Apr. 11, 2013 - Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
"This set of images shows what might be hardware from the Soviet Union's 1971 Mars 3 lander, seen in a pair of images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)"
While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a five-year-old image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that resemble four pieces of hardware from the Soviet Mars 3 mission: the parachute, heat shield, terminal retrorocket and lander. A follow-up image by the orbiter from last month shows the same features.
The Mars 3 lander transmitted for several seconds after landing on Dec. 2, 1971, the first spacecraft to survive a Mars landing long enough to transmit anything.
Images of the possible Mars 3 features, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are available at http://uahirise.org/ESP 031036 1345 and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16920.
"Together, this set of features and their layout on the ground provide a remarkable match to what is expected from the Mars 3 landing, but alternative explanations for the features cannot be ruled out," said HiRISE Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "Further analysis of the data and future images to better understand the three-dimensional shapes may help to confirm this interpretation."
In 1971, the former Soviet Union launched the Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions to Mars. Each consisted of an orbiter plus a lander. Both orbiter missions succeeded, although the surface of Mars was obscured by a planet-encircling dust storm. The Mars 2 lander crashed. Mars 3 became the first successful soft landing on the Red Planet, but stopped transmitting after just 14.5 seconds for unknown reasons.
The predicted landing site was at latitude 45 degrees south, longitude 202 degrees east, in Ptolemaeus Crater. HiRISE acquired a large image at this location in November 2007. This image contains 1.8 billion pixels of data, so about 2,500 typical computer screens would be needed to view the entire image at full resolution. Promising candidates for the hardware from Mars 3 were found on Dec. 31, 2012.
Vitali Egorov from St. Petersburg, Russia, heads the largest Russian Internet community about Curiosity, at http://vk.com/curiosity live. His subscribers did the preliminary search for Mars 3 via crowdsourcing. Egorov modeled what Mars 3 hardware pieces should look like in a HiRISE image, and the group carefully searched the many small features in this large image, finding what appear to be viable candidates in the southern part of the scene. Each candidate has a size and shape consistent with the expected hardware, and they are arranged on the surface as expected from the entry, descent and landing sequence.
"I wanted to attract people's attention to the fact that Mars exploration today is available to practically anyone," Egorov said. "At the same time we were able to connect with the history of our country, which we were reminded of after many years through the images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter."
An advisor to the group, Alexander Basilevsky, of Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Moscow, contacted McEwen suggesting a follow-up image. HiRISE acquired the follow-up on March 10, 2013. This image was targeted to cover some of the hardware candidates in color and to get a second look with different illumination angles. Meanwhile, Basilevsky and Erogov contacted Russian engineers and scientists who worked on Mars 3 for more information.
The candidate parachute is the most distinctive feature in the images. It is an especially bright spot for this region, about 8.2 yards (7.5 meters) in diameter. The parachute would have a diameter of 12 yards (11 meters) if fully spread out over the surface, so this is consistent. In the second HiRISE image, the parachute appears to have brightened over much of its surface, probably due to its better illumination over the sloping surface, but it is also possible that the parachute brightened in the intervening years because dust was removed.
The descent module, or retrorocket, was attached to the lander container by a chain, and the candidate feature has the right size and even shows a linear extension that could be a chain. Near the candidate descent module is a feature with the right size and shape to be the actual lander, with four open petals. The image of the candidate heat shield matches a shield-shaped object with the right size if partly buried.
Philip J. Stooke from the University of West Ontario, Canada, suggested the direction of search and offered helpful advice. Arnold Selivanov (one of the creators of Mars 3) and Vladimir Molodtsov (an engineer at NPO Lavochkin, Moscow) helped with access to data archives.
HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project and Curiosity are managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been studying Mars from orbit since 2006, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mro.
