Government documents on crash
- Priority Telex from RCC (Rescue Coordination Center) Halifax to CANFORCEHED (Canadian Forces Headquarters), 10/5/67, 13:20 Z (9:20 a.m. local time): "UFO Report" advising that a UFO (also referred to as "Dark Object") had impacted in Shag Harbour; advises all other possibilities, aircraft (A/C), flares, etc. excluded. (Source: Ledger/Styles website)
- Priority message from CANFORCEHED to CANMARCOM (Canadian Maritime Command), 10/5/07: "Subject: UFO"; Squadron Leader Bain of UFO desk requests investigation and underwater search "ASAP" (Sources: Dark Object, Appendix, p. 168, Ledger/Styles website)
- Priority Telex CANMARCOM to CANCOMDIVELANT (Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic), 10/5/67, 22:50 Z (6:50 p.m. local): Instructs Coast Guard station at Shelburne to provide a cutter and divers for search/recovery effort. Note Bain mentioned in handwriting at top and "UFO" in handwriting underlined 3 times
(Source: Ledger/Styles website )
- Memo, 10/6/67, from Col. T. T. Turner, Director of Operations, to (?) S/L Bain: "UFO Report", summarizes incident, RCC ruling out conventional crash object, and says Coast Guard cutter and divers currently investigating on site. (Source: Ledger/Styles website)
- DND memo (Department of National Defense) (Date unknown): Quick summary of incident, from Canadian National Archives: (RG24, acc 83-84-167 box 7523 file DRBS 3800-10-1 pt1)
Related government UFO reports
- Halifax RCMP UFO report, 10/7/67, for Capt. Leo Mersey sighting, 10/4/67, 9 p.m.: Radar and visual sighting of unknown lights at sea near Halifax; forwarded to RCMP detachment at Barrington Passage, near Shag Habour. (Source: Dark Object, Appendix, p. 165)
- Barrington Passage RCMP UFO report, for Cameron family sighting 10/11/67, 8:30 p.m. Lower Woods Harbour: forwarded "Priority" to Halifax RCMP, references 10/4/67 Shag Harbour sighting/incident and recommends further government interviews of witnesses; mentions contacting local Air Force base at Baccaro about Cameron sighting--they claim no radar contact. (Source: Sources: Dark Object, Appendix, p. 166
- Halifax RCMP UFO report for Smith brothers, Dec. 9, 1970, also witnesses to Shag Harbour event. String of amber lights that stopped tape player and stalled car. Also reported by military witness from nearby Baccaro radar station. (Source: Dark Object, Appendix, p.167; from UFO files of National Research Council, RG 77, Vol. 306)
The 1967 Shag Harbour UFO crash
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