THE SHAG HARBOUR AND SHELBURNE NOVA SCOTIA UFO INCIDENTS

U. S. and Canadian Navies entered Canadian waters under NATO Command in search of UFO

A ZNN REPORT 

First published

Saturday, August 23, 2025 

UPDATED

JANUARY 25, 2026

 Toronto [ZNN] The Shag Harbour UFO Incident is one of Canada’s most famous unsolved mysteries. Far less known—but no less compelling—is the Shelburne Harbour Incident. Together, they form a story marked by controversy, unanswered questions, and decades of quiet denial.

ZNN won’t add another layer of speculation. Instead, we go straight to the source—Chris Styles, the researcher who has spent decades uncovering what really happened in the waters off Nova Scotia.

Chris Styles - Dark Object

Chris Styles, co-author of Dark Object, is not just another researcher poking around the UFO mystery. He is recognized internationally for his relentless pursuit of the facts behind the Shag Harbour UFO Incident and the lesser-known Shelburne Incident in Nova Scotia Canada.

ZNN has known Chris for years, spoken with him, and we can tell you - without hesitation - no one knows these cases better.

In April 2022, my good friend Richard Syrett—an incisive broadcaster and longtime colleague—interviewed Chris Styles. It was a conversation years in the making.

What Chris Styles presented wasn’t speculation. It was evidence: military documents, first-hand witness testimony, and facts buried well beyond public view.

Here is what you’ll discover in this interview:

• Contrary to public perception, as Mr. Styles clearly points out, there is a significant difference between the October 4 1967 Shag Harbour incident and the one that occurred at Shelburne Harbour October 12, 1960, some 7 years earlier!

• The response to these incidents was not routine. It was extreme.

• Both the U.S. and Canadian navies—18 vessels in total, supported by divers—entered Canadian waters under NATO command.

• Officials assumed a DEFCON 1 military posture [Defense Readiness Condition]—the highest possible state of readiness—for something on the Shelburne Harbour seabed. 

• That “something” was not just an object. It was a craft. And it was not unoccupied. 

• Military divers filmed the event.

This is not wild speculation or folklore. It is documented fact, corroborated by witnesses, naval personnel, and government records. And yet—it was buried. Shoved aside. Disguised as just another Cold War exercise.

For decades, the narrative has been controlled, minimized and ridiculed. But Chris Styles has done what few others have the persistence—or the courage—to do: he has dragged the truth back into the light.

The Shag Harbour case is often called “the world’s only government-documented UFO crash.” Think about that. And then ask yourself: why have the Shag Harbour and Shelburne UFO incidents been ignored, diminished, and locked away from public view?

The Canadian government's Omission

In stark contrast, ZNN’s research reveals that the Canadian government’s Sky Canada Project report sidesteps the documented facts surrounding both UFO incidents.

Shag Harbour is mentioned only in passing, stripped of context, with no reference to the active involvement of U.S. and Canadian naval forces—an omission that fundamentally alters the public understanding of what occurred.

For Canadian citizens and specifically the Canadian government, the Shag Harbour and Shelburne UFO incidents as revealed in the podcast below and in the book by Chris Styles - Dark Object - mark a day of reckoning. 

Our conclusion? The truth resides in this day of reckoning. 

The question is: Are we finally ready to face it?

If readers are truly interested in the nuances of this revelatory information, we urge you to listen to Richard Syrett and Chris Styles as they unravel this astounding story. You will hear evidence of a cover-up so profound, it makes Roswell look like a rehearsal.

What you can do next

Interested in digging deeper?

First, listen to the Richard Syrett–Chris Styles interview (April 2022). This is a key moment where evidence and testimony are laid out publicly.

• Read “Dark Object” by Chris Styles The book focuses on Shag Harbour but may touch on Shelburne as well, or Styles may have other unpublished or forthcoming material.

• Freedom of Information Requests (Canada)

If ZNN and Styles’ claims are accurate, some of those documents (redacted or not) may be FOIA-accessible through Library and Archives Canada or DND channels.

• Engage with the Sky Canada Project - Citizens can demand clarification or petition for inclusion of these historic cases in any Phase 2 or follow-up research.

