1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,000 MUSIC 2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000 It's a mystery that has haunted a community for decades. 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Something strange is seen plunging into the water 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 of Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia, on the evening of October 4, 1967. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Cases like Shag Harbor are definitely something unconventional. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 They're not easily explained or explained away. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Something was there in the sky and it was lit up 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 and the lights was on and it came down. 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 There are dozens of eye witnesses, but few explanations. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 A lot of people saw something going to the water 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 and no one has ever given a cause or name to it. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Local fishermen, the Coast Guard and Navy divers search 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 but are unable to find any evidence of a crash. 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 We couldn't believe that there was nothing. 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 There was no debris and there was not so much as a tin can. 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 It was something that had never happened before. 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 They didn't know what to think. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 The town is left in a state of uncertainty 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 and with no official explanation from the Canadian authorities, 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 rumors of a government cover-up begin to emerge. 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 I guess there was a considerable amount of secrecy 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000 about the whole mission because they didn't reveal anything to us. 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 I think everybody that night had a feeling 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 that they were keeping something from us, 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 but we didn't know what it was. 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 But an investigation 25 years later 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 produces declassified government documents 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 and some startling revelations. 29 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 What bothers me about it is that we're being treated like children 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 and we're not supposed to know this. 31 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 It's one of those cases that defines UFO reality. 32 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 In the next hour, eye witnesses, UFO researchers 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 and recently uncovered government documents 34 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 will shed new light on the most comprehensive 35 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 and mysterious UFO case in Canada's history. 36 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:08,000 MUSIC 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:19,000 MUSIC 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 October 4, 1967. 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Something unusual is happening in the skies 40 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 over the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 During the waning hours of the evening, 42 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 dozens of people are confounded by a series of inexplicable lights in the sky. 43 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 It's a date that will later become known as the night of the UFOs. 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 It was a clear night. The stars were out. 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 It was a cold night. There was a light wind. 46 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 A beautiful night. Starlight. 47 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 The night of October 4, 1967, 48 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 it struck with me for several reasons 49 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 and perhaps primary is the principle the scene is believing. 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 At 10 p.m. in the town of Dartmouth, 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 12-year-old Chris Stiles is getting ready for bed 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 and takes one last look out his bedroom window. 53 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 He is dumbfounded at what he sees. 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I saw a strange orange light that was moving along the shoreline 55 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 and it was like nothing I'd ever seen. 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 It was dim and hard to discern any detail. 57 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 So I quickly grabbed my jacket, ran up the front door 58 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 and went down to the waterfront to get a better look. 59 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 A quick sprint past the warehouses 60 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 brings Stiles face to face with a mysterious apparition. 61 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 When I got to the waterfront, what I saw was a strange orange sphere 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 perhaps 60 feet through 63 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 and it was the color of an iron poker when it first glows in a fireplace 64 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 if you let it get hot long enough. 65 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 It was hovering following the shoreline, perhaps 10 feet over the water. 66 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Made no sound. 67 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I was quite fearful and after a time ran from the scene. 68 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 The object drifts across the harbor as Stiles flees the area 69 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 but the initial shock leaves an indelible impression. 70 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:07,000 I knew in my life at 12 for the first time what real fear was. 71 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Stiles' encounter with the UFO is only the prelude to a flurry of sightings 72 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 that explode throughout Nova Scotia that night. 73 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 One hour later, the small fishing village of Shag Harbor 74 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 on the southern tip of the peninsula begins to erupt with similar sightings. 75 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,000 18-year-old fisherman Laurie Wickens is driving home with three friends 76 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 when something odd in the sky catches his attention. 