The Shag Harbour UFO Incident: Canada’s Most Mysterious UFO Crash (SITS CLASSIC)

Summary

On October 4, 1967, dozens of residents, fishermen, and RCMP officers in the tiny fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia watched a string of orange lights descend into the water and float there before disappearing. Military and police divers found nothing but strange thick yellow foam, while insiders later claimed the object moved underwater to a secret submarine-tracking base off Shelburne. Ryan Sprague revisits Canada's answer to Roswell, compares it to the 2004 Navy Tic Tac encounter, and hears from Nova Scotia podcaster Jordan Bonaparte about the witnesses who have told the same story for decades.

Key takeaways

• 1Air Canada Flight 305 pilots Captain Pierre Charbonneau and First Officer Robert Ralph reported a large orange rectangular object trailed by small orbs, with two explosions, over Quebec around 7:15pm on October 4, 1967.
• 2Laurie Wickens and friends reported lights sinking into Shag Harbour, and RCMP Constable Ron Pound, Corporal Victor Werbicki, and Constable Ron O'Brien joined more than 30 witnesses watching the object on the water, which left thick yellow foam said to smell of sulfur.
• 3In the 2001 book 'Dark Object', Chris Styles and Don Ledger report that former military insiders said the object moved underwater around Cape Sable Island to Government Point, site of the secret base CFS Shelburne.
• 4A Canadian Armed Forces document obtained through access-to-information requests stated the Rescue Coordination Center discounted an aircraft, flare, or any other known object, and the Department of National Defence listed the sighting as unsolved.
• 5In 2018, Céline and Fabien Cousteau searched underwater and reportedly recorded anomalous radio transmission activity, and diver David Svet claimed to find perfectly round, swept-clean seabed depressions.
• 6The episode compares the case to Commander David Fravor's 2004 Tic Tac encounter and to Luis Elizondo's 'five observables', especially transmedium travel. The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a commemorative coin, and some skeptics suggest the lights were Corona spy satellite film-canister drops.

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Oct 4, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.