MUFON Ontario: Guardian was a group
MUFON Ontario's 1995 report concluded Guardian wasn't one person but a group of hoaxers including Bobby Charlebois, Diane Labenek, her husband, and her nephew.
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The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax?
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Jun 3, 2026
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MUFON's Verdict: A Group Hoax — and All Suspects Named
At 39:50 · chapter starts 39:15
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. [1] — Carter Roy "Nobody in the UFO research community ever explicitly names Bob Oeschler as Guardian — but the circumstantial case is uncomfortable. He play…" 32:20 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.
Three Camps in West Carleton
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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