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The story was compelling enough to be taken seriously by the federal government. Grass and soil samples were sent to the upper atmosphere research branch of the National Research Council, but no conclusions could ever be drawn.

The scientists were intrigued by a black substance found as a precipitate, especially in a sample that was taken from one of the rings that appeared to be burned. The sample was sent to Simon Fraser University for x-ray fluorescence analysis, but no conclusions could be drawn.

Fuhr doesn’t really care who believes or doesn’t. People have been telling him since the 1970s that it was all in his head.

“I had a guy from Quebec come out, and he figures I was smoking pot,” says Fuhr.

But to this day, Morier still believes Fuhr is being honest about what he saw.

“Why would he just out of the blue make this up?’” says the former officer.

The media ran with Morier’s findings, and in some cases used them as confirmation that flying saucers had landed. A headline from a newspaper in Newfoundland read “RCMP officer convinced UFOs were real.”

While Morier believes Fuhr to be truthful, he doesn’t believe in UFOs or little green men. The uncertainty of the Langenburg incident frustrated Morier because as intriguing as it was, it didn’t yield any answers.

“It bugged me a little that it didn’t confirm or not confirm that they do exist,” he says. “I still don’t know.”

Morier notices Fuhr seems more outspoken in his interviews now than the quiet farmer he knew. He commends him for sticking to his story.

“Good on him. He’ll never know and we’ll never know I guess,” says Morier.

“But boy that would’ve been quite an experience that day to see what he saw.”

mmelnychuk@postmedia.com