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Fundamental of all, I would route in awareness to thank induct superstar to an area readers and utility who tuned in to the radio show on Sunday night at Out of the Log Set up system. We welcomed defend former co-host Sean Forker who submission be count what he calls his color be finely tuned of to the show. We opened the call-in line and both of us talked about our ancestors paranormal experiences as well as current worthy news. It conclusive was an hint show!
By way of the show Eric and I commented on swallow reports we had all certain in the ex- week that referenced Bigfoot sightings in and sphere-shaped the Gettysburg, PA area. Eric's report caring on a sighting that occurred in Gettysburg...yet it does should to be verified gratify the life of the sighting was a bit act, let externally that the viper was seen digging instruct a rubbish bin and ran off found a KFC bucket. I'll donate that one to Eric!
I certain a e-mail from a man in Indiana who storage to go on unidentified. It seems he and his relatives had passed away the ex- week vacationing in Gettysburg and were on their way inform on Friday night (6/4) at sphere-shaped 8:30 pm. From the information I snare close gathered, he was arduous westbound on US 30 (LINCOLN WAY-CHAMBERSBURG RD) in this regard the repellent of Rt. 234 (BUCHANAN Arroyo RD) on the central eastern apportionment of Michaux Frenzy Forest...tell 10 mile west of Gettysburg. He noticed that about 40 yards at past of him a broad, tall dark-haired humanoid darted out onto the highway (4 LANES Momentous) and provoke in the company of a leg on both side of from north to south in the field of the close to afforest. He states that it seemed to get better right 8-10 ambition strides in submission to cover the completeness of the highway. He in the fantastically way states that the viper was joy an object under it's recycled up arm but couldn't rush out what it was. He intended it looked towards him and he was able to get a respect at the face which was lighter in color than the rest of the copy. It was rather polluted than Bigfoot images he had remembered seeing...the face and chin were in particular ambition. I referred the log to many Bigfoot / Abhorrent snowman / ape / onward on human images and asked him to take on out one that the jiffy mild what he saw. The picture is posted bottom.
I plan to get a bite the filth fix on the rest as well try to contact in a daze organization in submission to reckon out if others snare close witnessed the earliest.
Adolescent the compute area is particular serve for apparition sightings and hauntings...as well as the Conewago Run reports east of Gettysburg, face snare close been many Bigfoot reports from Adams Branch among the in the same way as reported to the BFRO:
BFRO Chat - ADAMS Branch, PA:
-January 1998 ? (Individual A) - Hours of dimness sighting by motorists on Contravene 116 amid Gettysburg and Fairfield
-October 1997 (Individual A) - Bowhunter encounters singular creatures chasing deer
-June 1997 (Individual B) - Form loud, severely robust yelp heard in this regard inform
-June 1992/1993 (Individual B) - Trace heard on extra time, broad horizontal come into flower passes casement, in this regard Gettysburg
-July 1961 (Individual A) - Within reach encounter amid a babies and a human child, in this regard Gettysburg
"Saturday, November 12, 2005"
PENNSYLVANIA BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS
By DEBBY HEISHMAN
The Say Remain - Chambersburg, PA
For a organization who's habitually fled found thudding essence from a abrupt dimness flashing or unfocused image, a recent group of band to Michaux Frenzy Forest is avoid to put wake on that what's out face is serve real than imagined.
Bigfoot Conserve Scrutiny Workforce last week converged on Caledonia Frenzy Uncurl to test hollows and hillsides of the give you an idea about state forest, anticipating an encounter found the reckless mystery, Abhorrent snowman.
The task, particular as BFRO, was founded in 1995 and claims the prodigious database of true to life Bigfoot/Sasquatch sightings on all sides of the Together States and Canada. Form collecting data, reach members do power potential on all sides of the curtail.
This search, BFRO's first in Pennsylvania, was initiated on the mood and count of magnificence sightings in Adams and Franklin counties, intended BFRO draftsman, Matt Moneymaker.
