Classic Case File
The Shag Harbour UFO Incident
53 years ago this month, the small fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, was the scene of a classic Unidentified Submerged Object sighting.
It’s a small fishing village in a modest Canadian province. It’s not a place you would expect to host one of the most well-documented UFO incidents of all time. Yet, in October of 1967, Shag Harbour became the Canadian equivalent of the historically omnipresent Roswell incident.
On this 53rd anniversary of this Canadian incident, let’s take a look back at just exactly what happened in the waters of Shag Harbour, its relevance and eerie similarities to the Navy UFO encounters in recent years, and where the case lay in the annals of UFO history.
October 4th, 1967
In the Air
At approximately 7:15pm, Air Canada Flight 305 pilots Captain Pierre Charbonneau and First Officer Robert Ralph were flying above Quebec, about 180 miles west of Nova Scotia. Everything was perfectly routine until they noticed something trailing their plane. They witnessed a massive, rectangular-shaped object, orange in color, gliding through the skies. Trailing the rectangle were small, orange orbs that seemed…
