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You are listening to keep Canada weird a weekly weird news roundup by the nighttime podcast

Hello listeners and welcome back to the latest episode in my weekly keep Canada weird series

Typically this series centers around my pal Aaron and I reviewing odd Canadian news stories from the past week

However, this time around scheduling became an issue

You see Aaron Moonlight says an actor and director of theater productions across Cape Breton Island

And this week it's the premiere of his latest show and as such his focus is elsewhere

And as a result of that in tonight's episode

I'm going to take a detour away from our usual weekly weird news wrap-up and instead feature a conversation with someone standing on the front lines of weird Canadian research

Dr. Matthew Hayes is an English and philosophy professor at Northern Lakes College in Alberta

And what makes him an appropriate guest for this show is the focus of his research

Dr. Hayes has spent a significant portion of his life digging through the Canadian government's documents and communications that relate to UFO sightings

And to make his work truly unique his quest hasn't been to solve the mystery of unexplained flying objects

Or to confirm or deny the existence of extraterrestrial life

Dr. Hayes has viewed it as a social phenomenon and the questions he sets up to answer are

What did UFOs mean to Canadian scientists politicians the military what do they say about it and how do they understand it?

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