From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:08:35 -0300
Archived: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:35:00 -0400
Subject: Shag Harbour And Tourism


Source: The Chronicle Herald - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Letters/1147711.html

Thu. Oct 15 2009

A Shot In The Arm For Local Tourism
by Don Ledger

Regarding "Shag Harbour's 'UFO incident' sets scene for Sounding
Line" by Stephen Patrick Clare in the Books section (Oct. 11):

I would like to congratulate Anne DeGrace on the publication of
her novel. As one of the two authors of Dark Object, the book
that alerted the world to this event, as well as numerous
documentaries and lectures, I would like to share a few
observations.

The Shag Harbour incident is now one of the most well-known
unidentified flying object events in UFO history.

It is often mistakenly referred to as Canada's Roswell - a
misnomer which implies that, like the Roswell incident, there is
no documentary evidence.

In fact, the actual event in Shag Harbour is heavily documented.

The Chronicle Herald's stories, the CBC's film footage of the
search, and government documents revealed the ongoing operation
in Shag Harbour.

They reveal the involvement of Maritime Command, the RCAF's Air
Desk in Ottawa, the RCMP and the Rescue Co-ordination Centre
(RCC) in Halifax.

It is now clear that an object "landed" - not crashed - on the
waters off Shag Harbour.

A dozen local residents reported an airplane crashing in Shag
Harbour and never mentioned a UFO. Other residents and three
RCMP officers watched a drifting light on the water, and made
plans to go out and rescue or assist the survivors. Young
fishermen reported knots in their stomachs at the prospect of
seeing the mutilated bodies of victims.

The initial event unfolds like the crashing of an airplane.

Having written another book, Swissair Down, about the crash of
Flight 111, it is my opinion the RCC, the RCMP and the local
fishermen reacted in the same manner in both cases.

In the days that followed, it was military documents that
labelled the object a UFO.

Anne DeGrace and I discussed this incident in Shag Harbour in
October of 2007. Her success in getting the book published, and
the possibility of a movie, also helps promote the area.

This year, some 1,100 people from across North America and from
Europe visited the temporary museum in Shag Harbour.

Recently, a cruise ship line docking in Shelburne asked
representatives from the museum to be available to the
passengers when its vessel docks there on Oct. 25.

Hopefully, Anne DeGrace's book will further invigorate tourism
interest in the area, which could use another industry to
buttress a declining fishery.


Don Ledger is co-author of Dark Object and author of Swissair
Down and Maritime UFO Files. He lives in Molega Lake.



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