🇨🇦 📃 🛸 RCMP UFO Report: Regarding UFO at Falcon Beach, Manitoba – May 26 1967

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ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE - GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA
AUTRES DOSSIE
DIVISION
26 MAY 67
MDH
SUB-DIVISION-SOUS-DIVISION
H.Q.
DETACHMENT-DETACHEMENT
Winnipeg G.I.S.
REF DOSSIERS ORD
67D 700-130
67-700-8
Stefan MICHALAK - Report of Unidentified Flying Object.
Falcon Beach, Man.
20 MAY 67

1. On Tuesday morning, 23 MAY 67, Insp. R.J. ROSS, Asst. C.I.B.
Officer instructed that we make enquiries to attempt to determine
the authenticity of a report given by MICHALAK regarding his sighting
two unidentified flying objects near Falcon Beach, Man. He claimed
to have seen these objects on Saturday, 20 MAY 67 while prospecting
in an area north of Falcon Beach. Falcon Beach Det. had advised the
Duty N.C.O. over the weekend of 20/22 MAY 67 that they had received
a report from MICHALAK advising of his sighting the unidentified
flying objects and the first member MICHALAK approached was Cst.
SOLOTKI of Falcon Beach Highway Patrol. Prior to speaking with
MICHALAK I telephoned Cst. SOLOTKI to get his version of his encounter
with MICHALAK. He said that MICHALAK had flagged him down on the
highway about 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. This was on Trans-Canada
Highway No. 1, about half mile west of the Falcon Beach entrance.
MICHALAK seemed excited and told SOLOTKI he had seen two space ships.
and that they glowed red and were rotating when he had seen them. He
said that he had touched one and got burned. He said he had burned
his hat and shirt and when asked by SOLOTKI to show him the shirt he
refused saying he didn't want any publicity. SOLOTKI felt that
MICHALAK appeared as though he had been on a drunk and was suffering
from a hangover. His eyes were red and he acted in a very irrational
manner. Anytime SOLOTKI attempted to get near him MICHALAK backed
away and would seem unco-operative. He claimed to be in the area
prospecting but he had no camping equipment with him only a briefcase
similar to the issue Government briefcases. He had no vehicle with
him and stated that he came out by bus on Friday and subsequently
after speaking to SOLOTKI he returned to Winnipeg by bus late
Saturday evening. He told SOLOTKI that he had his burned shirt in
his briefcase but he would not show it to Cst. SOLOTKI. He said that
he saw the two space ships about 2 miles north of the Trans-Canada
Highway but he would not show where he had seen them, again saying that
he didn't want any publicity. Ost. SOLOTKI said that he did show
him the marks on his chest and they looked like marks that were caused
by rubbing ash onto the skin. SOLOTKI said he could see a burn on the
back of the man's hat but could not see any mark on his head.

2. Cst. ZACHARIAS and I visited MICHALAK's residence at
314 Lindsay Street, Winnipeg 9, Man. We arrived at his residence at
about 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 23 MAY 67, and found the subject home
and his wife and his 19 year old son, Mark, were both present at the
time we spoke to him. Also present when we arrived was an individual
by the name of J.B. THOMPSON, of the APRO ORGANIZATION. I have since
learned that this represents an Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
which apparently is a private organization interested in enquiries into
unidentified flying object sightings. Mr. THOMPSON remained a brief
time after we arrived and then prior to our interviewing Mr. MICHALAK
he departed.





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Stefan MICHALAK - Report of Unidentified Flying Object 
Falcon Beach, Man.
20 MAY 67

3. MICHALAK was born in REDACTED his birthdate is REDACTED
He came to Canada in 1949 after serving some period of time with
the U.S. Army in the German occupation. He has been employed for the
past six years with the Inland Cement Co., first in Regina, Sask.,
and transferred with the company to Winnipeg about 2 years ago. He
is an industrial mechanic with Inland Cement and enquiries at Inland
Cement subsequently have revealed that he is a good and trusted employee.
We have made enquiries at the Selkirk Mental Hospital, Brandon Mental
Hospital and the Winnipeg Psychiatric Institute to determine whether
this subject has any history of mental illness or disorders, and all
these enquiries were negative. We have also spoken to persons that
he associated with on the Friday before this incident and persons that
he associated with in his line of work over the last few years and
all consider him mentally stable. None of the people we have interviewed
had noted any indication of a pending mental disturbance immediately
prior to his going on the prospecting trip last Friday afternoon.

During the course of conversation with MICHALAK, in the last three days
he told us that the last person he spoke to before going into the bush
on his prospecting trip was an employee at the Falcon Motel at Falcon
Beach. He said that he had spoken to this person at about 10:30 or
11:00 o'clock on Friday evening while having a cup of coffee in the
Falcon Motel Coffee Shop. I have arranged with members of Falcon
Beach Detachment to locate and interview this person to further check
on MICHALAK's mental condition at that time.

