Shag Harbor
| Shag Harbor | |||
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| Location in Nova Scotia | |||
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| Province : | Nova Scotia | ||
| County: | Shelburne County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 30 ′ N , 65 ° 43 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 400 (as of 2006) | ||
| Time zone : | Atlantic Time ( UTC − 4 ) | ||
Shag Harbor is a small fishing village on the southern end of Nova Scotia , Canada .
Around 400-450 people live in the village. Most of the residents are fishermen or work in the fish processing industry. In Shag Harbor there is a bed and breakfast hotel, two quays (harbors), two Baptist churches and the Chapel Hill Museum, which was built in 1865 and is a listed building.
The Evelyn Richardson Memorial Elementary School is located on the border with the neighboring village of Woods Harbor, Nova Scotia. The school is named after a Canadian writer who won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and who lived in the village from 1902 to 1976. She received the award in 1945 for her memoir, We Keep a Light .
UFO sighting and crash
Shag Harbor became famous for a UFO sighting and crash on October 4, 1967. On the evening of October 4, several concerned residents observed a strange multi-light object in the sky near the coast that hit the sea a short time later off the coast . Many thought of a plane crash and called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . The RCMP officers and several eyewitnesses observed the underwater lights at the site of the impact, which appeared to be drifting out towards the sea. A rapid rescue team has been set up by the Canadian government. A large swath of yellowish foam was observed in the water by several witnesses from fishermen and rescue workers who were on a coast guard ship. The Canadian government reversed the statement that the incident was a plane crash when no person was considered missing. Other theories were also contradicted by the Canadian government and the incident, from which the UFO theory was formed, was filed without further official investigations . The Royal Canadian Navy was tasked with using underwater equipment to search for parts or other unusual objects, but no information was officially released to the public, so that ultimately the object that fell off the coast has not yet been identified. Several television documentaries have been produced about this incident and several books cover the incident.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Shag Harbor UFO Incident - The New Roswell part 1 on YouTube
- ^ The 1967 Shag Harbor UFO crash (accessed June 26, 2011).