Shag Harbour UFO incident
alleged UFO crash off the coast of Nova Scotia
The Shag Harbour UFO incident was the reported impact of a large, unknown object into waters near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast, on 4 October 1967. The reports were investigated by various Canadian civilian (RCMP and Canadian Coast Guard) and military (Canadian Forces Navy and Air Force) agencies as well as the U.S. Condon Committee.
Pre-incident aerial phenomena
Air Canada flight 305
Flight 305 was serviced by a plane bound from the Halifax International Airport to Toronto. While flying over Sherbrooke and Saint-Jean, Quebec at 3,658 metres (12,001 ft), Air Canada First Officer Robert Ralph pointed out to Captain Pierre Charbonneau that there was something strange out the left side of the aircraft at 7:15 pm. In his report, the captain reported an object tracking along on a parallel course a few miles away. He described it as a brilliantly lit, rectangular object with a string of smaller lights trailing behind it. At 7:19 pm, the pilots noticed a sizeable silent explosion near the large object. Two minutes later, a second explosion occurred which faded to a blue cloud around the object.
Yellow object
Darrel Dorey, his sister Kaykay, and his mother were sitting on their front porch in Mahone Bay, when they noticed a large object manoeuvring above the southwestern horizon. The next day, he wrote a letter to RCAF Greenwood Base Commander asking what was flying over the water that evening, as he had never seen anything like it.
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