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Post # 1: Assignment# 2 - Shag Harbour UFO Incident

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Post # 1: Assignment# 2 - Shag Harbour UFO Incident

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Nicholas Brown, Aaren Frawley, Zach Furtado & Brent Lorenowicz

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Post # 2 Video: The Infamous Shag Harbour Incident

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Post # 2 Video: The Infamous Shag Harbour Incident

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This video interviews one of the witnesses of the UFO sighting and crash as well as speaks about shag harbour the as a town. Shag Harbour is a place where everyone knows everyone. So, the fact that a few days after the witness reported what he saw that the military showed up, to him it makes him believe that there was something there.

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This video really shows the unexplained reason for belief. The fact that there were so many witnesses of the accounts, including authorities but when they went out to go search for proof and any left-over wreckage and nothing was there, no one can explain what they saw and what it was.

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A well-known 1967 UFO sighting in Nova Scotia is now being commemorated with a stamp.

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Post # 3 Video: The history of the Shag Harbour Incident

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Post # 3 Video: The history of the Shag Harbour Incident

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This video is a small documentary on the Shag Harbour incident. It talks about what happened on the day and about the search for a wreck.

Connection:
A reason for belief portrayed in this video is Agenticity. People often believe that if aliens come to earth that they will be far more advanced but as we have no proof of their being life elsewhere in the universe we can't be sure that would be the case. One red flag is Red Herring. In the video they have a map of all the locations it was reported however no one was able to get a picture of it not being able to prove it as Alien life.

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On Oct. 4, 1967, multiple witnesses reported seeing bright lights in the sky that then disappeared into the ocean. At the time, witnesses suspected a plane crash, but nothing was ever found and to this day it remains one of Canada's most well-documented UFO mysteries.

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The history of the Shag Harbour UFO incident | CBC News

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On Oct. 4, 1967, multiple witnesses reported seeing bright lights in the sky that then disappeared into the ocean. At the time, witnesses suspected a plane crash, but nothing was ever found and to this day it remains one of Canada's most well-documented UFO mysteries.

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Post # 4 Video: 2016 Bus Tour Retraces 1967 Shag Harbour UFO Incident

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Post # 4 Video: 2016 Bus Tour Retraces 1967 Shag Harbour UFO Incident

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This video is a bus tour from 2016 where they retrace the events that happened at Shag Harbour is 1967. Laurie Wickens is a part of the bus tour and tells personal accounts of what happened, how it was handled, and who was involved in the investigations. Members of the coast guard and RCMP were also involved in this bus tour.

Connection:
This video relates to the Emotional Connection reason for belief. Laurie Wickens has a deep emotional connection to Shag Harbour because he was one of the eyewitnesses’ that day in 1967. Similarly, people who are willing to go on a bus tour about the event, they have a level of connection to this incident as well. The red flag that is evident in this video is Appeal to Authority. With an eye witness and representatives from the coast guard and the RCMP, people will tend to put more stock into what they are saying because of their status in the event and community as a whole. One flaw in the video was that it was all filmed inside the bus. It would have been better to go out to the places on foot and get a better sense of the area Laurie was describing. This video relates to the gathering information part of the critical thinking process because it is retracing of events with an eye witness while providing more specific information.

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He remembers details. The tree line was different. This building existed. That one didn't.

They saw lights. They heard no sound.

He speaks with a lot of certainty except that 49 years later he still can't say with 100 per certainty what he and others witnessed that night in Shag Harbour, Shelburne County.

And so he sticks with the only logical explanation there is, that it was an unidentified flying object - a UFO - which is how it is referred to in Government of Canada documents.

No one, Wickens says, has proven otherwise.

Nor has research over the decades disputed his belief.

'Part of the 2016 Shag Harbour UFO Festival included a bus tour retracing the 1967 incident. Laurie Wickens, an eye witness to the 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident led a bus tour and a visit to the crash site on Oct. 1, 2016. The RCMP and Coast Guard participated in the tour.']

RETRACING EVENTS
It's Oct. 1, 2016, nearly 49 years to the day that Wickens won't ever forget. That night he and some friends drove on the road in a 1956 green and white Pontiac, mesmerized by lights they were driving parallel to.

