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They continued to sift through the information. But although there were many documents alluding to the incident, there were no reports by the RCMP officer in charge of the Barrington Passage detachment at that time, Corporal Victor Werbicki. Then they came upon a priority Telex from CANMARCOM, an acronym for Canadian Maritime Command, to CANCOMDIVELANT, another acronym, for the Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic. It gave instructions for the unit to task out of CFS Shelburne on the HMCS Granby, proceed to Clark's Harbor, and provide a diving officer and three divers to conduct a search for an object reported by the RCMP in the vicinity of latitude 43°30' north and longitude 63°45' west. The object was reported as approximately three hundred yards offshore. The unit was to work in conjunction with an RCMP officer and his detachment while being advised by him as to the object's probable location. In the top right-hand corner of the document was written "S/L Bain" - meaning Squadron Leader Bain, head of the Air Desk in Ottawa, which was then the clearinghouse for UFO reports from civil and military agencies. Printed in capital letters underlined three times was the word UFO. Slowly and painfully Chris was beginning to uncover what had happened on that cool, clear night in October 1967. Shag Harbor. He figured, why not go right to the people who had firsthand knowledge about whether anything had been recovered? This idea was a little naive, but in those days he was full of hope and approached his job with an open mind. He enlisted the aid of an acquaintance of his father's, an instructor with the Fleet Diving Unit, Guy Fenn. Fenn was able to give him the names of the divers involved in the exercise and their addresses. Although some of these addresses were not up to date, with a little detective work Chris managed to track each of them down. He made his initial contacts with the divers by phone. The first two were not interested in talking about their experiences, while another was in serious condition in the hospital with throat cancer and not expected to live. His fourth call was to "Harry," who was now retired and on pension from the navy, recently remarried, and working for one of the local institutions as a caretaker to supplement his income. Chris spent some time telling Harry how he had located him, and mentioned a couple of people, including Guy Fenn, who might have been friends of his. He asked whether he could ask Harry some questions about Shag Harbor and the UFO incident. CHAPTER FIVE FINDING THE WITNESSES Chris wanted to talk to some of the divers involved in the search of the bottom of the sound next to