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Shag Harbour Dark Object Incident

October 4-5, 1967 Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia (Canada)

Multiple witnesses near Shag Harbour reported a low object or sequence of lights descending toward the water on October 4, 1967. RCMP officers responded, observers reported a luminous object on the surface and later apparent submergence, civilian boats and the Coast Guard searched the area, and Canadian military records subsequently referred to a UFO and tasked a naval diving search.

Evidence Assessment Matrix

Total Witness Estimate11+
Verified Witness Reports8
Instrumental EvidenceNo
Official InvestigationYes

Assessment is deliberately conservative. The count reflects a minimum set of directly described Shag Harbour-area witnesses rather than the book's larger regional-wave totals. Physical evidence refers to reported foam/bubbling/sulfur traces; no recovered artifact is treated as verified. Later anonymous Shelburne military testimony is not used to raise the primary-source score.

Observed & Linked Subjects

C-000151

Shag Harbour Dark Object

Case-specific dossier for the unidentified object reported entering the waters off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, on October 4, 1967. Witnesses primarily described sequential lights, a dark or luminous mass, an approximate sixty-foot scale, and water-entry behavior; the archive does not assign a precise hull geometry or extraterrestrial origin.

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