Shag Harbour UFO XPO 2024 Schedule

Our 2024 schedule, is packed with intriguing sessions and, includes a bus tour to the shore where UFO sightings has been reported.

Time Speakers and Topics
Friday, Sep 27
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Registration Table Opens (located in the Conference Room)
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Meet and Greet – with Host Martin Willis
Haley’s Lounge, Rodd Grand Hotel
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Shag Harbour Incident documentary by Michael McDonald
Haley’s Lounge, Rodd Grand Hotel
9:00 pm – 11:00pm Sky Watch Party – Hosted by Eric Tessier, National Director of MUFON Canada.
On the waterfront at Rudder’s Seafood & Brewery. Bring your own chair and join Eric as he searches the nighttime sky. Special observation equipment will be used and will be available to be monitored on a video screen. All welcome. *Dependent on weather conditions.
Saturday, Sep 28
Conference with Master of Ceremonies, Martin Willis
7:00 am Registration Table Opens (located in the Conference Room)
7:30 am – 9:00 am Experiencer Event – Meet, Share & Explore session for Experiencers, Clare/Argyle Room. Please register in advance.
9:00 am Opening Remarks
9:15 am Chris Rutkowski : “Free Falling: Why Do UFOs Keep Falling Onto Canada?”
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Ryan Sprague : “A Human Approach to the UFO Phenomenon”
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch break
1:30 pm Jennifer Stein : “Traveling to Gobekli Tepe with Robert Schoch”
2:45 pm Bryce Zabel : “Strange Visitors: Close Encounters of the Hollywood Kind”
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm Chris Styles : “Worlds In Collision: Interpreting The Shag Harbour Incident & Shelburne USO Case”
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Supper Break
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Darcy Weir Film “Transmedium Fastmovers & USOs”
9:00 pm – 11:00pm Sky Watch Party (Take Two) – Hosted by Eric Tessier, National Director of MUFON Canada. On the waterfront at Rudder’s Seafood & Brewery. Bring your own chair and join Eric as he searches the nighttime sky. Special observation equipment will be used and will be available to be monitored on a video screen. All welcome. *Dependent on weather conditions.
Sunday, Sep 29
9:00 am Bus departs from Rodd Grand Hotel.
10:00 am Visit the Crash Site of The Shag Harbour Incident. On the bus will be eye witness Laurie Wickens. He will share how and where the sighting took place, as it crashed into Shag Harbour.
11:00 am Visit the Shag Harbour Incident Interpretive Centre/Museum
12:15 pm Lunch break at Anchors Aweigh Restaurant, Clyde River
2:00 pm Tour resumes with visit to the Secret US Military Base and Listening Post at CFB Shelburne, where Chris Styles will further explain “The Shelburne Story”
3:00 – 4:00pm Return back to The Rodd Grand Hotel
** Interested in visiting the Shag Harbour Interpretive Centre only?
Drive down for a visit! The Centre will be open Sunday Sep. 29th from 9:30am to 4:30pm. Entry fee is $25 (pay at the door). You will have the opportunity meet and hear from eye witnesses to UFO sightings from parts of the Maritimes.