160. Shag Harbour UFO Incident

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Shag Harbour is a small fishing
village at the most southern tip

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of Nova Scotia.
It is named after a bird in the

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Cormorant family, known as a
shag that calls this area home.

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The small town currently holds a
fluctuating population between 4

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and 500 people depending on the
time of year.

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The major source of income for
this town consists of fishing,

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lobster trapping, and the
collection and processing of

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Irish Moss.
Irish Moss being a type of

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seaweed found along the coast
that has multiple different uses

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and is commonly processed to
have the Karajan extracted to be

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used as a thickening agent in
many foods.

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On August 6th and 9th of 1945,
two atomic bombs that were

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detonated on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki and Japan marked the

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beginning of the end of World
War 2 and the start of a

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completely different era
altogether.

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Nobody was completely aware of
it at the time, but the large

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scale intrusion of unknown
flying objects throughout the

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rest of modern history had begun
along with the first and only

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usage of nuclear weapons for the
purpose of war.

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The quote UN quote Modern UFO
era was in full swing and

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looking back at reports it is
hard to not connect this

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explosion of unknown craft with
the use of nuclear power.

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Since then UFOs have been
spotted along nuclear power

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plants trailing nuclear power
aircraft carriers and submarines

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and a few reports even exist of
unknown objects being in the

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vicinity of nuclear reactors
shutting completely down for no

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apparent reason at all.
The 1st that comes to mind being

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the Mount Strand Air Force Base
incident in 1967, but more on

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that in a future episode.
With the entire history of

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unknown flying objects plaguing
the skies of Earth, there is one

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that sticks out as being the
only government document UFO

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case on official and public
records.

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This event sent ripples through
not only the UFO community, but

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also stunned the general public
and the US and Canadian

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governments as well.
The night of October 4th, 1967

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will forever mark the night that
a little fishing town on the

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southern tip of Nova Scotia
became the epicenter of a

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mystery that remains unsolved
till this day.

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Reports were filed by people on
the ground, pilots in the air,

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and captains at sea as multiple
crafts were seen in the skies

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and eventually witnessed
crashing into a Bay known

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locally as the Sound on the
southwestern shore of Nova

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Scotia.
This event could possibly reach

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past just a simple sighting of a
strange event and may have more

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connections with the Cold War
than many actually realize.

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Tonight we dive down into
reports, facts and speculations

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of the Shag Harbor UFO incident.
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Welcome back to the Infinite
Rabbit Hole.

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I'm your host Jeremy and today
we dive into the Shag Harbor UFO

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Incident, AKA the Canadian
Roswell.

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Honestly, I don't know how I got
that name because it really

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doesn't have a lot to do with
anything compared to Roswell

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other than just UFOs and and
alien beings.

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So with that being said, this is
an incredible story.

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Let me tell you a fan came on
the show one time.

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To tell his story, Justin
recommended the Shag Harbor

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incident.
Justin is also from Canada as

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well as our friend Kenzar or kid
as everyone will know her.

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He requested this quite a long
time ago and it's kind of

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embarrassing how long it took to
get to it.

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I apologize Justin, but I do
want to say thank you because I

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I do think that the evidence in
this particular event is very

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substantial.
It is very interesting and I

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definitely think something
happened that night.

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So I'm done teasing you Go ahead
and hit that five star rating

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for us here.
Please, please, please do that.

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It helps the algorithm.
But without further ado

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travelers, here's my report on
the Shag Harbor incident,

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October 4th, 1967.
On the chilling night of October

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4th, 1967, many people within
the Canadian province of Nova

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Scotia witnessed strange lights
in the sky.

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It is unclear as to whether or
not there were more than one

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that was seen in such a vast
area, but there are multiple

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reports of seeing at least two
different lights, and some

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reports are physically so far
apart and at separate times that

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it is hard to believe that there
was only one.

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Yet most reports claimed to have
seen only one at 7:20 PM.

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The first report came in from a
couple of pilots flying A4

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engine airliner over the city Of
Montreal, which is several 100

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miles West of anywhere in Nova
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The pilots claimed that there
was a large orange object with

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yellow lights following them
just before an illuminated

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explosion, which caused the
yellow lights of the object to

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rearrange themselves in a
different formation.

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The pilots wrote an official
report which served as a very

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important piece of information
in the future studies of the

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entire Shag Harbor incident.
At approximately 1120 PMA,

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handful of teenagers hanging out
at a local Wharf witnessed a

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large object with bright light
seemingly changed its shape,

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stall and tilt forward before
plunging into the waters before

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it.
Specific details reported with

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this particular sighting were a
whistling sound and a bright

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flash of light after entering
the water with a large bang to

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go with it.
Just prior, 18 year old Dave

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Kendricks and his friend Norm
Smith were traveling West on

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Hwy. 3 as the boys were
approaching the area of Shag

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Harbor when they noticed 4
evenly spaced flashing lights

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move about in the sky.
Shortly after they noticed the

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lights, the boys watched as
whatever the source was began to

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head down fast at about a 45°
angle until they were no longer

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able to see it past the tree
line.

