It’s been 55 years since an unidentified object touched down in Shag Harbour. In this edition of The Weekender, Y95’s weekly news show, Candice Phibbs sits down with Danny Reid and Chris Styles of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society to talk about the Expo in October that will feature renowned global experts in UFO sightings and eye-witnesses to the event that took place on the night October 4, 1967.
“It would have been 11:20, the moon [was out], it was a perfectly cloudless night,” Styles tells Phibbs. “You could see the faintest stars without binoculars. What you would have seen was a set of flashing lights that went in sequence – one, two, three four – and then they would all flash again, a sequence different from commercial traffic. After this occurred for several minutes, the lights tipped to a 45-degree angle and descended rapidly to the water’s surface. Some say when it struck that it gave the sound of an explosion or a bright flash. Many of the witnesses lost it behind the treelines.”
On this week’s show, Jakob Postlewaite also speaks with local author Sharon Robart-Johnson Jude and Diana, her award-winning historical novel about two sisters who were victims of the slave trade and racism in 18th-century Nova Scotia.
Darren Watkins also joins us on the show to talk about the Western Nova Scotia Exhibition at Mariners Centre next month.
The Weekender is an award-winning news program produced by Y95 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The show tells the stories of the Tri-Counties – in-depth interviews, background stories, looks at the local entertainment and music scenes and so much more. It is our finger on the pulse of the region that includes Yarmouth, Digby, and Shelburne.
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