77 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 We were on our way to Wood's Harbor 78 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 and through Shag Harbor just past the post office 79 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 we walked out through the window and we see light 80 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 and there was two on and three on and there was four on 81 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 and it seemed to be flying along just level. 82 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 A yellowish-orange-ish color, I guess the color of the lights was. 83 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Racing west along Highway 3, Wickens attempts to keep the strange lights in view 84 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 but the noiseless objects begin descending at a 45-degree angle 85 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 and drop below the tree line. 86 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 It seemed to be going along with us 87 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 and then when we got to the bottom of the hill we lost sight of it. 88 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:18,000 A few miles away, 18-year-old Norman Smith is riding home with a friend 89 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,000 through Bear Point Woods and sees something similar in the sky. 90 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 We were chasing the girls and we were coming on our way home 91 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 and when we first noticed the lights in the sky. 92 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 The sight of the strange illuminated shapes is enough to make them pull over and watch. 93 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 We stopped alongside the road. 94 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 I got out, was looking at the lights. 95 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 It was stopped in mid-air. 96 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 There was five lights. 97 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 The lowest light to the ground was like if you were looking at a full moon 98 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 and then the next one just kept getting smaller, the next one smaller. 99 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 There was no sound, you couldn't hear anything. 100 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Smith gazes at the lights for a few moments as curiosity grows into unsettling concern. 101 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 I know I was frightened because I didn't know what it was. 102 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Never seen lights like that before in my life. 103 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Down the road, Lori Wickens and his friends are still in hot pursuit of the strange object. 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,000 They suddenly see a bright flash and hear a whistling sound like a falling bomb. 105 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,000 They believe it may be falling into the harbor, so they speed toward the waterfront. 106 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 The minute we come over the top of the hill we can see the light in the water. 107 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 At the time we thought it was a plane. 108 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Wickens pulls into a vacant parking lot by the shore to get a better look. 109 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:49,000 The light we see in the harbor looked like a half a globe, a yellowish-colored light. 110 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 We could see it drifting down the harbor. 111 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:58,000 That was the first thing coming to mind, it's called Collier's A-B and report that we'd seen a plane crash because that's what we thought it was. 112 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Wickens returns to his car, races to the nearest payphone and calls the regional headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country's national police force. 113 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 It is known throughout Canada as the RCMP. 114 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 The Corporal on duty answers the call at 11.25 and hears Wickens' excited voice. 115 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:24,000 The mountaineers wanted to know what we were drinking and we said we wasn't drinking and wanted to know the number for the phone booth. 116 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:32,000 After listening to Wickens' story, the RCMP officer on duty is skeptical, but as soon as he hangs up, other calls start pouring in. 117 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:39,000 The calls come in from nearby Bear Point, Cape Sable Island and Maggie Garen's Point, all reporting the same thing. 118 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,000 With so many witnesses, the RCMP has no choice but to take this seriously. 119 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:53,000 We got the car to leave and then he called back and wanted to know where he could meet us so we could see it in the water. 120 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 And I told him he'd be by the moss plank because that's where it was right off of there. 121 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Meanwhile, eyewitness Norman Smith is also busy alerting people about the mysterious object above the harbor. 122 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:15,000 We drove up to my father's place and I ran in the house, got my father and he came out door. 123 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:24,000 We stood looking at the lights in the sky and it wasn't too long, probably a couple of minutes, and we see the police car coming and its red lights flashing. 124 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Smith follows the speeding police cruiser to a shoreside parking lot where a crowd of witnesses has gathered. 125 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,000 When we got there, there was, I think, 16 people, including the police officers. 126 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:47,000 And they were local, local people. They all seen the lights come down to the ground and they watched it land in the water. 127 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Civilians and the RCMP officers on the scene observed the dull yellow-orange light drifting 300 yards from shore. 128 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:00,000 It was totally dark. All you could see was the lights and it was on the water. 129 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 We watched the light for probably 10 minutes as it was drifting down the harbor. 130 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 We walked to the top of the hill and then the light just went out. It just disappeared. 131 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Everyone is convinced that they have just witnessed a plane crash. 132 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:24,000 At 11.38 p.m., one of the officers puts a call through to the Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, the branch of the Canadian military that organizes search and rescue operations. 133 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 The Coast Guard cutter in nearby Clarks Harbor is also contacted. 