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As slot headed out for a 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:50.200 routine patrol along the highway with the time approaching three pm, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.360 he was distracted by the sight of a man walking 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.640 stiffly along the south shoulder, carrying a briefcase in one 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:02.600 hand and clutching his stomach with the other. As Salotky's 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.440 car drew closer, the man looked up suddenly and waved 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:11.680 frantically toward the officer. After a quick you turn, Salotki 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.560 brought the car to rest about ten feet from the man, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.040 who looked to be about fifty and was dressed in 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.720 light colored trousers with a brown jacket and a gray 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.480 cap on his head. As the man stared intensely at 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.720 Salotki through the windscreen, seeming a little unsteady on his feet. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.080 Only then did Saloki realize that the man's chest was 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.000 completely bare underneath his jacket, with what appeared to be 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:43.280 streaks of charcoal smeared across it. Salotki put on his 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.440 hat and stepped from the vehicle. Stay away from me, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.360 said the man, suddenly, holding a hand out toward the officer. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.320 Is everything okay, sir, asked Salotki. Taking a step closer, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.880 he could see the man's eyes red, his stomach and 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.960 chest were two, as though he'd been out under the 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.880 sun all day. He was also clearly inebriated, thought the officer. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.000 I mean it, said the man. Don't come any closer. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:21.320 Why not, said Saloki, Because I've just seen two spaceships, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.520 and I'm afraid you might get radiation poisoned from me, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:30.040 said the man, without missing a beat. Salocki did his 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.320 best to stifle a laugh, then realized the man wasn't joking. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.240 The officer looked toward the low line of trees bordering 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.440 the highway to the north and toward the endless empty 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.680 sky above them, as one car after another swept past. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.160 When Saloki asked the man for some id He padded 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.360 his pockets, then held up a finger as if suddenly 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.839 remembering something. He popped the latches on his briefcase, then 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.120 took out a sheet of pain berth from inside it 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.480 and held it out in front of him as far 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.800 as he could reach without stepping any closer to the officer, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:12.120 then motioned for Sloke to take it. Sloke rolled his eyes, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.600 then grabbed it from the man, who then shuffled back 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:22.440 a few paces. Slotke scanned the document. Well, mister mccrlac, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.080 you mind telling me what you've been doing out here 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:36.600 this afternoon mc carlac or Stefan mccarlac to give him 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.960 his full name. Winced in pain, then hesitated for a moment, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.800 as if I'm sure about what he was about to 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:49.400 say next. Then finally he began to talk. He'd spent 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.520 the morning roughly two miles away to the north, out 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.559 in the brush of the surrounding area known as White 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.360 Shell Provincial Park, prospecting on a claim he'd been working 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.880 for a good few months. Things had been going well 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.280 when out of nowhere he spotted two glowing red lights 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.080 approaching from a distance. As the lights drew closer, he 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.840 realized they were in fact aircraft, only they looked nothing 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.040 like anything he'd ever seen before. Both were source of 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.880 shaped about thirty six feet wide, with a dome at 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.520 the top. When the objects got to within one hundred 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.400 and fifty meters of where he was, one of them 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.760 descended from the sky and landed on a small shelf 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.839 of rock not thirty meters from where he was standing. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.520 Assuming there was some kind of military vehicle, he approached 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.840 the craft and even touched it, only for it to 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.680 suddenly become searingly hot as it began to take off again. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.280 Then a blast of hot air had shot out of it, 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:57.240 knocking Micrlac over and tearing his shirt off, damaging his 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.640 hat and undershirt too. Moments later, the craft rose up 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.359 into the sky and, along with the second vehicle, shot 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.000 off at tremendous speed and then disappeared into a cloud. