Georgian Bay spherical-object report — August 1914

William J. Kiehl's story places him and seven companions beside Georgian Bay, Ontario, in August 1914. He said they saw a small, rounded craft on the water. Two little men in purple-green clothing and square masks were working with a hose leading from the bay into the machine, while other figures adjusted rods on its upper surface. The fuller narrative says the occupants noticed the shore party and hurried aboard. The object then rose, briefly hovered and accelerated away; one figure allegedly failed to get inside before departure. These details entered public circulation much later. A Paterson Evening News article of August 15, 1966, described Kiehl's sixteen-page letter to Wanaque police captain Floyd Elston, who said he did not know the writer. The inherited NICAP entry explicitly notes that the story had been shown to be a hoax; the CUFOS historical compilation also evaluates it as likely a hoax. The account should therefore not be presented as a documented 1914 encounter or as eight independently interviewed witnesses. The plate depicts the claimed shore party, figures and floating craft together, prominently labelled as a hoax account, without staging the alleged dangerous departure.