Moose Jaw RCMP two-hour sighting ("The Tuxford Light")

Spring 1975. Across the Canadian prairies, the sky was getting busy. Hundreds of reports would reach the National Research Council and the RCMP that year. Eight days earlier, near Carman in southern Manitoba, a red light had opened the saga of "Charlie Redstar". On Friday, April 18, the story came to Saskatchewan.

Boyd Geisler and Tracy Dobrescu were heading to a poster party at a farm in Keeler. In Geisler's words, they "turned into Tuxford and went straight west on a grid road for about eight miles when we noticed this bright light in the sky."

Over time "the light became more intense and more curious to us," Geisler said. "We stopped the car and watched it for about three-quarters of an hour from about 9.15 on." He saw "something on top shaped like a semi-symmetric circle", which kept showing "what appeared to be a new triangular side, which transmitted a beam of light from the center of the triangle." Geisler tried the car radio and got nothing but static. "The radio has never done that before or since."

The police summary says the light seemed to approach at high altitude, grow brighter and tilt from side to side, flashing white light. After Geisler went into the house, Dobrescu kept watching "off and on for about half an hour." It "moved quite a ways to the northwest and disappeared from view."

Constable Brian Woodward was parked about five miles west of Moose Jaw on the Trans Canada Highway, facing north. Around 10 p.m. the police radio filled with "considerable static and interference". Then came "a bright light completely illuminating the area in which the police vehicle was parked." No other vehicles were approaching. "I never thought anymore about it at that time."

Constable J.K. Moynihan saw "a very bright light to the northwest". Through field glasses it became "a very intense light shaped like a triangle." No form could be made out around it. Moynihan put it at approximately 1,500 feet above ground. For about an hour it travelled northwest, holding the same height. With Corporal R.C. Ferguson, Moynihan watched it for approximately two hours. "The light has been constant at all times," wrote Constable D.J. Mann, "and remained intense until the object disappeared over the horizon."

The National Research Council form records the ending. The light was watched until an Air Canada flight from Regina to Edmonton "reached approx location of object at which time it disappeared." Aircraft lights and the UFO were seen in the same general area just before it vanished.

Mann compiled the RCMP report on May 29, 1975, with six statements and weather from the Atmospheric Environment Service: visibility "15 plus miles with 7 out of 10 cloud cover and a ceiling of 5,500 feet at 10 p.m." Radar checks went to CFB Moose Jaw, whose system was shut down, and to Air Canada in Regina, which picked up nothing but a jet en route to Edmonton. Air Canada Flight 233 passed through the Marquis Keeler area at approximately 11:20 p.m., Flight 286 at 11:30, and neither crew reported anything unusual. The conclusion was brief: "no further information or witnesses to the sighting have come to light and no further action is being taken." The National Research Council filed the case as N75/043, a non-meteoric sighting, with no identification.

The file survives at Library and Archives Canada. In 2025 Chris Rutkowski placed it within Canada's "Summer of UFOs", and the UFO Talker podcast read the RCMP file aloud as "The Tuxford Light", naming all six witnesses. The officers saw the airliner as a separate object. No conventional explanation has been offered. What the light was, nobody has ever said.