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Speaker 1: A bright yellow sun loomed high above the road as
Speaker 1: Constable Gary Slotki cruised west down TransCanada Highway one, about
Speaker 1: half a mile from Canada's Fulcan Beach in southeast Manitoba. Saturday,
Speaker 1: May twentieth, nineteen sixty seven had been a busy one,
Speaker 1: with large numbers flocking to the popular recreational spot located
Speaker 1: on the shores of Falcon Lake to celebrate the first
Speaker 1: day of the Long Victoria weekend. Things had calmed down
Speaker 1: somewhat by the afternoon. As slot headed out for a
Speaker 1: routine patrol along the highway with the time approaching three pm,
Speaker 1: he was distracted by the sight of a man walking
Speaker 1: stiffly along the south shoulder, carrying a briefcase in one
Speaker 1: hand and clutching his stomach with the other. As Salotky's
Speaker 1: car drew closer, the man looked up suddenly and waved
Speaker 1: frantically toward the officer. After a quick you turn, Salotki
Speaker 1: brought the car to rest about ten feet from the man,
Speaker 1: who looked to be about fifty and was dressed in
Speaker 1: light colored trousers with a brown jacket and a gray
Speaker 1: cap on his head. As the man stared intensely at
Speaker 1: Salotki through the windscreen, seeming a little unsteady on his feet.
Speaker 1: Only then did Saloki realize that the man's chest was
Speaker 1: completely bare underneath his jacket, with what appeared to be
Speaker 1: streaks of charcoal smeared across it. Salotki put on his
Speaker 1: hat and stepped from the vehicle. Stay away from me,
Speaker 1: said the man, suddenly, holding a hand out toward the officer.
Speaker 1: Is everything okay, sir, asked Salotki. Taking a step closer,
Speaker 1: he could see the man's eyes red, his stomach and
Speaker 1: chest were two, as though he'd been out under the
Speaker 1: sun all day. He was also clearly inebriated, thought the officer.
Speaker 1: I mean it, said the man. Don't come any closer.
Speaker 1: Why not, said Saloki, Because I've just seen two spaceships,
Speaker 1: and I'm afraid you might get radiation poisoned from me,
Speaker 1: said the man, without missing a beat. Salocki did his
Speaker 1: best to stifle a laugh, then realized the man wasn't joking.
Speaker 1: The officer looked toward the low line of trees bordering
Speaker 1: the highway to the north and toward the endless empty
Speaker 1: sky above them, as one car after another swept past.
Speaker 1: When Saloki asked the man for some id He padded
Speaker 1: his pockets, then held up a finger as if suddenly
Speaker 1: remembering something. He popped the latches on his briefcase, then
Speaker 1: took out a sheet of pain berth from inside it
Speaker 1: and held it out in front of him as far
Speaker 1: as he could reach without stepping any closer to the officer,
Speaker 1: then motioned for Sloke to take it. Sloke rolled his eyes,
Speaker 1: then grabbed it from the man, who then shuffled back
Speaker 1: a few paces. Slotke scanned the document. Well, mister mccrlac,
Speaker 1: you mind telling me what you've been doing out here
Speaker 1: this afternoon mc carlac or Stefan mccarlac to give him
Speaker 1: his full name. Winced in pain, then hesitated for a moment,
Speaker 1: as if I'm sure about what he was about to
Speaker 1: say next. Then finally he began to talk. He'd spent
Speaker 1: the morning roughly two miles away to the north, out
Speaker 1: in the brush of the surrounding area known as White
Speaker 1: Shell Provincial Park, prospecting on a claim he'd been working
Speaker 1: for a good few months. Things had been going well
Speaker 1: when out of nowhere he spotted two glowing red lights
Speaker 1: approaching from a distance. As the lights drew closer, he
Speaker 1: realized they were in fact aircraft, only they looked nothing
Speaker 1: like anything he'd ever seen before. Both were source of
Speaker 1: shaped about thirty six feet wide, with a dome at
Speaker 1: the top. When the objects got to within one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty meters of where he was, one of them
Speaker 1: descended from the sky and landed on a small shelf
Speaker 1: of rock not thirty meters from where he was standing.
Speaker 1: Assuming there was some kind of military vehicle, he approached
Speaker 1: the craft and even touched it, only for it to
Speaker 1: suddenly become searingly hot as it began to take off again.
