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Harbor. He flipped to the page and there was the date, October 4, 1967. But the information was sketchy, only one brief paragraph. Chris was therefore shocked when the headlines jumped out at him from the front page on the viewing screen. Dated October 7, 1967, in letters two inches high, they read: A spokesman for a special and little known Royal Canadian Air Force department in Ottawa for the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects said last night a series of bright lights glided into the ocean off Shag Harbor, Shelburne County ... Chris read the news report with a great deal of interest. Stanton Friedman had been right. There were references to many different people, chief among them Squadron Leader William Bain, the spokesman for the Air Desk in Ottawa. He also jotted down several of the witnesses' names: Corporal Werbicki and Constable Pond of the Royal Mounted Police, Lawrence Smith, and Laurie Wickens, names that would continue to pop up in police and military reports the more Chris dug into the facts. These were people we both would come to know personally over the years. He now had names, but he was still hungry for more details. He read other references to the incident in the days following the crash in the Chronicle Herald, but could find nothing about it in the other local dailies or t weeklies. The library staff suggested that he go to the Provincial Archives for coverage by i eee other papers. He followed this advice and presented himself at their offices the following day. Soon he was leafing through the weeklies, noting their spin on the story and looking for any detail that might have been missed by the Herald. Curiously enough, only one of the papers, the Shelburne Coast Guard, contained no information regarding the incident. Chris found this to be very strange, considering that the UFO had crashed practically in its own backyard. But as he would soon learn, in the UFO investigation business, whenever something didn't seem quite right, it was usually because someone linked to the investigation was covering things up. Chris learned all he could from the newspaper reports, photocopying as he went along. At the time he had no way of knowing that this trail would lead him all over Canada and the United States. he had some names. He had the newspapers' version of the event and a rough idea about what had happened. But the story of the event was scattered among various periodicals, pieces were missing, tantalizing details and questions were left unresolved. One of these missing pieces was the possibility that the divers of the Canadian navy's Fleet Diving Unit might have recovered wreckage from the ~----- OIL. ocean floor. He had an idea. He got hold of some old sounding charts for the area east of Outer Island, then bought copies of the 1992 current charts. His intention was to compare the charts of 1967 to present-day charts, in hopes of spotting some anomaly on the bottom that would show where the UFO debris might He went to the reference section and obtained the microfilm reels for The Halifax Chronicle Herald, a very conservative daily newspaper, with a long history stretching back over one hundred fifty years. COULD BE SOMETHING CONCRETE IN SHAG HARBOR UFO - RCAF. But on this day he went home happy, and even more curious and motivated than before. Now at least