The Canadian UFO Podcast
You don't need a three-hour deep dive to fall in love with a UFO case.
I'm Peter. I'm from Burnaby, BC. I've been obsessed with this subject my whole life — and when the US government started dropping classified UAP files and politicians started saying "non-human biologics" in official hearings, I realized something embarrassing.
I knew nothing about Canada's own UFO history. Nothing.
Turns out? It's incredible. Cases with more physical evidence than Roswell. Government files that were never explained. Stories that should be famous and somehow aren't.
The Canadian UFO Podcast is your quick download on the cases, the people, and the moments that got buried north of the border. Episodes are short. The rabbit hole is not. Think of it less like a lecture and more like your UFO-obsessed friend just found out something wild and had to tell you immediately.
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The Canadian UFO Podcast
3. the original whistleblower
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In 2005, a former Canadian cabinet minister stood up at a public event and said the US government had been secretly recovering non-human craft for decades. He named alien species. He said governments were covering it up. Everyone laughed. His name was Paul Hellyer. And eighteen years later, a decorated US intelligence officer said basically the same thing — under oath, before Congress. This episode is about the Canadian who called it first, why it matters, and what it tells us about where we are now.
Paul Hellyer was Canada's Minister of National Defence in the 1960s. He unified the Canadian Armed Forces. He served under Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. He was, by any measure, a serious person with serious credentials.
And in 2005 — at 82 years old — he became the first cabinet-level minister of a G8 nation in history to publicly say that UFOs are real, governments know it, and the suppression of that information is one of the great injustices of the modern era.
He was called a conspiracy theorist. He kept saying it anyway. Until he died in 2021 at 98.
This episode looks at what he actually claimed, where his information came from, and how those claims look in 2026 — now that Pentagon insiders with verified classified credentials are saying the same things he was.
SHOW NOTES / RESOURCES:
Paul Hellyer — watch these:
→ Paul Hellyer — Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, Washington DC, 2013 (YouTube) — his most detailed public statement
→ Paul Hellyer — RT Interview, January 2014 (YouTube) — the species claims in full
→ Paul Hellyer — In-Depth Interview at his residence, 2017 (YouTube): youtube.com/watch?v=3PPDHaIkVYA
→ Paul Hellyer — Final interview raw footage (YouTube): youtube.com/watch?v=5pv3AuHG1LA
The corroboration:
→ Dr. Hal Puthoff — Diary of a CEO podcast, May 2026 — search on YouTube or your podcast app
→ David Grusch congressional testimony, July 26 2023 — full testimony on YouTube
→ The Debrief: "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin" — June 5 2023, thedebrief.org
Background on Hellyer:
→ The Canadian Encyclopedia — Paul Hellyer biography: thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
→ Parliament of Canada biographical record: parl.gc.ca
Book referenced in this episode:
→ "The Day After Roswell" — Colonel Philip Corso (1997) — the book that triggered Hellyer's public statements. Available on Amazon.
Further reading:
→ "Light at the End of the Tunnel" — Paul Hellyer (2010) — his own account of his UFO research and conclusions