Driving in a tour bus as part of the annual Shag Habour UFO Symposium and Festival, Wickens describes to others about what he saw.

"The lights would come on in sequence, one, two, three, four, then they'd all go off for a while and then start that sequence over," he says. "Everybody got the feeling for it?"

"Was it like this?" asks bus driver Calvin d'Entremont, operator of a Day by the Sea Tours, as he flicks the interior bus lights on and off. Everyone, including Wickens, laughs. But everyone also takes what Wickens is saying very seriously.

He's peppered with questions.

Was there a sound? No.

Were you scared? No.

Wickens estimates the length of what he saw in the sky to have been about 60 feet. He figures it was 1,000 feet from the ground. Low, he says.

"They weren't high because we wasn't looking up, we were looking out."

Eventually the lights crossed over the road and for a few seconds he and others lost sight of them.

But then they watched the lights dive in a rapid 45-degree movement towards the water's surface. At that point they thought they had witnessed a plane crash.

The bus takes the same route that Wickens took 49 years earlier to reach a payphone. They needed to call the RCMP, he says. The person on the other end of his phone call was skeptical, though.

"When I called the RCMP the first thing he wanted to know was what I was drinking," Wickens says.

But then came other phone calls. From other residents and an off-duty RCMP officer. It wasn't long before the RCMP, Coast Guard and fishing vessels had descended on the scene.

The fact that there was never any debris found made Wickens certain it wasn't a plane crash he has witnessed. But what had left the yellow foam on the water's surface, and what were the lights they had seen in the sky and then watched for about an hour on the water's surface?

Well, that remains the million-dollar question.
OTHER WITNESSES
Peter Goreham is another witness to the 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident. He recalls telling his parents about it the next morning. They didn't believe until they saw the story on the news.

Like others, he continues to wonder what he saw in the sky and on the water that night. He also wonders about a cylinder-type device found by a lighthouse keeper the following morning. It was damaged, smouldering and had wires or something else coming out from it. Someone from the American military, he claims, took it away and told the lighthouse keeper not to talk about it.

"They took it to a secluded wharf and that was the last we saw of it," he says. "The Americans confiscated it."
INTRIGUING INCIDENT
Area resident Ken Chetwynd is standing at the site of the 1967 crash when the bus pulls up Saturday evening. He was 11 in 1967.

"I was in bed and I heard people in the kitchen wondering what was going on. I didn't get up but you knew there was something really strange happening," he recalls. "Then the next morning when I got up they were talking about people and the Coast Guard searching for something. It was very eerie. Everybody was wondering what was going on."

The incident lives on in the community. There is a Shag Harbour UFO Incident Centre, where the history of the event is chronicled.

On the evening of the bus tour, even the RCMP and Coast Guard participate in the anniversary event.

Tapping into what the community felt and thought is what Noah Morritt is looking to do. He's on the bus tour with Wickens and the others on Oct. 1, but he came to Shag Harbour five weeks earlier.

He's with the Folklore Department of Memorial University in Newfoundland and he's writing his PHD dissertation on the Shag Harbour incident. He first stumbled upon the story when watching a documentary on television. He researched the incident for two years and then came to where it happened.

"I wanted to come to the ground because I wanted to know what are people doing with this? I discovered there's a UFO museum, there's a UFO festival, a number of the witnesses are still around," he says. "I think the thing I take away from this is people saw what they saw and they're very honest about that, and that honesty is important to this story. People around here look for closure, they want to know what crashed into the harbour that night and there aren't answers for them."

Despite the passage of time, Wickens' story hasn't changed over the years. He knows what he saw, even if he still doesn't know what it was.

And at the age of 67, it's as intriguing to him now as the night he experienced it at the age of 18.

As the bus tour comes to a end and Wickens has one again relived his experience, he ends by telling those who came to experience it as well, "That's my story. And I'm sticking to it."

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2016 bus tour retraces 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident | The Telegram

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He remembers details. The tree line was different. This building existed. That one didn't. They saw lights. They heard no sound. He speaks with a lot of certainty except that 49 years later he still can't say with 100 per certainty what he and others witnessed that night in Shag Harbour, Shelburne County.