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Lori Wilkins and four others in
his car were also driving West

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on Hwy. 3 towards Shag Harbor
when one of them made mention of

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the four strange low hanging
yellow lights in the sky.

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The group estimated the
horizontal lights at about 60

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feet apart and the lights were
flashing in a sequencing pattern

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of 1234, then all together
before repeating the pattern

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soon after, they all took
notice.

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The lights changed from a
horizontal line to a diagonal

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one, and they watched as
whatever it was began quickly

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descending behind the tree line.
The group lost sight of the

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lights around the area of
Prospect Point, just about 3

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miles away from Shag Harbor.
While they were unable to see

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what was going on, the group
heard a loud bang in a flash of

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light before regaining sight
once the tree cover broke to

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allow visual of the Bay.
What they all reported was

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seeing a large yellow lighted
Dome floating on the water

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before pulling over in the
parking lot of the Irish Moss

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Factory.
A rather large crowd of locals

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join the teenagers as they
huddled around the embankment

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leading into the water.
The collective group all

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witnessed a large single lighted
Dome ebbing in the tide of the

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sound only about 600 feet out
from the shore.

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At 11:25 PM Lori drove out to
the closest pay phone in Woods

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Harbor and called the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police

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detachment out of Barrington
Passage and reported that he

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believed was a plane crash in
the water off the coast of Shag

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Harbor.
The call was answered by then

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commanding officer, 37 year old
Corporal Victor Werbicki before

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he and other officer on duty Ron
O'Brien headed out to the Irish

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Moss plant in preparation for
what they believe could be a

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rescue effort.
Before where Vicki could leave

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the station, another call came
in from Mary Bank who was at

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Maggie Guerin's Point across the
sound from the Irish Moss

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Factory.
She too witnessed the object

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crash into the water and
reported it as an aircraft.

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Just as the Corporal was hanging
up, the phone rang again.

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This time the reporter was
calling from Bear Point, just

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South of Shag Harbor.
This was obviously something at

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this point.
So where Bicky picked up the

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radio and called out to the only
patrol I watched that night,

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Constable Ron Pond, who quickly
changed his direction and headed

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toward the Irish Moss Factory
again.

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As soon as he had made the call
over the radio, the phone began

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to ring again.
This time it was a mother and

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daughter from the area of
northeast Point and Cape Sable

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Island, a large island just
southeast of the Sound.

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This was getting to be a lot, so
Corporal Werbicki reacted by

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placing a phone call to the
nearby radar base, CFS

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Barrington of the North American
Aerospace Defense Command, AKA

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NORAD, and asked if there were
any military flights taking

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place over the area.
The reply was that there were

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neither any military aircraft in
the airspace in question, no

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overdue arrivals in air by
airports, and there were no

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reports of downed aircraft.
The same answer was given when

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he requested information from
the Rescue Coordination Center

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in Halifax.
A few minutes later, the

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original two teenagers that we
discussed, Dave Kendricks and

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Norm Smith, arrived at Smith's
house.

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Smith exited the vehicle and
began walking up to his front

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door before he noticed the
lights off in the distance on

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the surface of the sound.
Norm ran in and grabbed his

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father, Alfred, before running
outside the Sea of light.

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His father then ran back inside
to wake up his brother Lawrence,

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who was a small boat fisherman
who had to be awake for a long

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day of work the next morning.
But he failed to successfully

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get him to come along and the
two hopped in their truck and

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took off towards the water.
As the men were getting ready to

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turn on Hwy. 3, a police cruiser
speed by with full lights and

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sirens blaring.
This ended up being Corporal

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Werbicki and Officer O'Brien.
The father and son speed up

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after the police vehicle and
eventually ended up at the Irish

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Moss plant with a now large
group of people watching the

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floating illuminated Dome which
was now about 1000 feet away.

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Constable Pond retrieved a sight
glass from the trunk of his

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cruiser and watched as the craft
seemed to be moving under its

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own power away from the shore
with a bright yellow foam being

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left in its way.
During this time the constable

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made a very interesting
observation.

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When the craft passed the sea
marker known as the Budget

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Bayou, the mass of the craft
completely blocked out all

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visual aspects of the float.
The Budget buoy is 8 feet tall

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from the waterline, so that told
the Corporal that whatever it

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was, it stood at least eight
feet above the water, probably

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even more due to the angle that
he was watching from.

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Statements were taken from
everyone at the plant that night

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and a few more details came to
light, such as more details

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about the whistling sound, which
seemed to have been alarming in

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one or two second burst, but
sounded like a cartoon bomb

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being dropped.
The flash of light apparently

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exploded out of the area of the
second light to the left, but

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the most common thing talked
about that night was this

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concern for any survivors.
As Constable Pond was

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interviewing witnesses, the
Corporal and Officer O'Brien

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commandeered a small boat in
order to row out to the scene.

