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official response to the crash, of first doing nothing and then refusing to confirm anything, is wildly inappropriate. That the object was not any sort of secret aircraft is made clear by the witness testimony of Captain Pierre Charbonneau, pilot of Air Canada Flight 305. He appears to have been the first witness to the object, which he saw from his plane. He described the object as orange and rectangular in shape, followed by a string of smaller lights. The object appeared to be huge. An astonishing incident then occurred: there was an explosion near the large object. Another explosion took place a few moments later, then the trail of lights began some strange maneuvers. This sighting alone would have entered the annals of UFO history, as it appeared to show some kind of accident or battle among the strange objects. But that was only the beginning of this incredible incident. Since it led, a short time later, to a crash that was witnessed by multiple parties and even openly admitted by the government to have involved a UFO, one would think that there would have been headlines worldwide. Aliens hadn't exactly landed, but they had certainly crashed. On the surface what happened at Shag Harbor in October of 1967 is straightforward enough: a large object that had been seen, both by ground observers and pilots, crossing the sky in apparent distress went crashing into the water in full view of a substantial number of other witnesses. Strange foam and odd debris were sighted. The incident was reported to the police, the military investigated, and government documents openly acknowledged that the incident involved a UFO. Divers brought up material, again in full view of witnesses. What is not so straightforward is that the government never released any information about what was found beneath the dark waters of Shag Harbor. The government response became extremely strange and secretive, and very different from what it would have been if this had been an aircraft. There was no extended search-and-rescue operation, not in any ordinary sense. There was never any explanation from the government about what had happened. The only reason that the Shag Harbor incident came to light is that Chris Styles and Don Ledger would not let the matter rest. And why should they? This is the best documented UFO crash incident that is publicly known. After October of 1967 it disappeared from memory, not returning until Ledger and Styles began their investigation and wrote this book. A question begs to be asked: why, given that the government itself said that an event of phenomenal importance had occurred, was it simply ignored afterward and held secret? After all, this book offers documentation that the incredible has happened: an unidentified flying object of unknown origin crashed. Not only that, debris was recovered. If the object had been a meteor, there would have been no reason to conceal that fact. Witness descriptions confirm that it was not an aircraft in any ordinary wae - - fa So what happened here? Somebody must know something, because somebody, before numerous witnesses, did indeed recover materials from the floor of the harbor. But the public hasn't been told a Instead, the Incident was quietly filed away. sense of the word.