When it came to sharing the story of Shag Harbour’s October 4, 1967, UFO incident, Laurie Wickens believed in going big or going home. Chris Styles paused while on the phone and recalled when he first started travelling the road to the small Nova Scotian fishing community on the southern […]
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Shag Harbour UFO Expo enters its third year, launches experiencer event
The Shag Harbour UFO Expo is opening up a room for experiencers to open up with each other to share their stories. Experiencers are those who have reported contact with extraterrestrial beings, which on the Hynek scale would be considered close encounters of the third kind. Event organizer Danny Reid […]
Royal Canadian Mint pays tribute to Shag Harbour with new coin
The Royal Canadian Mint prides itself on storytelling, even if it’s of the unexplained variety. It’s a message Christa Bruce, the product manager for the Mint, imparts during an October phone call when discussing the release of the Shag Harbour Incident coin just in time for its 52nd anniversary. “At […]
Shag Harbour witness cleans up interpretative centre after break-in
Over 50 years ago a Barrington Passage RCMP officer asked Laurie Wickens what he had been drinking when he called in a plane crash in Shag Harbour. It was Oct. 4, 1967, and the then 17-year-old Nova Scotian was out with four of his friends. “I was the first one […]
