From: Blair Cummins <ufoblair@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 02:31:09 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 06:10:48 -0500
Subject: Shag Harbour - Canadian UFO Documentary


Greetings list -

From: http://www.canoe.ca/ChronicleHerald/news.html

'67 UFO story to be filmed
February 20, 2000
By Pat Lee / Television Reporter

It's a case Fox Mulder would love.

On a clear fall night back in 1967 a glowing object screeched
through the sky and plunged into the Atlantic off Shag Harbour,
Shelburne County, leaving a spooky, glittery gold foam in its
wake.

A week later the mysterious object was said to have sped off
underwater in the direction of Maine, leaving residents of the
tiny fishing community as well as military and police personnel
scratching their heads.

Talk about your X-Files.

For more than three decades the South Shore UFO sighting has
intrigued believers and non-believers alike, primarily because
so many people claim to have seen an object in the sky on Oct.
4, 1967, not to mention those who witnessed something resting in
the waters off Government Point.

Filmmaker Michael MacDonald, who is currently working on a
documentary about the case to air on cable's Space Channel next
season, said the Shag Harbour story is often compared to the
U.S.'s Roswell tale, in which some claim that a UFO landed in
the New Mexico desert in 1947.

"Roswell was basically an anecdotal story given by a few people
. . . and some people have actually recanted," said MacDonald,
who works for Ocean Entertainment. "But the thing about Shag
Harbour that sets it apart from the Roswell story is just the
sheer mount of paperwork involved with it.

"There's RCMP paperwork, there's Department of National Defence
memos, there's lots of witnesses around here in the Halifax area
and Nova Scotia, who when they tell their side of the story it's
amazing how well it lines up with others. It's a very highly
documented case."

MacDonald said it was the military and RCMP who called what
happened in 1967 a UFO incident. "The people down there in Shag
Harbour, when this happened, they honestly thought it was a
plane that crashed. They just naturally assumed the obvious."

MacDonald, who is currently down on the South Shore conducting
interviews for the film, said all sorts of eyewitness accounts
also flooded in from around the province.

"There were UFO sightings all over Nova Scotia. There were UFO
sightings off the Bay of Fundy, there were UFO sightings off
Prospect, an airline captain had a UFO sighting that night," he
said. "There was a lot of activity going on that night and there
was a lot of activity going on at the end of the incident a week
later."

Along with eyewitness testimony from bystanders, MacDonald said
he's also fascinated by the extensive multinational military
response to the event.

"After that thing crashed in the water, Arguses were scrambled
out of Greenwood, the Americans sailed into Shelburne Harbour,
there were submarines showing up, there was a huge search going
on, all of the sudden CFS Shelburne at Government Point was
sealed off to local traffic, there was definitely something big
happening."

He said military from Britain and Argentina were also on site.

Not surprisingly, government paperwork or photographs of the
incident are considered classified and not readily available.

But off the record, military and RCMP members who were at the
scene say something extraordinary took place off Shag Harbour.

"We're talking about grown men here, guys who've worked in the
military, guys that have been out there fishing, and their lives
have been changed ever since that date. I've had people tell me,
who won't go on the record, saying 'I can tell you this, what
you imagine happened and what you've been researching did
happen.' "

MacDonald, who heard the Shag Harbour story as a boy from his
RCMP officer father, said he became interested in putting the
incident on film after being reminded of it a few years ago and
subsequently pitched the idea to a Space executive at the Banff
Television Festival.

He said the basis of the documentary is the already extensive
research done on the subject by local buffs Chris Styles (who
spotted something himself over the skies of Dartmouth that
night) and Don Ledger, who have co-authored a book on the
incident.

MacDonald also wants to talk to anyone who saw something that
night or in the days after the event for possible use in the
film.

"I'd like to hear from anybody in Nova Scotia because often
times when UFOs are sighted, they're sighted simultaneously in
many places. So I'm looking for anyone who had an experience in
the fall of 1967, mostly those from Shelburne and Shag Harbour,
Barrington Passage and down the South Shore way, to give me a
call and let me know."

Although the story has been told before, he said interest in the
incident never seems to wane.

"UFO researchers in the United States and Canada all agree this
is one story that just doesn't go away."

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Best regards,

- Blair Cummins
ufoblair@hotmail.com