Don Ledger - Dark Object: The Worlds Only Government-Documented UFO Crash

DEDICATION

The authors would like to dedicate this work to all UFO witnesses, in recognition of their courage in coming forward and sharing their observations and convictions, sometimes at great personal risk.

The authors can be reached at www.donledger.com.

The Shag Harbor incident is something totally unexpected: a UFO case so flawlessly documented that it must have happened. But it is hardly known, even among UFO investigators. Perhaps it has been discreetly covered up. Perhaps it has fallen through the cracks.

Either way, Don Ledger and Chris Styles have spent years working with this profoundly convincing and important story, and in this book they offer the most complete and authoritative account of the event that has ever been attempted.

Did a spacecraft from another world plunge into the cold northern waters of Shag Harbor on an October night in 1967?

The authors offer the most convincing evidence that has ever been presented for a UFO crash. They actually prove that the event took place, and they do it using government documents.

The documents in the appendix of this book are only four of the many official reports that were discovered by Styles and Ledger. They reveal that the sighting of a UFO by local fisherman Leo Mersey was actually taken so seriously by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that they filed an official report. They took the sighting report of two brothers, Lawrence Charles Smith and Norman Eugene Smith, equally seriously, as is evident from the report they filed based on their testimony.

There were reports of mysterious lights all over the Shag Harbor area, and extensive official interviews of witnesses. Indeed, concern was so strong at high levels within the Canadian government that a Royal Canadian Air Force discussion of the incident suggests an underwater investigation of the site.

The crash took place, without a doubt, and the government took it very seriously indeed, as the documents in the appendix demonstrate. Indeed, if this had been a crash of anything except a UFO, the fact would have been duly noted and a search would have been initiated for survivors. Instead, a period of confusion followed, and secrecy so intense that even years later Ledger and Styles were tailed by police after they took pictures of the area where the incident took place.

Why would this be? If an unknown craft definitely crashed - and this seems impossible to refute - then why was the official reaction so strange? To understand this it is necessary to understand first that the human response to the UFO phenomenon is extremely strange and distorted.

For example, the documents referred to in this book prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Canadian government knew for certain that something unknown crashed into Shag Harbor. But the official response to the crash, of first doing nothing and then refusing to confirm anything, is wildly inappropriate.

That the object was not any sort of secret aircraft is made clear by the witness testimony of Captain Pierre Charbonneau, pilot of Air Canada Flight 305. He appears to have been the first witness to the object, which he saw from his plane. He described the object as orange and rectangular in shape, followed by a string of smaller lights. The object appeared to be huge.

An astonishing incident then occurred: there was an explosion near the large object. Another explosion took place a few moments later, then the trail of lights began some strange maneuvers.

This sighting alone would have entered the annals of UFO history, as it appeared to show some kind of accident or battle among the strange objects. But that was only the beginning of this incredible incident.

Since it led, a short time later, to a crash that was witnessed by multiple parties and even openly admitted by the government to have involved a UFO, one would think that there would have been headlines worldwide. Aliens hadn't exactly landed, but they had certainly crashed.

Instead, the Incident was quietly filed away.

On the surface what happened at Shag Harbor in October of 1967 is straightforward enough: a large object that had been seen, both by ground observers and pilots, crossing the sky in apparent distress went crashing into the water in full view of a substantial number of other witnesses. Strange foam and odd debris were sighted. The incident was reported to the police, the military investigated, and government documents openly acknowledged that the incident involved a UFO. Divers brought up material, again in full view of witnesses.

What is not so straightforward is that the government never released any information about what was found beneath the dark waters of Shag Harbor.

The government response became extremely strange and secretive, and very different from what it would have been if this had been an aircraft. There was no extended search-and-rescue operation, not in any ordinary sense. There was never any explanation from the government about what had happened.

The only reason that the Shag Harbor incident came to light is that Chris Styles and Don Ledger would not let the matter rest. And why should they? This is the best documented UFO crash incident that is publicly known. After October of 1967 it disappeared from memory, not returning until Ledger and Styles began their investigation and wrote this book.

A question begs to be asked: why, given that the government itself said that an event of phenomenal importance had occurred, was it simply ignored afterward and held secret? After all, this book offers documentation that the incredible has happened: an unidentified flying object of unknown origin crashed. Not only that, debris was recovered. If the object had been a meteor, there would have been no reason to conceal that fact. Witness descriptions confirm that it was not an aircraft in any ordinary sense of the word.

So what happened here? Somebody must know something, because somebody, before numerous

witnesses, did indeed recover materials from the floor of the harbor. But the public hasn't been told a word.

This is not the only UFO event that has been cloaked in extreme secrecy. It is simply the only one in which there has been a completely irrefutable admission by government authorities that a UFO was involved.

Why would the Canadian government, or the U.S. government, or any government, for that matter, be so extremely secretive about a UFO incident? In fact, why is there any secrecy about UFOs at all? The Shag Harbor incident not only proves that UFOs exist and that they can crash or at least plunge violently into the sea, it also proves that the government knows this and does nothing about it - at least, nothing that is revealed to the public. Understand, the incident proves this. Shag Harbor is no ordinary UFO case. It is the best documented and one of the best witnessed of all UFO cases.

It means that UFOs are almost certainly real. It appears also to mean, based on the responses of the Canadian government, that governments must in general be extremely secretive about them. Certainly only a few governments have ever taken any official position that UFOs are, if not real, then worth studying. These governments are Chile, Ecuador, China, and France. But none of them have ever released any definitive proof.

Dark Object certainly offers definitive proof that something very, very strange plunged into Shag Harbor in October of 1967. There is additional evidence, covered in riveting detail in this book, that it maneuvered underwater for a time.

It is a given that government secrecy exists in the UFO area. But there is a larger question here.

Governments notwithstanding, why are the alleged aliens themselves so secretive? No alien has ever landed in public. No alien has ever communicated with us openly. If they are here, they are obviously able to do so if they choose.