Shag Harbour: The Crash Canada Filed Away and Never Explained
It was about 11:20 on the night of 4 October 1967 when the lights came down over Shag Harbour, a fishing village on the southern tip of Nova Scotia. At least eleven people saw them: a low object, glowing yellow-orange, moving steadily rather than erratically, sinking toward the black water of the harbour. One of the witnesses was a young Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable, Ron Pound, who watched from the coastal road and later said he was sure he was looking at four lights fixed to a single craft, perhaps sixty feet long.
Then it hit the water. Several people reported a bright flash and a sound. Where the object had gone in, Pound could see a single yellow light drifting on the surface, trailing a wake of pale foam behind it before it slipped under and the light went out.
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