Case description
The imported 29 May 1950 Sawbill Bay abstract describes a four-foot figure in shiny clothing with a hose reaching into a lake. Its source is listed as Jader Pereira’s catalogue. A detailed comparison explicitly reproduces that same May entry among variants of the better-known Steep Rock Lake tale, whose claimed date was 2 July 1950. Those are conflicting catalogue presentations, not evidence of an additional independently established lake encounter. The fuller story was later identified as a deliberate fiction by Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards.
In that story, a man and his wife were fishing at a cove and watched through a rock cleft as a shining double-saucer object rested on the water. Ten figures moved over its upper surface beneath a rotating hoop-like apparatus. They had shiny chest coverings, darker limbs, apparently blank faces, blue caps and one red-capped leader. A vivid green hose was handled at the water. The narrator described an eventual departure with wind and coloured reflections, then a later failed attempt to photograph another appearance with a friend.
The tale appeared in the Steep Rock Echo company publication and was repeatedly recycled in UFO books. Later inquiries traced it to Edwards’s satire, with published histories reporting his acknowledgement of its invented nature. That finding should remain central, rather than be diluted into a generic unexplained sighting. The plate illustrates the fictional lake scene and is permanently labelled as a hoax story. It does not present the crew, craft or hose as photographed evidence, and it preserves the May-versus-July date discrepancy instead of silently converting the short import into a verified event.
