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call to Harry, on the off chance he could shake loose another piece of the puzzle. But it was obvious on the phone that he had lost him. The ex-navy diver informed Chris that he didn't need any trouble. Chris tried several different angles, but they all just seemed to make Harry angry. At this time Chris had just received word that the Records Group 77 material had arrived at the library. "You know," he said, "I've got some records that have just come in from the federal government. Maybe I'll find something there." "I don't care what you've got, Chris. You might find out something about Shag Harbor, but you're never going to find anything in there on Shelburne." This made Harry furious. "I don't care what you think. I was down there! I don't know whether you're calling me a liar or an idiot, but you came to me, so I'm going to tell you something. I don't know what it was that was down there and I don't know where it came from. But it didn't come from this planet, I au wtoout ar tou a4 pene 4 14 a 1 Several months later Chris was crossing the parking lot of the Sears department store in the West End Mall in Halifax when he bumped into Jim, an old friend of his from several years earlier. At one time they had worked together in the circulation department at one of the local newspapers. Jim had been retired from the Canadian air force for some years now. They exchanged greetings and Jim, who was accompanied by his young son, asked Chris what he was doing these days. "You're not going to believe what I've been doing lately, Jim. Come on over to the car and I'll show you something." Chris had his backpack, which was filled with documents and newspaper clippings about Shag Harbor. The minute Jim spotted the headline on the Chronicle Herald photocopy he said, "Oh, my God, how did you find out about that!?" "T was there." "You know you should drop it. You're never going to get the Shelburne story," he said. "I've had people suggest to me that what you saw down there was wrongly identified as a UFO." can tell you that! Now don't call back!" He slammed down the phone. "Well, it wasn't that hard, Jim. It was in all the local papers at the time." "Yes, I remember that now. You know about Shelburne, of course?" Chris was stunned, but he managed to say, "Yes, of course." "Yeah, they had all of those ships there. That was a hell of a mess," Jim remarked. "How do you know about that, Jim?" Chris admits he was more than a little surprised at this point. "Wait a minute now," he said, "you were