Sawbill Bay UFO Sighting

Stranger than fiction, fraught with mischief, intended
To deceive the impressionable minds of gullible people
Who desperately want to believe in conspiracies,
Alien abductions, and out-of-body experiences;
Such was the case of the UFO sighting in Sawbill Bay in 1950.

It happened on a peaceful summer’s day
When a couple who were fishing in Sawbill Bay
Ventured to climb a rock cliff and spotted below them on the lake
What appeared to look like two flying saucers, but singular
(One upside down on top of the other), resting upon the waters:

About 48 feet in diameter and 15 feet deep at the centre,
Sloping to 12 at the edges and tilting at a 45-degree angle.
They further continued describing the spaceship
As shiny (possibly a silvery-grey colour) with hatches
From which alien life forms emerged.

Little figures appeared (robotic-looking in appearance
With inhuman-like blank expressions for faces)
On two legs of different lengths with magnetic-type footwear
To compensate for the disk’s cambered surface
And shuffled about by altering the direction of their feet.

At the helm, one wore a red skullcap,
And the others wore blue (maybe painted)
As they appeared to be drawing water from the lake
Or ejecting spent fuel from the machine
While the air hummed a high-pitched sound and vibrated.

The couple was afraid and so hid themselves.
But curiosity overwhelmed them, and so they peered through the cleft,
But the little figures had vanished, and the disk was in the air.
The water was tinged red, blue, and gold,
And with a rush of the wind and in a flash, the UFO was gone.

The night was encroaching, and the dark was setting in,
So the couple called it quits and headed back home.
The next day, they returned to the scene of the event
And heard a rush of wind and saw a flash above the trees.
The wife said she would never go there again.

A few days later, the husband returned with a friend
Who was armed with a Kodak to snap photos for evidence
If they should see the little figures who flew the alien ship
On the lake, which they did!
But the waters were too choppy to take the pics.

The little figures finished and then disappeared below the hatches.
Then came a regular blast of air,
And the saucer whizzed off like greased lightning!
They got home late and relayed the events to their wives
And vowed they’d never go saucer spotting again.

In fact, it seems as if people all over the area
Swore they saw a flying saucer that night.
The Steep Rock Echo ran with the story
Because it made for a good read in the Cold War era,
But the whole thing was invented—a hoax!
***

Note:
Sawbill Bay (Upper Floodwaters) of Marmion Lake (Reservoir) and Finlayson Lake are located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Both lakes were part of the Seine River Diversion Project of the Arctic Watershed in the development of Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. (S.R.I.M.), which operated from 1939 to 1979, to provide hematite iron ore for the production of steel during World War II.
The story of the “Unidentified Flying Object aka UFO” sighting in Sawbill Bay first appeared in the September/October 1950 issue of the Steep Rock Echo monthly news bulletin entitled “Flying Saucer Base?”

humorimaginationscience fictionspaceverse

♡Like0

Poem

Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.