3. Shag Harbor

Canada's Shag Harbour UFO story is better-documented than the Roswell Incident, and might represent a genuine encounter with extra-terrestrials.

On October 4, 1967, multiple residents of the small town of Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia, reported orange lights moving in the sky. When these were observed diving towards the water, several people believed they were witnessing an airplane crash, and reported it to the authorities. R.C.M.P. Constable Tom Pound, en route to investigate, himself saw four orange lights, which he believed were attached to a craft, perhaps sixty feet in length. At the waterfront, multiple witnesses, including Pound, and Corporal Victor Werbieki and Constable Ron O'Brien. watched the lights move over the water and then disappear, either over the horizen or into the ocean itself (witnesses disagree on this point). By the time Coast Guard Cutter 101 and privately-owned boats arrived, the "craft" had vanished.

The Canadian Navy's HMCS Granby was ordered to the location; divers found nothing and, after serveral days, the search was called off.

No military agency records any missing planes or other craft.

Three game wardens in the area later also reported seeing the moving lights.

Twenty-six years later, U.S. miltary sources did reveal that, later that night, twenty-five miles away, something was detected by an Canadian submarine detection base, and personnel reported seeing two UFOs resembling those observed at Shag Harbor. Unidentified personnel allegedly claim that the two UFOs were tracked to a location off the coast of Maine, where both emerged from the water and took to the skies.

The Shag Harbour Incident stands as a well-documented instance where multiple witnesses, including those in positions of official responsibility, observed at least one aircraft which cannot be identified.

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