1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,600 172 miles away from the nearest international airport and 178 miles away from any Air Force 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:20,080 testing range, Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia is an unlikely location for sightings of unidentified 3 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:21,320 spacecraft. 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,560 But UFO investigator Chris Stiles has come to this tiny outpost on the eastern edge of 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,800 North America because of stories his grandfather told him about one strange October night in 6 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,000 1967. 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,880 Stiles has uncovered an extraordinary paper trail of evidence confirming that something 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,080 anomalous, something very unconventional, crashed into the Atlantic off the coast of 9 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,040 Shag Harbor, just as his grandfather had always described. 10 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:54,760 He told me about a 60 foot disc with four bright white lights that had hovered for a 11 00:00:54,760 --> 00:01:00,160 time in the air, tilted at a 45 degree angle and slid down and hit the water surface with 12 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,880 a loud noise. 13 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,480 Nearly 30 years after the crash, Stiles has discovered that there were many other eyewitnesses 14 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,720 who still remember the crash like it was yesterday. 15 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,920 We thought it was a plane crash the way it turned out. 16 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,480 We don't know what it was. 17 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,480 Lori Wickens is a local fisherman, born and raised around Shag Harbor. 18 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,280 He was driving at night with several friends when he spotted the strange craft. 19 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,480 We'd just come over that hill and we was driving towards Woods Harbor and we'd see 20 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,480 lights. 21 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,120 We thought it was an airplane that was coming on and going off. 22 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,560 Four in sequence, one would come on, two in three, four, then they'd all be out for a 23 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,320 few seconds and it'd start over. 24 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:45,640 Wickens and his friends saw the object crashing to the harbor they called the RCMP who responded 25 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,600 to the impact site. 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:53,440 At that time there was a single light, maybe a half mile offshore, quite visible but it 27 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:54,880 was really dark. 28 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:00,920 I was left on shore to keep an eye on the light and to watch if anything happened to 29 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,560 it and briefly interview the witnesses as I was doing it. 30 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,800 Within five minutes, seven minutes the light extinguished. 31 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:13,000 The RCMP alerted the Coast Guard and until they arrived local fisherman, scoured Shag 32 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,040 Harbor looking for survivors what was thought to be a light plane crash. 33 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,320 Captain Lauren Smith was among the first to reach the impact site. 34 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,960 All I saw was some heavy yellow foam floating on the water. 35 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,920 It was thick like shaving cream but it was about three inches thick on top of the water 36 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,440 so there was no smell. 37 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,600 And I thought then well you know if a plane crashed and it skipped across the water for 38 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:41,240 a wave it wouldn't make a foam but then I couldn't figure out why it would be yellow. 39 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,240 Early search and rescue efforts were conducted in full view of the public. 40 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,240 Research was made. 41 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,080 Newspapers carried the story as front page news. 42 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,600 Then without warning there was no more public disclosure. 43 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,720 Christiles believes this is because of what may have been found there. 44 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:06,160 I believe that this was a device, possibly a craft, possibly a probe from another intelligent 45 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,440 civilization. 46 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,280 Not of this earth. 47 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,840 This has reached this conclusion after examining hundreds of documents obtained through the 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,680 Canadian version of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. 49 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:27,040 Among the documents he has uncovered is this Canadian Armed Forces Memo stating that the 50 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:33,140 Rescue Coordination Center conducted preliminary investigation and discounted the possibilities 51 00:03:33,140 --> 00:03:40,560 that the sighting was produced by an aircraft, flare or any other known objects. 52 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,280 There were a number of related sightings that night. 53 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:50,840 In those hours before an Air Canada flight saw UFO activity on the horizon. 54 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:51,840 They were greatly disturbed. 55 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:58,760 There was apparently large explosions occurring and as the phenomena approached the aircraft 56 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:03,880 there was a lot of communication with the towers and eventually it was decided to vacate 57 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,680 the airspace and seek alternate routes. 58 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:16,600 Even more eyewitness accounts were found in a secret RCMP file. 59 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,160 Captain Leo Howard Mersey was the master of a Drager. 60 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,400 He had 18 men aboard. 61 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:28,040 All were witnesses to four UFOs in the distance on the water surface. 62 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:33,160 They had radar returns and after observing them for two hours one of them became airborne 63 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:39,160 and arced in the sky southwest toward the Shag Harbor area which was 175 miles away. 64 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,600 There was a public search for the craft began in Shag Harbor behind the scenes. 65 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,120 Many people have come including locals to tell a story that while this operation was 66 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,920 going on in Shag Harbor there was another operation up the coast about 25 miles away 67 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,520 off of Government Point. 68 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,280 In 1967 Government Point was the site of a super secret military base. 69 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:04,760 Former base divers claim the search at Shag Harbor diverted attention away from the UFO's 70 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,800 final resting place off Government Point. 71 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,600 While they were down there there was still activity going on. 72 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:18,000 They were reluctant to confirm details but they knew that this thing was being repaired. 73 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,560 As one person told me the other object was standing nines for it as the expression they 74 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:28,760 used sort of overlooking and giving it protection assistance whatever was necessary and they 75 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,400 were quite certain from their experiences that this was nothing that was produced here 76 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,560 on Earth. 77 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:40,480 Some of the divers insist that they did indeed bring up some debris. 78 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,920 Styles searched for documentation to support the divers' claims and found it in this letter 79 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,880 written two months after the Shag Harbor incident. 80 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:53,680 It specifically mentions DND, Department of National Defense UFO material available for 81 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,560 review. 82 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:00,040 Based on this information Chris Styles is mounting a recovery operation to search for 83 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,360 more UFO debris. 84 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,040 Dends will document this search and bring you the findings on an upcoming edition of 85 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:08,680 our program.