A new report issued by the Canadian government details the results of its three-year-long investigation into the UFO phenomenon. According to a local media report, the paper was produced by the Sky Canada Project, which was launched in 2022 under the auspices of the country's Office of the Chief Science Advisor to examine "current practices surrounding public reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in Canada." Following a preliminary report released earlier this year, a more robust version of the group's findings was issued to the public earlier this week and contained some interesting insights and recommendations.

Not unlike similar government projects conducted in the United States, the exhaustive study of how and where UFO reports are collected in Canada identified "several gaps and areas for potential improvements" in the process. Specifically, the report noted that all manner of agencies and offices receive sighting accounts because there is no centralized body responsible for the sizeable task. The paper also observed that these cases are rarely investigated "unless they are deemed to pose safety or security risks," and scientists are generally not enlisted to help. Additionally, the report lamented that there is no public-facing government platform dedicated to the oft-ridiculed subject.

With these issues identified, the report strongly recommended creating or tasking a government agency to take the lead on UFOs. Such an outfit, they envisioned, "would collect testimonies, investigate cases and post its analyses publicly." The report also called for those in civil aviation to be encouraged to share their reports with the Canadian government's equivalent of the FAA. Beyond these suggestions, the project proposed that there should be greater engagement with the public to combat misinformation and with the scientific world to possibly get a better understanding of the phenomenon.

On the subject of aliens, the report stressed that "the project was not meant to prove or disprove the existence of extraterrestrial life or extraterrestrial visitors." As such, those hoping for UFO disclosure from the Canadian government may be dismayed but should not be surprised to learn such a fantastic revelation was not included in the findings. That said, in a testament to how perspectives on the question of off-world intelligence have changed in recent years, the paper did muse "no extraterrestrial life has been detected to date, but most scientists involved in that quest consider it only a matter of time until its discovery."