Department of National Defence
Ministère de la Défense nationale
Canada's defence department. The classic Canadian UFO files predate it going quiet on the subject and now sit with Library and Archives Canada.
No scorecard yet
Aletheca has not filed with this body, so there is nothing to measure. A zero here would read as “releases nothing” rather than “never asked”, which is why the row is absent instead of empty. Filing outside the United States is not yet supported, so for now this record is for reading and routing.
How it takes requests
- 01portalATIP Online (Treasury Board)unconfirmed
https://atip-aiprp.tbs-sct.gc.ca
- 02mailPostal mailunconfirmed
Directorate Access to Information and Privacy, National Defence Headquarters, 101 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa ON K1A 0K2
Routes marked verified were fetched and confirmed against the body’s own official pages; those marked unconfirmed are well documented but have not been checked here, and none has been proven by a delivered letter. Aletheca cannot yet originate a request outside the United States — this record exists so a request about these holdings can be routed to the right door.
What it holds
- CIRVIS 'vital intelligence sighting' reports under CFAO 71-1
- Post-1967 sighting correspondence routed to the National Research Council
- NORAD region radar incident records
Record classes this kind of body normally keeps. Useful for drafting a request a records officer can act on without guessing — a request describing records the agency does not hold is refused as no-records, which costs a filing fee and teaches nobody anything.
Filing tips
- Historic UFO files — Project Magnet, Project Second Storey, sighting reports to 1967 — are at Library and Archives Canada and largely digitised; ask DND only for later or operational records.
- The $5 application fee must accompany the request; s. 9 extensions are routine, so ask in narrow batches.