Speaker 1: Then a blast of hot air had shot out of it,
Speaker 1: knocking Micrlac over and tearing his shirt off, damaging his
Speaker 1: hat and undershirt too. Moments later, the craft rose up
Speaker 1: into the sky and, along with the second vehicle, shot
Speaker 1: off at tremendous speed and then disappeared into a cloud.
Speaker 1: He showed Slotki where he'd been struck by the hot air,
Speaker 1: pulling his jacket open to reveal a strange gridlike pattern
Speaker 1: of what looked like small circular burns on his stomach
Speaker 1: in a five by four rectangular pattern. Sulochi then saw
Speaker 1: also that the black stuff smeared over them was some
Speaker 1: kind of ash. Then Miss Carlac showed him the back
Speaker 1: of his cap, which had also been burned, and said
Speaker 1: that he'd put the damaged undershirt in his briefcase, But
Speaker 1: when Sloki asked to look at it, mis Carlac refused,
Speaker 1: worried that it might somehow poison him if he got
Speaker 1: too close to it. After making a drawing of the
Speaker 1: objects for Suloki to take back to his superiors, mis
Speaker 1: Carlac declined the offer of a lift back to Fulken Beach,
Speaker 1: where he was staying in a nearby hotel, then thanked
Speaker 1: the officer for his help and set off on his
Speaker 1: way again. Slotki returned to his car, where he sat
Speaker 1: for a moment, watching the strange man as he ambled
Speaker 1: off along the shoulder of the highway, realizing then that
Speaker 1: despite his first impressions, he hadn't smelt any alcohol on
Speaker 1: his breath at all. Then Slotki put his car into
Speaker 1: gear and pulled out into the road. You're listening to
Speaker 1: Unexplained and I'm Richard McClean smith. By four pm, Constable
Speaker 1: Slotkey was back at his desk at the Royal Canadian
Speaker 1: Mounted Police Detachment Office, when he was informed that a
Speaker 1: man was waiting for him outside in the car park.
Speaker 1: It was mcarlac, wanting to know where the nearest hospital was.
Speaker 1: Mccrlac once again refused to lift to get there, claiming
Speaker 1: he didn't want to put the officer in any danger,
Speaker 1: and promptly headed off to find the nearest bus station.
Speaker 1: Later that night, mccrlac received treatment for thermal burns at
Speaker 1: the Miseracordia Hospital in Winnipeg, where he lived. When he
Speaker 1: finally arrived home, mccarlac contacted the Winnipeg Tribune newspaper and
Speaker 1: told them about his incredible story. Though no one was
Speaker 1: on hand that night, reporter head that Chisvin was sent
Speaker 1: round to his home on Lindsey Street the following night
Speaker 1: to get the details. On arrival, she was greeted by
Speaker 1: Stefan's wife, Maria, and led into the living room, where
Speaker 1: she found a seemingly weakened, pale Stefan convalescing on the sofa.
Speaker 1: Mccarlac claimed to have been vomiting constantly ever since coming
Speaker 1: into contact with the unknown craft, and had not been
Speaker 1: able to keep any food down, not even bread or milk.
Speaker 1: He was also plagued by terrible headaches and a bizarre
Speaker 1: taste that he couldn't seem to shake from his mouth,
Speaker 1: like burning electrical wire. Heather looked to Maria, who confirmed
Speaker 1: it was all true. The deep concern for her husband
Speaker 1: etched clearly on her face. The couple's equally worried children
Speaker 1: had also gathered to join them, nineteen year old Mark
Speaker 1: and nine year old Stan. A third child, Eva, was
Speaker 1: away from home at the time. Heather flipped open her
Speaker 1: notebook and asked Stefahn to tell her everything. Stefan mccarlac
Speaker 1: was born in Poland in nineteen sixteen and had survived
Speaker 1: the Second World War, having first fought in the Poli Army,
Speaker 1: then joined the Polish Resistance when his country fell under
Speaker 1: the occupation of Adolf Hitler's Germany. After five years under
Speaker 1: German occupation, despite the war being over, Poland soon found
Speaker 1: itself effectively occupied by Stalin's dictatorial Soviet Union, who in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty five helped establish a Polish Communist government. The
Speaker 1: following year, Stefan and Maria were married. Two years later,
Speaker 1: their family of two had become four with the birth
Speaker 1: of a daughter and son. But as the Communist government
Speaker 1: with the support of the Soviet Union began a violent
Speaker 1: crackdown on anyone who opposed the new regime. Mircarlach grew
Speaker 1: increasingly worried for his and his family's future. After fleeing
Speaker 1: to Germany alone, he then emigrated to Canada in the
Speaker 1: hope of bringing his family with him. It wouldn't be
Speaker 1: until a further ten years, however, before mccarlac's could be
Speaker 1: finally reunited. By nineteen sixty seven, Stefan worked as an
Speaker 1: industrial mechanic for the Winnipeg branch of the Inland Cement Company,
Speaker 1: having become enamored with the great outdoors. Since moving to Canada,
Speaker 1: he developed a passion for geology and the art of prospecting,
Speaker 1: all of which led him to be at Falcon Lake
Speaker 1: on the evening of Friday, nineteenth of May, where he'd
Speaker 1: stayed the night in a hotel before making his way
Speaker 1: to a small claim he'd been working about half a
Speaker 1: mile west and two miles north of the lake the
Speaker 1: following morning. The claim was located in a large open
Speaker 1: patch of scrub on the edge of a small body
Speaker 1: of water, surrounded by birch and pine. That morning when
Speaker 1: he arrived there, sometime around eight am. He startled a
Speaker 1: flock of geese as he approached, worried they might hassle him.