134 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Lighthouse keepers in the surrounding areas are put on alert. 135 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I was on duty just carrying out my regular surveillance of navigational aids. 136 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Somewhere around midnight when I first got a call that they were searching for something that crashed in the harbor. 137 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Meanwhile, the RCMP officers improvised their own rescue operation. 138 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,000 They begin contacting local fishermen to commandeer boats to go out to the impact site. 139 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 As word gets out, local residents spring into action. 140 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Someone came to our door and my husband jumped up and went to the door to see who was there. 141 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:20,000 It was a policeman and he said that something had come down in the harbor and they thought it was a plane. 142 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:28,000 And they knew that his boat was at war and he could get there and hurry. 143 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:35,000 I was on my way home from babysitting where I was picked up by a local resident there. 144 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:45,000 He had some urgency in his voice when he said, you've got to go with me because we've got to go search for possible survivors of a plane crash or something of that nature. 145 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 We really didn't know what we were heading out for. 146 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:54,000 All we could do was try to get there as fast as we could and we were rushing. 147 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:01,000 We went down to the wharf untied the lines and got the boats clear and we left there as fast as we could to get to the area. 148 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:09,000 It's now slightly before midnight. Two fishing boats with several volunteers motor out towards open water at Full Throttle. 149 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Criss-crossing patterns of searchlight beams paint the dark still waters of the harbor as the search begins. 150 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And what we were doing was looking for something on the water debris is what we were thinking. 151 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:32,000 The mood on the boats is tense as the would-be rescuers braced themselves for a grisly scene of floating body parts and plane wreckage. 152 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 What they actually encounter is even more bizarre. 153 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:46,000 We came into this foam on the water. It was like orange foam that was on the water. Like bubbly foam. 154 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:54,000 It was quite a long streak of it. It was just more or less floating on the water. What it was, I don't know. 155 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,000 The fishermen realized that the mysterious foam is connected to whatever crashed into the harbor. 156 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Norman Smith attempts to get a sample of the peculiar substance. 157 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:14,000 We circled the boat around. We came back into the foam. When we came back into it, I took a small dip net and dipped the dip net down into the water. 158 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Right into the foam. When I pulled the dip net up out of the foam, there was nothing. You couldn't see nothing, totally nothing on the dip net. 159 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:33,000 I've been fishing all my life and I've never ever seen anything like that. I've been up rivers and on lakes and on the ocean and never ever see foam like that on the water. 160 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:42,000 The strange foam soon melts back into the dark water. But even more puzzling than the foam is the lack of any debris at the site. 161 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,000 If something has just crashed into Shag Harbor, it seems to have completely vanished. 162 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:57,000 We had thought it whatever it was, it just sunk. And I was like, you're kind of expecting to find some debris, but there was nothing. 163 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:10,000 We were out there pernir all night and circling around and looking for anything else that was on the water. Any debris or anything, and we never found nothing. There was not so much as a tin can. 164 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:18,000 The confusion among the fishermen in Shag Harbor is shared by the individuals back at the Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax. 165 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:30,000 The RCC checks with the Air Traffic Control Center in Moncton, New Brunswick and the NORAD Control Center in North Bay, Ontario to determine whether any civilian, commercial or military aircraft is missing. 166 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,000 The reports of an aircraft crashing into Shag Harbor do not mesh with the data they get back. 167 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:46,000 They realize that this is not a downed aircraft, none are missing. They're looking for something unconventional. They're starting to realize that perhaps this is some unknown object from space. 168 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:55,000 The residents are certain that something fell into the dark waters of Shag Harbor. But no one seems to know what it is. 169 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Shag Harbor is a small, unassuming fishing village on the southwestern tip of Nova Scotia. It's so inconspicuous that it does not appear on some maps. That is all about to change on October 4th, 1967. 170 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Several local residents report what they believe to be a plane crashing into the harbor. The sightings begin a chain of events that will make headlines around the world. 171 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Within hours of the initial reports, local fishermen, police officers and the Coast Guard scour the waters of the harbor throughout the night but find no wreckage or debris. 172 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:44,000 As the sun rises the next day, the community is gripped by apprehension and uncertainty. 173 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 I think everybody that night had a feeling that they were keeping something from us. 174 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Word quickly circulates that no debris has been found. With no information coming from the authorities, speculation spreads like wildfire. 175 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:05,000 It was the talk of the community, you know, and it was UFO and of course like everybody else. We wondered I guess what it could be. 176 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:19,000 People became fearful. They were wondering, would there be more? Would they tangle in our nets? Would it crash in our house? What's going on here? And they just weren't getting answers. 