caused by axion quark nugget dark matter. https://t.co/P8T238yABm @Briankeating