• Contact your Member of Parliament to respectfully request they look into this matter. HERE

• Contact the Parliamentary Science and Research Committee HERE to respectfully request both the SKY CANADA PROJECT and the Shag Harbour and Shelburne Harbour incidents be placed on their agenda for discussion, analysis and presentation to the Minister of Defence. [The Standing Committee on Science and Research studies all matters relating to science and research, including any reports of the Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer.]

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pVZujFk9Z4lOOu9U8TRZy?si=c_GyBUCvSp-KHjUskegtTA

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From the desk of

Victor Viggiani - News Director 

ZlandCommunications NewsNetwork 

Canada's only UAP Disclosure news service

Toronto Canada | Office 416-801-8056 | zland@sympatico.ca

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Bank of England Governor Urged to Prepare for Market Shock From Possible Alien Disclosure

 Bank of England must plan for financial crisis sparked by aliens

January 19, 2026

Toronto — Breaking News (ZNN)
ZlandCommunications has learned that the governor of the Bank of England has been urged to consider contingency plans for a potential global financial crisis triggered by an official confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligence, according to warnings from a former central bank analyst.

Helen McCaw, a Cambridge University graduate who previously served as a senior analyst in financial security at the Bank of England, has advised Governor Andrew Bailey to prepare for extreme market instability should governments formally confirm the existence of non-human intelligence.

McCaw, whose comments were recently reported by The London Times and The Independent, argues that a verified announcement—particularly by the United States—could spark widespread panic, sharp market volatility, and systemic financial risk within hours.

“If there is an official announcement and we get presented with very clear evidence that nobody is going to dispute,” McCaw said, “I would say that in a matter of hours you are going to have total financial instability.”

McCaw contends that confirmation that unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) are of non-human origin would force governments to acknowledge the existence of intelligence potentially far more advanced than any known military capability. 

Furthermore, the absence of clarity about such entities’ intentions, she argues, could generate unprecedented uncertainty across global markets and public panic.

McCaw’s warning comes amid a growing number of public statements by senior U.S. officials acknowledging unexplained aerial encounters. 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

In the documentary Age of Disclosure, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio states that there have been “repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities” and that “it’s not ours.”

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Other senior figures, including U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and former Director of National Intelligence Lt.-Gen. James Clapper, publicly suggested that some UAP incidents may involve non-human intelligence, lending increased legitimacy to a topic long dismissed as the domain of conspiracy theorists. These statements also appeared in the documentary Age of Disclosure. 

In May 2024, McCaw presented a 65-page white paper titled Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Policy Implications for the Government of the United Kingdom to the SOL Foundation. The study outlines potential national security, economic, and financial stability risks associated with disclosure scenarios and calls for coordinated international planning.

The Canadian Connection - Has Canada also been warned?

McCaw’s analysis also references developments in Canada, where official attention to UAP has increased in recent years.

Larry Maguire

Ahead of the first U.S. congressional hearing on UAP in May 2022, Canadian Member of Parliament Larry Maguire called for the responsible declassification of UAP information and closer collaboration with allies.

According to McCaw's SOL Foundation white paper, (page 17) that same year the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission confirmed it had contacted U.S. counterparts to share information related to UAP sightings near nuclear facilities. Natural Resources Canada also acknowledged communication with the U.S. Department of Energy following a U.S. intelligence report on UAP.

In October 2022, the Canadian government launched the Sky Canada Project to review how public UAP reports are handled and to recommend improvements. Led by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, the project marked Canada’s first officially acknowledged UAP study in nearly three decades.

Dr. Mona Nemer

Canada's Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Science and Research that the issue was being treated seriously and confirmed that Canadian officials had engaged with counterparts in the United States and France, as well as domestic agencies including the Department of National Defence, Transport Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

While no government has formally confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, McCaw argues that the financial system must plan for the possibility—warning that, without preparation, markets could be left dangerously exposed to the shock of disclosure.

Dan Farah the director and producer of the Age of Disclosure stated, 

"I think it's only a matter of time before a sitting U.S. President steps up to the podium and tells the world that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe."

