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DEDICATION The authors would like to dedicate this work to all UFO witnesses, in recognition of their courage in coming forward and sharing their observations and convictions, sometimes at great personal risk. The Shag Harbor incident is something totally unexpected: a UFO case so flawlessly documented that it must have happened. But it is hardly known, even among UFO investigators. Perhaps it has been discreetly covered up. Perhaps it has fallen through the cracks. Either way, Don Ledger and Chris Styles have spent years working with this profoundly convincing and important story, and in this book they offer the most complete and authoritative account of the event that has ever been attempted. Did a spacecraft from another world plunge into the cold northern waters of Shag Harbor on an October night in 1967? The authors offer the most convincing evidence that has ever been presented for a UFO crash. They actually prove that the event took place, and they do it using government documents. The documents in the appendix of this book are only four of the many official reports that were discovered by Styles and Ledger. They reveal that the sighting of a UFO by local fisherman Leo Mersey was actually taken so seriously by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that they filed an official report. They took the sighting report of two brothers, Lawrence Charles Smith and Norman Eugene Smith, equally seriously, as is evident from the report they filed based on their testimony. There were reports of mysterious lights all over the Shag Harbor area, and extensive official interviews of witnesses. Indeed, concern was so strong at high levels within the Canadian government that a Royal Canadian Air Force discussion of the incident suggests an underwater investigation of the site. The crash took place, without a doubt, and the government took it very seriously indeed, as the documents in the appendix demonstrate. Indeed, if this had been a crash of anything except a UFO, the fact would have been duly noted and a search would have been initiated for survivors. Instead, a period of confusion followed, and secrecy so intense that even years later Ledger and Styles were tailed by police after they took pictures of the area where the incident took place. Why would this be? If an unknown craft definitely crashed - and this seems impossible to refute - then why was the official reaction so strange? To understand this it is necessary to understand first that the human response to the UFO phenomenon is extremely strange and distorted. For example, the documents referred to in this book prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Canadian government knew for certain that something unknown crashed into Shag Harbor. But the The authors can be reached at www.donledger.com. INTRODUCTION by Whitley Strieber