Case description
Although the imported entry says 1935, the fuller published account by John Brent Musgrave places this story near Nipawin, Saskatchewan, in summer 1933. Musgrave wrote about it more than forty years later and said the three witnesses’ names were known to him. According to that account, two men and a woman heard local reports of unusual lights, drove out after midnight in a small pickup, then continued on foot toward an orange glow.
A strip of muskeg prevented them approaching closer than roughly a quarter-mile. Across it they reportedly saw a large oval object, domed above and rounded underneath, standing on legs. About a dozen figures, slightly shorter than ordinary adults, moved up and down a ladder-like stairway beneath a central opening. They wore silvery outfits and helmets or close-fitting head coverings. The witnesses interpreted their activity as repairs, although they could hear no associated sound. After about half an hour they returned to the truck; a hoped-for closer approach was abandoned because of insufficient fuel.
They reportedly returned a couple of nights later, waited for daylight and found six square depressions, stairway marks and a central burnt area about twelve feet across. One took photographs, but Musgrave reported those originals lost. Thus the imported next-day timing and 1935 date do not match the fuller account. No contemporary publication or surviving trace photograph has been recovered here. The scene depicts the distant observation phase, not an invented close meeting, and the alleged repairs and landing traces remain interpretations within a late-reported story.
