MYSTERIOUS DONOR
UFO anniversary plans ‘out of this world’
A mysterious and anonymous donor has saved the Shag Harbour 50th UFO Festival.
Last week, the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society revealed they were denied the $20,000 in funding they had requested from the federal government’s Canada 150 grants.
This denial knocked out the society’s plans to have a large-scale event, including bringing in top speakers and experts on UFOs.
“After learning of the festival’s funding denial, a civilian involved in the study of UFOs and related phenomenon contacted the society and to our complete shock offered a significant donation,” said Brock Zinck, vice president of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society.
Zinck said because of this, the festival plans are reinvigorated and will be bigger than originally planned.
“We are back on track to make this the most epic Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival ever,” said Zinck. “It’s going to be out of this world.”
The small fishing village of Shag Harbour has less than 500 residents but they are sitting on one of Canada’s biggest mysteries. The events of Oct. 4, 1967, still remains a mystery today, but it’s known as the most documented UFO sighting in history.
On that night around 11 p.m., an unidentified flying object measuring approximately 60 feet in diameter, according to witnesses, was seen hovering over the small community before crashing into the water.
Most believed it to be a plane crash, but no plane was reported missing.
The following day, the Rescue Coordination Center filed a report with Canadian Forces Headquarters in Ottawa. This report stated that something had hit the water in Shag Harbor, but the object was of “unknown origin.”
Although the generous donor who has stepped up requested anonymity, they did provide a short statement.
“Although there is much I can’t reveal, without any hesitation I can say the Canadian Government (and the International Community it answers to) appears to be concealing what happened in and around the waters of Shag Harbour, Canada on Oct. 4, 1967. People with the connections, notoriety and finances are working hard to challenge how we view the world around us. Shag Harbour is one of the smoking guns that will be used to achieve this.”
When the society had learned of the denial of it federal funding request, they started scaling back much of the festival’s plans.
“Admittedly,” said Zinck, “the funding denial was an unexpected disappointment that left our society reconsidering many of our ambitious plans and guests, how- ever the financial anxiety and the many frowns occupying the Shag Harbour UFO Society was short lived.”
He wonders if the government was intentionally trying to keep Shag Harbour and the UFO incident of 1967 a secret.
He says the society can’t even get government approval for a Highway 103 sign on the highway for the iconic fishing village.
OTHER CANADA 150 FUNDING
Some of the approved projects include $416,000 for an urban game of snakes and ladders in Calgary and $30,000 for a giant puppet show in the West Kootenays.
UFO FESTIVAL PLANS
The Shag Harbour society intends to throw a weekend-long celebration from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, as well as an event on Oct. 4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the incident.
Some events are already set up, including a costume dance with DJs Unidentified Funk Objects and the highly-popular bus tour to highlight the history and locations of the UFO landing. Speakers like Chris Styles will share their first-hand account of the incident.