4. We spoke to him for about 2 hours on Tuesday morning and
from the outset it was obvious that he was very uncomfortable
physically. He said that since he had had this experience at Falcon
Beach on Saturday he had been unable to eat anything and anything he
tried to eat had made him sick. He claimed to have lost about 13 pounds
in the three day interval and also said that his head had ached
severely ever since he had come out of the bush at Falcon Beach. He
further said that he had a taste in his mouth, a taste that seemed
to go through his entire system and the taste was like burned wiring
or insulation and this was bothering him a great deal. After arriving
back in Winnipeg on Saturday night by bus he had been taken by his son
to the Misericordia Hospital Emergency Dept. and had the burns on his
abdomen treated. He said that he told the intern that looked after
him that the burns had been caused by an aircraft exhaust because he
felt that if he told them what really happened he would not be believed
and they would think that he had lost his mind. He was not admitted to
the hospital, he was treated in the out-patient Emergency Dept. and
released. Since the treatment at Misericordia he has been attended
by Dr. R. Douglas OATWAY. Dr. OATWAY has an office at Corydon and
Lanark in Winnipeg and is the family doctor for the MICHALAK family.
Dr. OATWAY has examined him thoroughly and the reason being to try
and find out why he has lost his appetite and why he is not able
to hold any food that he has tried to take. He has given him medication
for his headache and sedatives to try and get him calmed down.
MICHALAK showed us the burns on his abdomen and chest and there is a
large burn that covers an area approximately 1 foot in diameter. The
burn when we saw it on Tuesday was blotchy and with unburned areas in-
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It resembled an exceptionally severe sunburn in the one spot. MICHALAK
was very uncomfortable while we were speaking to him and reminded me of
a person that had come out of an epiliptic fit. He seemed somewhat
bewildered by everything and was not alert. He moved very carefully any
time he moved his body and when I asked him about this he said that his
head was aching so badly that it pained him to move.

5. We asked him about his encounter at Falcon Beach with our
Highway Patrol member and he said he had met our member on the highway
immediately after coming out of the bush, he pretty well corroborated
the version of what had happened as given by our member. His explanation.
for not wanting to show our member his shirt was that he was afraid that
he had encountered some radio-active object and he did not want to
contaminate anyone else. This is the same reason he gave for not
wanting anyone to come near him. The reason he gave for not wanting to
tell anybody exactly where he had seen these objects in the bush was
because he has, or claims to have, a good nickel strike in the area and
does not want it to be common knowledge just where he has been prospecting.
He told us that he had sent a sample of ore to the International Nickel
Co. and it had assayed at a very high nickel content, and he had recovered
this ore from the immediate area where he saw these objects. I asked
him how the press got hold of the story and he said that when he didn't
get any satisfaction from speaking to our member at Falcon Beach he felt
he needed medical attention and he phoned the Winnipeg Tribune from Falcon
Beach to see if they could do anything for him. He waited for a number
of hours after that at Falcon Beach and finally came in by bus later
that evening. As I have previously said, after arrival in Winnipeg he
was taken by his son to the Misericordia Out-Patient Dept. He related
the story of what had happened on this date, 23 MAY 67, but we did not
make any recording of what he said at the time. We subsequently spoke
to him on Wednesday, 24 MAY 67, and recorded approximately 2 hours of
interview with him, regarding the whole incident and his actions immediately
before and after the incident. He said that over the years he has seen
reports in newspapers and magazines of such sightings and always scoffed
at the idea and said that he felt that the person making the report was
probably some kind of a crackpot. His big concern was that he now felt
that other people would now think the same thing about him. We told
him that we were anxious to visit the spot where he had seen these things
and he said that he was most anxious to go back himself and immediately
he was physically able to go he would be more than willing to go back
with us. A condition was that he did not want the area to become pub-
licized for the reasons previously stated.

6. Following our first discussion with MICHALAK on 23 MAY 67, we
made arrangements to interview Dr. OATWAY and subsequently spoke to Dr.
OATWAY in his office that same afternoon. He confirmed that he had
examined MICHALAK and said that he couldn't find anything wrong with him.
mentally but MICHALAK did give him the impression that he had undergone
some kind of a severe ordeal. He had made arrangements to have MICHALAK's
undershirt and his burn checked by Dr. GILLIES at the Winnipeg Cancer
Research Clinic to determine whether there was any radio-active material
in the burn or the undershirt. This had been done by Dr. OATWAY prior to
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talking to him and had been done on his own without our suggestion.
OATWAY said he had had only one previous encounter with MICHALAK and
that was about a year or so before.REDACTEDHe said that during his only other encounter with MICHALAK he had not found any indication of any mental disorder. MICHALAK's under-
shirt and cap as well as the burned area on his skin have now been checked
for radio-activity by the people in the Cancer Research Clinic in Winni-
peg and no radio-active material was found.