177 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Finally, the Rescue Coordination Center issues a statement that rules out the possibility of a plane crash. 178 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:34,000 At 10.20 a.m. on October 5th, the center sends a telex stamped priority to the Canadian Forces headquarters in Ottawa. 179 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:45,000 The message outlines the sightings by the Shag Harbor residents and the RCMP officers. It refers to the thing in Shag Harbor as a dark object. 180 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:51,000 More important, it labels the object in question as a UFO. 181 00:15:52,000 --> 00:16:00,000 It's unique also in that, again, the term UFO is first used by the authorities who are searching and not by the eyewitnesses. 182 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,000 By the evening of October 5th, the Shag Harbor incident has become a military matter. 183 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:18,000 After reviewing the telex from the Rescue Coordination Center, squadron leader William Bain sends an urgent message to the Canadian Maritime Command, Canada's naval headquarters for the Atlantic Coast. 184 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:30,000 It advises an immediate underwater search of the area. If the mysterious dark object left nothing floating in the sea, perhaps the dive teams can find something below the surface. 185 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Maritime Command responds by dispatching a team of divers from the Navy's fleet diving unit in Halifax. They arrive on October 6th and begin diving off the deck of Coast Guard Cutter 101. 186 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:57,000 You get all kinds of rumors in a small village like this. Then the Navy shows up with divers and stuff where you know that they must have taken it seriously because so many people saw the event in the sky. 187 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,000 The divers section off an area of the harbor roughly one half mile long by one and a half miles wide. 188 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Well, they'd go over the side and start doing square searches. They'll pick an area and normally stake it off with a buoy on the bottom. 189 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:20,000 The visibility in the water is off, no viscose, it's so full of plankton and so on. It's usually quite limited, maybe 20 feet at the most. 190 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,000 It was a low-tech search, simply with handheld flashlights under the water. 191 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:31,000 They wouldn't let us anywhere near that area. We were out there in the boat all right, but we had to stay back away from where they were diving. 192 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:38,000 As the divers are scouring the depths of the harbor, the tiny fishing village is thrust into the media spotlight. 193 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:48,000 On October 7th, a camera crew from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation arrives and films the divers in action. This is actual footage from their news coverage. 194 00:17:49,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Canada's major newspapers have also gotten wind of the strange happenings. Among the first to jump on the breaking story is journalist Ray McLeod of Halifax's Chronicle Herald newspaper. 195 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:10,000 I was one of the night reporters on duty at the Chronicle Herald when the assignment editor just called me over and said there's a report of something going down in the harbor. 196 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:17,000 A lot of people had seen it, or CMP reported they'd seen it, and the newspaper wanted to find out what had crashed. 197 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,000 But when McLeod attempts to find out what went into the harbor, no one has any answers. 198 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:30,000 I started following up on what we got from our CMP and what we got from Search and Rescue, and that was they had no idea what had gone down. 199 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:41,000 They had nothing missing. They had seen nothing drop off the radar screen, anywhere in the area, and they were basically puzzled. 200 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:50,000 The lack of information surrounding the incident raises McLeod's curiosity and inspires him to launch his own investigation. 201 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Anytime you don't know, it teases your imagination. You have to wonder why they don't know. 202 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:07,000 When the armed forces and everyone was saying we have no idea, we have no idea, we can't find anything, that's when I use one of my sources in the armed forces to get a number of someone in Ottawa. 203 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:17,000 McLeod's source refers him to squadron leader William Bain at the air desk in Ottawa, a division of the Royal Canadian Air Force in charge of investigating UFO cases. 204 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Bain's response to the Shag Harbor incident is surprising. 205 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Just from what he'd heard so far, it looked like one of those few cases where there might be something concrete to the incident, and that, of course, was the quote that ended up in the headline of the paper. 206 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:46,000 On October 7th, 1967, McLeod's article makes the front page of the ultra-conservative newspaper, The Chronicle Herald. McLeod is as surprised as anyone to see it there. 207 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:54,000 And then this story came out, and my first reaction was, oh my God, what have I done? Okay, I never expected to see that screaming headline. 208 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:05,000 It was a headline in two-inch-red letters that looked more like something you would see in the National Enquirer, and that served to fuel, again, the rumor mill and the speculation. 209 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:16,000 The shock waves of McLeod's article reverberate throughout the Canadian province and reach the depths of Shag Harbor where the underwater search is in progress. 210 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:29,000 On October 7th, Maritime Command orders three additional divers to the impact site. As the dives continue, the people of Shag Harbor want answers. None are forthcoming. 211 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:40,000 I guess there was a considerable amount of secrecy about the whole mission because they didn't reveal anything to us. Some people were told that they weren't allowed to speak about it. 212 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:50,000 We thought that in a few days' time we were going to be hearing, yes, there was a plane that went down, it was on the bottom of the ocean, or whatever it was that they found. 213 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:55,000 We thought that in a few days they were going to be telling us, but nobody ever did. 214 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Maritime Command terminates the underwater search on October 8th. They announced that three days of searching the harbor have yielded nil results. 