The fishing community of Shag Harbour has a unique attraction for tourists passing through southwest Nova Scotia: an interpretive centre commemorating one of Canada’s most famous UFO incidents. Retired fisherman Laurie Wickens is president of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society that operates the centre. On the unforgettable night of Oct. 4, 1967, he was driving his ’56 Pontiac accompanied by four friends when some unusual lights appeared in the sky. “There were four of them. One would go on in every part and all be on for a second, then all go off, and then they’d start over in that sequence,” Wickens, who was 17 at the time, recalled in an interview. “We were just thinking it was a plane. We saw it for three or four minutes. It went from flying level to a 45-degree angle [downward] and we lost sight of it. … We went to the top …
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