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Shortly after they began their
trek, the light disappeared, so

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the men turned back and Corbel
Wierbicki made a call to the

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Rescue Coordination Center that
was logged at the facility as

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coming in at 11:38.
The next call that the corporal

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made was to a local fisherman by
the name of Bradford or Brath

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Shand to request a proper boat
for an attempt to rescue anyone

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who may need it.
Shand then made a call to his

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dock mate, the brother of Alfred
Smith.

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Lawrence, who had just a few
minutes ago, was unable to wake

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up at the request of his brother
and nephew.

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This time, Lawrence woke without
an issue and the men met up at

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the boats and began the trip out
to the area of the accident with

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Norm Smith on Shand's boat and
Constable Pond on Lawrence

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Smith's.
As they approached, the first

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thing that the men noticed was
the eerie yellow foam that was

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estimated at 80 feet wide, a
mile and a half long and about

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four inches thick.
Large bubbles were erupting from

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underneath them.
The area was engulfed in the

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horrendous smell of sulphur.
One of the younger workers on

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Shan's boat dipped his arm into
the foam.

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When he removed it, there was no
foam attached to his clothing or

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skin, but there was a very
viscous oil substance that

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adhered to him.
Eventually, four other boats

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joined the effort, and just
after midnight the Coast Guard

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cutter CGC 101 arrived at the
scene to assist in the search

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before the entire operation was
suspended at 3:00 AM until first

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light in the morning hours.
By 10:20 AM, the Rescue

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Coordination Center had
officially described the object

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as a UFO, as there were
absolutely no reports of downed

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or missing aircraft from
anywhere within hundreds of

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miles of Shag Harbor.
Over the next four days, an

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effort made by the Royal Navy
and the HMS Granby resulted in 0

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answers while searching the
waters off of Shag Harbor

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without notice to anyone on the
ground.

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At 12:35 AUS Navy Air Photo
Mission was underway directly

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over the crash site from the
Strategic Air Command, or SAC.

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The belief is that the B52 that
took the photos was part of a

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training exercise taking place
100 miles West of the coast of

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Maine.
The B52 was originally from

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Loring Air Base in Maine, which
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and KC 135 Stratotankers.
The entire operation took 35

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minutes.
This was seemingly enough to

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involve the events of Shag
Harbor in the famed then secret

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project Blue Book, which
eventually made it to the floors

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of the University of Colorado's
US Air Force funded Condon

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Committee and was named the sole
report in the eyes of the

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committee that held any weight
for the continued research into

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UFOs and their origins.
Night of the UFOs The event of

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the crashed object in the sound
off the coast of Shag Harbor was

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far from the only report of
Unidentified Flying objects in

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the sky above Nova Scotia the
night of October 4th, 1967.

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According to authors Chris
Stiles and Graham Sims in their

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book Impact Contact, The Shag
Harbor Incident, the plethora of

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reports that were made were so
many that the night would become

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infamously known as the Night of
the UFOs.

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Around 8:30 PM that night, 12
year old Daryl Dory, his mother

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and his sister Annette were
standing in front of their house

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in Mahoney Bay, Nova Scotia,
watching what they referred to

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as a bright yellow BLOB of light
flying through the sky towards

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another, even larger yellow
light.

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As the smaller light approached
the larger one, they merged

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together into one light and
disappeared, as if someone

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flicked off the light in a room.
The mother had enough of that

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and told her children that it
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Soon after Darrell laid down in
his bed, he witnessed another

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smaller light making incredible
movements at fast speeds in the

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night sky out his window.
Eventually the light disappeared

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under the southern horizon and
on the morning of October 7th,

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Darrell, only 12 years old,
would write a letter to the base

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commander of CFB, Greenwood,
describing the event he

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witnessed above his home quo.
Dear Sir, I'm writing you a

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short note about the shiny
object which plunged into

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Shelbourne Harbor.
I've placed a UFO report in with

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this note.
The thing I saw was in the sky.

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A number of nights I've been
told, but I saw it only once and

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I keep a pretty good track of
what goes on in the night sky.

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The UFOI saw was in the sky the
night before the morning it

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plunged into the harbor.
And the last time I saw it, it

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was heading for Shelbourne.
I close for you.

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Yours truly, Daryl Dory.
At about 9:00 PM that night,

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boat Captain Leo Howard Mercy
and his crew of 18 were fishing

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about 30 miles South of
Samborough Harbor Lighthouse in

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Nova Scotia when the radar
system on board may notice a

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four separate craft, one of
which had three bright red

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lights about 16 miles away, and
the other three were not able to

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be seen and were reading as
about another 6 miles further

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from the one that the crew is
now watching.

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The crew watched the object for
a long time until it shot up

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into the air so far that it was
no longer able to be seen.

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At about 11:00 PM, Captain Mercy
made a report to both the Harbor

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Master in Halifax and the Rescue
Coordination Center, but neither

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could shed any light on what he
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Later that night, the Captain
would be contacted by the Royal

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Canadian Mounted Police
requesting interviews with him

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and his crew.
On October 7th, Captain Mercy

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would officially file a report
with the RCMP, which would

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eventually be filed away with
the Canadian Department of

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National Defense.
At another time that night, 12

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herring boats were along the
north side of Digby Neck when

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Captain Walter Titus noticed
that his crew was stopped and

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watching a bright white light in
the sky to the southwest.