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.920 He showed Slotki where he'd been struck by the hot air, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.560 pulling his jacket open to reveal a strange gridlike pattern 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.159 of what looked like small circular burns on his stomach 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.200 in a five by four rectangular pattern. Sulochi then saw 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.680 also that the black stuff smeared over them was some 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.880 kind of ash. Then Miss Carlac showed him the back 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.560 of his cap, which had also been burned, and said 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.560 that he'd put the damaged undershirt in his briefcase, But 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.360 when Sloki asked to look at it, mis Carlac refused, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.560 worried that it might somehow poison him if he got 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.200 too close to it. After making a drawing of the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.960 objects for Suloki to take back to his superiors, mis 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.039 Carlac declined the offer of a lift back to Fulken Beach, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.640 where he was staying in a nearby hotel, then thanked 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.400 the officer for his help and set off on his 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.520 way again. Slotki returned to his car, where he sat 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.040 for a moment, watching the strange man as he ambled 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.880 off along the shoulder of the highway, realizing then that 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.200 despite his first impressions, he hadn't smelt any alcohol on 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.680 his breath at all. Then Slotki put his car into 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:34.240 gear and pulled out into the road. You're listening to 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:47.240 Unexplained and I'm Richard McClean smith. By four pm, Constable 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.440 Slotkey was back at his desk at the Royal Canadian 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.160 Mounted Police Detachment Office, when he was informed that a 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.160 man was waiting for him outside in the car park. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.520 It was mcarlac, wanting to know where the nearest hospital was. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.080 Mccrlac once again refused to lift to get there, claiming 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.560 he didn't want to put the officer in any danger, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.040 and promptly headed off to find the nearest bus station. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.880 Later that night, mccrlac received treatment for thermal burns at 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:23.600 the Miseracordia Hospital in Winnipeg, where he lived. When he 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:29.400 finally arrived home, mccarlac contacted the Winnipeg Tribune newspaper and 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.360 told them about his incredible story. Though no one was 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.760 on hand that night, reporter head that Chisvin was sent 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.520 round to his home on Lindsey Street the following night 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.439 to get the details. On arrival, she was greeted by 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.320 Stefan's wife, Maria, and led into the living room, where 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:53.520 she found a seemingly weakened, pale Stefan convalescing on the sofa. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.320 Mccarlac claimed to have been vomiting constantly ever since coming 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.480 into contact with the unknown craft, and had not been 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.040 able to keep any food down, not even bread or milk. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.760 He was also plagued by terrible headaches and a bizarre 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.559 taste that he couldn't seem to shake from his mouth, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:20.439 like burning electrical wire. Heather looked to Maria, who confirmed 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.079 it was all true. The deep concern for her husband 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.480 etched clearly on her face. The couple's equally worried children 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.520 had also gathered to join them, nineteen year old Mark 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:37.240 and nine year old Stan. A third child, Eva, was 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.400 away from home at the time. Heather flipped open her 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:53.199 notebook and asked Stefahn to tell her everything. Stefan mccarlac 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.880 was born in Poland in nineteen sixteen and had survived 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.760 the Second World War, having first fought in the Poli Army, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.200 then joined the Polish Resistance when his country fell under 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.880 the occupation of Adolf Hitler's Germany. After five years under 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.520 German occupation, despite the war being over, Poland soon found 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:19.360 itself effectively occupied by Stalin's dictatorial Soviet Union, who in 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.920 nineteen forty five helped establish a Polish Communist government. The 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.880 following year, Stefan and Maria were married. Two years later, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.280 their family of two had become four with the birth 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.200 of a daughter and son. But as the Communist government 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.760 with the support of the Soviet Union began a violent 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:45.400 crackdown on anyone who opposed the new regime. Mircarlach grew 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:50.000 increasingly worried for his and his family's future. After fleeing 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.880 to Germany alone, he then emigrated to Canada in the 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.319 hope of bringing his family with him. It wouldn't be 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.160 until a further ten years, however, before mccarlac's could be 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:06.760 finally reunited. By nineteen sixty seven, Stefan worked as an 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.800 industrial mechanic for the Winnipeg branch of the Inland Cement Company, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.080 having become enamored with the great outdoors. Since moving to Canada, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.280 he developed a passion for geology and the art of prospecting, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.080 all of which led him to be at Falcon Lake 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.520 on the evening of Friday, nineteenth of May, where he'd 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.440 stayed the night in a hotel before making his way 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.480 to a small claim he'd been working about half a 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.520 mile west and two miles north of the lake the 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:41.360 following morning. The claim was located in a large open 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.079 patch of scrub on the edge of a small body 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:48.720 of water, surrounded by birch and pine. That morning when 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.040 he arrived there, sometime around eight am. He startled a 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.960 flock of geese as he approached, worried they might hassle him. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.520 Mccarlac was relieved when they quickly down and seemed to 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.760 no longer notice him. Mccarlac then promptly got to work 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.080 measuring out a large quartz vein he discovered near the 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.400 spot before. He took out his hammer and began to 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.000 chip away at it. After a few good hours work, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.520 Stefan had just taken a break when he was startled 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.120 by pained screeches coming from the geese who were flapping 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.880 and splashing about on the water. Turning to see what 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.480 all the commotion was about, mccarlac spotted a strange, fuzzy 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.840 red light far off in the distance above them, in 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:39.520 a south southwesterly direction. Then he spotted a second one 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.120 just behind it that seemed to be following the same path. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.199 As the lights came closer, he realized with some surprise 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.120 that they were in fact aircraft of some kind, shaped 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.920 like saucers that appeared to be spinning at high speed. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.840 Believing the aircraft were simply recent additions to the Canadian 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.199 Air Force, mec carlac watched them with a calm sense 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:14.480 of intrigue as they drew closer and closer, until one 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.000 of them dropped down and landed about thirty feet away, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.400 while the other stayed hovering in the sky. With the 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:27.640 craft having landed, as mec Carlac continued to explain its rotation, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.719 velocity began to decrease, and with it, so too did 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.720 the intensity of its red glow. Like a hot coal 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.800 getting cooler, it dimmed steadily until with the glow gone completely, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.720 the craft was revealed to be made from some kind 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.200 of metallic material that was a light brass in color. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.640 After apparently watching it to do nothing for ten minutes, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.920 mec Carlac then claimed a hatch opened up on the 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.640 side of it, through which he was able to see 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.320 a bright, multi colored column of light shining out from 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:06.400 in sight, surrounded by ribbed walls. It was then that 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.360 he heard the voices. They were quiet at first, but 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:15.520 grew steadily louder, like a group of men excitedly discussing something. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:20.720 He thought Further attempts to communicate in numerous languages also 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.880 fell flat. Then the hatch simply closed up again and 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.680 the device started to spin once more. In his confusion, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.480 micrlac claimed he couldn't help but approach the craft to 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.560 try and get a better sense of what it was. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.160 When he put his gloved hand to the surface, it 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.320 burnt the tips of the fingers. Then seconds later he 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.280 was struck by an almighty burst of hot air. The 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.080 next thing he knew, he was on the floor, with 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.400 his shirt on fire and in tatters, lying on the 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.680 ground before him, hurrying to his feet to stomp out 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.880 the flames lest they spread to the forest. He could 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.680 only watch on with what was now utter disbelief as 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.720 the craft steadily lifted back into the air, then shot 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.240 off five times faster than any jet he'd ever seen, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:21.840 and alongside the other one, disappeared into the clouds. This 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.359 podcast is sponsored by Better Help. Is there something interfering 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.160 with your happiness or preventing you from achieving your goals? 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.840 Better Help will assess your needs and match you with 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.200 your own license to professional therapist. 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Davis and Constable Zacharias 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.120 visited mcarlac at his home. They found him sitting on 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:06.399 the sofa, clearly in some distress, looking frail and weak, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.240 having apparently lost thirteen pounds in the last three days. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.200 After being questioned on the matter, Stefan assured the incredulous 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.720 officers that everything they read in the article was correct, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.720 and showed them the burns on his stomach, which were 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.640 still prominent, to prove it. But when they asked if 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.080 he would lead them to the apparent landing sight to 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.480 investigate further, he seemed suddenly reticent, claiming that he was 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.880 still too ill to do anything so strenuous, and when 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.160 they returned the following day with maps and birds eye 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.640 photographs of the region, he struggled to pinpoint exactly where 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:49.200 the alleged incident occurred. Then Davis asked me Carlac if 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.399 he'd been drinking at all that day or the night before, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.000 thinking back to the report he'd dread of Constable Garrys 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:00.159 Lootkey's first engagement with him back on the Saturday afternoon, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:06.240 but Micrlac insisted he'd been sober throughout the weekend. Later 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.439 that day, an RCMP officer paid a visit to the 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.400 Falcon Lake Hotel, where meccrlac had stayed on the Friday night. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.040 The manager remembered the man well, especially the fact that 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.359 he'd served him at least five bottles of beer before 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:28.920 he retired for bed around eleven PM. A hotel housekeeper, however, 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.320 attested that she'd found no evidence that meccrlac had continued 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:38.400 drinking in his room. On May thirtieth, with the Canadian 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.240 Air Force having joined the RCMP in taking an interest 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.040 in the story, Squadron leader pauled Biskie joined Corporal Davis 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.639 on an aerial search of White Shell Provincial Park in 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.280 the hope of finding the apparent landing site without mecrlac. However, 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:07.359 the search proved fruitless. On tune first, meccrlac declared he 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:11.160 was finally well enough to lead the RCMP and Canadian 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.359 Air Force to the landing site. However, when they finally 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.800 made it into the brush together, me carlac proved a 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:24.199 lackluster guide, apparently unsure exactly of where he'd been. He 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.240 claimed then that he'd simply followed a quartz vein and 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.120 had just gone wherever it took him without paying too 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:35.400 much attention to his surroundings. At ten pm, after covering 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:40.600 four square miles, of territory, the search was abandoned. Davis 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.480 told me carlac to get in touch if he ever 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.600 planned to go looking for the site again. About the 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:52.240 same time, meccrlac was contacted by doctor Roy Craig, the 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.840 major field investigator for the University of Colorado's UFO project, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.840 which was funded by the US Air Force to invest 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:05.640 gate unidentified aerial phenomena. Craig had been impressed with mccrllac's 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.919 story and also made efforts to find the landing site 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:14.159 with him, but again mccrlach struggled to find it. Growing 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.040 tired of Stefan's apparent prevaricating and with much of his 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:22.760 story not adding up, Squadron leader Bisky traveled alone to 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:27.440 Fulkembe Beach to investigate a nearby microwave tower, which had 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:32.320 been suggested as the real source of miccrlac's burns. Biskey 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.080 scaled up the strange concrete tower, with its array of 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.199 alien looking antennas and dishes, perched high up to the 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.280 north of the lake, and gazed out at the silence 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:48.119 surrounding forest. He found no evidence to suggest that meccrlac 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:53.760 had been there. Then, on June twenty sixth, Biskey received 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:57.879 a call from Stefan. He'd finally found the landing site. 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.080 As he explained into the squadron leader, he'd gone out 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.480 the day before with a man named Gerald Hart, who 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:09.919 had convinced him to try and find the location again. Hart, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.880 who had a long running fascination with UFOs, ran an 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.520 electronic store in Winnipeg and was apparently in the process 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:22.640 of developing a device that could detect interstellar vehicles. As 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.080 mccarlac went on to explain, he and Hart were now 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:31.000 partners in this venture, whatever it was, but more importantly, 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:41.480 they'd found evidence of the landing. Annoyed by this new 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.719 turn of events, Biskey suggested to Corporal Davis did they 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.760 go round to mccarlach's house to take a look at 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:54.080 this apparent evidence for themselves. With Davis otherwise engaged, a 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:59.600 corporal Anderson was sent instead. When the officials arrived, mccrlac 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:04.520 wasive and claimed not to remember Davis's instruction to inform 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:07.159 him if he ever planned to look for the site again. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:13.240 Seeing Bisky's obvious frustration with it all, miccrlac suggested that 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:18.320 he follow him downstairs to the cellar. Once there, Stefan 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.960 rummaged about at a work desk, then handed the squadron 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:26.399 leader two clear plastic bags, in one of which was 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.119 the tattered remains of the shirt he claimed to be 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.880 wearing on the day of the event, while the other 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:35.480 contained samples of soil and moss that he claimed to 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:39.040 have gathered from the scene. He'd also recovered his steel 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:43.480 measuring tape too. He handed it all over to Bisky, 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.280 who agreed to have it tested for him for any 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:50.920 sign of residual radiation. Then Bisky pressed him again and 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:53.919 where they could find the landing site, and asked how 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:58.480 mccarlac had found it. In the end, then mccarlac confessed 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.720 known where it was all along, but had not wanted 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.439 to tell anyone because he believed the site to be 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.480 rich and nickel and wanted his claim on the land 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.560 to be made official before he went public with its 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:16.199 precise location. He'd only shown gerald Hart where it was 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:20.720 after receiving assurances that his interest was strictly to do 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:27.280 with UFOs. Three weeks later, on July eighteenth, the soil sample, 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.280 steel tape, and pieces of burned clothing were delivered to 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:36.359 the RCMP Crime Detection Lab in Ottawa. A week later, 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:41.680 Corporal Davis received a telex message from the Mounted Police Commissioner. 