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What Happened In Shag Harbour : Beyond The Stars - Special Series
Larry HendersonLTVNews.com
Saturday, July 2 2005, 9:32AM

As promised in an earlier story, we will at last visit Shag Harbour,
site of a documented UFO sighting in Nova Scotia.

At approximately 11pm the night of October 5, 1967, an object was
sighted in the dark sky above the roadway leading to Shag Harbour. RCMP
received their first report from Laurie Wicken, who had been driving
along the road with four friends when the object appeared above and in
front of his car. They could see four flashing lights and determined the
object was descending, likely to land in the harbour. Wicken followed
the lights, eventually ending up at the shore of the Sound, a body of
water adjacent to Shag Harbour.

As the five occupants left the car and approached the water, they
noticed that the flashing lights had stopped and that the object was on
the water, or just above it with a single pale yellow light. They
estimated that the object was about 800 feet away.
It was a short drive to Woods Harbour where there was a pay phone.
Wicken drove there to call RCMP and report a downed aircraft. The
Corporal on duty treated the call with suspicion but after Wicken's
call, more reports came in confirming the first report. The Corporal
rang the phone booth, telling Wicken to meet officers on their way to
investigate.
Thus began the tale of Shag Harbour and the subsequent investigation.
With the arrival of the RCMP officers, rescue efforts were of prime
concern as they assumed the object was an aircraft. While one officer
went to contact the Rescue Center in Halifax, the Corporal tried to
round up local fishermen and head out by boat. In the short time since
they arrived, the object was beginning to go under.

The first boats out would find nothing but a slick of foam in the area
where the object had been seen. The slick stretched half a mile, was
about 80 feet wide and three to four inches thick. It was reported that
the foam smelled like sulphur, and that bubbles boiled up from below the
surface of the water. After an hour of searching, the Coast Guard
arrived only to inform the RCMP that they had learned all military and
civilian aircraft were accounted for. No planes were missing! The search
continued until 3am and then resumed the following morning with still no
sign of the craft.
Maritime Command ordered out seven divers to investigate from HMCS
Granby. They investigated the site for two days before calling the
search off and announcing that, "nothing was recovered or found."

The RCAF, and the RCMP both classed the case as a crashed Unidentified
Flying Object and assumed that was it over.
Shag Harbour was not about to be forgotten.
There was no answer as to what happened that night in 1967 or how so
many people saw the object. One thing for certain, is the documentation
and paper trail that exists. The witness list includes three RCMP
officers, an Air Canada Captain, local residents and fishermen along the
Nova Scotia coast. They are considered, pretty reliable witnesses. None
of the original reports by citizens termed the object a UFO. It was the
Air Force and the RCMP who used the term. CFS Barrington was not far
from Shag Horbour and was an important military base, part of the NORAD
Defense System. This may account for an unusual occurrence such as the
one witnessed, and have a military explanation.

Rumours and stories abound, as some residents claim a second search
under the waters near Shag Harbour, was carried out. One version has
items retrieved from the crash site, while another says the craft was
observed, and following repairs seen leaving on the 11th of October.

Your guess is as good as anyone's, but one thing is for sure, the
government is not likely to tell us anytime soon if they found something
or where it came from.

Fly with me next time,.................................BEYOND THE STARS