Speaker 1: Mccarlac was relieved when they quickly down and seemed to
Speaker 1: no longer notice him. Mccarlac then promptly got to work
Speaker 1: measuring out a large quartz vein he discovered near the
Speaker 1: spot before. He took out his hammer and began to
Speaker 1: chip away at it. After a few good hours work,
Speaker 1: Stefan had just taken a break when he was startled
Speaker 1: by pained screeches coming from the geese who were flapping
Speaker 1: and splashing about on the water. Turning to see what
Speaker 1: all the commotion was about, mccarlac spotted a strange, fuzzy
Speaker 1: red light far off in the distance above them, in
Speaker 1: a south southwesterly direction. Then he spotted a second one
Speaker 1: just behind it that seemed to be following the same path.
Speaker 1: As the lights came closer, he realized with some surprise
Speaker 1: that they were in fact aircraft of some kind, shaped
Speaker 1: like saucers that appeared to be spinning at high speed.
Speaker 1: Believing the aircraft were simply recent additions to the Canadian
Speaker 1: Air Force, mec carlac watched them with a calm sense
Speaker 1: of intrigue as they drew closer and closer, until one
Speaker 1: of them dropped down and landed about thirty feet away,
Speaker 1: while the other stayed hovering in the sky. With the
Speaker 1: craft having landed, as mec Carlac continued to explain its rotation,
Speaker 1: velocity began to decrease, and with it, so too did
Speaker 1: the intensity of its red glow. Like a hot coal
Speaker 1: getting cooler, it dimmed steadily until with the glow gone completely,
Speaker 1: the craft was revealed to be made from some kind
Speaker 1: of metallic material that was a light brass in color.
Speaker 1: After apparently watching it to do nothing for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: mec Carlac then claimed a hatch opened up on the
Speaker 1: side of it, through which he was able to see
Speaker 1: a bright, multi colored column of light shining out from
Speaker 1: in sight, surrounded by ribbed walls. It was then that
Speaker 1: he heard the voices. They were quiet at first, but
Speaker 1: grew steadily louder, like a group of men excitedly discussing something.
Speaker 1: He thought Further attempts to communicate in numerous languages also
Speaker 1: fell flat. Then the hatch simply closed up again and
Speaker 1: the device started to spin once more. In his confusion,
Speaker 1: micrlac claimed he couldn't help but approach the craft to
Speaker 1: try and get a better sense of what it was.
Speaker 1: When he put his gloved hand to the surface, it
Speaker 1: burnt the tips of the fingers. Then seconds later he
Speaker 1: was struck by an almighty burst of hot air. The
Speaker 1: next thing he knew, he was on the floor, with
Speaker 1: his shirt on fire and in tatters, lying on the
Speaker 1: ground before him, hurrying to his feet to stomp out
Speaker 1: the flames lest they spread to the forest. He could
Speaker 1: only watch on with what was now utter disbelief as
Speaker 1: the craft steadily lifted back into the air, then shot
Speaker 1: off five times faster than any jet he'd ever seen,
Speaker 1: and alongside the other one, disappeared into the clouds. This
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Speaker 1: On Monday May twenty second, ether Chisvin's article appeared in
Speaker 1: the Winnipeg Tribune under the headline I was burned by UFO.