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Post # 5 Website: Canada's Best Documented UFO

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Post # 5 Website: Canada's Best Documented UFO

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This article is from global news. They talk about how some of the Cousteau family members, one of the most famous families for ocean exploration will be going out to Shag Harbour, N.S. to try and investigate the Shag Harbour UFO incident that no one has answers for. They also mention how it is Canada’s best documented UFO incident.

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This article really shows the unexplained reason for belief. It is mentioned that there are multiple reports of unidentified flying objects because people could simply not explain what they were seeing. There is a red flag as well which would be the appeal to authority, this is just because of the crazy amount of coverage it has got, as well they are going to have the Cousteau family investigate it.

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A nearly 51-year-old mystery will be getting a fresh set of eyes in August, and they'll belong to one of the world's most famous families in ocean exploration.

Celine Cousteau and Fabian Cousteau, grandchildren of Jacques Cousteau, are set to visit Shag Harbour, N.S., to investigate the infamous Shag Harbour UFO Incident next month.

The organization that promotes and celebrates the mystery made the announcement on their Facebook page.
READ MORE: Canada's best-documented UFO sighting still intrigues, 50 years on
The Shag Harbour incident

It was around 11 p.m. on the night of Oct. 4, 1967, when the first accounts of an unusual, lit-up object crashing into the water off of Shag Harbour, N.S., first began filtering through the community.

Among those who saw the string of flashing lights on that clear, moonless night were three RCMP officers, scores of fishermen and airline pilots flying along the province's southwest coast.

But a series of searches turned up nothing. No wreckage. No bodies. No clues as to what really happened that night nearly 51 years ago.

A Halifax-area man later uncovered a trove of government and police records that would make the Shag Harbour incident Canada's best-documented and most intriguing UFO sighting.

In a series of RCMP reports and correspondence sent by telex between military officials in Ottawa and Halifax, there are specific references to unidentified flying objects, and no attempts were made to explain away what people were reporting.
WATCH: Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival
Visit to Shag Harbour

The Cousteaus will reportedly be special guests at this year's Shag Harbour UFO Conference.

Lauren Wickens, the president of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society says that its members are excited to have the family serve as guests.

The Cousteaus are visiting as they film a documentary series.

As part of their visit, their team will carry out an underwater search with David Cvet, a local diver who was one of main divers involved in a 1967 investigation of the incident.

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Cousteau family members to investigate Nova Scotia's Shag Harbour UFO incident

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A nearly 51-year-old mystery will be getting a fresh set of eyes in August, and they'll belong to one of the world's most famous families in ocean exploration. Celine Cousteau and Fabian Cousteau, grandchildren of Jacques Cousteau, are set to visit Shag Harbour, N.S., to investigate the infamous Shag Harbour UFO Incident next month.

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Post # 6 Website: Events at Shag Harbour

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Post # 6 Website: Events at Shag Harbour

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This is an article about the events that took place at Shag Harbour during the day of the supposed UFO sighting.

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One reason for belief is  Unexplained. The article states many facts about the nights and how there were no reports of aircraft going down or any wreckage found except for a mysterious yellow foam. One red flag is Suppression by Authorities. There is a belief that the U.S may have picked up any wreckage found in the water to cover up alien existence. One critical Thinking step we can take is Assumptions. Always assume that anything is possible and create your own if necessary.

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Municipality of the District of Barrington

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Shag Harbour UFO Incident

An Extraordinary Event

An extraordinary event in 1967 would practically put the small fishing village of Shag Harbor on the map. Located at the southern tip of Nova Scotia, this rural community would be host to one of the best documented UFO events of the past 40 years.

Named after the "shag," a bird of the cormorant family, the harbor was literally left off most maps of the time, but that would be changed once and for all.

The tiny fishing community has always had its stories... stories of giant sea serpents, man-eating squid, and ghost ships. The list of local color would see one more addition to its list: a story of a visit of a mysterious flying craft of unknown origin. This craft would visit the waters of Shag Harbor, permanently stamping the village's name in the public eye.

