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him if there really were men from space. Milton replied that if some strange little man did come ashore and ask him for his ice cream, he should give it to him. Later Milton snapped a picture of his son standing beside the family station wagon and of some other spectators who had come to watch the Mounties searching for pieces of a flying saucer. The fact that the divers found garbage on the bottom of the sound, next to a busy fishing port, as Donald Nickerson has said, is not surprising. It would have been unusual if they had not. Still, it is strange that official reports did not state that the divers had brought some debris to the surface for examination, even if it was just sea trash. There are rumors that material of some type was recovered and shipped to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to the Naval Armament Depot there for processing. A confidential military source has confirmed this, which in turn is supported by the UFO organization APRO's preliminary investigation report which states, "... any recovered artifacts would be turned over to Mr. Maurice 'Mace' Coffey, the unit's scientific consultant. If anything of extreme interest was found, it would be turned over to the National Research Council." The search continued until late on Sunday, the eighth. By Saturday the number of divers had increased to seven from the original four. On Monday they put their gear back into their truck and left the area. On October 9 Canadian Forces Maritime Command officially called off the search for the UFO that either crashed or landed in the sound adjacent to Shag Harbor. Later evidence would suggest that the latter was the more likely the case. In any event, the official report would end with this statement: "Not a trace ... not a clue ... not a bit of anything." There were no answers or attempts at explanations either. As puzzled as the Royal Canadian Navy and Air Force were, they apparently were not curious enough to seek solutions to an obviously solid UFO sighting - at least, that was the official line. Like the Roswell incident twenty years earlier, for all intents and purposes the Shag Harbor incident, like the Dark Object itself, had sunk into oblivion. Early November 1967, 1:20 P.M. mountain standard time The office of Dr. Norman £ Levine, University of Colorado An unscheduled meeting took place between Dr. E. U. Condon, who was under government contract to study UFO phenomena, and Dr. Norman Levine, a scientist on Dr. Condon's committee. Dr. Condon, noted physicist and close friend of Robert Oppenheimer, who had helped develop the atomic bomb, had made a special trip to Dr. Levine's office at the University of Colorado. He was concerned that he might have another unexplainable UFO case for his Project Bluebook. He expressed his concerns about a UFO crash reported in Nova Scotia. He was tired of getting calls about the case from the UFO organizations Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and National Investigation Committee for Aerial Research (NICAP). The heads of those UFO organizations CHAPTER FOUR THE UFO CRASH THAT WASN'T