What happened
On the morning of September 1, 1974, Edwin Fuhr was swathing canola on his farm near Langenburg, Saskatchewan. By a small slough he noticed a metallic dome spinning just above the ground, and moments later four more. The objects, about one meter (3 feet) high and three meters (10 feet) wide, rotated silently for a quarter of an hour or so, then rose in formation, released a gray mist, and disappeared into the clouds. During that time Fuhr’s swather would not start. Where the domes had hovered, five rings of flattened grass remained, swirled clockwise. The RCMP examined and photographed the traces. In 2024 the Royal Canadian Mint commemorated the event with a coin.
Witnesses
Farmer Edwin Fuhr; the ground traces were documented by the RCMP.
Explanations and hypotheses
The RCMP found no evidence of a hoax, and Fuhr was considered credible in the area. Skeptics pointed to whirlwinds, dust devils, or fungal phenomena that could have created the rings, but none of these explanations accounts for the report of the objects. The case is sometimes regarded as a forerunner of later crop circles.
Unexplained There is no convincing explanation.
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