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Type: UFO Sighting
Location: Shawano/Green Valley

Source: Shawano, WI Evening Leader - October 15, 1989


Local writer recalls close UFO encounter

It was on the Nauman road west of Highway C, near Advance, toward Green Valley, past the Hagan farm, that I came over a hill and saw the strange object, several hundred feet ahead, inside and near the fence on the right side of the road.

It was oval, about six feet high and about 20 feet across its round top. It was, as best as I can remember, a silvery color. It was on the ground, but when I came over the hill, it must have seen me. It left on the ground and soared into the air.

I should have stopped my car immediately and got out to watch it, but I made a dumb decision. I went to the spot where it had been, but by the time I got there it was too late. It was out of sight. It must have traveled at about the speed of sound.

I got out of the car and went into the field. There was no evidence that anything had been there. I looked across the road and noticed that the view from the nearby farm was obstructed by a machine shed. The farmers could not have seen the object from the house even though it was nearby. So I got in my car and kept going.

What to do? It was a time when such sightings were reported, but the Air Force kept saying that people were mistaken, that what they saw were military balloons, sunspots, atmospheric formations and lots of other explanations. They ridiculed people and accused them of having vivid imaginations. They tried to make us look like a bunch of kooks.

So I did not tell a soul about my experience, not even my wife, until several years later. But the memory is still with me. I know what I saw. It was not an illusion. It was real. Many other people have had sightings so I am not alone. Is our military trying to tell us that we are all kooks? It is time they truly inform us about what they know.

It happened many years ago. Tom and Stella say in the '50s, but I don't know. Did it happen after that, or before? Anyway, it was a long time ago. The farm is still there, but the machine shed is gone. The formerowners informed me that it had been torn down.

The above is my story. What happened is still quite vivid in my memory. For those that believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do notbelieve, no explanation is possible.