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New Coin Featuring Shag Harbour UFO Incident Sells Out in Two Days

October 19, 2019
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Article by Kathy Johnson October 9, 2019 (thevanguard.ca)

• A $20 silver coin commemorating the infamous October 4, 1967 Shag Harbour USO incident in Nova Scotia, Canada was launched by the Royal Canadian Mint on October 1st. Only 4000 coins were minted, and they sold out in two days. But organizers of this year’s Shag Harbour UFO Festival, October 4 – 6, made sure there were plenty of coins available for festival goers.

• This coin follows the 2018 release of a Royal Canadian Mint coin commemorating the equally infamous Falcon Lake UFO incident. Said Christa Bruce, product manager at the Royal Canadian Mint, “[A]fter the success of that coin we had many of our customers sending us emails …[asking] us to do the Shag Harbour incident.”

• The ‘Falcon Lake’ coin and the new ‘Shag Harbour’ coin are part of the Canadian Mint’s ‘Unexplained Phenomena series’. The coins have a ‘sci fi glow’ when illuminated with a blacklight flashlight.

• “We really wanted to pay homage to the people of Shag Harbour,” said Bruce. “The coin features fishermen on a fishing vessel staring in awe at a UFO plunging into the ocean.” Shag Harbour UFO eyewitness Laurie Wickens and UFO researcher Chris Styles, were instrumental in the development of the coin.

• Styles says that the Shag Harbour UFO incident “… is history not just ufology.” He has heard from graduate students who use the incident as a topic for university dissertations or doctorates in folklore and history.

• One of the highlights of this year’s Shag Harbour UFO festival was the release of documents related to the search in the days following the USO sighting. Styles said that it revealed the names of American Navy divers that he hadn’t seen before. Stiles wants to track down these divers to glean new information, if possible.

SHAG HARBOUR, N.S. — While a new collector’s coin featuring the Shag Harbour UFO incident released by the Royal Canadian Mint on Oct. 1 sold out in two days, organizers of this year’s Shag Harbour UFO Festival made sure there were plenty for festival goers to purchase.

The $20 silver coin was officially launched and celebrated on the opening night of this year’s Shag Harbour UFO Festival, which was held Oct. 4 to 6.

The coin is the second in the Unexplained Phenomena series, and features black light technology adding a sci-fi glow whn illuminated with a blacklight flashlight.

“This coin came about by popular demand,” said Christa Bruce, product manager at the Royal Canadian Mint.

“Over the course of the last year many have asked us why are we making another UFO coin and why did we choose the Shag Harbour UFO coin. The answer was quite simple,” said Bruce. “The Royal Canadian Mint issues coins that has shaped the Canadian experience and this includes coins of unexplained phenomena such as the Shag Harbour Incident. In 2018 we launched the first coin in the series based on the Falcon Lake incident and after the success of that coin we had many of our customers sending us emails and feedback and had actually asked us to do the Shag Harbour incident.”

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Two of Canada’s Famous Unsolved UFO Mysteries

July 12, 2018
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July 2018 (cbc.ca)

• Here are two of Canada’s best known UFO encounters, both occurring in 1967.

• Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia – On October 4th, 1967, the night skies above the village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, were lit up by a string of as many as four flashing lights that crashed into the waters of the Shag Harbour. People could see a large round, orange object, glowing in the water as it sunk. An attempt was made to rescue the crashed ‘aircraft’ but the local Coast Guard and divers could find no debris. No planes were reported missing and eventually the case was labeled as a UFO. Shag Harbour now has a UFO center and every summer holds a festival dedicated to the incident.

• Falcon Lake, Manitoba – On May 20, 1967, Stefan Michalak was walking along the shore of Falcon Lake, 150 kilometers east of Winnipeg when he saw two strange shapes hovering in the sky. One landed near to him. Thinking it was some sort of military aircraft he walked up to an open door on the craft. It suddenly took off and Stefan was singed by a blast of hot air. When he got home he saw that he had burns on his chest in a grid pattern, like the vents he’d seen on the ship. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated the site and found bits of melted metal. In April of 2018, the Royal Canadian Mint released a special coin to mark the Falcon Lake Incident. (see previous ExoNews article on the Falcon Lake incident and commemorative coin here)

A UFO, or an unidentified flying object, is something moving in the sky that can’t be explained. Many times these objects turn out to be satellites, weather balloons or planes, but some sightings remain mysteries. Some people even believe that UFOs are actually alien spacecraft. Even if no one knows for sure what UFOs are, it’s fun to imagine visitors from other planets. What’s more, Canada has had some UFO sightings of its own. Let’s find out about two of our best known UFO mysteries.

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

On October 4th, 1967, the night skies above the village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, were lit up by a string of as many as four lights. The lights flashed on and off before seeming to crash into the waters of the harbour. People watching saw a large round object, glowing orange in the water before it sunk. Thinking that a plane had crashed, the RCMP organized a rescue attempt. But nothing was found by local boats or the Coast Guard. Divers were called in to search the seafloor, but they too found nothing. No planes were reported missing and eventually the case was labeled as a UFO.

The witnesses aren’t sure what it was, but they know they saw something. Shag Harbour now has a UFO centre and every summer holds a festival dedicated to the incident.

Falcon Lake, Manitoba

The year 1967 was a busy one for UFOs, because on May 20th there was another mysterious sighting — this time about 150 kilometres east of Winnipeg, on the shores of Falcon Lake. Stefan Michalak was an amateur geologist looking for valuable rocks when he saw two strange shapes hovering in the sky. He wasn’t scared, thinking that they were military aircraft and even made sketches of one when it landed nearby. Stefan decided to approach the craft and saw bright lights from an open door on the ship. It took off and Stefan was hit with a blast of hot air that burned his clothes. He managed to get back home and discovered that he had burns on his chest in a grid pattern, like the vents he’d seen on the ship.

**Stefan Michalak with grid pattern burns**

The RCMP investigated and found melted bits of metal, along with Stefan’s burned clothing at the site. No one could say what the strange ships were, and while Stefan never claimed to see aliens, it is considered one of the best-documented UFO encounters in Canada. In April of 2018, the Royal Canadian Mint released a special coin to mark the Falcon Lake Incident as one of Canada’s most famous mysteries!

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