Whit Fraser
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Whit Fraser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yes, that morning, as part of the most hectic day that one can imagine, we flew out for an hour or more and actually did find
looked like an old fender skirt from my old car first Ford I owned with one lone soldier standing at minus 50 degrees standing guard on this and what is remarkable and still an eerie sight and the pilot and I offered the soldier the opportunity to try and get in the airplane and warm up and he said
No, sir, I have to stay here, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
I'll be relieved in two hours, sir.
But this is, of course, the first chapter in the book from Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall and Ragged Ass Road being a part of Yellowknife.
But that was a hair-raising time
for everybody, especially for the people that lived there, because the authorities were in a bit of a bind.
They wanted to tell everybody, on one hand, that there was no danger, but on the other hand, they wanted to tell people to stay indoors, and if you see anything strange, don't go near it.
So it was always a mixed message.
And they would say there was no danger, but we would see...
People walking around with Geiger counters and radio and spacesuits to protect themselves against any radioactivity that may be there.
We knew that they were picking up pieces of the satellite, some no more than the size of a penny, and putting them in bags and then in radioactive-proof containers at the Yellowknife Airport.
So it was
always a mixed message.
And the search went on for, well, for months and months.
It was worldwide coverage and it was just, it was chaos.
But from the point of view of a reporter, it was a huge story.
And I didn't have to think very long about what story that I would start with this book.
And to add my own harried experience at the time, that same day that the satellite came down,
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