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:48.360 It read UFO reported by Stefan mccarlac. Laboratory tests here 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:54.520 indicate earth samples taken from scene highly radioactive. A gamma 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:59.400 ray spectral analysis of the three samples revealed activity levels 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:03.320 of up to approximately no point five curries of radium 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:08.760 two to six or its equivalent. Radiation Protection Division of 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:12.520 Department of Health and Welfare Concerned that others may be 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:18.160 exposed if traveling area not restricted. It was then recommended 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:21.159 by the Department of Health and Welfare that the area 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:25.080 be closed off immediately to avoid anyone else being exposed 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:29.960 to the radiation, with department officials Stuart Hunt being dispatched 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:41.560 to make a thorough investigation. With Hunt convinced that mccarleach 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.600 was simply making the whole thing up, he traveled first 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:48.919 to a well known nuclear waste disposal site in East Braintree, 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:53.120 located about twenty five miles west of Fulcombe Beach, believing 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.679 mccarleack's soil samples had in fact come from there. But 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:01.200 Hunt found no evidence to suggest that mccrlac had been 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:06.159 anywhere near the disposal site. With it becoming increasingly likely 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:10.040 that there was a genuine radioactive hazard out in the wilderness, 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:15.600 it became imperative for mccrlac to reveal its location. Squadron 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:20.040 Leader Bisky and Corporal Davis then drove Hunt to mccrlac's home, 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:24.479 along with another UFO enthusiast named Barry Thompson, who had 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:27.919 also been out to see the site. Hunt made it 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:31.720 clear in no uncertain terms that he had to investigate 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:37.640 the area, and mccrlac finally relented. After confiscating the rest 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:40.679 of the soil from a Carlac's home, Hunt made a 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.440 check of the property, relieved to find no other radioactive 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:49.360 material inside it. Then, on the morning of July twenty eighth, 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:53.120 mccrlac was driven out to Fulken Lake, where he met 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:56.560 up with Hunt, Bisky, and Davis, along with a number 0:25:56.600 --> 0:26:01.240 of other RCMP and Air Force officials, with mac carlac 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:04.639 leading the way. Together, they stepped through the tree line 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:10.239 to the north of TransCanada Highway one. After walking a 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:13.320 good few hours, me carlac brought them to a stop 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:16.800 about two miles north of the highway when they emerged 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:21.200 into a clearing alongside a small body of water. Then 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:25.320 he pointed to a small patch of Precambrian rock. There 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:30.439 he said, that's where it came down. The location was 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:33.520 barely a hundred feet from where Davis had sat to 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.800 take a break on the other side of a narrow 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:39.320 ravine way back in May when they'd first tried to 0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:43.639 find it, but it had been obscured by trees. Plain 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.240 markers were dotted all over the place with meccrlach's name 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:51.760 and details on them. As Davis stood looking at the 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:55.320 rocky floor by the water, cutting through the moss and 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:58.919 other vegetation that clung to the rock, the outline of 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:04.320 a strange circle could clearly be seen about fifteen feet 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:09.120 in diameter, which, according to mccrlac, had been made by 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:19.879 the craft. As Davis snapped away with his camera taking 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:23.480 pictures of the scene, mccarlac took them through the events 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:27.520 of that peculiar morning in May, pointing to an opening 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:31.000 in the trees about twenty degrees north by northeast from 0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:35.320 the apparent landing spot. Mccrlac explained that that was the 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:38.600 route the craft had taken when it arrived and where 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:42.159 it had traveled back to when it shot off. But 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.360 didn't you say it came from that way, asked Biskie, 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:49.560 pointing to the sky in a south by southwesterly direction, 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:55.760 as mccrlac had first told investigators. Stefan screwed up his 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:59.439 face as he apparently tried to recollect what he'd said before, 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:05.080 then turned back to face north northeast. Perhaps I was 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:10.879 just confused, he said. Meanwhile, Stuart Hunt set about taking 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:14.439 further samples of moss and soil, carving pieces of it 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:18.280