Nova Scotia
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LocationRegionNova Scotia is the Atlantic Canadian province where the 1967 Shag Harbour incident drew the RCMP, the Coast Guard and navy divers to search for an unidentified object.
Nova Scotia is the Atlantic Canadian province where the 1967 Shag Harbour incident drew the RCMP, the Coast Guard and navy divers to search for an unidentified object.
Nova Scotia is a Maritime province on Canada's Atlantic coast, made up of a mainland peninsula, Cape Breton Island and thousands of smaller islands, with Halifax as its capital and largest city. Its UFO record is dominated by a single night in October 1967 on the province's South Shore.
That night produced the Shag Harbour incident. At about 11:20 p.m. on October 4, 1967, residents of Shag Harbour, a lobster-fishing village in Shelburne County, reported a low, lit object heading toward the water offshore. Laurie Wickens and four friends, thinking an aircraft had gone down, made the first call to the RCMP, whose officers reached the scene within about 15 minutes. Local fishing boats and a Coast Guard cutter searched for survivors, but no aircraft was missing and no survivors, bodies or debris were found. Navy divers from Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic searched the seabed for several days and reported no trace of an object, and Canadian government records called it an unidentified flying object.
Other reports from the same evening reached the provincial press. The Halifax Chronicle-Herald and local radio covered glowing objects seen around Halifax Harbour, and the captain and crew of the fishing vessel MV Nickerson reported four bright objects at sea. Researchers have since documented the case in books such as Don Ledger's Maritime UFO Files (1998) and Impact to Contact: The Shag Harbour Incident, by Chris Styles and Graham Simms, and Library and Archives Canada keeps a research list on the sighting that also points to non-meteoritic sighting reports gathered by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Shag Harbour now has a UFO museum and a themed lookout, and in 2019 the Royal Canadian Mint issued a glow-in-the-dark silver coin depicting the sighting as the second in its Canada's Unexplained Phenomena series.
The case returned to the news on its 59th anniversary in October 2026, when the CBC revisited "the night of the UFOs" over Nova Scotia and podcasts and forums retold the search. Library and Archives Canada calls Shag Harbour "Canada's most famous UFO incident," and its standing rests on that response record: a report over water that brought out police, the Coast Guard and navy divers in search of an object that was never identified.
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The Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia incident occurred on this date in 1967. The CBC gives it some coverage here: https://t.co/gSpXRmCvLb
The Shag Harbour UFO Incident: Canada’s Most Mysterious UFO Crash (SITS CLASSIC)
'The Night of the UFOs': Remembering the Oct. 4, 1967, skies over Nova Scotia
On a cold October night in 1967, something lit up the sky over Shag Harbour, a small fishing community on the southern edge of Nova Scotia. The witnesses were ordinary people: teenagers, fishermen, residents looking out toward the Atlantic. What they described was not subtle. Orange lights appeared over the horizon, moved rapidly through the sky, then seemed to descend toward the ocean. Some believed they had just watched an aircraft go down. That assumption mattered, because it transformed a...
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This happened around 2016. I was on a cargo ship traveling from england to nova scotia. Somewhere off the south coast of greenland, while on midnight to 4am watch, the weirdest thing occurred. We noticed some activity on the radar, so i kept my eyes peeled out of the bridge windows trying to spot something. The night was crystal clear, tons of stars, and no signs of any other vessels anywhere near us. All of a sudden, an almost blanket of the thickest blizzard type snow i have ever seen overt...
Mod approved. Hello and hope everyone had a good weekend! Today I am covering ufo sightings mostly from the late 60s to early 70s of ufo sightings all around nova scotia! Lots of very interesting encounters and of course i touch on shag habour but dont dwell on it because I know everyone knows about it and I like to bring stories no one has ever heard! I hope you enjoy! Let me know if youve ever seen anything weird over in Nova Scotia.
