
Canadian Mint Commemorates Langenburg UFO Sighting With Silver Coin
Published on September 12, 2024
The Langenburg Event, one of Saskatchewan’s most famous encounters with unidentified flying objects, is being commemorated with a collector coin by the Royal Canadian Mint. Langenburg area farmer Edwin Fuhr was swathing his fields on Sept. 1, 1974, when the then 36-year-old saw five highly polished, disc-shaped objects at the edge of a nearby swamp, according to historical records of the event on the town’s history webpage. Believing that he was the target of a prank, Fuhr stepped down from his swather for a closer look, maintaining a 15-foot distance from the steel-like saucers that he says were hovering a foot off the ground and rotating at a high rate of speed. ...
