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With Astonishing Legends, we often deal with grainy photos,

zoomed in handheld videos that make in nauseous and fuzzy memories.

But on the southern tip of Nova Scotia, there's a village called Shag Harbor that stands out

as a singular anomaly in the world of hard-to-prove events.

In many circles, it's known as Canada's Roswell. But unlike Roswell, Shag Harbor left behind a

government paper trail that formerly recognizes an object of unknown origin, not a weather balloon.

At 11.20 p.m. on October 4, 1967, the air crews of two commercial flights saw a strange craft in the sky,

and then 20 fishermen on board a vessel watched as four orange lights flashed in sequence before diving at a 45-degree angle into the water.

When responders reached the site, they didn't find wreckage or survivors.

Instead, they found a massive patch of yellowish-orange foam, several inches thick,

bubbling with the sharp, accurate smell of burnt sulfur.

One witness said it seemed like something you could spread with a knife.

By the next morning, official checks confirmed that every civilian and military aircraft on the eastern seaboard was accounted for.

In other words, according to all available civilian and military sources at the time, no aircraft were missing.

What makes this legend a benchmark for critical thinkers like you, listeners, isn't just what the multitude

of witnesses saw, it's the bureaucracy that followed.

The Royal Canadian Air Force didn't try to explain this away as a meteor.

In official priority telexes, they formally categorized the event as a UFO report. This is, as we're fond of saying on the show, an incident disconcerting enough to warrant an

official response, and that response acknowledges, we don't know what this was.

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