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Mrs Florida Malboeuf can't sleep any more!

SHE SAW A FLYING SAUCER AND TWO "BEINGS FROM SPACE" ON THE ROOF OF THE OPPOSITE HOUSE

Mrs. Florida Malboeuf, aged 58, of the 6420th of Casgrain street, in Montreal, is deeply traumatized. You would be with less. In this Thursday of the last 6 January, rather insomniac, Mrs. Malboeuf sat at her window. It is 1 hour and 30 minutes of the morning. Suddenly, what does she see? A kind of big plate or rather a large oyster, 15 feet in diameter, landing on the roof of one of the opposite houses (more precisely the 6399th of Casgrain street, Burelle corner).

She rubs her eyes, pinches herself to see whether she is dreaming. But she must surrender to reality: she sees what she sees. And this it is not all. From this silver-gray apparatus equipped with headlights at its base, from this flying saucer (for there is no more doubt that it is one, Mrs. Malboeuf sees two strange beings 6 feet and 5 inches of size come out, dressed of a pale suit, without belt and very tight. These "beings from space" do not seem to weigh more than 25 pounds each one so light is their walk. They advance towards the edge of the roof, look in the street, then towards the sky. They reinstate their apparatus now and disappear as they came. The whole, from the landing to takeoff, did not last a minute.

"I was not interested in the flying saucers," Mrs. Malboeuf said. "I didn't even believe in it at all. This event upset me so much that I of would have much preferred never not to have seen that..."

It was however as it is told, something amazing. It is understood that at that hour, the dog of a neighbor started to howl, the owner of the animal unable to calm it. Nevertheless worried to have been victim of a nasty trick, Mrs. Malboeuf hesitated to call the police. She only did this a few hours later when her son André, aged 25 years, went up on the roof of the house which received this weird visit to have the surprise of his life there: the discovery of a circle of 15 feet in diameter of molten snow and ice. Mrs. Malboeuf also called in Dorval where it was admitted that a strange object slipping by from west to east was seen that night, in the sky of Montreal at approximate of 800 miles per hour. Moreover, four or five other people called in Dorval to confirm the phenomenon.

Montreal-Jan. 6, 1977

UFO sightings over large urban centers are considered somewhat of a rarity, as the vast majority of incidents normally occur in remote, rural areas. Rarer still are cases involving the presence of UFO occupants in urban surroundings.

For this reason, the reported appearance of two UFO passengers on a mid-town Montreal rooftop on Jan. 6, 1977 must be considered unique and unprecedented. Ironically, the sighting coincided with Christmas Eve celebrated by millions of Christians according to the old Julian calendar. For children of Ukrainian origin it is traditional to search the sky for the first evening star which heralds the opening of the Holy Christmas Eve festivities. But for Mrs. Florida Malboeuf of Casgrain Street in Montreal, the bright light in the sky turned out to be much more than a prelude to an age-old tradition.

At about one o'clock on that particular morning Mrs. Malboeuf rose from her bed, unable to sleep because of a bronchial condition. Gazing out of the window she saw a strange-looking object drifting above the rooftop of the house across the street. To her astonishment, it seemed to be making its way toward her. She could clearly see that it was dome-shaped, and resembled a flattened oyster with a chain of bright lights around its rim which almost blinded her. She estimated the object to be about 20 feet wide. As she watched, the blazing craft hovered atop the three-story building opposite, but then she could no longer see it from her vantage point at street level as it had become obscured behind the roof deck.

Seconds later, two figures appeared at the edge of the roof. Even though there was nothing unusual about the way they walked, she instinctively knew they were not humans! They appeared to be extremely tall, in the neighborhood of six and a half feet. They were thin and had unusually long arms and legs. Although she could not distinguish their features, their heads appeared to be covered by tight fitting "bathing caps," similar to those worn by frogmen. The rest of their bodies seemed to be covered by a white one-piece skintight tunic.

Apparently unaware of her presence, the two figures surveyed the scene, first looking onto the street below and then pointing toward the sky, as if in search of something. Their behavior appeared human-like and after a few minutes they retreated. Seconds later, the craft rose and again came into view. It slowly drifted away in a southerly direction, as if headed for Bellechasse Street.

