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were no longer visible but they found and the RCMP, the Canadian military dedicated investigative efforts of two themselves sailing through a thick systematically searched the sea floor men who are investigators with yellow foam which indicated that for several days and found nothing. MUFON [Mutual UFO Network]. something had submerged. (The Here in 1967, the mystery ended Chris Styles, assisted by Doug fishermen reported that the foam with no physical evidence ever Ledger, using public records such as was not sea foam, and it looked like recovered and no additional leads. newspaper clippings and police nothing they had ever seen. In fact, reports, were able to track down and most were unnerved by the fact that Military Tracking of UFOs interview many of the eyewitnesses they had to sail through it to look for For a few years, the story kicked and individuals involved in the Shag survivors.) around in the local papers. From Harbour sighting, the rescue attempt After several hours of and the subsequent searching, they found nothing investigation. Through their and the search was called off at As the Navy waited and work, some extremely approximately 3.00 am. . compelling clues and amazing Both NORAD and the Rescue planned, the detection new insights were uncovered. Coordination Centre in Halifax g g In interviews with divers and had been contacted by the equipment picked up crew members from the HMCS RCMP, and there had been no another object moving in, Granby, they discovered some reports that evening of missing te ee . startling information. The aircraft, either civilian or and...it joined the first object that dived into the waters military. object on the ocean floor. off Shag Harbour had been On 5 October (the following tracked, and it had actually day), the Rescue Coordination travelled underwater for a Centre filed a report with the distance of about 25 miles to a Canadian Forces Headquarters in time to time, various theories and _ place called Government Point. Ottawa. This report stated that intriguing rumours emerged about In the 1960s, the US had something had crashed into the Russian spacecraft or Russian maintained a small but technically water in Shag Harbour, but the object submarines and an American follow- advanced military base at was of "unknown origin’. up investigation. Then the story Government Point, managing a The Canadian Forces Headquarters simply faded into obscurity. Magnetic Anomaly Detection system dispatched the HMCS Granby to the _ That is, until 1993 when the Shag (MAD grid) for the purpose of Shag Harbour crash site, and, using Harbour incident once again was_ detecting and tracking submarines in advanced detection equipment and_ brought to the attention of the the North Atlantic. specially trained divers from the Navy public. This was due to the The US military had most definitely detected the object on its sensitive racking equipment. Naval vessels were dispatched and positioned over he unidentified object where it had stopped. After three days of no movement, and not knowing exactly what it was, the military was planning O initiate an investigative salvage operation. As the Navy waited and planned, he detection equipment picked up another object moving in, and, to the amazement of all those involved, it joined the first object on the ocean loor. The speculation at the time was that the second UFO (officially now an “underwater flying object"?) was there to render aid to the first object. and the RCMP, the Canadian military systematically searched the sea floor for several days and found nothing. Here in 1967, the mystery ended with no physical evidence ever recovered and no additional leads. Military Tracking of UFOs For a few years, the story kicked around in the local papers. From As the Navy waited and planned, the detection equipment picked up another object moving in, and...it joined the first object on the ocean floor. 66 * NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 20I1 www.nexusmagazine.com