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The light was as big as the full
moon would be in the sky and the

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entire fleet of fishing boats
witnessed the large light split

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up into multiple smaller
triangle lights and retreated

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from the area they were
previously in before retracting

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back into its original shape.
The Lent family was watching the

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event from their home that
overlooked the water in Westport

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of Briar Island.
Their report included

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confirmation from two of the
boat captains in the fishing

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fleet that their vessels were
buzzed closely by one or two of

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the smaller craft.
The family reported that it

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looked as if they were attacking
the two boats, but the other ten

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were completely unbothered.
After about 30 minutes, the

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lights flew off to the southeast
until they vanished beyond the

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horizon.
The radios from all of the boats

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and the water in the area and
more were abuzz all night with

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their own personal thoughts,
experiences and sightings of the

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strange lights.
In the vicinity of Arthur Lake,

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Constable Ian Andrew and forest
game wardens Burt Green, Don

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Brown and Sonny Wagner were
staking out in attempts to catch

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deer poachers.
During the quiet mission, the

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men noticed that bright light
moving from the northwest to the

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southeast, about two to 300 feet
above the treetops.

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Soon after the first light
passed, another smaller one in

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the shape of an inverted candle
flame, popped up in view and

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seemed to be sending sparks off
in all directions before

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descending below the tree line.
Both crafts were heading in the

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direct direction of Shag Harbor
apart from another report from

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the civilian observer of the
crash in the water.

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The Seal Island Light keeper
explained at the bottom of the

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craft looked as if it was on
fire as it was coming down into

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the water.
These are only a few accounts

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that I chose to highlight for
this section of the

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presentation.
Honestly, I could have made a

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three or four part series on
accounts alone, The Shelburne

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Story.
The following days after the

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Shag Harbor incident took place,
there was an additional stir

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created as another search
conducted by the Royal Navy took

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place for about 7 days
investigating the area just off

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the shore of the town of
Shelburne, nearly 30 miles

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northeast of Shag Harbor.
Why would this area be so

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extensively searched instead of
the waters where the craft was

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seen?
The assumption is that the site

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where the craft finally
submerged was not its final

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resting place and it travelled
underwater to the area of

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Shelburne before being left
inoperable.

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And as we will soon see, the
evidence is quite substantial.

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Author Chris Stiles, in his book
Impact Contact the Shag Harbor

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Incident provides a lot of
really good research and facts

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about the following days and the
search conducted by the Canadian

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Navy. 7 divers were assigned to
the mission of recovering this

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unknown object, and their story
has been famously referred to as

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the Shelburne story since the
release of the information

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through many different sources.
These divers were interviewed by

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Styles in his book, and the
names of such remained anonymous

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throughout his work.
But here's what Styles reports

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in the sections of the book
regarding the famed Shelburne

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story.
Quote You know about Shelburne,

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There was no doubt about what
was down there.

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It certainly was nothing from
here.

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Shelburne was the real story.
These were the opening words

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provided the styles by the diver
he refers to as Harry in his

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book.
The ex Navy diver claimed that

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in the first hours of the
mission they witnessed 2 craft

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at the bottom of the harbor.
One was seemingly very damaged

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and another one was pulled up
next to it with beings moving

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about the outside of the craft.
Once this was made aware from

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the brass of the ship, the
mission was shifted from a

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retrieval to an observation
mission.

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They made the ship stay there
for an entire week, just

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watching as these beings made
constant repairs to the broken

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craft.
When they were finished, both

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craft took off towards the Gulf
of Maine and took off into the

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air and flew away.
The specific area in which the

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operation took place was in the
waters halfway off the shore of

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Government Point in Shelburne
and the Cape Roseway Lighthouse

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on Mignuts Island.
This second group was also a

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part of the HMS Granby operation
that was taking place in the

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waters off of Shag Harbor.
The divers who were part of the

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Shelburne operation described
the damaged craft as disk shaped

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and were ordered to surface
immediately after the report was

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made that there were two craft
and multiple beams around the

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area at the bottom of the Bay.
The observations were made via

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microphones and sensors as well
as one of the divers who was

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allowed to enter the water only
to take pictures and film of the

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operations of unknown beings on
unknown craft below the human

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operations at the surface.
According to the multiple divers

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from the operation, on October
11th, 1967, a Soviet sub was

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detected crossing into Canadian
waters.

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The Canadian Royal Navy showed a
challenge to the Soviet invaders

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that were making a beeline
directly towards the submerged

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craft.
Soon after the discovery of the

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Soviets, the craft began to move
toward the open sea of the Gulf

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of Maine before coming to the
surface and taking off into the

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air.
The exit of the two craft were

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witnessed by the Cameron family
of Woods Harbor at 8:30 PM on

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October 11th, 1967.
The official report made by the

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family stated that they
witnessed a craft exiting the

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water at a 45° angle near
Solomon's Island.

