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At the time Harry had no problems taking to Chris about it, but he repeated the words, "Shag Harbor, Shag Harbor? No, I don't think I recall anything there, but I was on a couple of UFO operations with the navy." As interested as Chris was in hearing Harry's stories, he wanted to focus on Shag Harbor. But Harry insisted on referring to a second incident that had taken place just off of Shelburne Harbor. "You know about the one off Shelburne, don't you? You know there was no doubt about that one?" Confused, Chris attempted to correct him. "You mean in Shag Harbor. That's where the recovery operation took place. And that is in Shelburne County." "Well, yeah, maybe," Harry said reluctantly, "but I remember us being off Shelburne Harbor. We didn't go into the town or anything. I was there, and maybe it was Shag Harbor, but I don't think so. We were sending divers down in pairs and it was pretty hectic. There were several ships there for over a week." He mentioned bringing up debris and foam. Chris was puzzled. Ships? As far as he knew, there was only a coast guard cutter, CGC 101, on the site. And the newspaper reports mentioned nothing about debris being brought up. The foam was another thing. The only foam that Chris was aware of was what the fishermen and the Mounties had referred to as yellow foam floating on the surface. Harry seemed to be talking about solid foam, or something of a structural nature, being brought up from the bottom. Chris wanted to pursue this further, so he asked Harry if he would mind if he came over at a later date, to get further details and record the interview. Harry indicated that was fine with him. Eventually Chris set up an interview for April 9, 1993, Good Friday. Chris and Bob arrived at Harry's house with some recording equipment and were greeted by him at the door. Upon spotting the equipment he informed Chris that he had been talking with some of his former buddies and was now reluctant to have his story 1 taped. "T've always been a bit of a rebel," Harry said. "I haven't even told the family about this." Indeed there were quite a few of them there, waiting to hear him tell about the mission he was on twenty-five years ago. He even went so far as to suggest that maybe he should check with the navy to see if it was okay to talk about it. Chris quickly assured him that there was no need to tape the interview if he didn't want to. Harry showed them into the dining room. "Don't get me wrong. I said I'd give an interview and I aan will." He invited Chris and Bob to sit down. He began to tell a little of his story, going over some of the details he had given Chris over the phone. Chris sensed that Harry wasn't as enthusiastic about parting with details as he had been over the phone, so he took out some press clippings he had brought along. This seemed to work. Harry chuckled over some of the details reported in the clippings, acting insulted at one point, where it mentioned that the divers were exhausted after searching all day. "Yeah, right, exhausted. That's a load of bull." Harry mentioned that they had been bringing up a lot of foam. "Foam - you mean from under the water?" Chris asked. "The press mentioned a frothy foam on the water. The fishermen sailed through the stuff while they were looking for the object." Chris said, "Do you think you could talk about them?"