Falcon Lake Incident

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The Falcon Lake Incident was an alleged UFO encounter on 20 May 1967, at Falcon Lake, within Whiteshell Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Unlike typical UFO reports, the lone witness, Steve Michalak, claimed to hear human voices, said the craft was man-made, and claimed burns on his abdomen were caused by its exhaust. CBC News has called it "Canada's best-documented UFO case". Initially telling police he was burned by a spaceship, Michalak later told the press it was a man-made aircraft, prompting investigations by law enforcement and the military. Despite agreeing not to disturb the site, Michalak unexpectedly visited it with another person and gave authorities objects he claimed he had collected from the site. When some of those objects tested positive for low-level radioactivity, chemists suggested the objects might have been contaminated with substances like radium-based paint, which was accessible at the time. In 1968, Michalak told press his burns had returned...

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