Later, he called us at our hotel and delivered a dozen ears of locally grown corn. There was no question he was a believer as we discussed UFOs, visitations, abductions and lost time.
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In a church parking lot, he showed me how to use a dowsing rod and told me about other UFO events he had been a part of. He's a lovely man in his 60s, a churchgoer who swears he had nothing to do with the case. He was a local, who was chased down by a private investigator on Encounters. We met the man who, at the time of the story, was accused of being Guardian. As is the case with many witnesses to the inexplicable, they fear the attention - and the ridicule - it might draw. They're afraid to speak on the record, uneasy about dredging up this strange part of the past in a region where so many people know one another. A year into making this documentary, we continue to get emails from people who claim to know something about the case. People in Carp were also reluctant to talk about Guardian - on camera, at least. Why do people care so much about life beyond Earth? Why has this become an enduring mystery for humankind? More specifically, why would someone go to so much trouble, especially in the pre-internet age, to concoct such a story and disseminate it around the world? Local reaction to Guardian and the UFO story There are more interesting cases, they say - higher quality unknowns that don't involve footage of a supposed landing that, to discerning eyes, more closely resembles a truck in a field surrounded by road flares.īut as filmmakers, we were fascinated by the bigger themes.
Scully and Mulder types arrived in the area to peer at bushes and stare at the stars in an attempt to prove that here, in West Carleton, was the genuine article: a modern-day Roswell north of the border.Įven today, Canadian ufologists get a little ornery when the Carp case comes up. Local news coverage led to stories on now-forgotten American network shows like Sightings and Encounters until, finally, Guardian and their story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. With all its intrigue, the story spread quickly. A former teen UFO investigator returns decades later to find out what people saw there A Canadian Roswell - or not? Duration 2:06 In the ‘90s, a VHS tape emerged and, with it, a claim that a UFO had crashed in a field near Ottawa.
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