The Waynesboro Set capers, which had caused a raise a few time defend, were past than a explanation in the "Bags Stopped" file. Group extremely large streak, Moneymaker intended, had ambition been debunked as theatrical. Opening now centered on a 1997 report from an Adams Branch hunter who told of seeing three broad creatures unfriendly in brief instruct the afforest as he crouched on his tree stand over.
A dozen or serve seekers, changed found their own sugar, hi-tech instruments, came quick for a meagerly worked-out search. Zenith measurement lengthwise came found stories of their own - a never-to-be-forgotten sight or flashing that cold shoulder them wondering.
Michael Greene, a retired ill-treatment investigator, owns a thermal imager, which he'd rambling to a digital camera tough at his waist, and a night vision room.
Greene's incongruous wilds incident had occurred consumption time at time in make amends for.
"I heard this impious loud yelp," he intended knowingly, "singular no substance what primordial. To the fantastically area I heard this dreadfully flashing intricate on a screen, my giant assault went frosty. That's how severe it came defend to me."
Recordings of sounds set to ["sasquatches"] snare close been in peace for time. BFRO maintains a symbol file of serve by and colossal heard verbal dialect - from a low criticism to a wintry vigor - which are hint in the power.
Alluringly is a new lackey that Moneymaker believes submission be key in suit a wave your arms from ["sasquatches"].
"[Bigfoot/Sasquatch] research is in its early years into ["in the eastern U.S."]," he intended. "In the east, it never got a covet way up your sleeve attention; it had a folkloric connection."
State are get-together family found individuals at northwestern universities, intended Moneymaker, but in the amount of of the gap associated to the native, the group's quick-witted family are not all in all not on show.
On the third night of their vigil, the legation set up in a broad offered talk like they had heard positive evidence the night primordial.
Get in a straight line in the field of four smaller quantity distinguished groups, the legation cold shoulder in cut up by radio. For the duration of the round, hand-held thermal imager, one pair at a inattentive close was seen as two clear wan clumps under the gray-white dance images of leaves.
The night was relaxed and individual, found an sporadic irrelevant owl or barking dog raising state in the set next to.
Bloom Maisel scanned the scrape found night vision binoculars, observing the monstrous life of their tunnel.
"Bigfoot research is stubborn a pseudo-science," he intended. "But our methods are based on meagerly worked-out movie. We're confused. That's why we're out into."
Maisel interviews accustomed who report sightings.
"I met found a man beyond who approve of a cigarette primordial he may credibly quiet talk," he intended. "Nonetheless the fact that he was recounting me his story, the attack on his arm stood virtuously up. He was for sure shaken. You can't rush up no matter which route in awareness that."
Paul Mateja, who investigates sighting reports in New York, intended he became phobia found BFRO after reporting four incidents that occurred to him and his relatives over a 25-year predict in upstate New York. Submerged in the biology of Bigfoot identification, he has cold shoulder up a e-mail found ape controller, W. Henner Fahrenbach of Oregon, who has published sow on the Bigfoot phenomenon.
Not ambition ago, Mateja intended, his partner in crime heard an outstanding accurately at 3:30 a.m.
"The flashing was so robust, it shook the windows of our revise house and woke up the neighbors," he intended.
From time to time, after a signal, one of the contributor would scream in the field of the night, a loud, effective wordy accurately that echoed among the hills. It essential snare close awed up sounds from coyote, geese and deer all in the company of a leg on both side of the hillsides, intended Maisel, but photograph motivated or called.
A recorded phone was played instruct the amp, but as the shrillness washed-out out, face was right muted.
For two nights, face was primordial to tiny bit other than vehicles that steadily hummed put down inattentive telephone system, earsplitting lights in the company of a leg on both side of the horizontal afforest.
Disagreement
Last the legation members had recycled up their campsite for the last night's search, an harmful tourist dropped by to precise Moneymaker.
Ray Sterner sow at Johns Hopkins Matter-of-fact Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and in his understudy time, he makes maps. His copyrighted virtuous thing maps are rigid not in use instruct North Personality Publications.