7. When we first spoke to MICHALAK he produced the undershirt he
had been wearing and said that it had been burned in the fire. He told
us at this time that his outer shirt had been almost completely destroyed
by the flash of flame that hit him from the vehicle he claims to have
seen and he tore it off at the scene and left it there. He said that he
threw it down on the ground after he took it off and it had started a
small patch of moss on fire and he tramped this out and left the shirt
at the spot. He put the fire on his undershirt out and put that in his
leather briefcase and brought it back with him. Cst. ZACHARIAS and I
examined the undershirt and smelled it and it smelled like burned
electrical wiring or insulation to both of us. He was wearing a nylon
ski-type cap at the time he encountered this object in the bush and was
also wearing grinder's goggles to chip rock, to protect his eyes. He
had his cap on backwards and the front part of his cap (the part facing
the front which would normally be at the back) was melted in a small
area, obviously from heat. He was also wearing a pair of yellow plastic
gloves which have a cloth interior and are covered with plastic on the
outside. Mr. THOMPSON, the APRO man, took one of these gloves, the one
which was damaged on the fingers where he claims he touched the vehicle.
We did not discover that THOMPSON had this glove until he departed with
it and we have not recovered it from him. Mr. MICHALAK claims that two
or three fingers on the glove were damaged when he touched the vehicle.
His undershirt and his cap are still in the possession of the people at
the Manitoba Cancer Research Clinic.

8. We spoke to MICHALAK on Tuesday, Wednesday and also Thursday
of this week hoping that he would feel fit to accompany us down to the
scene in the Falcon Lake area but his condition did not seem to be
improving at all and up until Thursday he had still not taken any solid
foods since his experience. At our request Dr. OATWAY examined him
again Thursday morning to see if he felt he should make the trip down there
and Dr. OATWAY decided at that time he should not go, at least not at
this time. In view of this we obtained maps and aerial photographs from
the Dept. of Mines and Natural Resources, Surveys Branch and had MICHALAK
indicate the approximate area to us where he had seen these objects in
the bush. Arrangements were made with the R.C.A.F. through the C.I.B.
Officer to fly into the area with a helicopter. Cst. ZACHARIAS and I,
with seven members of the R.C.A.F. left Winnipeg at 1:00 p.m. yesterday
afternoon, 25 MAY 67 and flew to Falcon Lake and examined the area from
the air hoping to find indication of a burn or some marking. We were
not successful in finding any indication of a landing spot. We then put
down on the Falcon Lake Golf Course and examined the most likely area,
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he had told us of finding an old saw while he was travelling through the
bush and placing this saw on top of a rock on his trail on the way in. We
were able to find the saw and we were also able to find the shopping bag
that he discarded nearby, but we were not able to find the spot he claimed
these vehicles landed. We are now going to have to wait until MICHALAK
can accompany us on a trip down there to find the area and we have made
arrangements with Squadron-Leader BISSKY of the R.C.A.F. to notify
him when MICHALAK is prepared to go. The Squadron-Leader is anxious to
have his personnel examine the area to determine whether there is any
radio-active material present. We were in touch with MICHALAK again this
morning, 26 MAY 67 and he still is not able to eat he claims, although he
is feeling somewhat better as far as his headache is concerned. I expect
that by Monday he will be able to make the trip on foot and we will make
another attempt to go in then.

9.  Transcribed copies of the interview with MICHALAK are being
attached to this report. Squadron-Leader BISSKY had requested that he
be supplied with a copy of the transcription of MICHALAK's interview
as well as a copy of this report and it is requested that this be attended
to from Division H.Q. A further report will be submitted as soon as
we have been able to examine the area accompanied by Mr. MICHALAK.
S.U.I.
D.D. 5 JUN 67

Chw.
(C.M.W.) S/Sgt.
i-c Wpg. GIS

Cpl.
C.J. Davis) 18300
Winnipeg G.I.S.
THE O.C. WINNIPEG SUB-DIVISION
FORWARDED, 1-6-67, for your information and attention.
Flanse have Cst. Solotki of Falcon Beach Detachment submit a
report covering the full details of his encounter with
Mr. MICHALAK. You will note that our G.1.8. have requested
further enquiries by Falcon Bench Detachment.
DD: 19 JUNE 67
0.H. MILLER, Supt.,
officer 1/3 C.I.B.

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