By Kathy Johnson
SHAG HARBOUR, NS – Video and photographic evidence of a daytime UFO sighting over Cape Sable Island on Sept. 15 is being premiered at the Shag Harbour Incident Society UFO Museum on Saturday, Oct. 6.
UFO researcher Chris Styles – who was one of the witnesses to the Sept. 15 unidentified flying object sighting – will be on hand, as will UFO researchers Graham Simms and David Cvet.
Laurie Wickens was also a witnesses to the Sept. 15 sighting, and said the sighting lasted about an hour.
Wickens is also an eyewitnesses to the Oct. 4, 1967, Shag Harbour UFO incident, in which a sequence of lights was observed traveling along the horizon from some time before the unidentified flying object plunged into the water, leaving a yellow foam behind and unanswered questions that still linger to this day.
Wickens and other local eyewitnesses will be present to share their story at the museum on Saturday, Oct. 6, which opens for the day at 10 a.m. The special feature presentation on the Sept. 15 sighting will start at 2 p.m. Admission is by donation.
This year marks the 51st anniversary of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident, which has been called the best documented UFO case in Canada.
The Shag Harbour UFO Centre was also in the news recently for another reason, but not a pleasant one. In early September the centre was broken into and vandalized.