Sask. farmer Edwin Fuhr claims he saw five UFOs
A Langenburg, Sask., story about UFO sightings on a farm in 1974 is forever etched on a special coin released by the Royal Canadian Mint.
But first, some background.
On Sept. 1, 1974, then 36-year-old farmer Edwin Fuhr was swathing his canola fields when he saw five “saucer-shaped” objects in a slough hovering about a foot off the ground.
He got out of his equipment to take a closer look. When he got back into the swather, it wouldn’t start. So, he continued to stare at the objects until they took off 15 minutes later, leaving a grey vapour upon their exit.
“They had me in a trance, Fuhr told the Regina Leader-Post in 2017. “I didn’t even know what to do, cause I sat there and I thought, ‘“Well gee whiz.’”
The RCMP report from the incident concluded something had been in the fields.
Police saw “five different distinct circles caused by something exerting what had to be heavy air or exhaust pressure over the highgrass,” the report says, CBC reported on Sept. 18 of this year.
That report, filed by Ron Morier, an RCMP constable at the Langenburg detachment, says the flattened portion of the circles was about 18 inches. The total diameter of two circles was 12 feet, while the other three measured 10.5 feet, the Leader-Post reported in 2017.
The whole ordeal is known as The Langenburg Event.
And the Royal Canadian Mint just released a commemorative coin to remember it.
The coin, designed by Steve Hepburn, shows Edwin Fuhr sitting on a swather looking at the five saucers hovering over a slough.
"I stepped into the eyewitness’s shoes, attempting to envision the awe and disbelief he must have experienced when his morning routine was disrupted by the peculiar sight of five metallic domes hovering just a few metres away,” Hepbrun said in a statement on the Mint’s website.
The coin, a $20 pure silver coin, costs $139.95 and comes in a black case with a blacklight flashlight.
When someone shines the flashlight onto the part of the coin with the saucers, it lights up.
The flashlight “activates the glowing colour effect on your coin’s reverse, which presents a view of the five mysterious objects described by the eyewitness,” the Mint’s site says. “When the blacklight paint technology is activated, these objects are seen emitting an eerie glow as they fly away, leaving radioactive circular patterns in the field below.”
Coin collectors and UFO enthusiasts shouldn’t wait too long to get this coin as only 6,500 will be made.
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