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LocationRegionWisconsin is an Upper Midwest state whose UFO lore includes Joe Simonton's 1961 Eagle River pancake encounter and the 1976 Elmwood sightings behind its UFO Days festival.
Wisconsin is an Upper Midwest state whose UFO lore includes Joe Simonton's 1961 Eagle River pancake encounter and the 1976 Elmwood sightings behind its UFO Days festival.
Wisconsin is an Upper Midwest and Great Lakes state bordered by Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, with Lake Michigan to the east and Lake Superior to the north. Madison is the capital and Milwaukee the largest city, and about 6 million people live in the state nicknamed "America's Dairyland." Its UFO lore comes largely from small towns in the north and west of the state.
The best-known case is also one of the strangest on record. Eagle River plumber Joe Simonton said that around 11 a.m. on April 18, 1961, a silver saucer landed near his home and three men aboard took a jug of water from him and handed him cakes about three inches across. The Air Force's Air Technical Intelligence Command sent astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who concluded that Simonton had suffered a "hallucination followed by a delusion," and a government analysis found the cakes made of ordinary flour, sugar, salt and oil. The civilian group NICAP, asked by a local judge to examine one, declined, writing that it did not want further publicity. A fragment from the Eagle River pancake encounter is held by the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
In April 1976 a run of sightings around Elmwood, a Pierce County village in western Wisconsin, briefly earned the area the nickname "Valley of UFOs." According to Howard Blum's book Out There, police chief George Wheeler saw an orange glow near a quarry, described a silver domed craft about 250 feet across, and said a blue ray from it struck his squad car, knocking out the radio and leaving him unconscious until a dairy farmer found him; the account has never been independently confirmed. Former Chippewa Falls businessman Tom Weber later proposed a $50 million UFO landing facility near the village, a plan a local pastor said lacked "logic and any depth of real thinking," and Elmwood has held a UFO Days festival every July since 1978.
Both stories were retold in 2026: the podcast Somewhere in the Skies devoted an August episode to Wheeler's encounter and in September published researcher Zelia Edgar's talk on the state's UFO and folklore reports, while animated retellings of Simonton's encounter circulated on UFO forums in July. A plumber's pancake, kept by the Air Force more than six decades later, and a village festival built around a police officer's report remain the state's most enduring contributions to American UFO history.
UFO connection to the 'Beast of Bray Road?'
Not that well known, but Charles Hall also met Nordic NHIs. Interesting details about their teeth... - In my book I refer to them as The Norwegians. - I believe that they are coming here from one of the nearby stars such as, perhaps, Bernard’s star, which is approximately 5.5 light years away. They might also be coming from the next star past Barnard’s star, which is approximately 6 light years away and located in the same general direction. - I encountered them in Cambridge Wisconsin in 1961...
I always enjoy a written summary. Thanks @rosscoulthart https://t.co/c4GqLGn5th [Quoted] Our latest REALITY CHECK is with physicist Kevin Knuth https://t.co/MpRTXYoMXH. - As a child in Wisconsin he experienced anomalous events. He had a sudden intuition to slide next to his father on a bench car seat; the door on his side then blew open. His father later said he sometimes had similar intuitions. - Around 2 a.m. in their Albany home he saw a boy (looking about 5 years old) standing at his todd...
Our latest REALITY CHECK is with physicist Kevin Knuth https://t.co/MpRTXYoMXH. - As a child in Wisconsin he experienced anomalous events. He had a sudden intuition to slide next to his father on a bench car seat; the door on his side then blew open. His father later said he sometimes had similar intuitions. - Around 2 a.m. in their Albany home he saw a boy (looking about 5 years old) standing at his toddler son’s crib gate. The figure turned, looked scared, released the gate, and backed into...
The Fatal Close Encounter of George Wheeler
Anyone else see this? Have a link?
It's important to distinguish between a candidate's political beliefs/positions and their health (mental and physical). For example, @FrancescaHongWI clearly said that if Wisconsin invests more in social programs, crime will go down. If that were the case, then we would have done it long ago everywhere. It neither passes the test of common sense nor academic research. On the other hand, increasing the number of police officers does reduce crime — something the Obama admin and Congress did (se...
I animated the 1961 Joe Simonton UFO landing and made a video essay on the investigation that followed! Full Video: The Story: A large UFO landed outside a rural Wisconsin home in 1961. The homeowner, Joe Simonton, would step out and get closer. A hatch opened, and inside was a short human looking man who was: 5 feet tall 120ish lbs wearing a two piece full body outfit, with a tight cap down to its eyebrows looked to be a 25-30 y/o clean shaven Ital...
I animated the strangest case in ufology - when a UFO landed in front of a home in rural Wisconsin and a man met what appeared to be small human looking aliens which gave him pancakes! Full Video: The Story: In 1961, in rural Wisconsin, a man named Joe Simonton would see a large UFO land in his driveway. He went up to it, and a hatch opened, and inside was a human looking man fitting the following details: 5 feet tall 120ish lbs wearing a two piece...
Have come across these photos over the years. Pretty cool, obviously they could be fake. wondering if anyone has backstories to any of them. much appreciated!! The black triangle in the forest was supposedly taken with a film camera by someone in the army during Vietnam. The round saucer with lights i remember was a sighting by someone in Wisconsin. Any other info would be appreciated.
