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At this point in time there is no reason to doubt that something mysterious was going on off Government Point near the town of Shelburne at the same time as the event in Shag Harbor. All the evidence suggests that the two incidents were linked. The Shelburne part of the incident was buried, its document trail obliterated, and its witnesses effectively silenced. Was this because of the UFO connection or because of the base's military role? Something happened under the water within rifle shot of one of the most secret bases in the NATO defense community, a base so secret and so obscure that for years, people living close to the base did not suspect that it was anything but what the Canadian and American military complex said it was - an oceanographic research station, set up to study the bottom of the North Atlantic. What made it secret was its classified sonar system, set up, in cooperation with the U.S., to search for Russian submarines sneaking into United States waters via Canada. It took a sex scandal to bring its true purpose to light. On March 1, 1985, the afternoon edition of the Chronicle Herald broke a news story about a group of lesbians in the Canadian military. This group of five were being discharged because they could be blackmailed by enemy agents, due to their sexual preferences. It was revealed that they were operators of highly classified equipment for specialized top secret operations concerning NATO defense strategy in the North Atlantic. They were working at a high security base identified as the Canadian Forces Station, Shelburne. The newspaper reported then that CFS, Shelburne, was one of sixty-four listening stations in a worldwide underwater submarine detection system called SOSUS for Sonar Surveillance System. The system was used to track Soviet, American, and NATO submarines cruising in the North Atlantic at a range of two to three thousand miles. The hull, prop, and engine signatures, produced by ships and submarines as they moved through the water (which is an excellent medium for sound), were recorded as each vessel passed close to the hydrophones and compared with sounds that had been previously recorded, of both friendly and unfriendly vessels. These sound signatures were on file in a computer in Nevada. If the ship was unrecognized and on the surface, a NATO aircraft could be dispatched to fly over it and photograph it. It would be safe to assume that the North Atlantic was heavily salted with these hydrophones. An additional device was the magnetic anomaly detection, or MAD, grid. This grid was laid out in the shallow waters of the continental shelf and extended all the way from Greenland southward to the Florida keys. Anything with a magnetic field that passed over it, that is, any vessel not made of wood or fiberglass, could be tracked to within several hundred yards, perhaps even closer than that. Any surface vessel can be tracked these days from space by satellites, but in 1967 NATO did not have eyes in the skies. They had their hydrophones and their MAD grid and intelligence networks to work with, and it was all very secret. Above top secret. So you can imagine what happened when a UFO came along and parked on top of that precious multibillion-dollar grid within two miles of a top secret base for seven days. CHAPTER SIX MORE WITNESSES