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In 1967? The earliest prototype of the Stealth flew eleven years later and it crashed on the floor of the Nevada desert. Without at least five computers aboard the aircraft it is impossible to fly, and this technology was definitely not available in 1967. This is reminiscent of the recent air force explanation that the alien bodies that were reportedly discovered in a crashed UFO in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 were actually crash dummies dropped from airplanes in a test that took place five years later. The Shelburne Coast Guard, the weekly paper that carried the story on October 5, mentioned not a word about Shag Harbor the next time it was published, a week later, despite the fact that Shag Harbor is right on their back doorstep. The Vanguard, published in the town of Yarmouth, only thirty miles away, carried the story the following week, as did other weeklies up and down the south coast. But not the Coast Guard. Although the Shag Harbor incident died in the local papers relatively soon after the event, it did not immediately disappear from the international arena. This was primarily due to the attention given it by several publications, notably Fate magazine and the National Enquirer. Their treatments of the event were precise and surprisingly unembellished, especially considering the tabloid nature of these publications. As a matter of fact, they later became a very useful source for tracking down witnesses and for quotes from witnesses who had passed away by the time we began investigating. The highly controversial Condon Report cataloged the event in its publication as Case No. 34, classifying it as one of their few unsolved UFO sightings. The Condon Committee did practically no research of their own. Acting on the basis of a report from James Lorenzen at APRO, the investigator, Dr. Levine, made several calls to Maritime Command and the RCMP, but they then dropped the case, because, according to Dr. Levine, "No further investigation by the project was considered justifiable, particularly in view of the immediate and thorough search that had been carried out by the RCMP and the Maritime Command." With some of the heavy scientific hitters on the Condon team, they could no doubt have ferreted out some details that have since been lost to the passage of time. Here was an excellent chance to get in on the ground floor of an event as it was unfolding, but they dropped the ball. The UFO organizations of that time didn't do much better. APRO was the only one that did a civilian investigation of Shag Harbor. They were also responsible for at least getting the event recorded in the Condon Report. In September 1995, after our Shag Harbor research became a public news story, Don was driving to work one morning with the radio tuned to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning news show. The subject being discussed was the event in Shag Harbor. One of the guests was Ray MacLeod, the reporter who broke the story in The Halifax Chronicle Herald. He began by saying that every five years or so someone calls him up and asks about what happened there. He even mentioned that he had heard that there was some guy in Halifax who had been investigating the incident. Don Connolly, the show's host, asked him, "Then this was just another of those lights-in-the-sky things?" Ray said, "Well, yes, that's true, but there was more to it than that." He cautioned Connolly that this had been no ordinary incident, that there were three Mounties on the scene who witnessed the object on the water and that the navy showed up two days later and did an extensive search. It was heartening to hear