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Viral video of unidentified no aircraft from the Air Force base were in the with local fishermen, tried to reach the object
area the day the video was posted. before it sank.
lights off NC’s Outer The video has now amassed 371,600 Canada's defence department later
views and the debate rages on as to what exactly conducted an underwater search of the area
Banks has people the lights were. where the object was seen entering the water,

questioning — aliens or but failed to locate any evidence of an object.
Canadian mint releases Laurie Wickens, who was 17 at the time
military? of the incident, was the first Shag Harbour
UFO-themed glow-in-the- resident to call the RCMP that October night to

report a possible plane crash.
dark coin
OUTER BANKS, N.C. - Video of a mysterious He now helps organise the annual Shag
group of lights in the sky captured off North Harbour UFO Festival, which includes a tour of
Over 50 years ago, on the night of 4 October, the crash site and eyewitness accounts, and
Carolina’s Outer Banks by a man visiting the
strange lights appeared over the sky of a small believes the mint's coin will boost attendance.
area has gone viral on Youtube, sparking the
Canadian fishing village.
classic debate: Was it aliens, or the military?
Witnesses watched as the lights flashed The coin comes with a flashlight that when used
The video entitled “real UFO sighting,”
and then dived towards the dark waters off the brings out the lights of the UFO, the stars in the
was originally posted to the Youtube account of
coast of Nova Scotia. night sky, and a haze over the water reported by
Williams Guy on Sept. 28 and shows what
Now, what some believe to have been a locals.
appears to be 14 glowing lights hovering
motionless above the water. UFO sighting has been commemorated by the "I love it," Mr Wickens said of the coin.
The 30-second video shows Guy filming Royal Canadian Mint. Mint spokesman Alex Reeves said the
The mint has released a collector's coin coin is "definitely one of the top performers"
an empty ocean and sky on a boat with the lights
that tells the story of a "unique and mysterious and has sold out on their website. It had a limited
out of frame saying, “Look, nothing in the sky at
event". run of 4,000 and retailed for C$129.95 ($98;
all, then all of a sudden...” Guy then turns the
The scene on the glow-in-the-dark coin £79).
camera to the glowing orbs that don’t appear to
depicts a specific moment described by various Mr Reeves said the mint tries to cover a
be moving at all.
eyewitnesses. broad range of subjects with its products, from
“Anybody tell me what that is?” Guy
After seeing four strange flashing lights Canadian history and wildlife to "local lore".
continues in the video, as onlookers can be heard
in the background giving off sounds of shock in the offshore night sky, they spotted an object "You try and cover the full spectrum of
and amazement at the spectacle. 60-feet in length flying low, which dropped the Canadian experience and these oddball
down at a 45 degree angle. stories are part and parcel of that fabric," he said.
“We’re in the middle of the ocean, on a
It then made a "bright splash" as it hit the It's not the first glow-in-the-dark coin
ferry, nothing around. Look. Nothing around.
water, according to a defence department memo released by the mint.
No land, no nothing,” said Guy.
about the incident. In 2017, they used the same technology
“I am pretty sure I know what those
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police to release what they billed as the first such coin
lights are," Derrick Chennault, who identified
(RCMP), which had received numerous calls in history into circulation - a C$2 coin that
himself as a former Marine based at the 2nd
Marine Air Wing in Cherry Point, North reporting a plane crash in the harbour, along depicts boaters looking up at the Northern
Carolina, commented on the video. The base is Lights.
roughly 125 miles west of the Outer Banks.
“We used to regularly drop flares out of
the back of our plane in the evenings for military
exercises in that area,“ wrote Chennault. "They
are one million candle power each so they were
pretty bright and can be seen from far away and
floated down slow as they hung from a
parachute.“
While the Marine Corps Air Station is
nearby and military testing is a common
occurrence in the area, a spokesperson from
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base located 77
miles northeast of Cherry Point confirmed that