DTCP 032 - Disturbance at Clan Lake

In June of 1960, something disturbed the surface of a remote northern lake — and then disappeared without a trace.

Reported weeks later by a prospector working near Clan Lake in the Northwest Territories, the incident described a loud mechanical sound with no aircraft in the sky, followed by a rotating object striking the water, spinning briefly on the surface, and sinking beneath it. No smoke. No fire. No debris. Just a sudden impact and a lake that closed over whatever entered it.

Investigators confirmed unusual physical evidence in the water and along the shoreline, but repeated searches recovered nothing. No missing aircraft matched the description, and no explanation ever fully accounted for what was witnessed. The case remained unresolved, quietly filed away — until decades later, when it was rediscovered and brought back into public view.

This episode explores the strange and unanswered questions surrounding Disturbance at Clan Lake, tracing what can be verified, what remains uncertain, and why some incidents resist explanation, even after the investigation ends.

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Edited by Kyle McDonnell