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The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax?
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The Map and the Mission
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Guardian's package included more than a tape: a hand-drawn map points to a roughly one-square-mile area in West Carleton, Ontario — farmland, open fields, dense vegetation, and swamps about 35 miles outside Ottawa. Oeschler, a Maryland resident, reaches out through the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and learns that several other Canadian researchers also received Guardian tapes, though Oeschler's copy uniquely contains a closer shot of the craft. He discovers through Canadian researcher Graham Lightfoot that Guardian has been active since 1989, sending documents and photos — but never video — to UFO organizations and experts at least four times before. Those earlier communications described a UFO crash near Ottawa in roughly the same area now depicted on the map. The history deepens the mystery: Guardian has been building this case for years.
Guardian's hand-drawn map defined a search area of just over 1 square mile in West Carleton, Ontario — big open fields, farmland, dense vegetation, and swamps.
Bob Oeschler travels to West Carleton with eight Canadian UFO researchers armed with Guardian's hand-drawn map. After most of the team retreats from a knee-deep swamp, Bob and his son claim to find the exact landing site — a claim fellow researcher Tom finds suspiciously fast.
The anonymous figure known as Guardian had been mailing documents to UFO organizations, lecturers, and experts at least 4 times before sending the 1992 VHS tape.