215 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Five days after the sightings, the residents of Shag Harbor are no closer to understanding what crashed into the water the night of October 4th. 216 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:21,000 But the end of the underwater search is just the beginning of a UFO case that is about to become even more perplexing. 217 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:41,000 October 1967. After dozens of witnesses see something plunge into Shag Harbor on the southern tip of Nova Scotia, local fishermen comb the waters looking for clues and navy divers search beneath the surface. 218 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:50,000 But the Canadian Navy abruptly cancels the search with no explanation, leaving the people of Shag Harbor to wonder and worry. 219 00:21:52,000 --> 00:22:03,000 In a lot of our minds it was a cover up for something, but for them to spend that much time and effort and then give no explanation, it's like they were here today and gone tomorrow type of thing. 220 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,000 With no one providing any answers, the rumor mill begins to churn. 221 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,000 There was even a rumor at the time that they had found something. 222 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:20,000 We thought that there was times that they were bringing things up off of the bottom of the ocean. 223 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:26,000 The guy that had the divers in the area, he did admit that they did bring something up. 224 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Wrapped underwater, it was wrapped underwater. But I guess that was kept for secret. 225 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Speculation was rampant, but speculation is always rampant when you don't give someone an explanation. 226 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:48,000 During the 1960s, speculation about UFOs and other unexplained events often turns to the Cold War. 227 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,000 The nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union is at its height. 228 00:22:53,000 --> 00:23:00,000 The two superpowers are constantly seeking to trump each other by harnessing the latest military technology. 229 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Top secret exercises are common in the North Atlantic. 230 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:10,000 The heated atmosphere produces anxieties that intensify concerns about the incident. 231 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:17,000 It was always in people's minds, and of course, this is just a few years after the Cuban missile crisis and other things. 232 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 So, this added fuel to the fire. 233 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 And then of course people start coming up with theories. 234 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Maybe it was a secret American device or something or a plane, a satellite that went into the water. 235 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Or was it a Russian object? 236 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Night reporter Ray McLeod helps break the news about Shag Harbor by writing a front page article in Halifax's Chronicle Herald newspaper. 237 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:46,000 As McLeod prepares to follow up on the story, he receives some startling and discouraging news. 238 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,000 There's a note on my typewriter to see the managing editor. 239 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 And I was told, don't follow up the story. 240 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:02,000 We think this story should be handled by someone on day side because a lot of the contacts are easier to get in the day and we want to follow this up thoroughly. 241 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 So, we've given the story to David Bentley, you're off the story. 242 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:13,000 McLeod asserts that Bentley confers with scientists and academics to downplay the UFO angle. 243 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:22,000 He pursued talking to people who basically pooh-poohed the story and told everybody there's nothing to it, it was all right. 244 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Among Bentley's chief sources is one of Canada's most outspoken UFO debunkers, an astronomer named Father Burke Gaffney. 245 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:40,000 The late father, Michael Burke Gaffney, was a Jesuit priest, he was an astronomer, he was a UFO skeptic. 246 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:46,000 He took a very dim view of what the UFO phenomena possibly could be. 247 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:51,000 And in statements of the press, he would downplay that interest. 248 00:24:51,000 --> 00:25:09,000 In a public lecture a few weeks after the Shag Harbor sightings, Burke Gaffney tries to alleviate any lingering concerns about what happened that night by arguing that 94% of all UFO sightings can be explained by meteorites, simple mirages and other natural phenomena. 249 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:22,000 With UFO skeptics having their say, McLeod begins to wonder what happened to Squadron Leader William Bain, the source of the Canadian military, quoted as saying that there might be something concrete to the Shag Harbor incident. 250 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I asked Bentley why he wasn't following up on Squadron Leader Bain. 251 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:38,000 And Bentley told me that he was told the man didn't exist and there was no such office in Ottawa and to leave that angle in the story alone. 252 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Is the Chronicle Herald bowing to pressure from the Canadian government? 253 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:49,000 McLeod ultimately realizes that the side of the story he began to pursue would never make it into the newspapers. 254 00:25:49,000 --> 00:26:01,000 I feel badly in some ways that I couldn't have used my talent and my contacts and my belief that the people have a right to know to keep plugging away until we found out what was going on. 255 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:08,000 A journalist feels empty when they have to do that, but then again sometimes you have to do that. 256 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Soon, news of Canada's Shag Harbor sightings travels across the border and reaches renowned physicist Dr. Edward Condon and his team at the University of Colorado. 257 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Condon and his committee are working under a $500,000 contract from the United States Air Force and putting together an independent scientific assessment of unexplained UFO phenomena. 258 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:46,000 The Condon report was striving to gather a certain amount of case studies in other countries around the world internationally to see whether the United States Air Force should continue investigating reports of unidentified flying objects and the Shag Harbor incident came to their attention. 259 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:58,000 They have deep resources and a distinguished staff, but according to eyewitness Chris Stiles, Condon and his committee do not dedicate much time or effort to the puzzling Shag Harbor case. 260 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:13,000 The case was turned over to an electrical engineer called Norman Levine. He made a few calls to RCMP headquarters in Ottawa into maritime command, but was assured by them that they had done a complete and thorough search. 