Canadian Department of Transport East Coast radar cases

Record summary

Canadian Department of Transport files contain reports from civilian and military aviation environments, including Atlantic approaches and coastal airports. Some entries involve radar operators, pilots, or air-traffic personnel who reported unidentified returns or lights over ocean-adjacent airspace. These records are valuable for comparing instrumentation, weather, aircraft identification, and bureaucratic disposition across a country with extensive maritime territory. The lead refers to a documentary collection rather than a single famous encounter, so individual case dates and locations must be extracted from the files.