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The description of the craft
that was given had it between 50

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to 60 feet wide with six bright
lights flashing in sequence.

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The craft remained for 7 to 8
minutes before the lights

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extinguished and the yellowish
orange lights appeared in their

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place as the craft began its
ascent towards the sky and away

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from their point of view.
The entire incident took about

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15 to 20 minutes.
The entire time that the search

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took place off the coast of
Shelburne, the median crowds

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were transfixed on the search
happening 30 miles away near

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Shag Harbor.
The entire Shelburne operation

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was conducted mostly unbothered
and light wouldn't be shown on

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it in any official format for
years.

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This is now seen as an
incredibly successful bait and

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switch.
Author Chris Stiles did

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phenomenal research into this
subject.

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His efforts involved discussing
the subject with multiple boat

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captains that were and were not
working the night of the 4th.

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By archiving the reports of
these captains and the already

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reported aerial incidents, the
connections drew a very clear

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picture about the events of the
time between October 4th and

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11th of 1967 in the area.
It was during the personal

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conversation with previously
mentioned Captain Mercy that he

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was able to get a clear path the
craft took once it crashed into

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water.
According to Mercy and confirmed

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information with other captains,
the craft originally landed in

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the waters off Woods Harbor,
roughly 7 to 10 nautical miles

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away from Shag Harbor.
The craft quickly floated into

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the water off the coast of Shag
Harbor where it was seen by the

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crowd of people at the Irish
Moss Plant as the craft drifted

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past this point and further out
into the waters near Cape Sable

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before completely submerging and
being eventually found off the

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coast of Shelburne.
Two Kraft then exited the water

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on October 11th, 1967 and were
confirmed to Captain Mercy

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without the knowledge of the
aforementioned Cameron family by

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the worker who was stationed at
the Kate Roseway Lighthouse.

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There is one more detail that
seems to be highly important

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when discussing the Shelburne
story and that is the life of

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the top secret military base
that was in full operation

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during this time, Canadian
Forces Station or CFS Shelburne.

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From the years of 1955 to 1994.
CFS Shelburne operated as the

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country's most top secret base
that supposedly conducted a

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highly important sound
surveillance systems during the

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Cold War and was a joint
operation base between the

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Canadian and US navies.
The incredible audible detection

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system that this base was
capable of is a strong

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indication as to how they were
able to find the submerged craft

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being worked on by unknown
beings, but it is the vicinity

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to the base that really raises
questions as to what may have

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actually been going on over the
years.

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A few retired or removed service
members that had spent time

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stationed at CFS Melbourne would
come forward and admit that

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there were plenty of occasions
in which the systems were used

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to track unidentified submerged
objects.

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Pan Am Flight 160 During the
recording for a Fearnet program,

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ex pilot Ralph Lowinger made
mention of a sighting he had of

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00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:05,160
an unknown object in the sky
when he was piloting a Pan Am

455
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:10,520
flight between New York JFK
Airport and London in October of

456
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,080
1967.
The flight was designed as Pan

457
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,880
Am Flight 160 and the aircraft
was a Boeing 707.

458
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:21,960
After about 60 minutes of the
flight, the plane was a decent

459
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,600
way into the Gulf of Maine.
The aircraft was flying between

460
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,720
29,000 and 33,000 feet at a
speed of about 480 knots in

461
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,480
crystal clear skies at a
location that would later prove

462
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,720
through research of flight logs
that was about 100 miles

463
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,880
southwest of Shag Harbor.
Lowinger, who is Co piloting

464
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,120
Michael Littlepage who is acting
as the flight engineer, and

465
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,000
pilot Kurt Olson, noticed a row
of four lights off in the

466
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,600
distance.
Lowinger described the lights as

467
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,760
being in a stacked formation and
originally believed that the

468
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,920
craft was a standard 707 like
they were flying, but with all

469
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,680
of their lights on.
He was proved incorrect when

470
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,720
another light was illuminated in
the formation that was brighter

471
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,560
than anything on the civilian
aircraft.

472
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,800
Soon after noticing the lights,
the men realized that they were

473
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,480
quickly approaching the lights.
Captain Olson called Boston

474
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,360
twice on their approach to the
ominous lights and asked if

475
00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,080
there was any traffic in the
area.

476
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,920
Boston denied any traffic in
this area on both calls and this

477
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,280
seemed to be reflected in the
plane's radar system as well,

478
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,200
but that wasn't matching what
the men were witnessing with

479
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,360
their own eyes.
The pilots discussed coming out

480
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:35,680
of the automatic flight control
system and going completely

481
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,760
manual if the situation did not
change for the fear of an in air

482
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,400
collision.
But as the seven O 7 came

483
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,640
closer, the lights slowly began
moving out of their flight path

484
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,960
before accelerating completely
out of sight faster than

485
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,920
anything either man had ever
seen at a 45° angle up towards

486
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,760
space.
The entire event lasted 6

487
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,360
minutes and when asked if they
wanted to file a UFO report,

488
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,960
Captain Olson, now deceased,
denied the option.

