Shag Harbour incident
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Shag Harbour incident memorial park
The small park at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, commemorating the object seen entering the water on 4 October 1967 and the naval search that followed. Location photograph · context.
SnowyBadger · 2017 ↗CC BY-SA 4.0Licence terms ↗On the night of 4 October 1967 residents of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia reported a lighted object descend into the water; RCMP officers saw a light on the surface and a Canadian navy dive search over several days found nothing. Canadian records call it an unidentified flying object. The corpus does not discuss the case.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 43.5000, -65.7100 approximate · Canada |
| Official response | The Canadian Department of National Defence recorded the event as an unidentified flying object after a navy diving search recovered no debris; the file remains open in Library and Archives Canada. |
Reported by
- shag harbour residents witness residents and fishermen
- rcmp barrington passage law-enforcement RCMP officers
Investigated by
- royal canadian navy military
- canadian department of national defence government
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