Cannot emphasize enough that this is the beginning stages of a large work-in-progress.
May 18, 1892
Louis Pammel of La Crosse reports a series of swans dropping dead from the sky — more than 1000 birds in all.
(MUFON Project Aquarius Archives no source given)
April 11, 1897
Mystery airship reported over Appleton. A letter was reportedly left behind by an occupant at a nearby farm. Reports also came in from Baraboo.
("Pegasus Is Its Name", Waterbury Evening Democrat, April 15, 1897)
1934
Coral E. Lorenzen, who would go on to be a UFO investigator, claims he saw a bright daylight disc in Barron, also seen by two friends. It was described as moving at a leisurely pace and undulating.
(Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, 1966)
1938
No date given, near Spooner. A Mr. Gillette saw an aluminum, circular craft flying high and fast and performing swift maneuvers, including reversing course.
(Don Berliner, "THE BLUEBOOK "UNKNOWNS"", NICAP)
Summer 1947
Ronald Larson of Sturgeon Bay reports seeing a teardrop-shaped object following the Lake Michigan coastline, following a lighter colored object of otherwise the same size and shape.
(Lorenzen)
September 25, 1947
George Morton and Bob Bartol report a UFO on highway B between Beaver Dam and Burnett.
(Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, September 1947, found in Aquarius archives)
October 1947
11 civilians in Dodgeville watched while an object flew in circles, counterclockwise.
(Bluebook Unknowns)
October 1951
John Schopf reports seeing a globe-shaped object on the highway between Lincoln and Algoma, moving slowly. It was described as looking like a light bulb painted to an aluminum color.
(Lorenzen)
April 14, 1952
An airline pilot flying near Lacrosse sees several light-colored objects flying in a V-formation.
(NICAP, * UFO CASEBOOK: 1952, Jan-Jun*, taken from Project Blue Book files)
May 21, 1952
At May 21, 1952, Coral Lorenzen and several others see a silver, ellipsoid object over downtown Sturgeon Bay at around 7 p.m. The object was estimated to be 780 feet in diameter.
(Lorenzen)
June 18, 1952
Mr. Finger of Columbus sees a crescent-shaped daylight disc hover for several seconds before speeding away.
(NICAP 1952)
June 28, 1952
G. Metcalfe describes a silver-white sphere that changed shape into an ellipse while flying away at a rapid rate of speed on Lake Kishkanoug.
(NICAP 1952)
July 13, 1952
11 objects identified on radar travelling at a high rate of speed.
("Eleven UFOS tracked on Radar", NICAP, from an Air Force report: https://www.nicap.org/docs/520713docs.pdf)
July 29, 1952
Radar operators and an F-5I pilot spot a cluster of small radar objects and one larger one. The small ones moved about 60-70 mph, while the larger one moved at about 700 mph. The pilot only visually confirmed one of the objects.
(Bluebook Unknowns)
December 9, 1952
A T-33 jet piloted by two military personnel encounter four bright lights flying in a diamond formation near Madison and visually spot the vehicle for 10 minutes.
(Bluebook Unknowns)
March 29, 1953
Mr. Gillette describes a similar craft to his 1938 encounter.
(Bluebook Uknowns)
November 23, 1953
A UFO scrambles an F-89C piloted by Felix E. Moncla. The objects appear to collide an radar, and the plane nor its wreckage are ever recovered. Initially detected near Madison, the objects disappeared near Keeweenaw Point.
(Richard Hall, "Kinross AFB / F-89 Disappearance", NICAP)
December 11, 1957
Multiple witnesses report a red object flying about 80 km/h and about 20 feet off the ground near Elsworth.
(Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, 1969)
September 15, 1959
R.H. Daubner sees a bright, round yellow object with eight blue lights and five red lights on the craft flying vertically while making jet sounds in a sighting outside Gills Rock.
(Bluebook Unknowns)
November 23, 1960
Reports of UFOs come in from several midwestern states, including in Beloit.
