UFO Sighting Report — 55 Miles West of Winnipeg, Canada, 9 February 1965

This document is an incoming Department of the Air Force message, dated February 11, 1965, detailing a UFO sighting report from February 9, 1965. The incident occurred 55 miles west of Winnipeg, Canada, at coordinates 98:30W/50:20N. The witnesses were an Air Canada pilot and co-pilot, identified as members of the flight crew of Air Canada V-170 Viscount. The primary witness is noted as being a member of the Royal Astronomical Society with experience in satellite observation. The witnesses reported seeing a large, brilliant white light moving at a fast speed. The object exhibited unsteady blinking or flashing and cut across their flight path, moving from an elevation of 10 degrees at 090 degrees azimuth to an elevation of 25 degrees at 330 degrees azimuth. The observation lasted for one minute. The weather conditions were reported as 10 miles visibility with a 900-foot overcast. The witnesses were actively watching for a satellite at the time of the sighting. They explicitly discounted the theory that the object was an aircraft's navigational lights, citing that the pulses between the flashes were too long. The official conclusion provided in the report is 'Possible a/c observation.'