261 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:19,000 It's unfortunate that he didn't pursue that path because God knows what he would have found. 262 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Canada's Shag Harbor incident is one of 59 major UFO cases around the world that Condon's team selects to include in their study. 263 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:41,000 They submit the final report to the Air Force on October 31, 1968, but case number 34 receives only a few paragraphs in the 900-page tone. 264 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:50,000 The report defends the lack of initiative in Shag Harbor by arguing no further investigation by the project was considered justifiable. 265 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:57,000 This conclusion of the Shag Harbor case is consistent with Condon's overview of UFO research. 266 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. 267 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:17,000 I think one of the things that happens when a serious scientific study is carried out to look at the UFO situation in specific cases, there's often a cry carrier that's very formal and rigid. 268 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:25,000 And often what happens is the best case is somehow no matter how you use your definitions, no matter how carefully you have it, will slip through the cracks. 269 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 And I believe that's what happened to Shag Harbor. 270 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:36,000 With no one pushing for answers, Canada's Shag Harbor incident becomes another unexplained mystery that is all but forgotten. 271 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:47,000 It quickly faded from the headlines and became a back page story and a month later, it would have been hard to find anything on it and people went home, made a sandwich, went to work, life went on. 272 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:53,000 But 25 years later, a new investigation is launched into the Shag Harbor incident. 273 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:59,000 This time some startling revelations make it clear that the book should never have been closed on this case. 274 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:11,000 In October of 1967, over a dozen witnesses see a UFO plunge into Shag Harbor, Canada. 275 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:16,000 25 years later, unanswered questions remain. 276 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000 That's where it all took place, where it had been. 277 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:25,000 We knew that something came down out of the air and something landed in the water, but what it was, we didn't know. 278 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,000 One of the other eyewitnesses that night cannot forget what he saw over the harbor. 279 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Chris Stiles had seen the UFO from his home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. 280 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:41,000 In 1992, while watching TV one night, everything would change. 281 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:50,000 I had watched a rebroadcast of the Unsolved Mysteries episode that dealt with the Roswell incident. 282 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000 And it made me think about Shag Harbor. 283 00:29:53,000 --> 00:30:05,000 And what I remember, what was so tantalizing about Shag Harbor was that there was no denial that the authorities believed that this was a genuine UFO incident and it had simply faded from memory. 284 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:12,000 Stiles decides to launch his own investigation into Shag Harbor. 285 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:20,000 He requests documents from the Canadian National Archives and the Department of National Defense using Canada's Access to Information Act. 286 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:28,000 In a few weeks, the government documents arrive on spools of microfilm at the main branch of the Halifax Library. 287 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 A tedious search begins. 288 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:43,000 As you sit at the viewer and start going through document after document, you realize that often these collections were compiled by bureaucrats who threw away nothing. 289 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:51,000 The microfilm contains thousands of documents of UFO cases across Canada from 1965 to 1981. 290 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,000 You're looking for an extraterrestrial straw and a terrestrial haystack. 291 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Stiles spends weeks at the microfilm viewer until he hits paydirt. 292 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 It was all there. 293 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Priority telexes from the Rescue Coordination Center to the Canadian Forces headquarters, instructions from the Canadian Maritime Command to the Atlantic Fleet Diving Unit, and reports by dozens of witnesses. 294 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Stiles realizes that he is looking at the biggest UFO event in Canada's history. 295 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:30,000 I only saw one that had UFO written on it with three big letters underlined three times, and that had to do with the Shag Harbor incident. 296 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,000 I knew very early on that I had primary documents and a paper trail a mile wide here. 297 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Has Chris Stiles stumbled upon a Canadian government cover-up? 298 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Stiles decides he needs help. 299 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,000 He contacts fellow UFO researcher Don Ledger to assist with his investigation. 300 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Chris Stiles was very passionate about Shag Harbor. 301 00:31:53,000 --> 00:32:01,000 He'd been at it for about a year to a year and a half at that point, researching it, digging out the documents and so on. 302 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:06,000 And he was infectious, eventually dragged me into it as well. 303 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:17,000 A careful examination of these declassified documents paints a vivid timeline of the events and helps bring the night of October 4th, 1967 back to life. 304 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000 I was very impressed with the paper trail for the Shag Harbor incident. 305 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 It just pretty much laid out the whole thing. 306 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:30,000 For Stiles, the documents also suggest that the Canadian military knew more than they were telling. 307 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:42,000 I think what surprised me most was how comfortable these military people, seen with the possibility that they might actually be looking for an object of extraterrestrial origin. 308 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000 In a sense, it was kind of an acknowledgement of UFO reality. 