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the man verify facts about an incident that was then twenty-seven years old. The mystery of it still grabbed him, but his journalistic UFO distancing instincts were still keeping him at arm's length. Recently Stanton Friedman sent us an e-mail, telling us he was going to appear on a TV program called Jane Hawten Live. About two thirds of the way through the show she trotted out her astronomer, who was ill equipped to handle questions on UFOs. His main comment was that he believed that all UFO reports could be explained by natural phenomena. We turned off the TV feeling frustrated and disappointed. Then we were again alerted by Stanton about an upcoming show called Maritime Noon. Stanton was to appear, along with Dr. David Lane, the resident astronomer at St. Mary's University in Halifax (at least they no longer had a priest in this role). Somewhere during the program Shag Harbor came up. Stanton mentioned that we were involved in the investigation and that we lived in the area. Dr. Lane said that he had looked into the event and found no documentation to support it. I wasn't listening to the show, Chris asked Dr. Lane about his remarks concerning the lack of documents or details on Shag Harbor. Lane, who at least has an interest in UFO phenomena, repeated his difficulty in locating any documents except for press clippings in newspaper archives. Chris remarked that he had uncovered many documents during his investigation. Lane pressed Chris for his source. "Well, for starters," Chris informed him, "if you go down into the basement of the university you are associated with, you should find some right there, in the files of one of your predecessors, Father Burke-Gafthey. You might remember him; he was the founder of your astronomy program at St. Mary's. Most of the other documents came from the National Archives and are microfilm copies of the original documents held by the National Research Council." Admittedly Chris was a little upset by the astronomer's remarks regarding Shag Harbor. It does no one any good to have an expert in one area give his opinions about another area of which he has little or no knowledge. Astronomers are not automatically experts about UFOs. However, many people in the media don't seem to understand this. On October 4, 1967, when the Dark Object bored its way into Earth's atmosphere above Siberia in the early morning, it was tracked by NORAD's Mid-Canada Radar Line and the Pine Tree Radar Line network. At NORAD several things must have happened when the object was first picked up on radar coming from the direction of Russia. The West was in the midst of the paranoia of the Cold War, so we can imagine the shock and alarm that must have swept through NORAD and the Pentagon when this but eventually Chris got wind of it from a friend who was watching and he called in. CHAPTER EIGHT THE MILITARY THREAT