Orange Lights in the Sky

The first indication of this mysterious occurrence would come from local residents who noticed strange orange lights in the sky on the night of October 4, 1967. Most witnesses agreed that there were four orange lights that evening. Five teenagers watched these lights flash in sequence, and then suddenly dive in a 45 degree angle toward the water's surface. The witnesses were surprised that the lights did not dive into the water, but seemed to float on the water, approximately one-half mile from the shore.
Witnesses at first thought they were watching a tragic airplane crash, and quickly reported as much to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which was located at Barrington Passage. Coincidently, RCMP Constable Ron Pound had already witnessed the strange lights himself as he drove down Highway 3 in route to Shag Harbor. Pound felt that he was seeing 4 lights, all attached to one flying craft. He estimated the craft to be about 60 feet long.

The Response

Constable Pound made his way to the shore to get a closer look at the phenomenal sight. He was accompanied by Police Corporal Victor Werbieki, Contable Ron O'Brien, and other local residents. Pound clearly saw a yellow light slowly moving on the water, leaving a yellowish foam in its wake. All eyes were glued on the light, as it slowly either moved too distant to be seen, or dipped into the icy waters.

Coast Guard Cutter #101 and other local boats rushed to the spot of the sighting, but by the time they arrived, the light itself was gone. However, the crewmen could still see the yellow foam, indicating that something had possibly submerged. Nothing else could be found that night, and the search was called off at 3:00 AM.

The RCMP ran a traffic check with the Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifac, and NORAD radar at Baccaro, Nova Scotia. They were told that there were no missing aircraft reported that evening, either civilian, or military.

The Report

The following day, the Rescue Coordination Center filed a report with Canadian Forces Headquarters in Ottawa. This report stated that something had hit the water in Shag Harbor, but the object was of "unknown origin."

The HMCS Granby was ordered to the location, where divers searched the bottom of the ocean for several days, but without positive results.

Soon, the story of the mysterious crash at Shag Harbor died as quickly as it had begun. That is, until 1993. As the original story faded from papers and newscasts, several theories were put forward. One explanation was that a Russian spacecraft had crashed, which would explain the presence of a Russian submarine in the area. There was also the rumor of American involvement in the follow-up investigation, but there was no official statement from the United States.

Chris Styles

The Shag Harbor incident would have new life breathed into it through the efforts of MUFON investigator Chris Styles. The case intrigued him so much that he decided to search for more details. Styles found the names of many of the original witnesses through newspaper clippings, and was able to interview many of them.

Styles was assisted by MUFON investigator Doug Ledger. These two men would uncover some extremely compelling evidence through their interviews. They discovered that when the divers of the Granby finished their work, the case was not over, after all.

The divers, along with other witnesses related these events: The object that dove into the waters of the harbor had soon left the Shag area, traveling underwater for about 25 miles to a place called Government Point, which was near a submarine detection base. The object was spotted on sonar there, and Naval vessels were positioned over it. After a couple of days, the military was planning a salvage operation, when a second UFO joined the first. Common belief at the time was that the second craft had arrived to render aid to the first.

The Navy

At this time, the Navy decided to wait and watch. After about a week of monitoring the two UFOs, some of the vessels were called to investigate a Russian submarine which had entered Canadian waters. At this point, the two underwater craft made their move. They made their way to the Gulf of Maine, and putting distance between themselves and the chasing Navy boats, they broke the surface, and shot away into the skies.

These extraordinary events were corroborated by many witnesses, both civilian and military. Unfortunately, the reports were given "off the record." Ex-military personnel feared the loss of their pensions, and civilian witnesses feared ridicule, and their privacy being invaded. The unusual events of Shag Harbor command an important place in the study of UFOs. There is little doubt that something "unknown" crashed into the waters of Shag Harbor on October 4, 1967.

Written by: B J Booth

To learn more about the UFO Incident of 1967, visit the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Centre - 5615 Highway 3, Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Phone: 902-723-0244

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An extraordinary event in 1967 would practically put the small fishing village of Shag Harbor on the map. Located at the southern tip of Nova Scotia, this rural community would be host to one of the best documented UFO events of the past 40 years.

