HISTORICAL

Shag Harbour UFO incident — Multiple witnesses watched an object crash into the waters off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. The Royal Canadian Navy launched a search that became Canada's only government-acknowledged UFO investigation.

On the night of October 4, 1967, multiple witnesses reported a glowing object descending and striking the water off Shag Harbour, a small fishing village on the south shore of Nova Scotia. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Forces conducted an air-and-sea search, and the case was officially logged by the Department of National Defence as an unexplained UFO sighting — the only such designation in Canadian government archives. 【Background】 Shag Harbour was a community of about 100 households dependent on lobster fishing. The night of October 4 was clear and cold. Around 11:20 p.m. witnesses on the shore, along Highway 3, and on a fishing boat in the harbour reported four orange lights flashing in unison across the sky. 【The Encounter】 The object — described variously as 60 feet across and clearly structured — descended at a 45-degree angle, made a whistling sound, and impacted the harbour with a substantial splash about half a mile offshore. A yellow foam was observed spreading on the water near the impact point. RCMP constables at the local detachment, who had also seen the descent, mobilised local fishermen, who took small boats out to look for survivors of what was initially assumed to be an aircraft crash. 【Investigation】 HMCS Granby, a Royal Canadian Navy ship, dispatched divers who searched the harbour floor for three days. No wreckage, debris, or bodies were recovered. The Department of Transport and the Department of National Defence both opened files. The DND file, declassified decades later, formally classifies the case as an "Unidentified Flying Object." No aircraft were missing from Canadian, US, or NATO sources. 【Modern Assessment】 Shag Harbour is notable for the breadth of independent observers (civilian, RCMP, Navy), the prompt official response, the surviving government files, and the absence of any conventional explanation despite a thorough multi-agency search. The village now hosts a small UFO research centre, and the case is frequently cited as the most thoroughly documented and least-contested Canadian UFO event. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident

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Source: Wikipedia