Shag Harbour's Famous Splash Eclipsed Other Nova Scotia Sightings, Writer Notes

SHAG HARBOUR, N.S. — The 1967 Shag Harbour "crash/splash" has long been counted among the major cases in Canadian ufology, but it may also have cast a shadow over other events that night, according to a digest entry in The Anomalist. The entry, credited to the initials WM, relays a point made by Richard Woodbury in a piece republished by CBC, remembering the night of Oct. 4, 1967, over Nova Scotia.

Woodbury notes, the digest says, that such "Big" cases tend to drown out other sightings in the local press. One of the lesser-publicized events from that night was apparently formative for Chris Styles, the Canadian ufologist whose interest eventually produced a book on the main case, Impact To Contact: The Shag Harbour Incident.

The digest also directs readers to Bernard O'Connor, who writes of two 1976 reports from New York State. According to the summary, the first is a dramatic landing report, classed as possibly a close encounter of the first or second kind, with a single, matter-of-fact witness. The second is more complicated, involving several witnesses, photographs, and a family who reported a continuing series of eerie visits.

In that second case, the summary states, O'Connor and APRO photographic expert Dick Ruhl took part in the investigation and say they themselves experienced an anomalous event. A past occult practitioner is said to figure in the events. O'Connor concluded, "It indeed gets curiouser and curiouser as we go further down the rabbit hole."

Finally, the digest recommends Chet Dembeck's account of a police officer who reportedly saw a 75-foot circular object hover silently over a house. It singles out a recording of the officer's call to the National UFO Reporting Center, a visual reenactment, and an early historical reference.