489
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,760
After a review of the flight
log, it was proven that this

490
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:12,200
flight took off from JFK at
11:38 AM Eastern Time on October

491
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:18,120
2nd, 1967, almost exactly 48
hours prior to the events of

492
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,040
Shag Harbor.
Additional information would be

493
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,000
provided by author Chris Stiles
in his Chapter 16 of his book

494
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,800
Impact to contact the Shag
Harbor incident when he

495
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,960
reconstructs an interview with
the flight engineer of that

496
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,800
flight, Michael Little Page.
Little page would add two

497
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,320
different details to Loenger's
account, the first being that

498
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,720
there was in fact an entire
second crew consisting of

499
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,880
another copilot and flight
engineer on board that were

500
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,760
brought into the flight station
when they were approaching the

501
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,080
lights.
This makes 6 total professionals

502
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,440
that witnessed this event.
The second was that little Paige

503
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,120
was extremely certain that the
lights that they saw initially

504
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,360
were internal lights and that
the bright light that was

505
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,040
illuminated in their direction
was the only external light.

506
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,840
This actually adds a whole other
aspect to many other UFO

507
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,880
sightings that I never really
thought of.

508
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,920
What if the lights that people
report coming from UFOs are

509
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,280
actually mostly internal rather
than external?

510
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,200
What was it?
So we have a phenomenal case of

511
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,680
a crash saucer in the waters off
the coast of Shag Harbor, Nova

512
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,520
Scotia.
What exactly was it?

513
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,400
I think the evidence very
strongly points to something

514
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,040
actually crashing in the water
on October 4th, 1967.

515
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,720
The sheer number of witnesses
proves that, in my opinion, I am

516
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,560
not a component to the mass
hallucination phenomenon,

517
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,920
especially in this particular
event.

518
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,760
There were just too many people
and to think that people were

519
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,920
hallucinating in different
locations about the same thing

520
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,880
for a week is kind of ridiculous
in my mind and seems like a lazy

521
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,760
answer.
No, I definitely think that

522
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,200
there was something in the sky
that night, something crashed in

523
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,960
the water and something was seen
on the ocean floor.

524
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,480
But again, what was it In
Chapter 7 of author Graham Sims

525
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,640
Book and Back to Contact The
Shag Harbor Incident?

526
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,880
Sims interviews then reporter of
the Halifax Chronicle Herald Ray

527
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,320
McLeod about his thoughts on the
matter.

528
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,680
McLeod was the reporter at the
desk that night and this event

529
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,880
was plopped on his lap to write
an article for.

530
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,280
He was completely taken back to
find out that this article was

531
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,600
on the front page and even had a
bold red headline to highlight

532
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,120
it.
But that wasn't the strange

533
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:31,840
part.
Three days later, the local

534
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,360
press completely stopped talking
and reporting about it.

535
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,560
It was like someone flipped a
switch and the topic

536
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,720
disappeared.
The events were still unfolding

537
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,960
with the search and the sounds
still taking place and the then

538
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,520
unknown Shelburne story being
played out off the shore of CFS

539
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,840
Shelburne.
So his thoughts drifted to it

540
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,360
being covered up.
But why?

541
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,160
His best thoughts and rumors
going around at the time was

542
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,880
that the craft was a top secret
experimental craft belonging to

543
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,280
the US military, most likely due
to the peak of the Cold War

544
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,360
which would happen in and the
years around 1967.

545
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,000
This would explain the sudden
drop in context and scuttlebutt

546
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,920
This would later concrete itself
in Mcleod's thoughts when the

547
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,840
Shelburne story finally was
brought to the forefront as it

548
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,280
then solidified the bait and
switch efforts to cover up the

549
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:25,520
true happenings under the water.
Earlier in the same book, author

550
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,240
Chris Stiles gives a brief
description of the Canadian

551
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,480
Department of National Defense
Sub Branch known as Air Desk.

552
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,320
He explains that the Air Desk is
the more public Canadian version

553
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,720
of the US Air Force's Project
Blue Book.

554
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,320
The exception is that Air Desk
openly investigated reports of

555
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,240
UFO sightings and events.
Going back to Chapter 7, Sims

556
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,400
points out that one of Mcleod's
sources in his original article

557
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,800
was a man from the Air Desk by
the Dame of Squadron Leader

558
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,080
William Bain, who was stationed
in Ottawa at the time.

559
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,120
The headline of Sims article
quoted Bain in saying quote

560
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,640
could be something concrete in
Shag Harbor.

561
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,320
This lends the belief that the
Canadian military was unaware of

562
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,600
an experimental high tech U.S.
military aircraft flying through

563
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,560
the skies of Nova Scotia that
night.

564
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,600
But again, it doesn't really
dismiss it either.