(Curtis Fuller, "The November 23 UFO", Fate, March 1961)
April 18, 1961
Maybe the most famous Wisconsin story — Joe Simonton of Eagle River, a plumber with a small chicken farm, hears an unusual sound outside, and finds a large flying saucer descending. One occupant, who he described as looking Italian, emerges from the craft with a jug and gestures at Simonton in such a way as to suggest he's asking for water.
Simonton complies, handing it back to the occupant. As he peers inside the craft, he sees another occupant cooking something at a flameless grill. The occupant hands Simonton four pancakes, later found to be made out of buckwheat flour and shortening. The craft flew away.
The book The W-Files reports that Simonton allegedly had more encounters, but didn't speak about him after the ridicule he suffered after his first encounter.
(Magonia)
April 3, 1964
Four passengers in a car driving near Monticello report a "rigid configuration of intense red and white lights" that appear to be attached to an object hovering just a few feet above the ground before flying off.
Bluebook Unknowns mentions only two passengers, the Wolds, but a J. Alan Hynek and Jacques Vallee interview confirms four witnesses — Mrs. Wold's mother and younger sister.
(Magonia/Blue Book Unknowns/Blue Book case file, obtained on Github)
September 14, 1964
Contactee George Adamski tells a crowd at Appleton High School that he saw a UFO hovering over the Outagamie County Airport from his hotel room.
(Gavin Schmitt, "Appleton UFO Education Center, Charlotte Blob", GavinSchmitt.com, December 3, 2021)
November 14, 1964
Three witnesses in Menominee Falls see three dim, red lights flying in an arc.
(Blue Book Unknowns)
May 30, 1965
A woman sunbathing on her roof at her Lake Mason cottage saw a 40 foot wide metallic disk hover about 200 feet over a nearby lot and land, when two figures appeared in the window. Both were short with large, bald heads. They stared at the woman before seemingly, the craft took off, but there was a period of four hours of elapsed missing time.
She claimed to have recovered memories under self-induced hypnosis in which the occupants led her up a stairway where, inside the craft, and opened a box where a dark-colored crystal emitted an odorless vapor. She recalled nothing else from in the craft.
(HUMCAT 1965)
June 1, 1965
A Marathon man saw a disc about 30 feet about him that moved in a zigzag pattern. The 15-20 foot object briefly lifted up the witness, who briefly saw a bright light and then found himself standing in front of his house with no other memories. He bore a scar from the incident on his forehead.
(Albert S. Rosales, Catalogue of Humanoid Cases 1965-2006)
July 6, 1965
Mrs. E.R. Hayner sees a flashing light described as "like a satellite" in a brief sighting.
(Blue Book Unknowns)
March 14, 1966
The infamous Ann Arbor flap begins in River Falls, Wisconsin, according to Saucer News. They reported that residents heard "beeping noises" and watching two bluish-green lights move vertically in opposite directions, which residents interpreted as an exchange of signals all while making loud noises. Similar lights were seen in Ann Arbor, Michigan later that night.
("Recent UFO Sightings", Saucer News, June 1966)
March 24, 1966
Two women see a glowing object on the road near Sheboygan. They approached the object via car, which was bowl-shaped and had two intense white lights and various green and red lights. As they drove away they lost sight, but saw it later flowing low toward the north.
(Magonia)
June 6, 1966
Dorothy Gray spots two dome-shaped, sparkling objects revolve above a lake in Spooner, causing "strange behavior" on the lake's water. The sighting lasted about 25 seconds.
(Blue Book Unknowns)
September 7, 1966
E. Bruns and her children see an object 15 km east of Durand. It is about 10 meters long and has revolving lights. It hovered just a few feet off the ground while making a "deafening" noise, before tilting and flying away after about 30 seconds.
(Magonia)
October 5, 1966
A family spots a small, bright orange "moon-shaped" object hover near Osceola for 20 minutes before taking off swiftly toward west-northwest.