Watch the Age of Disclosure Trailer 

HERE

Canadians for Disclosure Letters

Canadians for Disclosure Director presses Parliament's Standing Committee on Science and Research on the Sky Canada Project UAP report

A ZlandCommunications Editorial - Updated

THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE 

A UAP DOCUMENTARY

UPDATED WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17, 2025

A Symphony by filmmaker Dan Farah

Here are several modes of reasoning worth considering when weighing the impact of this ground-breaking documentary. 

Few of them likely to please anyone.

First, any film surrounded by such pre-release hype is almost destined to disappoint the “experts” and the “self-appointed informed”. The Choir of the Convinced will always offer a collective, dismissive ho-hum. 

Their response is predictable: Tell us something we don’t already know.

The Choir of the Convinced is a mischievous bunch—rarely satisfied, rarely appreciative of the risk-takers like James Fox and Dan Farah - advocates who actually put money and reputation behind their convictions. 

Although perhaps overly American in content as some critics profess, its composition speaks to all humanity. 

Filmmakers of this caliber do not compose documentaries for one country or the converted. They seek a wider global audience—the uninitiated, the indifferent, the skeptical, and yes, the active suppressors of truth who remain conceptually thin-minded.

Which brings us to point two: 

Consider for a moment the casual viewer scrolling through film apps late at night looking for something tasty. They stumble on Prime’s Age of Disclosure without any prior context. (Yes you must purchase it.) Its compelling trailer catches their curiosity. They watch it—all of it—and then-something shifts. 

Never having heard the oddities many around the globe know so intimately about this phenomenon, they tell their friends the next day: “You’ve got to watch this film. It’s… disturbing—in a way I can’t shake.”

If this happens even 500 times across Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and beyond, that’s already 500 people whose awareness has been irreversibly tantalized and expanded. 

In truth, the number is likely far larger. 

Even if these new-comers give it no further thought - the likelihood of it jarring their consciousness and challenging their preconceived beliefs in days to come has subtly re-arranged the synapses of their brain. Like a seed planted - awaiting the spring of another day. This is how this phenomenon grabs the ambivalent. 

Farah’s long march—through interviews, testimonies and the unforgiving scrutiny of the historical moment—will trample old conventions of knowing that will contribute to a rising global consciousness, challenging those who would suppress the human right to know.

Because this film makes two declarations, even if not overtly:

This phenomenon has been analyzed, debated, and sequestered at the highest levels of governance across the planet.

This information belongs to no government—it belongs to humanity.

Our right to know is not hypothetical. It is real. And the phenomenon—with all its strange extensions—suggests a complex tapestry of off-world intelligences observing, interacting, and influencing us with motives yet unspoken.

How many viewers of Age of Disclosure will suddenly recognize their own experiences—lights seen, memories suppressed, doubts dismissed? How many will finally understand the scale of the deception that has shaped their belief that humanity stands alone in the cosmos?

Age of Disclosure - A UFO Documentary

ZlandCommunications NewsNetwork 

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Distribution

UPDATED

December11, 2025

Age of Disclosure 

A UFO Documentary

"ZNN News Director calls this long-awaited production the most provocative UAP doc of the decade." 

The Documentary Features

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's 

shocking statement on UAP:

"UFOs operate over restricted nuclear facilities - and it's not ours."

There's more in his statement

HERE

ON THE RECORD 

US Legislator's Statements on UFOs

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

"It's not acceptable to have secret parts of government that no one ever sees."

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U.S. Representative André Carson

"The American people are ready to receive the truth."

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U.S. Senator Mike Rounds

"This is so secret few people have been allowed access."

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U.S. Representative Tim Burchett

"You better be careful with a government that doesn't trust its people - there's no telling what they'll pull on you."

 André Carson               Marco Rubio                     Mike Rounds         Kirsten Gillibrand

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Dan Farah Pre-Release Interview 

In some ways this interview is just as compelling than the documentary itself.

Interview

Dan Farah director and producer of "The Age of Disclosure"

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"An explosive documentary that reveals an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life and a secret war among major nations to reverse-engineer advanced technology of non-human origin." 

The film exposes the profound stakes 

for the future of humanity." 

Dan Farah’s polished Doc Legitimizes Unverifiable Theories About UFOs"

Read the entire Hollywood Reporter review here.

