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word. This is not the only UFO event that has been cloaked in extreme secrecy. It is simply the only one in which there has been a completely irrefutable admission by government authorities that a UFO was 1 1 involved. Why would the Canadian government, or the U.S. government, or any government, for that matter, be so extremely secretive about a UFO incident? In fact, why is there any secrecy about UFOs at all? The Shag Harbor incident not only proves that UFOs exist and that they can crash or at least plunge violently into the sea, it also proves that the government knows this and does nothing about it - at least, nothing that is revealed to the public. Understand, the incident proves this. Shag Harbor is no ordinary UFO case. It is the best documented and one of the best witnessed of all UFO cases. It means that UFOs are almost certainly real. It appears also to mean, based on the responses of the Canadian government, that governments must in general be extremely secretive about them. Certainly only a few governments have ever taken any official position that UFOs are, if not real, then worth studying. These governments are Chile, Ecuador, China, and France. But none of them have ever released any definitive proof. Dark Object certainly offers definitive proof that something very, very strange plunged into Shag Harbor in October of 1967. There is additional evidence, covered in riveting detail in this book, that it 1 1 It is a given that government secrecy exists in the UFO area. But there is a larger question here. Governments notwithstanding, why are the alleged aliens themselves so secretive? No alien has ever landed in public. No alien has ever communicated with us openly. If they are here, they are obviously able to do so if they choose. In fact, if they are here, then it would seem that government policy and alien policy are in agreement: their presence must be kept a deep, dark secret. There are two reasons that aliens might have a policy of secrecy. The first is that they might be doing something that we might resist if we understood it. Under this scenario they would be coercing the government into silence. However, there might be another reason entirely. In a paper entitled "Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations" by T.B.H. Kuiper and M. Morris, published in Science (Vol.196, May 6,1977), the idea is put forth that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization would almost certainly be extremely secretive if they came here. The authors' reason for this is cogent. "Before a certain threshold is reached, complete contact with a superior civilization would abort further development through a culture shock effect." The authors go on to say that an advanced civilization would probably have nothing to gain from us except fresh new ideas, and that they would have to remain hidden until we had undergone a gradual process of acclimatization or risk the destruction of independent human thought. The same thing would happen to us that happened to dozens of tribes worldwide beginning in the sixteenth century, as European technological civilization advanced. Even those that were not forcibly destroyed, such as the Aztecs and the American Indians, experienced the complete redirection of all of their intellectual, spiritual, and economic activity toward the process of obtaining western goods. maneuvered underwater for a time.