Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
Shag Harbour is a small fishing village at the southern end of Nova Scotia, Canada.
In the village of about 400-450 inhabitants. The inhabitants are mostly fishermen or the fish processing industry operates. In the Shag Harbour is a Bed and Breakfast Hotel, two Kai ( ports ), 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 of the neighboring village of Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia. The school was named after a Canadian author who was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction and has lived from 1902-1976 in the village. The award she received for her 1945 memoir, We Keep a Light.
UFO sighting and crash
Shag Harbour received recognition by a UFO sighting and crash on October 4, 1967. Evening of October 4 more worried residents observed a strange object with several lights in the sky near the coast, the short time later struck off the coast of the sea. Many thought a plane crash and called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The RCMP officers and several eyewitnesses observed at the point of impact, the lights under the water, which seemed to drive out towards the sea. A fast rescue task force was established by the Canadian government. A large swath of yellowish foam was observed by several witnesses of the fishermen and the rescue team in the water that were on a coast guard ship. The Canadian government revised the statement that it is in the incident concerned a plane crash, as no person was missing. Also, other theories were disputed by the Canadian government and placed the incident without official further studies on the file from which the UFO theory has formed. The Canadian Navy was indeed instructed to search with underwater devices for parts or other unusual objects, but it was passed no official information to the public, so that ultimately the object that came down off the coast, was not identified until today. Several television documentaries have been produced about this incident and several books deal with this incident.