Object Descends Into Shag Harbour — Nova Scotia, Canada

I am Lawrence Smith, a fisherman in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. On the night of October 4, 1967, just after 11 PM, I was outside my house when I saw a large object with four bright amber lights arranged in a row flying at a low angle toward the water. It was not a plane — there was no engine sound and it moved too slowly and too low for any fixed-wing aircraft. I watched it hit the water at the south end of the harbour at a shallow angle. There was a loud impact and a flash of light, then the lights stayed visible on the surface, glowing orange-yellow, and I could see a yellowish foam forming around it. I thought a plane had gone down. I called the RCMP immediately. Other witnesses along the shore had also seen it come down. The Mounties arrived within minutes and called the Coast Guard. When we went out in fishing boats to the site there was a large area of yellow-orange foam on the water but nothing solid — no wreckage, no aircraft, no bodies. The Coast Guard searched for several days and found nothing. The RCMP and then the Department of National Defence all investigated. They told me they could not identify what had come down. The Department of Transport officially logged it as an unidentified flying object. I have fished these waters all my life. I know what aircraft look like going down. This was not that.