Falcon Lake

Falcon Lake

Stefan Michalak, an industrial mechanic from Winnipeg, said that on 20 May 1967, while prospecting north of Falcon Beach, he saw two objects come down, that one landed, and that it burned him as it rose when he had touched it. He was treated for burns that night and his doctor recorded “first degree burns to the upper abdominal wall”; an RCMP constable who saw him that afternoon thought the marks on his chest “looked like marks that were caused by rubbing ash onto the skin”. No radioactivity was found on him or his clothes in May. In June Michalak and a partner brought soil, moss, a steel tape and remnants of his shirt from the site they had found; those samples were radioactive, and in July a federal radiation officer found a smear of radium-226 contamination no larger than 100 square inches in a crack of the rock there. In 1969 a scientist of the National Research Council judged it “highly probable” that crushed uranium ore produced all the radioactivity reported. The RCMP closed its file unable to resolve the burns, his illness and the circle on the rock.

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