Speaker 1: The following day, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police keen
Speaker 1: to hear more, Corporal C. J. Davis and Constable Zacharias
Speaker 1: visited mcarlac at his home. They found him sitting on
Speaker 1: the sofa, clearly in some distress, looking frail and weak,
Speaker 1: having apparently lost thirteen pounds in the last three days.
Speaker 1: After being questioned on the matter, Stefan assured the incredulous
Speaker 1: officers that everything they read in the article was correct,
Speaker 1: and showed them the burns on his stomach, which were
Speaker 1: still prominent, to prove it. But when they asked if
Speaker 1: he would lead them to the apparent landing sight to
Speaker 1: investigate further, he seemed suddenly reticent, claiming that he was
Speaker 1: still too ill to do anything so strenuous, and when
Speaker 1: they returned the following day with maps and birds eye
Speaker 1: photographs of the region, he struggled to pinpoint exactly where
Speaker 1: the alleged incident occurred. Then Davis asked me Carlac if
Speaker 1: he'd been drinking at all that day or the night before,
Speaker 1: thinking back to the report he'd dread of Constable Garrys
Speaker 1: Lootkey's first engagement with him back on the Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: but Micrlac insisted he'd been sober throughout the weekend. Later
Speaker 1: that day, an RCMP officer paid a visit to the
Speaker 1: Falcon Lake Hotel, where meccrlac had stayed on the Friday night.
Speaker 1: The manager remembered the man well, especially the fact that
Speaker 1: he'd served him at least five bottles of beer before
Speaker 1: he retired for bed around eleven PM. A hotel housekeeper, however,
Speaker 1: attested that she'd found no evidence that meccrlac had continued
Speaker 1: drinking in his room. On May thirtieth, with the Canadian
Speaker 1: Air Force having joined the RCMP in taking an interest
Speaker 1: in the story, Squadron leader pauled Biskie joined Corporal Davis
Speaker 1: on an aerial search of White Shell Provincial Park in
Speaker 1: the hope of finding the apparent landing site without mecrlac. However,
Speaker 1: the search proved fruitless. On tune first, meccrlac declared he
Speaker 1: was finally well enough to lead the RCMP and Canadian
Speaker 1: Air Force to the landing site. However, when they finally
Speaker 1: made it into the brush together, me carlac proved a
Speaker 1: lackluster guide, apparently unsure exactly of where he'd been. He
Speaker 1: claimed then that he'd simply followed a quartz vein and
Speaker 1: had just gone wherever it took him without paying too
Speaker 1: much attention to his surroundings. At ten pm, after covering
Speaker 1: four square miles, of territory, the search was abandoned. Davis
Speaker 1: told me carlac to get in touch if he ever
Speaker 1: planned to go looking for the site again. About the
Speaker 1: same time, meccrlac was contacted by doctor Roy Craig, the
Speaker 1: major field investigator for the University of Colorado's UFO project,
Speaker 1: which was funded by the US Air Force to invest
Speaker 1: gate unidentified aerial phenomena. Craig had been impressed with mccrllac's
Speaker 1: story and also made efforts to find the landing site
Speaker 1: with him, but again mccrlach struggled to find it. Growing
Speaker 1: tired of Stefan's apparent prevaricating and with much of his
Speaker 1: story not adding up, Squadron leader Bisky traveled alone to
Speaker 1: Fulkembe Beach to investigate a nearby microwave tower, which had
Speaker 1: been suggested as the real source of miccrlac's burns. Biskey
Speaker 1: scaled up the strange concrete tower, with its array of
Speaker 1: alien looking antennas and dishes, perched high up to the
Speaker 1: north of the lake, and gazed out at the silence
Speaker 1: surrounding forest. He found no evidence to suggest that meccrlac
Speaker 1: had been there. Then, on June twenty sixth, Biskey received
Speaker 1: a call from Stefan. He'd finally found the landing site.
