Maritime UFO Files Reviewed

Last week I picked up a book from my local bookstore that I’ve wanted to read for awhile, Maritime UFO Files by Don Ledger. I’ve managed to finish it over the weekend; here’s what I thought about it.

Maritime UFO Files by Don Ledger When it comes to UFO sightings in the Maritime region, the most famous one would have to be The Shag Harbour Incident; it certainly is one of the most interesting UFO mysteries that have come out of the region but it’s by no means the only one. Moreover, as you’ll find out if you read Don Ledger’s book, in addition to the thousands of other sightings there’s been several other incidents in the Maritimes over the years that I would rank in the ‘now there’s an interesting incident worth looking into’ category; or perhaps in the category of ‘now there’s an incident that’s truly odd’.

Maritime UFO Files is a combination of personal accounts and reports taken from military, RCMP and NRC (National Research Council) files as well as interviews that Don Ledger conducted. It’s been blended into a narrative form in order to make things read coherently and so that you get a better idea of what happened. Having gone through and read hundreds of military and police reports on UFOs myself, I can assure you that quite often it’s a challenge to sift through the reports and get a good picture of what actually happened or even what’s being reported. So, kudos to Don for actually persevering and translating as it were the reports into something readable.

The book starts off by introducing the topic of UFOs, who sees UFOs and what types they are, before getting into decade by decade account (which is how the book is divided for the most part) of some of the more dramatic and significant sightings in the Maritimes. The sighting reports start out with a few of the early days of UFO sightings before jumping to the 1950’s, which is when there was much more documentation and reports to choose from. There is also an entire chapter devoted to the 1967 Shag Harbour (Nova Scotia) Incident. This is one mystery I just haven’t tired of reading about as there’s just so much information to absorb about this particular case and every time I read another version of it I come away with new information. The other interesting thing about this case is that it wasn’t just one incident per-se. There were a number of related sightings that same night. Suffice it to say that I was not disappointed with this chapter. There were a couple of cases in Chapter Six – UFO Aggression in the Seventies that I found of particular interest as well. Chapter Eight – Interventions, is the final chapter and relates four alleged abduction cases; three of which Don interviewed first hand; curious cases indeed and a good way to end the book. Although, I should mention that Don also has a ‘Conclusion’ section after that chapter, a list of abbreviations that he’s used in the book and a suggested reading list as well.

Overall, I found Maritime UFO Files to be a decent historical overview of some of the best reported UFO cases from the Maritime region and I definitely recommend it for anyone’s UFO or Maritime history library.

Maritime UFO Files is available directly from Nimbus Publishing and probably most bookstores in Nova Scotia that carry a good selection of books from the Nimbus catalogue.

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