Shaken, Mrs. Malboeuf went back to bed but had difficulty falling asleep. It wasn't until six o'clock the following afternoon that she decided to tell her son Andre, 24, about her nocturnal adventure. Judging by his mother's agitated state, Andre realized that she must have undergone a very traumatic experience. He immediately set out to investigate, first by consulting neighbors, none of whom had seen or heard anything out of the ordinary the night before. It seemed to him that the rooftop of the vacant building across the street would be the next most logical place to go. Unfortunately, there was no way of reaching it from inside. He had no choice but to climb a fire escape and make his way across a six-foot-wide chasm, using a ladder as a makeshift bridge. When he reached the rooftop he was startled by what he saw. A 20-foot-wide circular sheet of ice covered a thin layer of snow. It was obvious that some form of heat had melted the snow and the circle had subsequently frozen over. This ice sheet was flanked by two smaller oval-shaped ice patches a few feet away, presumably created by the same heat source. The smaller icy layers appeared to be flat, whereas the larger one was visibly depressed in the center, forming a shallow crater.

Excited by this evidence of a possible UFO landing, Andre immediately called Le Journal de Montreal to report what had happened. He also notified air traffic control at Dorval Airport, and was advised that his statements would be forwarded to both the Canadian and the U.S. North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Headquarters in North Bay, Ontario, and in Colorado Springs, Colo., respectively. He was also informed by Dorval air traffic control that three other persons had called them to report what was presumably the same UFO drifting above the nearby Rosemont subway station, moments after Mrs. Malboeuf's sighting. The revelation that these sightings would be transmitted to top-level defense personnel tends to confirm that, contrary to repeated official denials, Canadian military authorities in collaboration with U.S. agencies are still actively involved in monitoring UFO sightings.

The next day - a Saturday - photo journalist Gilles Lafrance of Le Journal de Montreal interviewed Mrs. Malboeuf and photographed the landing site. That same day, her son called Montreal Urban Community Police and two of their officers arrived a short time later to interview Mrs. Malboeuf and conduct a peripheral investigation which they described as "unofficial and personal."

Following the appearance of the story in the Sunday edition of Le Journal de Montreal and the weekly tabloid, The Sunday Express, local UFO investigators converged on the scene of the sighting. The first to arrive was Howard Gontovnick, a Laval area ufologist who publishes the periodical UFO-Canada. Despite the fact that much of the ice layers were covered by drifting snow, he managed to take several color photos. The next day, a Monday, Marc Leduc of UFO-Quebec also visited Mrs. Malboeuf, but due to a severe snowstorm he was prevented from inspecting the rooftop. He returned on Wednesday night, accompanied by Wido Hoville of UFO-Quebec, Howard Gontovnick and Paul Dubeau, another of the UFO witnesses of January 6th.

Together with Andre Malboeuf, they embarked on the perilous ascent to the top of the building, where they made another surprise discovery. Four peculiar footprints, originating at the center of the ice mass and pointing toward the roof's edge could be seen. Although these imprints resembled the heel and toe marks of a boot, they were unlike any the men had ever seen before. For one thing they were only six inches long and a mere 1.7 inches wide, thereby excluding the likelihood they had been made by an adult. Also, due to the extreme difficulty in reaching the rooftop and the narrow width of the prints, the possibility that they might belong to a child could be excluded. Unlike the structure of an ordinary foot, the curvature of these imprints was sharply exaggerated toward the inside.

The connection between the strange footprints and what had caused the snow to melt in circular patterns is unmistakable. Prints embedded in the frozen layer clearly suggested they must have been produced while the surface was still in a molten state. What had caused the snow to melt? The circular ice patterns could not have been created by mild weather conditions. According to Dorval weather office records, the temperature had remained well below freezing during the month preceding Mrs. Malboeuf's nocturnal "shocker." Another possibility put forward was that the heat source had originated in the building. However, the thin layer of unmelted snow beneath the ice patch conclusively ruled out that theory.

Clearly then, the ice surfaces must have been produced by an external heat source from an object with airborne capabilities. The fact that no landing gear imprints were found within the circular patches of ice indicated that the craft had not actually landed on the roof, but must have remained in a hovering position. From the location of the footprints, it would appear that the occupants had disembarked from the underside of the craft and walked towards the edge of the roof.

In the final analysis, I believe that we can also eliminate the possibility of a hoax. To reproduce the circles, the hoaxer would have had to secure a silent, airborne craft capable of producing a 20-foot-wide uniform heat emission. To my knowledge, no such craft exists. As to the footprints, the trickster would have had to engage a six-year-old child with a severe case of crippled foot wearing specially fitted boots. He would have then had to hoist his juvenile accomplice to the roof of the building while the "miracle craft" was performing its "instant summer" trick. And then just to complete the scenario, he would have had to convince Mrs. Malboeuf to publicize the fabricated story. Without apparent financial gain or publicity for either party, the hoax theory becomes all the more ludicrous.

In the end, we are left with physical evidence to confirm Mrs. Malboeuf's contention that two humanoids had disembarked from a hovering, spherical craft onto the rooftop of the vacant house across the street from her own.