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However, it stopped and hovered, and ICBMs don't hover. If it hadn't done this, the Dark Object could have started World War III. The best intelligence we have on the object's movements from this point on is the declaration of the retired weapons technician from the Canadian army called Earl. Earl was transferred to Canadian Forces Station, Barrington, at Baccaro early in the 1970s. At his previous posting he had been told about the events that had taken place at Baccaro and Government Point on October 4, 1967. He was intrigued but did not pursue it any further. However, his job in weapons development moved him around quite often and he eventually found himself transferred to Baccaro. He had not been there long, when one evening, while on Cape Sable Island, he observed several large glowing orange balls as they wafted ashore and flew away. He was stunned by the incident and decided to approach the base commander, Colonel Calvin Rush-ton, about his sighting and the incident at Shag Harbor in the late sixties. The colonel put him off at the time and told him he would brief him at a later date. Earl had another opportunity to talk to Rushton during a training session, when the colonel informed him that a UFO had entered the earth's atmosphere over Siberia, after a half orbit around the planet, made its way to the Shag Harbor area, and splashed down. Rushton told Earl that the object had drifted with the tide for a while, then submerged and made its way out to sea, where it was picked up on the hydrophones at Shelburne. It then turned northwest and made its way farther up the coast, still submerged, and finally settled to the bottom near the MAD grid some two to three miles offshore, in sight of Canadian Forces Station, Shelburne, at Government Point, NATO's top-secret submarine tracking base. Earl, now fascinated, was also told that a flotilla of seven navy vessels was tasked to the area and stationed over the object for the next seven days. The colonel apparently had no knowledge about what the divers discovered below, or chose not to reveal the details if he did. At any rate, at the end of seven days some of the ships were ordered to give chase to what was presumed to be a Russian sub testing the old twelve-mile limit. During this period the object presumably made its escape by heading south, still submerged, then finally becoming airborne again and heading out over the Gulf of Maine. Why would Colonel Rushton tell Earl all this when, as an employee at a NORAD radar base, he would certainly have been sworn to secrecy? We can never know the answer to that. Perhaps it's just too hard to keep secrets all the time. As researchers we're thankful that vows of secrecy are sometimes broken. The actions of local authorities would seem to support this story. According to one witness, the employee of a laundromat Chris met while waiting for his washing to be done, the military police had blocked the road to the base for some time during that period, and in particular that portion of the road overlooking the waters toward Cape Roseway on McNutt Island, where the flotilla of naval vessels was supposedly anchored over the alien spacecraft. He was not the only one to come forth with this story. A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Argus ELINT technician was dating a young woman in the Shelburne area at that time. They are now husband and wife. She and her husband remember the roadblocks, as well as MPs checking cars as they went through the area, although they gave no explanations as to why they were doing so.