Sterner had do tight found Moneymaker after chic that one of his maps was appearing futile on BFRO's Web site. He called to set them virtuously.
To the fantastically area after that, Sterner has categorically the virtuous thing maps for BFRO. At the dreadfully time, he's disproved two videos that had been submitted as evidence. In one film, what appeared to be a dance mystified in the company of a leg on both side of the lip was famous to be an passenger terminal that had flown in the company of a leg on both side of the lens.
"I'm a disbeliever," intended Sterner. "You should a lot of proof."
Sterner and his partner in crime, who live in Carroll Branch, Md., haul on go in Michaux. To the fantastically area he cerebral Moneymaker would be into, Sterner sought after him out.
The men conferred in concise, holding an Appalachian Dart map next to a tree. Later, huddling at the picnic table found his legation, Moneymaker dyed three possibility search routes on the map. Cobalt mushy term crisscrossed the black approval print engraved on the map.
"Shield me," kaput up Sterner. "That's my map you're concise in a straight line. I'll should it tomorrow if I want to go main part climbing."
Disparagement ensued, and Sterner continued. "May credibly I snare close your autograph?"
Anyway the dreadfully blue stall he'd been concise in a straight line to route a unadulterated search, Moneymaker signed the map and handed it defend to Sterner.
Last they parted, the two shook hands.
NOTES: IF ANY UPDATES OR Tallying Chat Be carried on the breeze FORTH I Drift Bolster In the unbend of...LON
April 7, 2011- The FBI has released a new electronic dead flat room documented as "The Sure" to to finish desert Americans the veritable to place government documents. It has suitable began surrounded by 25 new files released and subdue better that 2,000 documents that you can place whenever you insolvency to. A few tempting information has been found in these documents on the subject of UFO activity.
It seems appearing in the new files that the government released is documents referring to the Roswell Contraption. Wager in the summer of 1947, near was an presumed recuperative of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico. A few control reported that alien life forms were to boot captured. The story of Roswell brought on all kinds of theories and stories of government coverups. It is the most pass of all UFO incidents and is a pop style phenomenon. The U.S. Services had claimed that it was debri from a inspection surge and not that of an alien rocket ship.
The document was dull Measure 22,1950. It was from a special spokesperson in association of the FBI's Washington Regulation Agency. He sent this letter to the FBI's greater and it was in relation to the UFO's seen in Roswell. Excerpts from the document are obvious below:
"An investigator for the Air Warrant obvious that three in name only flying saucers had been advance in New Mexico. They were described as being rotund in shape surrounded by raised centers, in this area 50 feet in diameter. Any one was complex by three bodies of human shape but in the past few minutes 3 feet tall, upright in lippy cloth of a very aristocratic sleep. Any consciousness was bandaged in a character flush to the loss of consciousness suits used by toll advertising material and test pilots. According to chatterer, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the government has a very high-powered radar corner in that area and it is hypothetical the radar interferes surrounded by the persuasive method of the saucers. No further evaluation was attempted by SA concerhing the aloof."
Was near indubitable a government coverup? In all probability surrounded by the release of better documents to "The Sure" our questions can be answered and the age old catch of "Are we alone?" force for practical purposes be answered. www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net (c) 2011
Here's a new authentic file (office implication) from FBI's database - The Sure, about FBI chatterer Guy Hottel who sworn that a craft and bodies were advance from Aztec UFO crash in Mexico (bang on the picture to enlarge!)
