Evidence of UFO sighting has people talking
been appearing and disappearing, reappeared about a minute after Styles and Doucette arrived.
“The first sighting it was quite distant and was out over the water,” said Styles. “When I first seen it, I thought it could be weather balloon, but something seemed a little odd. At this point its basically a white sphere out over the ocean.”
Styles said he noticed there “was a steady light wind at our backs,” later learning the wind was west at 8 mph. “It was obvious what’s out there was coming against the wind toward us,” he said.
Styles said it was hard to guess what size the sphere was because conditions were so clear so there was little to draw a comparison to.
“The sky was blue. There were no clouds. The moon was up, a half moon. Conditions were almost too good,” he said.
Styles said one thing he noticed that was very odd was when it was directly overhead there seemed to be a powder blue pattern within the white sphere. “When you seen it overhead it was oriented the same way to us as when it out over the ocean.”
Styles was able to view the sphere through binoculars before it disappeared for the last time. He said his best estimate is the sphere was 2,000 to 5,000 feet up – “about the size of a cue ball in terms of apparent size” given how high up it was from them at that moment.
For Styles and Doucette, the sighting lasted about seven minutes, with the sphere disappearing and reappearing several times. For Brown, the sighting lasted an hour and 20 minutes. Wickens was on site for about 25 minutes.
Styles said when reviewing the video footage shot by Brown, “The whole clip you can clearly see it’s not rising in altitude like a weather balloon,” said Styles, noting a seagull enters the frame at one point, proving its not a blue background with a photoshop mock-up as some have suggested.
Shag Harbour is most well known for a UFO incident that occurred on Oct. 4, 1967 during which a sequence of lights was observed by several witnesses traveling along the horizon from some time before the unidentified flying object plunged into the water, leaving a yellow foam behind and unanswered questions that still linger to this day. This year marks the 51st anniversary of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident, which has been called the best documented UFO case in Canada.