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The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax?

Explore episode Jun 3, 2026
Society & Culture
Three Camps in West Carleton

The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax? · Jun 3, 2026 Society & Culture

Among West Carleton residents where the Guardian saga played out, three distinct camps persist: it was a hoax, it was a nighttime military exercise, or there really are UFOs in the area. One local simply says the UFOs 'always come from the west — don't know what that's about.'

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MUFON's Verdict: A Group Hoax — and All Suspects Named

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In a twist the host compares to Murder on the Orient Express, MUFON Ontario's final assessment is that Guardian wasn't a single whistleblower but a collaborative hoax. Bobby Charlebois — Oeschler's own prime suspect — is named as one participant. Diane Labenek and her husband are implicated next: they were the only witnesses who claim to have seen both Guardian's 1989 and 1991 sightings. Diane's nephew rounds out the group, his truck potentially serving as a stand-in for the 'spacecraft' in the video. The investigators allege Oeschler's role was to take this shaky material and mold it into something credible — specifically by obscuring timelines to make it seem as though multiple witnesses saw the same event on the same night. Whether Oeschler was a willing participant in the hoax or simply an investigator who let his ambitions override his judgment, MUFON Ontario leaves deliberately vague — they never spell it out. But the implication hangs in the air.

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