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This book does not deal with one or two individuals but dozens, if not hundreds, who witnessed the incident. And what makes it fascinating is that the closer you get to the subject matter, the more evidence you uncover. This does not hold true in some of the more celebrated UFO cases, where the evidence and witnesses seem to melt away when serious investigative practices are applied. Chris Styles has done an admirable job of digging out the evidence, separating the speculative from the hard testimony, and tracking down witnesses long gone from the area. This kind of research runs up telephone and travel expenses at an alarming rate, as I can testify to with my own credit card receipts, and there is no hope of compensation except for a sense of personal satisfaction. Chris has managed to accomplish a great deal of research, despite his own limited financial resources, as this book will show. Now I find the same thing happening to me. The more I dig into this thing the more I discover. When I uncover witnesses they put me in touch with others who were involved or affected in one way or ae ate another. This incident is probably the best documented of all of the UFO crashes to date and that is its strength. The government documents and private testimony that have been gathered can leave no doubt in the reader's mind that this event was real. And there is a dark side to it, too, with chilling overtones. This may be why the military referred to this artifact as the "Dark Object." Don Ledger Bedford, Nova Scotia Blazer. I met Chris after I joined the UFO organization MUFON earlier that year, after reading countless books about the phenomenon. MUFON put me in touch with Chris, who was then the assistant provincial director in Nova Scotia. Chris brought up the subject of Shag Harbor during our first meeting. His enthusiasm for the case was infectious, and over the next few months I found myself being drawn into the investigation. On this sunny day in 1995 I had accompanied Chris to a meeting with the president of Canadian Seabed Research in Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia. I went along as an interested party, and as a possible member of an underwater survey team in Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia, the next summer. There was also another reason, one of convenience. In the weeks prior to this trip, as a fledgling Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigator, I had been looking into a UFO sighting by two fourteen-year- CHAPTER ONE THE BEGINNING Every journey has a beginning. This book was begun during a 1995 trip with Chris Styles in his Chevy