565
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,200
What about a natural phenomenon?
Some people have come out

566
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,120
claiming that this was a simple
misidentification of a meteorite

567
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,200
crashing into the waters of Shag
Harbor.

568
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,120
This doesn't make sense to the
sheer amount of reports that

569
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,720
claim that these craft not only
moved independently, but also

570
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,120
made mention of multiple craft
either joining in with another

571
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,720
large craft or separating from
another natural phenomenon just

572
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,960
does not move like that.
These light crafts that were

573
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,800
seen in the sky over Nova Scotia
that night were completely and

574
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,920
independently and intelligently
navigated by something they were

575
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,720
not rocks falling out of the
sky.

576
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,720
Other cases in the area there
were a few very important and

577
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,160
high viz events with UFOs in
Canada in 1967.

578
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,960
To some this may lend to the
idea that there were

579
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,400
experimental craft being flown
around the rural areas of Canada

580
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,280
just due to the multiple
accounts in a given time frame.

581
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,280
The thought behind this is that
tests of specific aircraft or

582
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,000
components of aircraft also are
done within time frames and stay

583
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,320
pretty consistent until given
time frame is expired.

584
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,800
But just to compare this event
with a few others, let's take a

585
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,560
quick look.
A deeper look at these events

586
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,440
will be done in future episodes
of Infinite Rabbit Hole, but for

587
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,680
now let's go over enough to run
a comparison Falcon Lake AKA the

588
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,000
Mitchell Act case of May 20th,
1967.

589
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,160
A 137 days prior to the Shag
Harbor incident, 57 year old

590
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,800
geologist and engineer Stephen
Mitchellak was prospecting for

591
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,000
quartz in the Falcon Lake area
of Manitoba when this infamous

592
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,560
event took place.
According to Mitchellak, he

593
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,600
suffered first degree burns on
his chest from the exhaust of

594
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,760
what he believed to be an
experimental craft.

595
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,480
The event included not one but
two of these craft and were

596
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,160
first described as cigars shaped
with humps.

597
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,400
The craft changed their general
shape a few times, and one was

598
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,560
glowing a bright red as if it
was burning steel. 1 landed 150

599
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,840
feet away from Michalak and the
other hovered over him at about

600
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,000
15 feet before taking off upward
and disappearing.

601
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,800
As he approached the one on the
ground, he smelled a strong

602
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,560
scent of sulfur.
He could hear what he believed

603
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,000
to be human voices and attempted
to yell out in a few different

604
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,840
languages to see if anyone
needed help, but he never got a

605
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,199
reply and could not understand
what they were saying as the

606
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,159
sound of their voice was muffled
by either the noise of what he

607
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:44,600
assumed was an intake fan or
whatever was used to make it

608
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,199
hover in place.
The craft was completely

609
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,840
seamless and before he got too
close the exhaust kicked up and

610
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,320
the craft jetted off away from
his position.

611
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,800
The exhaust was so hot that his
shirt caught fire and a grid

612
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,640
shaped burn was left on his
chest.

613
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:02,040
There are a few comparisons to
make in this event and the Shag

614
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,600
Harbor incident one, the smell
of sulfur.

615
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,960
This is probably the single most
common and consistent detail in

616
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,520
all high level UFO cases.
We specifically have mentioned

617
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,360
this in our coverage of the
Rendlesham and Kecksburg cases

618
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,760
as well.
Another detail shared is the

619
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,840
changing of the shape of the
craft as well as the bright

620
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,520
burning red light which looked
like burning red hot steel.

621
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,240
Other than that, the only other
really comparable context here

622
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:32,040
is that it was a UFO and it was
in 1967 in Canada.

623
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,360
But one particular detail that
stands out from this event

624
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,440
compared to any that I have
researched is the presence of

625
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:43,040
Human Voices, St.
John's, NL 1952, although not in

626
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,000
the same year as the Shag Harbor
incident.

627
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:49,480
There was another eerily similar
account that took place in 1952

628
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,760
off the coast of St.
John's, NL.

629
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,040
Graham Sims goes over this event
briefly in his book co-authored

630
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,680
with Chris Stiles, Impact to
contact The Shag Harbor

631
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,320
Incident.
Here he mentions Richard French,

632
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,720
a retired Lieutenant Colonel in
the US Air Force who was

633
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:09,000
attached to Project Blue Book as
a lead investigator during the

634
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,080
Citizens Hearing on Disclosure
in Front of Congress of

635
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,880
Washington, DC in 2013.
French explains a specific case

636
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,960
he investigated that involved
the down brightly lighted craft

637
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,000
in the waters off the coast of
St.

638
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,520
John's in Newfoundland.
The scene was almost identical

639
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,800
to Shag Harbor.
The local Wharf had at least 100

640
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,920
onlookers who watched as this
thing drifted on top of the

641
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,480
water before sinking.
French himself mentioned that

642
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,960
when he arrived on the scene,
the efforts that were put

643
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,920
forward involved watching 2 Gray
beings work from a second

644
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,160
submerged craft on the damaged
craft underwater.