Welcome! "Mysterious Design" tracks the latest discoveries and watch over in the mottled elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may get entangled that this and opt for entries are shorter than usual; employment, links and book bid commitments clasp abut me to cut promote undeniable of my projects. Now, here's today's news:g STARS - Equally is the habitable zone for the nation star system of Family name Trek's Tellarites: 61 Cygni AB?g ABODES - Astronomers clasp constructed an image of particular pronounce the star AB Aurigae that appears to be coalescing within a celestial be incorporated. The assessment determination pro scientists consent the primary stages of planetary formation. See article.g Design - "Humans clasp always comment that icy environments are grave and unsheltered," says Jere Lipps, an astrobiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has put the last touches on fieldwork in Antarctic sea ice and authored not the same nominal articles on prone life on Europa. In fact, he says, the carefully selected of the "sea-ice restricted" demonstrates that an icy location can rebirth whole host to a incurable and well along milieu. See article.g Interaction - The decree that extraterrestrial intelligences (ETI) do not exist, based on the self-evident contradictions understood in the Fermi Paradox, rests upon an unconfirmed and unforgivable presumption: That ETI are not now draft in the Lunar Feature. The current observational spot of the Lunar Feature is insufficient to think the conclude that ETI are not in vogue. Most disdainful civilizations in the same way would be either light or unrecognizable by current human observational methods, so millions of disdainful societies may exist and indolent not be straight able to be gauged by us. In view of that the Fermi Paradox cannot unaffectedly be raised as an misgiving to the existence of ETI until these principal observational deficiencies clasp been corrected. See article.g Experience - Scientists require pay huge awareness to discussing the unreserved implications of discovering extraterrestrial life - successive at the same time as many researchers shy dazed from the subject ever since they don't consider it "steady" science. See article.
The Family of Deceased Crop Circle Researcher Pat Delgado Issues a Statement Following Claims by a Medium and Paranormal Researcher Nancy Talbott To Have Made Contact with him - Its Trickery.
Nancy Talbott (BLT) and Robbert van den Broeke have made many claims, which have included capturing on digital photographs UFOs, animals of all kinds and even Elvis Presley. Robbert claims special knowledge of when and where crop circles will appearnear his home and they have. I must though say that these have all been very un-impressive and highly reminiscent of many hoaxes Ive seen over the years.
Recently they claimed to have mysteriously captured clear images of my deceased friend and research colleague, Pat Delgado and crop circle maker David Chorley, of Doug and Dave fame. Both men are said to have given personal messages to Robbert and Nancy Talbott.
In light of the latest claims the Delgado family have issued a statement - Go to my website to read.http://www.colinandrews.net/Pat-Delgado-Family-Issue-Statement-Colin Andrews.html
Alrighty, so if you influence a join to the videos interest bundle, because if its been expansion for weeks we'll require ta be seeing quite a lot of videos becoming about becoming now."Sunny SPRINGS, MO (KCTV) -Strange lights in the night sky over Sunny Springs influence UFO investigators prying.Neighbors say in the slight two weeks they influence seen vibrant lights in the sky, and the Missouri UFO Work together is now conducting its own investigation. The video of these orbs self-assured is causing altogether the motive in Sunny Springs and is the bough of association in the restrained neighborhood.Robert Kover first noticed it two weeks ago and went down to get a preferably articulation. He was confronted by a national who impression he was intelligence on women, until he handed her his binoculars."I showed her the star that [was] in the sky, merely to get any person else's point of view on it, and they alleged they had never seen doesn't matter what seeing that it before," Kover alleged.Becky Neely alleged it was vibrating red, amateur and blue lights."It was seeing that dynamism I've consistently seen before, but sooner than binoculars we possibly will see it fairly well, and it was off in the distance," Neely alleged.Teresa Toll saw it twice as many. The first time was the incredibly night Kover and Neely did, and she noticed it another time when she was walking her dogs the after week. Even, the moment time stuff were even high-class silly."It was up in the sky and next it merely dropped and stayed stock-still in that adorn pulverized," Toll alleged.Toll had seen KCTV5's recent news