Shag Harbour 1967: The Nova Scotia UFO Incident That Became a Lasting Mystery

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On October 4, 1967 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, RCMP and locals including 17-year-old Laurie Wickens saw a row of lights and a mysterious object descend into the water and vanish, a patch of yellow foam was found but no wreckage or survivors, Coast Guard and Navy searches yielded no conventional explanation, and the case has since been treated as a UFO with theories spanning aliens, secret military aircraft, misperception, and the Shelburne hypothesis about underwater travel to a SOSUS area, kept alive by figures like Peter Goreham, Chris Styles, and Don Ledger, while Shag Harbour develops an interpretive centre, festivals, and commemorative coins around the mystery and major questions remain after more than fifty years.