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8 The Sea Monster of Pollock Shoal

Cape Sable Island

Fisherman Recalls 'Sea

Monster' Encounter 42

Years Later

CAPE SABLE ISLAND, N.S. – The 1967 Shag
Harbour UFO crash is not the only strange,
unexplained occurrence that has happened in
Shelburne County over the years.
Shag Harbour UFO Festival goers were
treated to an eye witness account of a sea
creature encounter, experienced by Cape Sable
Island fisherman Rodney Ross in July 1976,
while fishing with his father on the fishing
grounds known as Pollock Shoal.
The opening night of the UFO Festival
(Aug. 3) was only the third time that Ross has
told the story to an audience. He is the last of the there.” Tom DeLonge’s UFO
five fishermen aboard three different boats that “Except for this one time. It stopped and
saw the creature during a one-week period 42- turned and looked right at us. I could feel the Research Firm Reports $37
years ago. hair stand up on the back of my neck. It started Million Deficit: Report
“Some like to call it the South Side sea coming at the boat and coming and coming and
monster and I think I probably agree it looked coming until it was just a few feet away and it
like a monster,” said Ross. reared about 10 or 12 feet out of water and
The story begins on a Monday when a opened its mouth and there were row and rows Tosten Burks
fellow fisherman, the late Eisner Penney, was and rows of teeth sort of like fangs or tusks,” he
out fishing on the Pollock Shoal. He had said. To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a
finished fishing for the day and started for home “You could see its body was full of UFO research venture founded by former Blink
when he turned around and saw this strange barnacles and corals and big bunches. It was 182 frontman Tom DeLonge, has accumulated a
looking creature following behind him, said probably 50 to 60 feet long. Its head was much $37,432,000 deficit, according to a mid-year
Ross. bigger than its body,” he said, and its tail was SEC filing first reported by Ars Technica. The
“It was something that kind of scared vertical. “We watched this thing for about 15 firm racked up nearly $32 million of that deficit
him, so he opened his boat full throttle and it minutes and not one time did it go under, it last year and reported just $369,510 in revenue
was still following him. As he increased his didn’t blow (like a whale) there was just that as of June 30.
speed the creature kept rising out of the water swishing noise.” DeLonge’s company drew increased
and was 12 to 14 feet out of the water. He was Once the creature started coming at the attention last December after The New York
quite scared,” he says. As a tactical move he fishing vessel, Ross said, “Dad put it in gear Times reported on the existence of a Defense
steamed towards the shallow waters of the wide open and I looked back and it came within Department program, formed in 2007 and
Horse Race where the depth is only two or three inches of smashing our boat. I know in my heart formally terminated in 2012, that funded
fathoms deep. The maneuver worked. The sea if it wasn’t for my father’s quick thinking I investigations into reports of unidentified
creature was gone. wouldn’t be here to tell this story. He saved our aircraft. The program’s former director, Luis
When Penney got back to shore and told lives that day.” Elizondo, last year became a partner at To The
his story, people didn’t really believe him, said Outrunning the creature, the two Stars to continue his research.
Ross. fishermen stopped and listened. The company, which lists on its website
“They laughed at him, told him he was “We heard the sound again,” said Ross. “telepathy” and “beamed energy launch
crazy and said there had to be some logical Not taking any chances and seeing another boat systems” as subjects of interest, last September
explanation for it.” on the radar about a mile away, they decided began issuing stock to help fund its operations,
Then Wednesday came and Ross and his they should steam down and tell them what they ultimately raising $1,167,000 from investment-
father Keith headed to the fishing grounds. They saw before heading home. It turned out to be curious alien optimists by June 30.
hadn’t heard about Penney’s encounter so had Eisner Penney, the same fisherman that saw the Unfortunately for anyone interested in the
no idea of what might be in store. creature two days before. action, the stock offering closed in September.
“It was sort of foggy that day,” recalled “He said you don’t have to tell me what The SEC filing also reveals a new
Ross. After fishing for a while and catching you see. I seen it Monday and just hauled his partnership for DeLonge’s company with
about 500 pounds of cod, the tide turned. Ross anchor we went to land together.” EarthTech International, a research firm founded
said his father went in the cud to have his lunch The third encounter happened on the in 1985 by Harold E. Puthoff. Puthoff is best
while he stayed on deck trying a new fishing rig. Friday, when the late Edgar Nickerson and his known for directing a widely discredited Cold
With every cast he was catching fish, son Robert went fishing to the Pollock Shoal. War-era program, funded by the CIA,
then nothing, he said. “Edgar was bragging on the set, ‘I guess investigating psychic capabilities, featured in
“Everything got right quiet” except for a I got the Pollock Shoal all to myself. Everybody the 2004 book and 2009 film The Men Who
“swishing noise. I couldn’t see very far in the is scared of this fish.’ He no more than said it Stare At Goats. To The Stars has agreed to assist
fog, so I kept listening and by and by seen this and up came this thing close to his boat.” EarthTech in the study of “materials samples
thing in the water. I thought it was something The Nickersons also made it back to [EarthTech] obtained through reliable reports of
adrift in the water. I looked, and it was moving shore safely. Ross recalled telling the story to advanced aerospace vehicles of unknown
like a hump with big huge eyes on the top of its two retired fishermen in the community the day origin.”
head. I mean huge, probably 10 inches across,” it happened and was told that in 1934 two If you’d like to help To The Stars stay solvent
likening it to a crocodile. fishermen out of South Side that had an while it uncovers the truth about the great
Ross called to his father to come up on experience much the same. unknown, t-shirts, hoodies, and trucker hats are
deck and have a look. Together they watched it “It was a scary creature,” said Ross, available on the website for the company’s
going back and forth from the east to the west, adding he thinks it was some sort of dinosaur or entertainment arm. []
“not once looking at our boat and we were right pre-historic creature from the ocean deep. []