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This website is a summary of the Shag Harbour UFO sighting timeline and events that occurred on October 4th, 1967. This article was posted by Narcity, a website that provides interesting stories about cities across Canada.

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The reason for the belief that connects to this website is Emotional Connection. The small city of Shag Harbour and Nova Scotia as a whole has a connection to this UFO incident. The purpose of the website is to provide Canadians with memorable stories from cities across the country and the Shag Harbour UFO sighting was an important, memorable incident in their history. The red flag that coincides with this article is Proof by Verbosity. Even though the article provides quick summaries of the incident, they also showcase the various ways the Shag Harbour UFO sighting is celebrated in Nova Scotia. For example, they mention the Shag Harbour UFO centre that is in the city, as well as the festival that is held every year. After a while, the numerous stories you hear any evidence that is provided, it becomes so much that people will tend to believe it. Lastly, this article talked about how on the day of the event, the police were called assuming that the object that crashed was a plane. When using the critical thinking process, It is important to identify the assumptions that are used in the evidence, and the eyewitness accounts that were recorded.

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This Village In Nova Scotia Is The Official Crash Site Of A 1967 UFO Case

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You can visit the place where the incident actually occurred!

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This is a picture of what is claimed to be the UFO crash at Shag Harbour. This is exactly what people were claiming to see out across the water but the difference in those reports to this picture is that it was like a bright light.

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Here you can see how easy people will believe in seeing a UFO because of patternicity. A human will relate any kind of weird shape in the sky to it being a UFO or some sort of extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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This image portrays the news article for the day after the UFO incident

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A reason for belief can be Unexplained. On the day there were reporting of an unidentified object glowing and floating above the sea before crashing into it with no reason behind it and no reports of aircraft going down. A red flag related to it is Red herring as the article suggests it was a UFO shot down by the U.S but no real evidence to prove it was a UFO or the U.S. If we use the Critical Thinking process it's important to keep in mind of assumptions. When an event like this that can't be explained everyone has their own assumptions as to what happened and should always be open-minded to different ones.

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This is a photo of the Shag Harbour UFO Museum. The picture also shows the hours of operation and the price of admission for the museum.

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This photo relates to the Unexplained reason for belief. Many people will be interested to learn about incidents that are still considered unexplained. This museum can offer many theories and stories as to what happened that night. This museum would be marketed to individuals who love mystery, and the conspiracy of alien life as a whole. The red flag that resonates the most with this photo is Confirmation Bias. People who are visiting a UFO museum, likely believe in alien life. Therefore, when they see all the evidence and eyewitness accounts that are inside, they will connect the information with their belief that alien life does exist. This museum also allows customers to evaluate the arguments surrounding the incident when going through the critical thinking process.

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1.    The thing that we learned that most surprised us was this one of Canada’s biggest unexplained UFO incidents in which 11 people saw a low-flying lit object crash into the harbour with no evidence of being there.

2.    Shows such as Doctor Who and Star Trek and movies like Star Wars have shown us for years what possible aliens and their worlds can look like through shows and film and the fact that this was right in Canada is why this topic was interesting to our group.

3.    The research that I found most interesting was that there were 11 people who witnessed the object crash into the harbour as well as multiple witnesses reported hearing a whistling sound like then finally a loud bang. However, after three days of searching by the RCC and RCN, there was no evidence, bodies or object was found.

4.    The thing that I am most likely to remember from this research is how there was no evidence of the flying object even being there even after almost three days of searching and all of the witnesses of the object.

5.    After completing the course content, the pseudoscience belief that can do the most harmful would be Appeal to Authority because sometimes can blindly follow something dangerous or create a bad image for themselves because they idolize an authority figure.

The least harmful would be All-Natural because most people are trying to find what is best for their bodies through all-natural cures and remedies. Though most of All Natural has very low standards and usually isn’t true and can be harmful to their bodies.

6.    The most important knowledge to pass onto a family member or friend would be to start using critical thinking in every aspect of your life and not just for the world’s mysteries. Critical thinking has helped in our other courses in thinking outside the box and to recreate solutions for our problems.