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

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Unsolved Mysteries: Going National

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Determined to find Guardian by maximizing public exposure, Oeschler contacts Unsolved Mysteries — the era's most-watched forum for unexplained phenomena. The producers travel to West Carleton in fall 1992 and film a segment featuring Oeschler, Lightfoot, and Diane Labenek playing themselves. ^{[1] — Carter Roy "Bob Oeschler pitches the Guardian case to Unsolved Mysteries, which films on location in West Carleton for Season 5. After the segment airs…" 17:00 Play} Two expert voices weigh in: Dr. Robert Nathan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reviews the tape and can't determine whether it's real or a hoax. Major N.J. Patterson of the Canadian Forces Base Ottawa reviews Guardian's documents and is more decisive — he identifies numerous errors and dismisses the papers with the cutting line: 'Someone with very little effort could have come a lot closer than this.' Patterson also confirms that if helicopters are flying over Diane's house, they're not military. The segment airs in February 1993, and for the first time, the raw Guardian footage reaches a national audience.