On October 4, 1967, about a half mile off shore from the little fishing village of Shag Harbor Nova Scotia Canada five local teenagers looking up at the night sky noticed strange orange lights flashing in the distance. The teenagers thought it might be an airliner out over the water. As they were looking at the object, it turned at a forty-five degree angle towards the water and crashed into the sea. Fearing that they had just witnessed a terrible accident the found a phone booth and contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Pilot Ralph Lowewinger, while co-piloting a cargo plane from New York to London just happened to be in that same area and also witnessed the crash. He stated that he had just happened to be looking at that direction and he also saw the object crash into the sea.
There were also several other witnesses that night who saw the crash including RCMP Constable Ron Pound. He drove along the shore line to the closest spot he could get to and along with other witnesses including Police Corporal Victor Werbieki and Constable Ron O’Brien looked out over the water. They were just able to discern a yellow light moving slowly in the water leaving a yellow foaming wake.
By the time local fishing boats and a coast guard cutter were able to make to the area, the craft had slipped below the waves. All there was left was yellow foam to mark where the craft had been. They continued the search until three in the morning but the were unable to locate the object or any debris.
The RCMP then ran a traffic check with both the rescue coordination Center in Halifax, and the military. They were told that there no unaccounted civilian aircraft or military aircraft. Yet, something had obviously crashed into the ocean that night.
This event happened during some of the most turbulent times of the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crises had just happened a few years earlier in 1962 so the United States was hyper vigilant. The US government was especially worried that the Soviet Union might try to sneak their nuclear missile submarines through the Atlantic and station themselves off the US coast.
To counter that threat, the US government has a naval base in the Area right off Nova Scotia close to the Shag Harbor village to support the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System. The (IUSS) uses fixed and mobile acoustic arrays to track foreign submarine attempting to cross the Atlantic Arctic towards the coast of the United States. Along with these passive detection systems, the Navel Base also has has advanced active sonar systems as well.
It was this US navel base that was able to track the submerged craft after it dived into the sea. It traveled around twenty five miles to an area know as government point. American ships were brought in to better locate and track the submerged UFO. After a couple days, as the American Navel ships were preparing to begin salvage operations, a second submerged UFO arrived. The second ship seemed to arrive to render aid to the first. After about a week, as Soviet Navel Submarine were spotted making their way into the area, both UFO took off at great speed into the gulf of Maine all the while being chased by American Navel Vessels. They then both broke the surface and headed into the sky at incredible speed.
There is little doubt as to what happened at Shag Harbor as this was one of the most well documented UFO / UAP incidents in history. There were hundreds of witnesses, both civilian and military, many of which have spoken about the incident on the record and off.