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VIEW A SNEEK PREVIEW ABOUT 

WHEN and HOW TO WATCH THIS DRAMATIC DOCUMENTARY ON   

CLICK HERE

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WATCH THE OFFICIAL TWO MINUTE

AGE OF DISCLOSURE 

 

HERE 

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The Hon. Paul Hellyer: 20th Anniversary of a Pioneer in Breaking UFO Secrecy

The Hon. Paul T. Hellyer:

Tribute to a Visionary Canadian Voice in UFO Disclosure

The Hon. Paul T. Hellyer former Deputy Prime Minster of Canada
 and former Minster of National Defence

At the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall during the landmark event “A Symposium of UFO Disclosure and Planetary Directions,” sponsored by MUFON Canada, former Canadian Minister of Defence Paul Hellyer made a statement that would reverberate through history:

“UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head.”

With those words, Hellyer became one of the highest-ranking government officials in the world to publicly and unequivocally acknowledge the reality of Unidentified Flying Objects—not in speculation, but as a matter of serious and informed conviction.

Unlike many politicians who sidestepped or dismissed the topic as fringe or conspiratorial, Hellyer’s declaration was bold, direct, and grounded in his access to privileged intelligence and classified military information. His position lent unprecedented credibility to the subject and helped shift the global narrative.

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A Turning Point in Public Discourse

Convocation Hall University of Toronto 

Mr. Hellyer’s appearance at Convocation Hall on September 25, 2005 before an audience of 400 people marked a historic turning point. At a time when serious discussion of UFOs—let alone extraterrestrial contact—was often ridiculed, Hellyer broke the silence.

He challenged not just governments, but society itself, to confront a broader reality: that we are not alone, and that intelligent life may not only exist beyond Earth but may already be engaging us.

Such ideas were, at the time, regarded by many as heretical. To speak of peaceful collaboration with off-world civilizations, or even open contact, was to risk professional and public marginalization. But Hellyer was undeterred. As I learned in my two-decade relationship with him as a confidant, colleague, and friend, he was driven not by the desire for fame, but by an unshakable commitment to truth.

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A Man of Integrity and Vision

Paul Hellyer’s insights came not only from evidence but from a deep-seated faith in human honesty and potential. In every conversation, interview, and strategic session I had with Paul, I was struck by his unwavering moral compass and visionary outlook.

He rarely dwelled on the past or even the present. As he once told me, “The future is where heroes live.” That one sentence has stayed with me—it encapsulates his relentless hope and forward-looking philosophy.

In his closing statement at Convocation Hall, Mr. Hellyer captured this spirit with words that now seem prophetic:

“Visits from our interplanetary neighbours present opportunity for peaceful communication and collaboration. A decade of contact—who knows—that could be just the antidote the world needs to end its greed-driven, power-centred madness.”

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Far Ahead of His Time

Mr. Hellyer’s remarks were not science fiction—they were a call for planetary healing through interstellar diplomacy. He understood, far ahead of mainstream discourse, that the UFO/ET issue was not just about spacecraft or sightings, but about consciousness, cooperation, and survival.

In the two decades since that speech, governments—particularly in Latin America and, more recently, the United States—have only just begun to explore and disclose what Hellyer boldly stated in 2005. Investigations, congressional hearings, and military whistleblowers are now echoing the trail he helped blaze.

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A Man of Conviction - A Legacy of Courage

Paul Hellyer’s contribution to the UFO conversation was not merely political—it was moral. He demonstrated that integrity, transparency, and curiosity must triumph over fear and denial.

Few of us realized it at the time, but he was right. He saw further than most dared to look, and his legacy endures because he had the courage to speak the truth when it mattered most.

As we move deeper into an era of disclosure and planetary reckoning, let us remember Mr. Hellyer not just as a pioneer in government, but as a visionary who believed that a better world—perhaps even a better universe—was within our reach.

And perhaps now, finally, the world is beginning to catch up to Paul Hellyer.

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Watch Mr. Hellyer's Convocation Hall Address 

Here

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From the desk of

Victor Viggiani - News Director 

ZlandCommunications NewsNetwork 

Canada's only UAP Disclosure news service

Toronto Canada | Office 416-801-8056 | zland@sympatico.ca

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