Ramore, Ontario, Canada, June 1953June 1953

On the night of June 30, 1953, at approximately 11:45 p.m., at least ten military personnel at the 912th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron in Ramore, Ontario, Canada, observed an unusual object in the sky. The object was oval or egg-shaped, orange or reddish-orange in color, and appeared to have no visible means of propulsion. The first witness, Airman Doan McDonald, spotted it while inspecting the radar station's power generator, which had broken down. He called other witnesses, who watched the object move from the north to the southeast and then fade back toward the north over the course of about twenty minutes.

The witnesses disagreed on some details. While most described an orange, oval object distinct from the moon, one witness thought it was the moon from the start. At the nearby Domestic Area, three miles to the southwest, at least seven additional witnesses saw the object. Importantly, two of them reported seeing both the moon and the object in the sky at the same time, confirming they were separate phenomena. The object displayed no great speed and made no sound. One witness, Airman James I. Smith, filed an unusual statement claiming a small being with two heads exited the craft and spoke English, saying the visitors came from beyond Pluto. However, Smith was alone when he first saw the object and later admitted to having consumed beer that evening.

The Air Force investigation noted that several witnesses had consumed some alcohol during the afternoon or evening, though not all had. The investigators acknowledged that the sighting occurred only minutes after the scheduled time for moonrise, and the moon's shape that night did indeed resemble some of the witnesses' descriptions. However, the reported observations by two witnesses of seeing both the moon and the object simultaneously, plus the object's reported movement from north to southeast and back to north, contradicted a simple explanation of the moon alone. The weather conditions included heavy broken clouds, which may have affected perception. The radar set was not operational at the time due to the generator failure. No interception or identification action was taken. The Air Force's final conclusion was that the sighting was "possibly astronomical."

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, comprising 17 pages.