On the night of October 4, 1967 officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and six civilians witnessed an incredible, yet inexplicable, sight. Earlier in the evening, the RCMP had received many phone calls from residents reporting that an airplane had crashed into Shag Harbour near the southern tip of Nova Scotia.  Both the RCMP and locals had rushed to the shore of the harbour. What they encountered there was far from a conventional aircraft.¹

Witnesses reported seeing an object 60 feet in length moving in an easterly direction before it descended rapidly into the water, making a bright splash on impact. A single white light appeared on the surface of the water for a short period of time. The RCMP, with help from local fishermen and their boats, sought to reach the object before it sank completely. Local fishermen recall traveling through thick, glittery, yellow foam to get to where they saw the object. Bubbles from underneath the surface of the water appeared around the boats. The crews attempted to search the area for evidence of survivors, but found no one.

The Department of National Defence (DND) conducted an underwater search of the area, but failed to locate any evidence of an object. The only documentation that exists in the files is a DND memo.² The Shag Harbour incident is one of six UAP sightings documented by Library and Archives Canada that are classified as unsolved by the DND.³