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Sure enough, upon checking the phone books of the area later, Chris found both of them. He found Tapper, too, who, as it turned out, was married to an old friend of his. Each one remembered the incident, but none of them were on duty at the time. They all remembered another light keeper they were sure was on duty that night, named Barry Crowell. Brenton Reynolds made an attempt to track down Crowell, locating several people with that last name in the area, but none of them turned out to be the man they were looking for. It was not until three years later that Don tracked down the real Mr. Crowell in Shelburne. His story added even more mystery to the already puzzling Shelburne story. Late in the spring of 1994 Chris was visiting a friend who lived on the northern peninsula of Halifax. The man living next door walked across the yard and introduced himself. We'll call him "Earl," although that's not his real name. He said he knew a friend of Chris's. Earl worked for the city of Halifax now but had been a weapons tech in the military for many years. He was aware that Chris was "deep into the UFO thing," although he didn't know about his current investigation. Earl mentioned that he was interested in the phenomena due to some experiences he'd had in the military. Chris's interest was aroused enough for him to tell Earl about his efforts to uncover the details about the crash. Earl said he was aware of the event, and had been posted at Shelburne afterward, and had been briefed about it. Chris asked him if he could talk about it, and Earl agreed. Chris welcomed the opportunity. They agreed to get together a few days later. They met again early in the morning over coffee, before Earl left for work. Earl had been assigned to the Canadian Forces Station, Barrington, on Baccaro Point as a weapons tech with a top secret clearance and a specialty in missile recognition. Earl had a UFO sighting in 1970, while on Cape Sable Island, about seven miles west of Baccaro Radar Station. He observed several orange balls of light that flew off the water at night, an occurrence not unheard of in that area. Because the objects he sighted were so close to Baccaro Radar, he broached the subject to his commander, Colonel Rushton, inquiring if this was some new weapon he hadn't yet been briefed on. While he was at it, he asked about the Shag Harbor incident, which he'd heard about three years earlier. given to Earl during the briefing he received from Rushton: NORAD tracked the object when it entered the earth's atmosphere, after half an orbit over Siberia to the east coast of Canada and the Shag Harbor area. The military knew full well at the time that no airliner, space junk, or military hardware had impacted the waters of the sound. They also knew that the object did not stay put but submerged, proceeded out to sea, then headed northeast up the coast, around Cape Sable Island, and eventually came to rest off the mouth of Shelburne Harbor over a magnetic anomaly detection grid feed to the 201 mW. n soon Chris's antennae were quivering. There was that Shelburne connection again. Earl was telling the same story that Chris had been hearing over and over again. was another guy there as well, I think he did maintenance or something, Peter Tapper." "I could look at what you've got and tell you what I know, and maybe fill in some gaps for you." Chris was aware that what Earl had to tell him was secondhand. This was the information that was super secret Submarine Detection Base at Shelburne. Earl went on to say that a flotilla of six or seven naval ships - both Canadian and American - were