Speaker 1: As he explained into the squadron leader, he'd gone out
Speaker 1: the day before with a man named Gerald Hart, who
Speaker 1: had convinced him to try and find the location again. Hart,
Speaker 1: who had a long running fascination with UFOs, ran an
Speaker 1: electronic store in Winnipeg and was apparently in the process
Speaker 1: of developing a device that could detect interstellar vehicles. As
Speaker 1: mccarlac went on to explain, he and Hart were now
Speaker 1: partners in this venture, whatever it was, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: they'd found evidence of the landing. Annoyed by this new
Speaker 1: turn of events, Biskey suggested to Corporal Davis did they
Speaker 1: go round to mccarlach's house to take a look at
Speaker 1: this apparent evidence for themselves. With Davis otherwise engaged, a
Speaker 1: corporal Anderson was sent instead. When the officials arrived, mccrlac
Speaker 1: wasive and claimed not to remember Davis's instruction to inform
Speaker 1: him if he ever planned to look for the site again.
Speaker 1: Seeing Bisky's obvious frustration with it all, miccrlac suggested that
Speaker 1: he follow him downstairs to the cellar. Once there, Stefan
Speaker 1: rummaged about at a work desk, then handed the squadron
Speaker 1: leader two clear plastic bags, in one of which was
Speaker 1: the tattered remains of the shirt he claimed to be
Speaker 1: wearing on the day of the event, while the other
Speaker 1: contained samples of soil and moss that he claimed to
Speaker 1: have gathered from the scene. He'd also recovered his steel
Speaker 1: measuring tape too. He handed it all over to Bisky,
Speaker 1: who agreed to have it tested for him for any
Speaker 1: sign of residual radiation. Then Bisky pressed him again and
Speaker 1: where they could find the landing site, and asked how
Speaker 1: mccarlac had found it. In the end, then mccarlac confessed
Speaker 1: known where it was all along, but had not wanted
Speaker 1: to tell anyone because he believed the site to be
Speaker 1: rich and nickel and wanted his claim on the land
Speaker 1: to be made official before he went public with its
Speaker 1: precise location. He'd only shown gerald Hart where it was
Speaker 1: after receiving assurances that his interest was strictly to do
Speaker 1: with UFOs. Three weeks later, on July eighteenth, the soil sample,
Speaker 1: steel tape, and pieces of burned clothing were delivered to
Speaker 1: the RCMP Crime Detection Lab in Ottawa. A week later,
Speaker 1: Corporal Davis received a telex message from the Mounted Police Commissioner.
Speaker 1: It read UFO reported by Stefan mccarlac. Laboratory tests here
Speaker 1: indicate earth samples taken from scene highly radioactive. A gamma
Speaker 1: ray spectral analysis of the three samples revealed activity levels
Speaker 1: of up to approximately no point five curries of radium
Speaker 1: two to six or its equivalent. Radiation Protection Division of
Speaker 1: Department of Health and Welfare Concerned that others may be
Speaker 1: exposed if traveling area not restricted. It was then recommended
Speaker 1: by the Department of Health and Welfare that the area
Speaker 1: be closed off immediately to avoid anyone else being exposed
Speaker 1: to the radiation, with department officials Stuart Hunt being dispatched
Speaker 1: to make a thorough investigation. With Hunt convinced that mccarleach
Speaker 1: was simply making the whole thing up, he traveled first
Speaker 1: to a well known nuclear waste disposal site in East Braintree,
Speaker 1: located about twenty five miles west of Fulcombe Beach, believing
Speaker 1: mccarleack's soil samples had in fact come from there. But
Speaker 1: Hunt found no evidence to suggest that mccrlac had been
Speaker 1: anywhere near the disposal site. With it becoming increasingly likely
Speaker 1: that there was a genuine radioactive hazard out in the wilderness,
Speaker 1: it became imperative for mccrlac to reveal its location. Squadron
Speaker 1: Leader Bisky and Corporal Davis then drove Hunt to mccrlac's home,
Speaker 1: along with another UFO enthusiast named Barry Thompson, who had
Speaker 1: also been out to see the site. Hunt made it
Speaker 1: clear in no uncertain terms that he had to investigate
Speaker 1: the area, and mccrlac finally relented. After confiscating the rest
Speaker 1: of the soil from a Carlac's home, Hunt made a
Speaker 1: check of the property, relieved to find no other radioactive
Speaker 1: material inside it. Then, on the morning of July twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: mccrlac was driven out to Fulken Lake, where he met
Speaker 1: up with Hunt, Bisky, and Davis, along with a number
Speaker 1: of other RCMP and Air Force officials, with mac carlac
