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The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax?
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Three Camps: What the Locals Believe
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Years after the Guardian case fades from national headlines, former researcher Ian Rogers — who first learned of it as a teenager watching Unsolved Mysteries — returns to West Carleton for a CBC documentary. He finds the local community divided into three irreconcilable camps. [1] — Carter Roy "Among West Carleton residents where the Guardian saga played out, three distinct camps persist: it was a hoax, it was a nighttime military …" 41:00 Camp one: it was all a hoax. Camp two: what people saw was a nighttime military training exercise from the nearby Canadian Forces base. Camp three: there really are unexplained craft in the area, and always have been. The eyewitness stories Rogers encounters are striking: a young girl blinded by light flooding through her bedroom window, with no accompanying sound; Katherine Curley watching a silent bright light, then the next day seeing a helicopter land on her property and four people jump out before flying away frantically. One man simply tells a documentary crew: 'Yep, there are UFOs around here, and they always come from the west. Don't know what that's about.' Rogers' conclusion: whatever was really happening in West Carleton, the Guardian case — and Oeschler's handling of it — drowned it out.
The Diefenbunker, built in 1959 in West Carleton, was a four-level, 75-foot-deep bunker designed to shelter 500 Canadian government officials through nuclear war. Canada's former Defense Minister Paul Hellyer says he has no doubt extraterrestrials have visited it.
