Sep 22 2008
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Canadian Field Report #1
As some of you may know, I’m in Nova Scotia working on a film with my good friend Paul Kimball. He is producing and directing his script entitled Eternal Kiss, a vampire romance. Paul hired me on as the production supervisor, and the learning curve has been steep and quick. Opportunities for self-starting occur daily, and I am starting to piecemeal some of the responsibilities out to others (in other words, to delegate.)
Since it’s not a big-budget film, everyone has to do a few different jobs, so I’ve carted coffee and snacks around as well as helped to secure filming locations and dealt with local businesses and the management of the studio and living complex. Of course, when people find out that I write about that there UFO stuff, some want to ask my opinions and occasionally tell me about their own experiences.
I found that David Connellian, one of the lead actors and I share a passion for flight, and this led to a discussion about unidentifieds in the air. Connellian, a native Nova Scotian, told the story of a family trip along the Atlantic coast in 1981. While tooling along late at night, he says his mother noticed a strange set of lights traveling along the shore, which moved to the rear of their station wagon and hovered at about 500 feet above the roadway and 300 feet from the car. He and his mum watched as the thing, which looked like a large, circular white light trailed by three smaller white lights, quickly shot straight up through the low cloud cover and disappeared from sight. “When you see something like that, you have to think that something strange is going on” he said. I told him about my ideas of believing vs. knowing, and he agreed that reading or talking about UFOs as opposed to actually seeing one is quite different.
The studio is a decommissioned joint American/ Canadian submarine hunting base, which was closed in 1995, after 39 years of operation. The facility used a system of underwater microphones to listen for Soviet subs during the cold war. The current owner, Jim Kendrick, told me that there is an underground facility here which was plugged with a 10-foot-thick layer of concrete when the base was closed.
This place was also involved in the famous Shag Harbour incident of October, 1967. The object that splashed into the ocean apparently moved and took up temporary residence under the waters off of Shelburne, a small fishing town on the southern coast of Nova Scotia.
According to Wikipedia:
…further evidence attributed to various military and civilian witnesses might imply a highly secretive military search involving a small flotilla of U.S. and Canadian ships about 30 miles to the NE of Shag Harbour near Shelburne, site of a top secret submarine detection base. According to one military witness, he was allegedly briefed that the object had originally been picked up on radar coming out of Siberia. After crashing in Shag Harbour, it traveled underwater up the coast and came to rest on top of the submarine magnetic detection grid near Shelburne, where it was supposedly joined by a second vehicle. Ships were anchored there for a week, according to the witnesses, in an attempt to recover the object.
One witness (and former soldier stationed at the base) actually told Kendrick and his business partner Mary Barstow about his own involvement with the incident, confirming the details uncovered by earlier researchers. Barstow told me that the man actually shook with recalled emotions. It all tends to make me look at the picturesque whitecapped surface of the Atlantic just offshore here with a strange sense of history and place.
While this ultimately proves very little, it does make my stay here even more interesting. Paul has promised to take Alien Worlds columnist (and now production assistant) Brittany Babakioff and I down to Shag Harbour before we finish production on Eternal Kiss. When this happens, you’ll be reading about it here.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Well, I’m filled with envy and spleen
at your good fortune. Not only getting
to work on a motion picture, but
hanging at a decommed Navy base is
the bomb, as I think kids say these
days.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Hope you’re taking lots of pics
September 24th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Stay in the sun and eats lot of garlic so you don’t get abducted by the “dragons and discs.” Also that sauropod in the Congo? A Pygmy myth!Gorilla pilots are safe now from the bat bombers.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Craig,
I would be filled with envy as well, but the fact that I don’t have any work waiting for me when I get back is a little worrisome!
I’m still looking for the entrance to the underground base here.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
RPJ,
Yes, I’ve almost filled the 2 gig card. I’ve posted a pic of a bat that flew around the building a few days ago. It’s up at my flickr page.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Drew,
Burroughs would be proud.