309 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:53,000 Stiles uncovers documents that demonstrate that the sightings of October 4th were not confined to Shag Harbor alone. 310 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Reports came in from witnesses from all over Nova Scotia that night. 311 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:07,000 He then comes across eyewitness testimony from an unexpected but extremely reliable source, experienced airline pilots. 312 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:19,000 At 7.15 p.m. on October 4th, 1967, two pilots on Air Canada Flight 305 are flying at an altitude of 12,000 feet over southeastern Quebec. 313 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Captain Pierre Charbonneau and First Officer Robert Ralph glance out of the left cockpit window and see something astounding. 314 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:38,000 What they saw that night was a large, round, colored object in the sky that looked like, to them, like a kite with a tail on it. 315 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,000 It was off their left wing and just slightly above their altitude. 316 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000 The experienced pilots are at a loss. 317 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000 They observe the strange shape for several minutes when suddenly they see a series of explosions. 318 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:59,000 According to their testimony, they begin to take evasive action when the UFO disappears into a wisp of clouds. 319 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:05,000 After some deliberation, the pilots decide to file official reports about the bizarre occurrence. 320 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:18,000 It's not common for pilots to go on record and report a UFO, particularly commercial pilot, because of maybe some recrimination later on from his employers, or maybe some ridicule from his peers. 321 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Continuing his research, Stiles uncovers more information from an unexpected source. 322 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:38,000 At St. Mary's University in Halifax, Stiles finds a treasure trove of X-Files collected by none other than the UFO skeptic who had downplayed the Shag Harbor incident in the press, Father Burke Gaffney. 323 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:46,000 An X-File is not just a secret file, but a file that is not admitted to by the originating agency. 324 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:54,000 So it was great that they were there because there was no record of these in Ottawa, either at National Archives or RCMP Headquarters. 325 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:04,000 The RCMP X-Files collected by Burke Gaffney provide more telling details about the night of October 4th. 326 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,000 One report includes the testimony of a ship captain named Leo Mercy. 327 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:16,000 He's the captain of a fishing dragger that has 18 men that's off the coast of San Bernardinovskosia. 328 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,000 And it's got four UFOs in the distance in a box pattern. 329 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,000 And he looked at them and then he wanted to check and he found them on radar. 330 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:34,000 But Mercy's report contains something even more puzzling, a reference to another underwater search near Shelburne, 31 miles northeast of Shag Harbor. 331 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:41,000 His statement in this X-File, he says, perhaps it's like the thing they're looking for, going off Shelburne or off Shag Harbor. 332 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:46,000 So this would seem that there was indeed a second simultaneous search effort. 333 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,000 Did the UFO somehow travel away from Shag Harbor after it crashed? 334 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,000 As it happens, the town of Shelburne is also home to a former Canadian military base. 335 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:03,000 Is it somehow connected to the secrecy surrounding the Shag Harbor sightings? 336 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:12,000 In fact, during the 1960s, the Shelburne facility was officially called an Oceanographic Institute, 337 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 but its real identity was shrouded in Cold War intrigue. 338 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:25,000 In its heyday, it served as a top secret listening post to track Soviet submarine movements in the North Atlantic Ocean for the U.S. Navy. 339 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:31,000 For Soviet, the submarine would come out in the Atlantic from Russia and go on its tour. 340 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:38,000 They would pick up the engine noises and the hull sounds made by the submarine passing through the water on the microphones. 341 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:45,000 This would be fed into a computer so they could get a match later on for if the same submarine came up. 342 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:53,000 Could the Canadian authorities have used this submarine tracking technology to locate a submerged UFO? 343 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Was the Navy secretly searching the waters off Shelburne while all eyes were focused on Shag Harbor? 344 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:12,000 To continue his investigation, Stiles sets out to track down those who would know best, the divers who actually probe the depths of Shag Harbor. 345 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:26,000 On October 4, 1967, Chris Stiles was one of many witnesses who saw something strange in the skies over Nova Scotia. 346 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Now he is on the hunt to try to find out what it was. 347 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:42,000 He has uncovered declassified government documents indicating that the Canadian military was involved in an intense search for a UFO that apparently crashed into Shag Harbor. 348 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:50,000 The Canadian authorities assert that nothing was found, but Stiles begins to suspect that the divers may hold the key to the mystery. 349 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:59,000 A number were unwilling to talk, but a few were, and they told a very interesting tale that went well beyond what was in the press clippings. 350 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:10,000 April 9, 1993. One of the divers agrees to an interview with Stiles, but demands that his identity be kept anonymous. 351 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:18,000 Stiles is shocked when the diver informs him that they did indeed find something underwater, but it was not in Shag Harbor. 352 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:32,000 He eventually explained that by the time divers had arrived in Shag Harbor, they knew the object was no longer there, that indeed, if they come to rest on the seabed 25 miles away, off government point near the Shelburne base. 353 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:41,000 Had the UFO eluded the search efforts at Shag Harbor by traveling underwater under its own power up the coast of Nova Scotia? 