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September 1st, 1974, Langenburg,
Saskatchewan, Canada.
It's mid-morning and
36-year-old farmer, Edwin Fuhr,
is working his land when
he says he notices five
saucer-shaped objects spinning
by the edge of his field.
After about 15
minutes, Edwin says
they shoot into the
sky and disappear.
When he approaches the
area, he finds this.
Photographs show a ring
of flattened swamp grass,
encircling a patch of upright,
apparently untouched
grass at the center.
There are five rings
in all, each measuring
between 10 and 12 feet across.
Overnight, Edwin and his photos
become international sensations
and officials took the
sighting so seriously
that it became one of the
most documented UFO cases
in Canadian history.
- This incident was reported
to local law enforcement,
the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police.
The RCMP actually
investigated this
and they could not
say conclusively
that this was a hoax.
- [Tony] The RCMP report
characterized Edwin
as a reliable individual
and further testing also
seemed to support his account.
- There were soil
samples obtained
immediately after the incident.
Upon further examination,
they apparently were able
to isolate a black
substance that appeared
to them, at least
superficially, as being burnt
by some sort of heat source
- [Tony] Sound alien?
Many people think so,
but not everything
that comes from the sky
and leaves a mark is
from another world.
- I remember reading
a historical report
from the early 1970s where in
the Midwest we were testing
a particular rocket.
The launch went perfectly.
You had booster separation
and one of the rings
to the rocket engine
was naturally very hot
and when it landed, it
actually scorched the earth
and started a fire
in a farmer's field.
- When word of Edwin's
sighting got out,
thousands flocked to his farm.
A plane even landed
in a neighboring field
to get a closer look.
Was his damaged property
a UFO landing site
or something else?
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The horizontal landing
and takeoff of a
conventional aircraft clearly
wouldn't leave a circular
imprint like we see here.
So we first ask if this
could have been caused
by a vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft.
- The US and the British
had the Harrier jump jet,
which were vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft,
but they're jet engines so
they would've burnt the grass
right off the bat and
would've probably burnt most
of the bushes in the
area, not just the soil.
Two, it wouldn't leave
a circular impression.
- [Tony] Then what about
space junk from a rocket?
In 2024 parts of a
SpaceX rocket were found
by a Canadian farmer,
so it still happens,
but no debris was found
on Edwin Fuhr's property,
just those weird circles.
- When you look at images like
this, our mind hearkens back
to all the crop circles
we see around the world.
- [Tony] Now, crop circles are
large scale radial patterns
made of flattened crops.
They popped up across England
in the mid to late 20th century.
While many assume they
were marks made by UFOs,
the evidence suggests otherwise.
- Usually what we'll see
is someone physically went
and stepped on the grass with
planks of wood on their feet
and they measured out with ropes
and just kind of drew out
some kind of symbology.
- [Tony] But the Langenburg
circles are different.
They lack that precise geometry,
which is the telltale sign
of human handiwork.
Instead, these rings have
a soft, wind-swept shape.
- When you look at a flying
saucer, you can imagine
that spinning rapidly,
it could have some type
of effect on the grasses here.
- [Tony] And there's
that strange soil sample
which contained an
anomalous black precipitant
that scientists
could never explain.
- The rest of the soil
samples in the field,
they turned up normal.
It's just the soil samples
where the circles were
that showed up as
abnormal or inconclusive.
- We don't know the answer.
If Edwin Fuhr is to be
believed, it was real.
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- Our verdict? Possible UFO.
The case has become
so famous in Canada
that it's earned its very
own commemorative coin
from the Canadian Royal Mint.
Not a bad way to be remembered.
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