Popular Mechanics
By Emma Frederickson Published: Sep 25, 2025 6:08 PM EDT
On the evening of October 4, 1967, a group of teens near Canada’s Shag Harbour noticed strange orange lights in the sky plummeting toward the Atlantic ocean, hovering just above the water’s surface. They reported the incident to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, thinking it a devastating plane crash. When the Coast Guard arrived at the scene, the only evidence of the unidentified anomalous phenomenon was yellow foam in the water. Some witnesses thought the lights sinking into the sea caused the strange material to appear.