Canada’s Roswell

On October 4, 1967, witnesses watched a UFO crash into the waters off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. Rescue crews found strange foam. Military divers discovered something on the seabed. Then it moved—and vanished. The Canadian government has never explained what fell from the sky.

The Sighting

October 4, 1967:

• 11:20 PM
• Multiple witnesses
• Bright object
• Descending
• Hit the water

The Witnesses

Who saw it:

• Laurie Chicken
• Four teenagers
• RCMP officers
• Fishermen
• Separate locations

The Descent

What they observed:

• Four lights
• Orange glow
• Angled descent
• Whistling sound
• Into water

The Impact

What happened:

• Object hit harbour
• Orange light on water
• Floating briefly
• Yellow foam
• Then sank

The Response

Immediate action:

• Coast Guard called
• RCMP responded
• Fishing boats launched
• Search began
• Something there

The Foam

Physical evidence:

• Yellow substance
• On water surface
• Covered area
• Dense foam
• Not oil

What They Found

At the scene:

• Foam spread
• 80 feet wide
• No debris
• No survivors
• No aircraft

The Official Search

Government response:

• Naval divers called
• Military involved
• Search expanded
• Days of diving
• Something found?

The Submarine Reports

What divers found:

• Large object
• On seabed
• Near crash site
• Not identifiable
• Being observed

Government Island

The claim:

• Object moved
• Underwater
• Miles away
• To Government Island
• Second object joined?

The Movement

Disturbing development:

• Object not stationary
• Moved deliberately
• Underwater propulsion
• Joined by another
• Then left

Official Status

Canadian government:

• Investigated as UFO
• Files exist
• “Unknown origin”
• Never explained
• Case open

The Files

Documentation:

• RCMP reports
• Military records
• Coast Guard logs
• All confirm
• Something happened

The Departure

What witnesses claim:

• Objects left
• Underwater
• Heading to sea
• After several days
• Military observed

Cold War Context

Theory:

• Soviet submarine?
• Investigated
• Ruled out
• Not Russian
• Unknown

Local Memory

Community impact:

• Shag Harbour remembers
• Annual festival
• Museum
• Tourism
• Pride in mystery

Significance

A UFO crash witnessed by multiple people, investigated by military, with physical evidence and documented movement underwater.

Legacy

Shag Harbour is Canada’s best UFO case—something crashed, something was found underwater, and something left on its own power. The Canadian government admits it happened and can’t explain it.