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There was much speculation in the days and weeks that followed about what might have happened in Shag Harbor. But no answers were forthcoming - not from the government, the scientific community, or the military. It's strange how this extraordinary incident slipped into obscurity after only a few weeks, and became ignored and forgotten. The details remained buried in musty archives and misty recollections, and would languish there for twenty-five years. Twenty-five years later Chris Styles was watching the popular television program Unsolved Mysteries. "Perhaps we will never know what happened during those fateful days near Roswell, New Mexico, in July of 1947," Robert Stack told his audience of several million viewers, before his face dissolved to a commercial for a Toyota 4Runner. Chris Styles pressed the off button on his remote control. He had been watching a rebroadcast of a segment of the now legendary UFO incident that took place in the New Mexico desert near Roswell Air Force Base on July 4, 1947. The show featured many credible witnesses to this enduring mystery that had become a cormerstone of American ufology. This segment of Unsolved Mysteries reminded Styles of a UFO incident that occurred when he was twelve, the crash of a UFO into the waters of Shag Harbor. That crash had personal significance because he remembered seeing it and trying to follow it on foot. It exploded into the press the next day. He remembered one startling truth about this forgotten case. It had not been dismissed by the authorities. They had taken it just as seriously when the official search effort was finally ended as they had when it was first reported. No one ever disputed the fact that a sixty-foot craft slammed into the waters of Shag Harbor on the night of October 4, 1967. So twenty-five years later, what had happened to this official mystery, the astonishing event that had once generated headlines and fed the press for weeks afterward? Where was its place in North American ufology? Why had it been ignored? Chris decided to get involved. But where to begin? The answer was simple - go to someone who is an expert, someone who already knows how to investigate this sort of thing. Chris decided to call nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, one of the world's most famous UFO researchers, who has spent thirty years researching the subject and has published many authoritative books in the field. He remembered a local news story that had mentioned Friedman signing copies of his book Crash at Corona at a bookstore in Halifax in 1992. The news item had mentioned that Friedman lived in Well, that should make it easy, Chris thought. A quick call to the long-distance operator and he had a phone number. He dialed it and got an answering service. wreckage in the sound. Fredricton, New Brunswick - Nova Scotia's adjoining province. "If it's an important matter, sir, we have a number where he can be reached."