The Mississauga Blob was the name given to a flaming object—later identified as a frisbee—that fell on a back-yard picnic table in Mississauga, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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, at about 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, 1979.

Traven Matchett and his daughter Donna were in their backyard when the flaming object plummeted onto their picnic table. The object reportedly passed close to nineteen-year-old Donna's head. She extinguished the flames with a garden hose. The glowing, flaming object is said to have been "perfectly" cylindrical with flames about 18 inches high.

After cooling, the remains appeared to be a flat, dark green rock, 8 inches in diameter with a fibrous, "pock-marked" texture.

Traven Matchett contacted Toronto Pearson International Airport

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 (then Toronto International Airport), a nearby Canadian Forces

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 base, the University of Toronto

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 and the Ontario Science Centre

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. Apparently, none of these contacts offered Mr. Matchett any explanation. He then contacted the Toronto Sun

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and a story was published on Sunday, June 27, 1979, attracting worldwide attention.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment

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 sent an inspector. Peel Regional Police questioned the family and neighbours and concluded the object was a "flaming Frisbee" thrown into their yard as a prank.