Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 25: The Shag Harbour Incident
Posted By Randy on October 25, 2011
The skies over Nova Scotia were a source of great interest on the night of 4 October 1967 as large numbers of witnesses, including members of the Royal Canadian Mounted police (RCMP), observed moving and hovering lights in the sky off most of the province’s south shore, from Lunenburg west to Shag Harbour. At approximately 23:20 hours ADT, in an event that was again widely witnessed, a large object descended to near water level off Shag Harbour where it hovered a while before “disappearing”, presumed to have sunk.
Observers reported what they still believed to be a plane down, and fishing boats were dispatched to the “crash” site in search of wreckage, survivors, or bodies. All they found was a bright yellow foam that smelled of sulfur dioxide coating the surface of the water until it eventually dissipated.
An extensive military response ensued, the results of which are cloaked in mystery, but the people of Shag Harbour have never forgotten, nor have a few determined investigators who have been picking away at the records and reports that came out of the event since the day it occurred.
Today, Shag Harbour hosts an annual “Incident Festival” and has a museum dedicated to the event, both organized and operated by the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society.
The case unfolded in a part of Nova Scotia that Mrs. LFM and I know well, and the following Discovery documentary discloses information we have not previously heard of. Before I turn you loose to watch it, I have only two criticisms to make on what is otherwise a well made piece of work:
- UFO is the normally abbreviated form of Unidentified Flying Object. All this means is that something is airborne and you don’t know what it is. Regrettably, both the term and its short form have become synonymous with intelligently directed air or space craft that are not of earthly origin. The irony there is that if you know the thing you’re looking at is an alien spacecraft, then by definition it is no longer a UFO. It is now merely mysterious, and quite probably suspicious. Keep that in mind as you watch the documentary.
- The Shag Harbour incident actually spawned a comic book presentation of events, and this is mentioned in the film. Regrettably, images from the comic are repeatedly used to illustrate events, and I personally found that a bit tiring, no matter how well drawn, or faithful to reports, they might be.
Other than that though, sit back and watch The Shag Harbour UFO Incident – The New Roswell, presented here in five parts.
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