645
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,680
I honestly do not feel as if I
need to point out the specific

646
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,160
similarities, so I will stick
with the differences where there

647
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,560
only seems to be a few, those
being that this happened 15

648
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,960
years prior and 800 miles away.
But both take place in waters

649
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:03,320
that are directly connected to a
general area of the Atlantic

650
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,000
Ocean, secret underwater alien
base off of southeastern coast

651
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,280
of Canada.
Who knows, but it's worth

652
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,760
thinking about.
One thing that Sims points out

653
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,280
as a very good observation, in
my opinion, is that this would

654
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,280
have been a good precursor for
the Department of National

655
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,720
Defense to know what to do in a
situation like this, and maybe

656
00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:26,000
why they set up the old bait and
switch in the Shag Harbor

657
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,280
incident.
Bible Hill, Truro, NS August 8th

658
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:35,200
and 25th, 1967.
Also included in Sims book was

659
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,760
the account of residents 200
miles northeast of Shag Harbor

660
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,680
who witnessed craft in the sky
that flashlights in sequence.

661
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,240
The time was 1:30 AM on August
8th when reports began coming

662
00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:51,160
into Constable Noseworthy, who
would eventually confirm these

663
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,440
reports with a sighting of his
own. 2 weeks later on August

664
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,360
25th, just 10 days prior to Shag
Harbor, people reported seeing

665
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,360
lights close to the ground that
seemed to be on top of craft of

666
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,040
some sort.
These lights were also pulsating

667
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,120
in a sequence similar to one
seen on October 4th in

668
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,680
southwestern Nova Scotia.
One witness, a Miss Cooper and

669
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,680
her mother watched the craft for
an hour, continually ascending

670
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,040
and descending from about 100
feet to 1000 feet and back.

671
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,360
The Smith Encounter, November
25th, 1970 in Bear Point,

672
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:28,120
immediately next to Shag Harbor.
Styles includes a chapter

673
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,120
strictly on the Smith encounter
in his book which outlines a

674
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,280
particular experience by the men
previously mentioned in this

675
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,800
presentation, Lawrence Smith and
his brother Alfred, who was Norm

676
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,560
Smith's father from the account
where they followed the police

677
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,120
cruiser to the Irish Moss
Factory to witness the craft

678
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,520
loading at sea around 9:50 PM on
November 25th, 1970, the Smith

679
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,040
brothers would have a more
personal experience with an

680
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,000
unknown craft.
It began with the brothers

681
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,280
spotting orange lights in a
horizontal formation, evenly

682
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,800
separated in the sky over Bear
Point while traveling by car.

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00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,560
The car came to a complete stop
on its own while traveling 45

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00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,880
mph, and as the car slowed, the
light on the far left turned

685
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,440
off.
The brothers witnessed the

686
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,840
lights for 20 to 30 seconds and
as their car stopped, the radio

687
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,520
kicked out and stopped working.
The light came back and

688
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,960
disappeared again before the
entire line of lights

689
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,520
disappeared for good.
The morning after, the local

690
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,600
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
station that received the

691
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,800
Smith's report received a phone
call from Canadian Forces

692
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,320
Stationed Barrington's Colonel
Rushton requesting information

693
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,080
specifically about any UFO
sightings in the area from the

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00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,440
previous evening.
The Colonel explained that one

695
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,600
of his men, a Corporal Timothy
Nielsen, had also witnessed

696
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,200
something in the area, and he
wanted to compare Nielsen's

697
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,560
report with one from The Smiths.
Nielsen's sighting happened

698
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,640
roughly 10 minutes prior to The
Smiths, about 8 to 10 miles.

699
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,640
As the crow flies away in
Smithville, he reported seeing 4

700
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,960
orange lights about 3 to 400
feet away.

701
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,120
Nielsen and his girlfriend Mary,
who was in the car with him,

702
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,480
reported that one of the lights,
which were in a horizontal

703
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,160
formation at equal intervals,
had gone out and come back on.

704
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,960
The Nielsen encounter also only
took about 30 seconds.

705
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,400
That's it.
Travellers, that is my entire

706
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,040
report on the Shag Harbor
incident.

707
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,840
Some really weird stuff that
happened.

708
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,000
Let me tell you, I'm going to be
honest with you, I didn't really

709
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,800
know a lot about this event
until I I dove into this book

710
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,520
and and thank you Justin.
This was a an absolutely

711
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,720
phenomenal event to research.
Absolutely incredible.

712
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,280
And I I truly do believe that
something happened.

713
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,960
People witness something.
Something crashed into the water

714
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,280
and floated away.
This is probably one of the

715
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,480
better events with the most
compelling evidence.

716
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,680
I found a lot of evidence.
I even found evidence in Project

717
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,760
Blue Book.
There's definitely a lot here.

718
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,960
I know I'm saying that a lot,
but that's because there's a lot

719
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,520
I don't know how else to put it.
Travelers.

720
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,080
Anyways, that was my report on
Shag Harbor.

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