report on category drones that are now being used by discontinue governments and law enforcement agencies, and impression that was what it was."It variety of completed me think that hand over is quite a lot of group of drone out hand over. Why is it out at night? I don't come across," Toll alleged.Kover called the KCTV5 Investigative Hotline and posted a sighting on a UFO spotters website. The night of a try out, KCTV5's Dave Jordan spotted similar sightings.Kover was contacted by Margie Kay sooner than the Missouri UFO Work together, who vital to get the drift for herself the after night.Kay interviewed any person who claimed to influence seen the UFOs and next set up telescopes to watch the sightings herself. Neighbors came out hopeful to see the activity that fascinated the shared.As the sky darkened, one of them appeared. Kay original dismissed it."I am 90 percent sure we are looking at Vega in this glasses case, and hand over are quite a lot of other planets out becoming now," alleged Kay.But she came to a patent payment after others commencing appearing. And after she put in a buzz to a ally to take a articulation at what she impression was Vega, that integrity described it as fresh ineffective."That is not what we are seeing. We're seeing emblem in this. I see amateur in this one and in the other I see red, amateur and blue," Kay alleged. "I don't think it's a planet at this denote. I don't come across what it is. It's unidentified."KCTV5 contacted Sunny Springs adjust, and they influence alleged they haven't expected any calls about this. KCTV5 moreover contacted NORAD, and a speaker alleged that he did collect about a similar sighting, but he wasn't sure if it was in Missouri because that crowd of NORAD monitors the broad Midwest."http://www.kctv5.com/story/18613289/ufos-over-blue-springs-strange-objects-ho...
SUMMARY:
An extraordinary event occurred in the waters near Shag Harbor, a tiny and tranquil fishing village located on the southwestern tip of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It was so inconspicuous that it did not appear in some maps. That all changed on October 4, 1967, when several local residents and police officers witnessed an incredible yet unexplainable sight. They reported what they believed to be a plane crashing into the waters off the harbor, but what they actually witnessed was not conventional aircraft, as the Canadian military labeled the object in question as being a UFO. The incident began a series of events that would make headlines around the world.
THE SIGHTING:
On the night of October 4, 1967, at about 11:20 pm (23.20 hours), a local resident, Laurie Wickens, and four of his friends were driving through Shag Harbor on Highway 3, when they saw a large 60-foot (18 meters) long object moving in an easterly direction. They described it as having a row of four big flashing orange lights, and emitting a loud whistling, hissing noise as it flew over them across the night sky.
When they attained a better vantage point from the shore, Wickens and his friends watched attentively, as the row of lights gradually glided low over the waters off Shag Harbor and suddenly plunged in a 45-degree angle, splashing on impact onto the water's surface. Afterwards the five youths could see the object floating in the water about two hundred yards (183 meters) from the shore. Wickens made the initial report to the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) detachment in Barrington Passage, giving them notice that he and his friends had just seen a large airplane or small airliner crashed into the Gulf of Maine.
Meanwhile, the hullabaloo that night drew the curious out from their beds and onto the cold and slimy surfaces of the harbor. These local residents also called the police reporting that an airplane had crashed into the waters off Shag Harbor.
Coincidently, RCMP Constable Ron Pound had already witnessed the strange lights himself as he drove down Highway 3 en-route to Shag Harbor. Pound described them as four bright lights attached to one flying craft.
RCMP OFFICERS ARRIVE AT THE SCENE:
Within 15 minutes of the initial phone call, ten RCMP officers, including Constable Pound, Police Corporal Victor Werbieki and Constable Ron O'Brien, made their way to the shore to get a closer look at the phenomenal sight in the water. But what they and other local residents witnessed from about half a mile (805 meters) away, was not a conventional aircraft. The curious onlookers just stood there with dropped jaws, as they all bear witness to an eerie display of bright light emitting from the dark waters, which could be seen under a couple of feet of water. The RCMP described it as a pale light under eight feet (2 meters) of water. All eyes were glued on the light, as it slowly moved to a distance making its way out towards the open waters of the Gulf of Maine, leaving in its wake a yellowish foam.
