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A Mountie came to the house and took the statements of the Cameron family. Later he called the Royal Canadian Air Force and found out that there were no reported aircraft in n the area and no known air moe att tone 1 operations in progress. The Mountie's report read, "Suggest government personnel interview persons concerned above and those in sighting on 4 Oct. 67." Only seven days earlier, at about the same time of night, a UFO of approximately the same size and with the same lighting pattern had supposedly crashed into the waters only a mile or so to the south. Could the Dark Object have rested on the bottom of the sound for a week, then left again, the way it had come? This would explain why no object was ever found during our diving expedition. While writing this book, I received an e-mail from a Ms. Fountain in Montreal, Canada. She had read a magazine article I wrote on the Shag Harbor incident, and wanted to relate a story that had been told to her by her father in 1967, when she was ten years old. They lived in Pubnico at the time, which was another fishing village about twenty miles northwest of Shag Harbor. Her father, Wayne Nickerson, had just been reading the Chronicle Herald story about the incident in Shag Harbor, which had taken place three nights before. Mr. Nickerson told her about an experience he had had on the night of October 4 while returning from his job as a railroad switchman. He was traveling west from Shag Harbor to Woods Harbor, when he saw something strange in the sky. He pulled his car off onto the shoulder of the road, cut the engine, and got out to observe more carefully. He was certain that his eyes were playing tricks on him. In the sky he saw two moons. He stared at them, as they stayed fixed in place for a few seconds, then one moon dropped swiftly downward and landed gently on the sound, where it drifted silently. Greatly disturbed, Nickerson got back in his car and left the area in a hurry. He mentioned the incident to no one until Saturday the seventh, when he read the article in the Herald. Ms. Fountain said this type of story was totally out of character for her father, who was a plain speaker, not given to telling stories or adding embellishment. He died in 1991, but about six months before his death he recalled the incident once more. He hadn't spoken of it in twenty-four years. What especially interested us about this story was that there was no moon at all in the sky on October 4, 1967, the night of the Shag Harbor incident. There was only a new moon that set before sundown that night - a fact that we've checked out carefully. So Mr. Nickerson not only saw one moon that shouldn't have been there - neither moon he saw should have been visible in the sky. This brought up a 1 wot aad 1 , mA A ws Perhaps the second object he saw in the sky, after the first one dived into the sound, was the object seen by Norm Smith and his father, many minutes after Laurie Wickens saw an object go behind the trees near the Irish Moss plant. This object could have crashed, or dived, into the sea at Shelburne. There is some evidence to suggest that, in fact, two UFOs did go into the sound that night. Earlier on in the investigation we noted that Norm Smith saw the lights of the UFO descending toward Shag Harbor the second time. After Dave Kendricks dropped him off, he quickly ran into the house to get his father so he. could point them out to him. They both agreed that the object was in danger of crashing -- ALL a et tte the idea that there could have been two UFOs that night. somewhere near the fishing village.