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In the years 1963 to 1967 there were several officers who manned the Royal Canadian Air Force's air desk in Ottawa. Squadron Leader William Bain was one of the two majors, a colonel, and support staff that monitored, and filed reports on, all UFO activity in Canada. They also coordinated research efforts for physical evidence, with permission from higher authorities. Bain served at this post during the Shag Harbor incident in 1967, and for some months in 1968. Later this responsibility was taken over by the National Research Council. Chris asked Bain if he was aware of a recovery attempt of a UFO off Canadian Forces Station, Shelburne, at Government Point during the Shag Harbor event. Bain claimed no memory of that event, although he was well aware of the recovery efforts at Shag Harbor. Nor did he recall any rumors about it, although he did express the opinion that something of that magnitude would surely have leaked out over the years. When Chris showed him some of the evidence he had obtained, Bain admitted that it was enough to make someone justifiably suspicious. He went on to say that this could have been coordinated, and perhaps withheld, by the navy and NORAD. On the twenty-first Chris again went to the National Archives to salvage what he could from their record files. He pulled RG-77 from the files and took a seat at the microfilm viewer. He was rewarded with a few more documents alluding to Shag Harbor that had not been present in the file group he had received months earlier in Halifax, including the description of young Darrell Dorey's sighting with his c 1 family. At about 8:30 P.M. on October 4,1967, the night of the Dark Object's crash, twelve-year-old Darrell Dorey, his older sister, Annette, and their mother stood beside their two-story frame house near Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia, southwest of Halifax. They were transfixed by the strange light show in the night sky. They, too, saw the orange ball of light, trailed by several smaller lights. While they watched, the large object began to slowly merge with one of the smaller ones to become a single object. It wasn't clear to them if this was the result of one passing behind the other. In any event, it suddenly winked out, leaving nothing behind to show that it had ever existed. Mrs. Dorey began to move the children back into the house, since it was a school night, when Darrell shouted, pointing up at the sky. As if it were giving an encore performance, the tiny star like object blinked back on and began to dart around the heavens in rapid and impossible maneuvers. The three watched in silence until the finale, when it made a quick exit over the tree line, toward the ocean. Its acceleration curve outdid anything young Darrell had seen at any air show. Another thing Darrell found very curious was the lack of sound, since the speed of the object should have caused a sonic boom. He began, "Dear Commander of C.F.B. Greenwood, I am writing about the UFO...." He included drawings of the object in his letter. back home. Later, in the privacy of his own room, Darrell decided to write about it. It was too important to put off. At the end of the day Chris returned to the hotel, not much the wiser for a day's work and ready to head