Speaker 1: leading the way. Together, they stepped through the tree line
Speaker 1: to the north of TransCanada Highway one. After walking a
Speaker 1: good few hours, me carlac brought them to a stop
Speaker 1: about two miles north of the highway when they emerged
Speaker 1: into a clearing alongside a small body of water. Then
Speaker 1: he pointed to a small patch of Precambrian rock. There
Speaker 1: he said, that's where it came down. The location was
Speaker 1: barely a hundred feet from where Davis had sat to
Speaker 1: take a break on the other side of a narrow
Speaker 1: ravine way back in May when they'd first tried to
Speaker 1: find it, but it had been obscured by trees. Plain
Speaker 1: markers were dotted all over the place with meccrlach's name
Speaker 1: and details on them. As Davis stood looking at the
Speaker 1: rocky floor by the water, cutting through the moss and
Speaker 1: other vegetation that clung to the rock, the outline of
Speaker 1: a strange circle could clearly be seen about fifteen feet
Speaker 1: in diameter, which, according to mccrlac, had been made by
Speaker 1: the craft. As Davis snapped away with his camera taking
Speaker 1: pictures of the scene, mccarlac took them through the events
Speaker 1: of that peculiar morning in May, pointing to an opening
Speaker 1: in the trees about twenty degrees north by northeast from
Speaker 1: the apparent landing spot. Mccrlac explained that that was the
Speaker 1: route the craft had taken when it arrived and where
Speaker 1: it had traveled back to when it shot off. But
Speaker 1: didn't you say it came from that way, asked Biskie,
Speaker 1: pointing to the sky in a south by southwesterly direction,
Speaker 1: as mccrlac had first told investigators. Stefan screwed up his
Speaker 1: face as he apparently tried to recollect what he'd said before,
Speaker 1: then turned back to face north northeast. Perhaps I was
Speaker 1: just confused, he said. Meanwhile, Stuart Hunt set about taking
Speaker 1: further samples of moss and soil, carving pieces of it
Speaker 1: out from between the cracks of the rock. A few
Speaker 1: days later, Hunt delivered his findings. The Undersigned does not
Speaker 1: intend to prove one way or the other whether a
Speaker 1: UFO had been sighted, as there are still too many unknowns.
Speaker 1: There are, however, two conclusions that are of interest to
Speaker 1: this division. A radioactive contamination of the rock and lychens
Speaker 1: was found at the alleged UFO landing site. The origins
Speaker 1: of this contamination as yet to be determined. B The
Speaker 1: radiation levels measured were not high enough to create radiation
Speaker 1: hazard to the general public. It was a relief to
Speaker 1: all concerned that the location was no longer dangerously radioactive,
Speaker 1: if it ever had been before. Not least of all
Speaker 1: for mccarlac, who was now free to continue prospecting on it.
Speaker 1: As for determining what had happened exactly, everyone remained at
Speaker 1: a loss, finding that the soil from the apparent landing
Speaker 1: site was contaminated with radium. Two six six, Department of
Speaker 1: Health and Welfare official Stuart Hunt suggested that mccarlac might
Speaker 1: have used some kind of luminous paint, which often utilized
Speaker 1: the substance in order to stage a hoax, a product
Speaker 1: that was often used by the inland cement company who
Speaker 1: mccrlac worked for. In August nineteen sixty seven, Corporal Davis
Speaker 1: contacted mccrlac superior at the company, mister R. West, who confirmed, however,
Speaker 1: that none of their paints contained radium. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: mccarlac's son Stan mccarllac, along with author Chris Ratkowski, published
Speaker 1: the book When They Appeared Fulken Lake nineteen sixty seven,
Speaker 1: The Inside Story of a Close Encounter, detailing what they
Speaker 1: say is the most comprehensive retelling of the story. In it,
Speaker 1: they claimed that in nineteen sixty eight, Stefan mccarlac, apparently
Speaker 1: still suffering from his alleged brush with the UFO with
Speaker 1: headaches and blackouts, not to mention the constant disappearance and
Speaker 1: reappearance of those strange burn marks, took a trip out
Speaker 1: to the supposed landing site. There he found a number
Speaker 1: of strange pieces of silver covered in a peculiar black
Speaker 1: substance that was later apparently found to be a radioactive
Speaker 1: uranium or embedded in the cracks underneath where the alleged
Speaker 1: foe was said to have landed. To this day, the
Speaker 1: Canadian Department of National Defense identifies the Falcon Lake incident
Speaker 1: as unsolved. If you enjoy Unexplained and would like to
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