354 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:49,000 If true, this would mean that the Canadian military conducted a secret search at Shelburne that was then concealed from the public. 355 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000 The diver's new revelation is confounding to Stiles. 356 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,000 I found the Shelburne story very troubling. You know, there were a lot of things that were certain. We had government documents, 357 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:07,000 but now there was a black box element to the case. And at first, I was very wary of it, very dubious of the claim. 358 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:16,000 Now, Chris Stiles is wondering if the naval search at Shag Harbor was just an elaborate decoy for the real search the diver is now telling him about. 359 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,000 When pressed for details, the diver's story becomes even more incredible. 360 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:34,000 When the divers were dispatched to the Shelburne location, they dove over the object and found that indeed there was in fact even a second object there, 361 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:42,000 which they described as lending assistance to the first. I didn't know what to make of this. This was well beyond events in the Shag Harbor. 362 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:52,000 The diver informed Stiles that a flotilla of US Navy and Canadian ships actually anchored over the two objects at Shelburne and monitored their activities. 363 00:39:52,000 --> 00:40:02,000 As he said, when he dove him and a partner, they were shocked to find there was still activity going on, and they indeed saw beans. 364 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:11,000 They were on the bottom, and they watched what they thought was creatures from one object giving aid to the other object. 365 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:20,000 The Canadian diver's story does not end there. He says that the Navy flotilla observed the two UFOs for seven days. 366 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Suddenly, the operation was interrupted by a Russian submarine crossing into Canadian territorial waters. 367 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000 At this critical juncture, the Navy ships were diverted to intercept the sub. 368 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:46,000 They attempt to intercept the Soviets up trying to cut it off, and it's at this point when they're doing this maneuver that the two UFOs begin to move back toward the Gulf of Maine, 369 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000 and indeed eventually as reported break the surface and fly away. 370 00:40:50,000 --> 00:41:00,000 Are there any witnesses on record that can corroborate the diver's fantastic story? Did anyone see these two UFOs leaving the waters off Shelburne? 371 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:12,000 Perhaps. At 10 o'clock on October 11, 1967, exactly one week after the Shag Harbor sightings, the mysterious lights in the sky were seen once again, 372 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:18,000 this time by a family in Lower Woods Harbor, 35 miles from Shelburne. 373 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:29,000 We look at what's known as the Lachlan Cameron sighting one week later, to the hour, and we see two sets of lights leaving the area of Shag Harbor and flying away. 374 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:35,000 It fits the diver's story like a glove. It's hard to ignore that synchronicity. 375 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:44,000 And we are left to wonder, did an alien spacecraft really crash into Shag Harbor as the Navy diver suggests, or could there be another explanation? 376 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:51,000 An important clue to that question may still exist if what one former lighthousekeeper says is true. 377 00:41:51,000 --> 00:42:00,000 The second day, I did find a cylinder. I knew it was something different, something I had never seen before. 378 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:19,000 It was a cylinder type shape, 30 inches, 30 to 40 inches long, maybe, 15, 18 inches in diameter, had been partially burned, wires protruding, terrible odor. 379 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:28,000 After finding the cylinder on the rocky shore of Bonportage Island, Banks says he notified the Canadian Department of Transportation. 380 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:35,000 They informed him to carefully pack the object and deliver it to an American naval officer at Prospect Point Wharf. 381 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:44,000 It had to be something that they needed bad, wanted bad, because they flew him in from Virginia. 382 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000 That's what he told me. 383 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,000 But what was inside the cylinder that was so urgent and so secret? 384 00:42:52,000 --> 00:43:01,000 I was working for the federal government at the time, and I don't really feel comfortable answering it. 385 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:12,000 It's an ongoing mystery that continues to invite speculation. For some, the evidence points to the secret military experiments of the Cold War. 386 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:20,000 They're always in my own mind, and probably this was some kind of an experimental drone or something that they had back then. 387 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000 One of the first ones that they had that somehow got away from them. 388 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:30,000 I think it was a surveillance type of thing, and it either crashed on its own or they crashed it. 389 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,000 My opinion was that it was a plain American military plane. 390 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:41,000 Others contend that something capable of operating both above and below the water can only be extraterrestrial. 391 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:48,000 Even now, in this time of stealth aircraft, we still don't have anything that's both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic. 392 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,000 What the object is, that's what everybody always wants to know. What was the object? 393 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:58,000 Whatever went into the harbor that night was intelligently controlled, and it was of extraterrestrial nature. 394 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:03,000 It is unclear when, if ever, the complete set of military records will be released. 395 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:14,000 If they are, will they shed light on this strange incident and maybe even settle once and for all what happened in Shag Harbor on October 4th, 1967? 396 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:26,000 Until then, we are left with the mystery, speculation, and the fading memory of the people who saw something very unusual crash into the ocean that night. 397 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:35,000 Today, I still scan the sky looking for something that might be different or something like what I seen back 30 odd years ago. 398 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000 The only thing that I would like to know is what it was.