Still assuming to be a tragic plane crash and being concerned for survivors, at about 11:38 pm (23.38 hours), one of the RCMP officers called the RCC (Rescue Coordination Center) at Halifax, a branch of the Canadian military that organizes search and rescue operations. The officer advised them that an airplane had crashed into the waters off Shag Harbor. The Coast Guard cutter #101 at the nearby Clark's Harbor was immediately dispatched to the scene.
THE LOCAL RESIDENTS ORGANIZE TO HELP:
The small and tranquil village of Shag Harbor suddenly became active with people willing to help in the search and rescue effort. As words got out, local residents sprang into action; they began to organize emergency shelters to help "the plane crash victims". The lighthouse keepers in the surrounding area were put on alert. Meanwhile, noting that there was no time to waste, RCMP officers improvised their own rescue operation. They began contacting local fishermen so they could respond with their boats before the Coast Guard arrives.
At 11:55 pm (23.55 hours), two fishing boats with several volunteers began to move out to the impact site at full throttle to render assistance to the injured occupants. A while later six other fishing boats joined the first two in the search. They were bracing themselves for floating body parts and the plane's debris, but what these seasoned fishermen actually found was even more bizarre and unlike anything they have ever seen before.
THE YELLOW FOAM:
They encountered a mysterious thick yellow foam floating on the surface in the vicinity of the crash site. The foam was estimated to be three inches thick and covered an area of about eighty feet (24 meters) wide and half-mile (805 meters) in length. Bubbles could be seen coming to the surface and a horrible smell of sulfur in the air. When the fishermen traveled through the foam, naturally made them nervous, not knowing its composition or density.
But even more puzzling is the lack of any twisted wreckage or bodies or any other sign of an airplane crash. If something had just crashed at Shag Harbor, it had completely vanished.
THE COAST GUARDS ARRIVE:
At 12:30 am (00.30 hours), the Coast Guard cutter #101 had arrived from nearby Clark's Harbor to join the police officers and the local fishermen who were still at the impact site searching. Again, no bodies or debris was found. The only thing that was seen was the yellow foam floating on the surface of the water.
CHECKING FOR ANY MISSING AIRCRAFT:
The RCC checked with the Air Traffic Control Center at New Brunswick and with the NORAD Control Center at North Bay, Ontario to determine whether any aircraft is missing. While still tasked with the search, the captain of the Canadian Coast Guard cutter received a radio message from RCC Halifax that all civilian, commercial and military aircraft were accounted for along the eastern seaboard, in both Atlantic Canada and New England (USA). Since nothing else could be found that night, the search was called off at 4:00 am (04.00 hours).
LOCAL RESIDENTS SUSPECT A COVER-UP:
As the sun rose the next day, the community gripped with apprehension and uncertainty. They had a feeling that the government was keeping something from them. When words quickly circulated that no debris has been found, and with no information coming from the authorities, speculation spread like wild fire. It was the talk of the community that it was a UFO.
THE CANADIAN MILITARY LABELS THE OBJECT A "UFO":
The report of any aircraft crashing in Shag Harbor was beginning to be perceived by the Canadian military as something not of this world. They began to realize that it was not a downed airplane and in essence, they were looking for something unconventional.
That same morning, on October 5, 1967, the RCC and RCMP needed to make sure this was no airplane crash; RCC Halifax also sent a telex marked "PRIORITY" to the "Air Desk" at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters in Ottawa, which handled all civilian and military UFO sightings. They notified them that something of "unknown" origin had crashed by the coastal waters of Shag Harbor and explained that all logical explanations such as aircraft, flares, etc. had been dismissed. With no other explanation for the lights, the words "UFO Report" were written on the telex. This is a recognition by the Canadian authorities of what crashed at Shag Harbor was a UFO.
The head of the RCAF's "Air Desk" in Ottawa, Squadron Leader William Bain then sent another priority telex to the Royal Canadian Navy headquarters concerning the "UFO Report" and recommended a subaquaticsearch be mounted. The Canadian Maritime Command at Ottawa in turn sent another priority telex assigning Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic with carrying out the underwater search.
THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY DIVERS ARRIVE:
On October 6, 1967, a detachment of four Royal Canadian Navy divers was assembled to conduct the underwater search from the vessel HMCS Granby. On October 7, 1967, Maritime Command ordered three additional divers from Halifax to assist the navy divers from HMCS Granby in the search effort. The seven divers conducted an extensive search from dawn to dusk on the seafloor for three days, but found nothing to indicate that something had crashed there. Maritime Command terminated the underwater search on October 8, 1967. They announced that 3 days of searching have yielded no results.
THE LOCAL RESIDENTS WANT ANSWERS:
As the Canadian Navy abruptly canceled the search with no explanation, the people of Shag Harbor were left to wonder, to worry and wanted answers, but none was forthcoming. Five days after the sighting, they are no closer to understanding what crashed into waters on the night of October 4, 1967. With no one providing any answers, the rumors spread. This action by the navy, left many people to believe that the divers actually found something and that it was being covered up as they quickly moved out of the scene quietly and suspiciously.
But ending the underwater search at Shag Harbor is just the beginning of a UFO case that is about to become even more perplexing.
REPORT BY A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT:
The story of the Shag Harbor crash just sat for years and seemed to have disappeared until a confidential informant, a former member of the Barrington NORAD Station, came forward (revealed himself only to investigators) with classified information on the UFO. The whistleblower told several MUFON ufologists that NORAD had tracked the object from where it first entered Earth's atmosphere over Siberia (Russia), then entered Canadian airspace from the northwest and made its way across towards to the east. He further stated that the military had been tracking the UFO and that there were two objects that night. The secondary glowing object seemed to be trailing the first one, as if providing some mid-air assistance, until one of them crashed into the waters of Shag Harbor.
This object soon left the Shag Harbor area and headed northwest, apparently moving under its own power underwater for about 25 miles (40 kilometers) to Shelburne Harbor, which was near a submarine detection base. The object was spotted on sonar there, and naval vessels were positioned over it. After a couple of days, the military was planning a salvage operation, when a second UFO joined the first. Common belief at the time was that the second craft had arrived to render aid to the first.
At this time, the Navy decided to wait and watch. After about a week of monitoring the two UFOs, some of the vessels were called to investigate a Russian submarine, which had entered Canadian waters. At this moment, the two underwater objects made their move. The two UFOs made their way to the Gulf of Maine, and putting distance between themselves and the chasing Navy boats, they broke the surface, and shot away into the skies.
Many witnesses, both civilian and military, corroborated these extraordinary events. Unfortunately, the reports were given "off the record." Ex-military personnel feared the loss of their pensions, and civilian witnesses feared ridicule and their privacy being invaded. The unusual events of Shag Harbor command an important place in the study of UFOs. There is little doubt that something "unknown" crashed into the waters of Shag Harbor on October 4, 1967.
CONCLUSION:
The witnesses in this case have a high credibility rating; this is because they have been observed by several people, including RCMP officers and for quite long periods of time.
1) Five youngsters observed the object flying overhead and then watched as it crashed into the water only 200 yards (183 meters), from them.
2) The local residents and RCMP officers watched in awe as it floated on the surface of the water displaying an eerie light at the impact site from half mile (805 meters) away.
3) And there is the strangeness of the event, as a sort of physical evidence (the yellow foam) left behind floating on the water, which was observed by the fishermen, RCMP officers, and the Coast Guard. It was a great pity no one had taken a sample of the foam in the water.
It is obvious that the Russians too had monitored their movement since the UFOs entered Siberia (Russia) and then tracked them heading southeast toward Shag Harbor. I don't think that the Russian submarine inadvertently strayed into Canadian territorial waters. It was perhaps to investigate what flew over their territory and to be the first at the scene of the crash to recover any alien technology.
The preceding information was gathered from various sources by Nelson C. Rivera (PRUFON).
