Paul Hellyer: ETs visited Diefenbunker
Canada's former Minister of National Defense, Paul Hellyer, stated he has no doubt that extraterrestrials have visited the Diefenbunker in West Carleton.
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The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax?
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The Diefenbunker and the Alien Nexus Theory
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The host zooms out to consider why West Carleton in particular might be a UFO hotspot. One theory centers on proximity to Ottawa, Canada's government capital. [1] — Carter Roy "The Diefenbunker, built in 1959 in West Carleton, was a four-level, 75-foot-deep bunker designed to shelter 500 Canadian government officia…" 43:30 The other is the Diefenbunker — a four-level, 75-foot-deep nuclear shelter commissioned in 1959 to house more than 500 key government officials and capable of maintaining communications with other governments even if a five-megaton bomb landed outside. Before the internet, before ARPANET, it was Canada's nerve center of last resort. If an extraterrestrial civilization was curious about human communication systems, the Diefenbunker would be an obvious point of interest. In a remarkable endorsement of this logic, Canada's former Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer has publicly stated he has no doubt that extraterrestrials have visited the Diefenbunker. The bunker was decommissioned in 1994 — the same year Oeschler retired and UFO sightings in the area reportedly dropped off. Today it is a National Historic Site.
The Diefenbunker: Canada's Nuclear Bunker
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.
Diefenbunker: 75 feet underground
The Diefenbunker, built in 1959 near West Carleton, reaches 4 levels and 75 feet below ground and was designed to shelter 500+ Canadian government officials in a nuclear war.
Diefenbunker decommissioned: 1994
The Diefenbunker was decommissioned in 1994 — the same year Bob Oeschler retired — and UFO sightings in the West Carleton area reportedly dropped off around that time.
Could the Government Have Sent the Guardian Package?
The episode's most chilling theory: the Canadian government itself sent the Guardian package — deliberately unconvincing — to discredit all future UFO reports from West Carleton right as locals began reporting genuine unexplained phenomena near the Diefenbunker.
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