My father was a pilot. He flew for the Canadian Air Force and then moved to be an aviation inspector with the Department of Transport in Canada. He actually flew Paul Hellyer around when Hellyer was the Minister of Defense.

Just after my sighting of Charlie Red Star in Carman in 1975 my father came home to tell me about the object he saw while flying west of Winnipeg where we lived. This was like a hitchhiker effect spreading off my many sighting in 1975 and 1976. Years later my son, who also had his pilot license would have his own sighting. Like my father he didn't talk about it.

Later my father would see the ground lights that we were photographing in the Carman area. He stood and watched and said nothing.

Here is the story he told about his sighting from the government DC-3 that he was captaining.