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FILE OPENEDTIER B · CLASS — DECLASSIFIED
DUFO-013 · DOSSIER · 2026 EDITION
FILE DUFO-013·FIELD REPORT·CANADA·FILED 05.20.1967·UPDATED 05.06.2026
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FALCON.

Falcon Lake · Canada · Stefan Michalak encountered a landed craft, was burned by exhaust vents, and wore the grid-patterned scars for life.
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Falcon Lake Incident — exhibit A
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“primary witness on record” — Stefan Michalak
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// SUMMARY · BY THE DESK

On May 20, 1967, Stefan Michalak — a Polish-born amateur geologist and skilled tradesman — was prospecting for quartz and silver veins near Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada when two cigar-shaped objects descended from the sky.

Michalak sketched the landed craft, which was disc-shaped, about 35–40 feet in diameter with a dome on top, and emitting a sulphurous odour. He approached and heard voices inside — assuming it might be a secret US military aircraft. When he touched the craft, his glove melted. He called out in English, Russian, German, and Ukrainian — the voices stopped, and the craft began to rotate and lift off. As it did, a ventilation grill on its underside blasted a wave of hot gas directly into his chest, igniting his shirt and undershirt and burning a grid pattern into his torso.

Michalak stumbled to the road and was found disoriented and injured. He was taken to hospital, where doctors confirmed a grid-patterned burn pattern on his chest — 36 burns in a precise 7.5 x 4.5 centimetre configuration matching the ventilation pattern he had described. Over the following weeks he lost 22 pounds, experienced nausea, vomiting, and a strange rash. His white blood cell count was abnormally elevated for months.

The Canadian Department of National Defence, RCMP, the Condon Committee, and multiple independent investigators examined the case. The physical evidence — the burns, the radiation detected at the landing site, the melted glove, and the scorched rock face — remains among the most compelling physical evidence in any UFO case worldwide.

// CHRONOLOGY · KEY EVENTS
May 20 1967
Incident reported · primary record
1968
First independent investigation
2023
Senate UAP testimony reopens record
May 2026
Spielberg release · disclosure cycle
// WITNESSES · 1 ON RECORD
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Stefan Michalak
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// PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Department of National Defence Canada investigation▸ ARCHIVE
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Chris Rutkowski — Canadian UFO Survey▸ ARCHIVE
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