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The Falcon Lake UFO encounter - Magical Realist - Aug 25, 2017

Complete with physical trace evidence and physiological effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEZbErla38&t=224s


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And here's as close as I could find to an official skeptic debunk of this account. I'm not much impressed.

http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/michalak/michalak.htm

RE: The Falcon Lake UFO encounter - C C - Aug 26, 2017

Considering the clunky nature of the vessel, it's understandable why he opted for terrestrial origins.

He [Stefan Michalak] also never claimed to have seen aliens and still considered it a secret military craft. "If you asked him what it was he saw, he could describe it in intimate detail but he would never say, 'Oh, it was definitely extraterrestrials,' because there was no evidence to prove that," said [Stan] Michalak (son).
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/falcon-lake-incident-is-canadas-best-documented-ufo-case-even-50-years-later/ar-BBBjsmS

In terms of documents, it would be nice to have access to copies or readable snapshots of the original written police and hospital accounts directly, without being filtered / interpreted through the minds of either side. As well as any off-the-records of the institutions that employ them, journalistic interviews of the personnel involved, should such have been conducted during that year. Rather than again, just verbiage being handed down and mediated / embellished through the decades from one enthusiast / skeptic source to another.

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RE: The Falcon Lake UFO encounter - Magical Realist - Aug 26, 2017

Two further details detract from the story. Michalak's account was given thru hypnotic regression, which I never have had much faith in. And the Mayo Clinic says they have no record of him ever being a patient there even though it is claimed he has all the paperwork. Little details like that suggest something fishy goin on.