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"Well, the journals have been taken out of the office for one reason or the other, but we always knew where they were going and when they would be back. This is definitely unusual. Did you want to give me your phone number? I'll call you when I track them down." We did exchange numbers and names, but we never heard from him again. We ended up getting the information from newspapers in the archives and have determined that there was little or no wind that evening in the Shag Harbor area. But it took a lot of work to determine that one little fact. There's no proof that the weather journal was missing because of anything that happened on October 4, 1967, in Shag Harbor. But it did make it just a little bit more difficult to nail down that one piece of information, and many investigators would have quit right there. The investigation into the Shag Harbor incident has revealed on more than one occasion that there might have been document tampering at higher levels. Chris's experience of trying to get coast guard cutters' logs is a case in point. He was anxious to read these reports, to see if any mention was made of the divers searching for debris in Shelburne. After many requests the log he finally received is so amateurish that it seems like a forgery. The times are wrong. They are recorded in GMT or Greenwich mean time, but it was daylight saving time on October 4, 1967. The Dark Object crash is noted as happening at 2330 GMT, which would have made it 7:30 P.M. local time rather than the actual time of the incident, about 11:30 P.M. The entries in the log were supposedly penned over a forty-eight-hour period, yet they're all in the same handwriting. It's doubtful that the same person would have been on duty for two continuous days and nights, without a break. The log we received was in an ordinary spiral binder, but our investigation has revealed that logs are normally kept in bound volumes with numbered pages and printed labeling at the top. This is done to avoid tampering with the logs and changing timelines. Lighthouse logs, and coast guard vessel logs for that period have turned out to be missing. The Stroker report, recording the daily reports and routine at CFS, Harrington, at Baccaro, disappeared, then showed up two months later. In the report there is no mention of an aircraft incident having occurred on October 4, 1967, only a few miles to the southwest, despite this being part of the NORAD eastern chain of radar defense for North America. This is just not believable, but it would stop all but the most motivated newspaper reporters from investigating further. Frustrated with dealing with government documents, we decided to turn to the newspapers, hoping for some new leads we could follow up. The first paper to pick up on the Shag Harbor story, probably on a tip from someone local, was the Shelburne Coast Guard, a weekly that came out every Thursday in the Shelburne area. It dedicated three or four lines to the story of an airplane crash into the waters near Shag Harbor. There was no byline to the story, which probably was written at the last minute on Wednesday evening, October 4, as the paper was being put to bed. Most of the weekly papers in that area are still published on Thursday for some reason, so none of them really had a chance to immediately cover a major, late-breaking story of this type in their area. But strangely, the largest daily in eastern Canada, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, did not pick up on the story until Friday the sixth of October. The Herald is one of the oldest and most respected dailies in "Has this ever happened to you before?"