February 1967
In Steven's Point, a man saw an object in the sky heading toward him. He got out of his car, and saw that the object was round with a domed top and bottom and lights running through the middle. It was 150 feet in diameter with about a 25 foot height, and was smooth across the surface. The object hovered silently at about treeline height.
The witness could see humanoid occupants through the windows, who he waved at. The object then came to hover directly over him as streetlights dimmed and his headlines went out. When the object tilted toward him, he described the occupants as normal looking and wearing matching pantsuits. The object then flew off.
(Rosales)
February 16, 1967
Lynn Marsh of Stoughton saws she was followed by a light with faded edges as she was driving.
(The 1967 UFO Chronology The "Mother of all Sighting Waves", NICAP, November 11, 2021)
February 20, 1967
A trucker and air force veteran says he saw an orange-red object fly parallel with his truck for two minutes near Oxford.
(Blue Book Unknowns)
March 22, 1967
Delafield-area radio engineer Carl Rohde spotted a UFO at 9 p.m. He described it as orange and emitting a high pitched sound. Other objects were reported in the area that night, including in Appleton. Frank Goddard, a naval radio operator, was one such reporter.
(APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967)
April 5, 1967
In Menominee, Wisconsin (no stranger to strangeness) two UW students saw three large ovals moving in formation behind then in front of their car. The hovered over some nearby trees, changed colors from orange to purple, then flashed with a bright light and disappeared.
(The 1967 UFO Chronology The "Mother of all Sighting Waves", NICAP, November 11, 2021, NICAP cites [Escanaba Daily Press, Mich., 4/6/67, copy in NICAP files.], https://www.nicap.org/chronos/1967fullrep.htm)
April 27, 1967
In Green Lake, four kids claim to see a cone-shaped object through binoculars that changes colors from red to orange to white. It descended while oscillating, and lit up the woods from a half-mile away. Like other objects reported around the time, it had a blue underside.
(Magonia)
May 9, 1967
A Beloit woman heard a hiussing sound and witnessed an object flashing with blue, green, red and yellow lights, which then shot out of sight.
(NICAP 1967)
August 12, 1967
The Miedtkes of Ogema are awakened by the barking of their dog, and peaked outside to see a fluorescent object that emitted a bright flash of light. They reported footsteps outside their trailer. The object did not leave until dawn, and made a sound like a generator.
NICAP, separate from Passport to Magonia, reports that the UFO had a beam of light pointed toward a nearby farm.
(Magonia/NICAP 1967)
December 15, 1967
Just outside saxon, three men in a car see a sphere-shaped object with white lights on the top and the bottom and red and green lights throughout the middle. The object, which was spinning, hovered over a nearby field and shot out a smaller sphere. The smaller sphere also emitted a smaller sphere, and all three hovered over the field before nesting within each other and flying away.
(NICAP 1967)
January 26, 1969
A bright flash of light was seen over several states, with sightings reported in Green Bay and Appleton, in addition to Chicago, Cedar Rapids, and other places outside the state. An Appleton police officer claimed the flash caused a power failure and "balls of fire" to come off electrical lines.
("Skylight Flashes in Mid-West Night", Skylook, March 1969)
May 1969
A woman camping in a wooded area awoke to a bright light, drifting back to sleep. She began to hear sounds that resembled singing, and saw several small, reptile-like beings with large heads and large eyes, each carrying flashlights. One also had a box that made crackling sounds and beams of light. After the leader made a frightening sound, she felt a touch on her shoulder and reported a Nordic-like figure who aroused her, and reportedly they had intercourse, awaking on the forest floor the next day. She reportedly became pregnant from the encounter. (Uhhhhhhhhhh.)
(Brad Steiger, UFO Abductors, 1988. Rosales attributes the story to Wisconsin, which Steiger does not explicitly say in the book. Should also be noted that Steiger is not what one would consider a great researcher.)
July 4, 1969
An Eau Claire woman at a local racetrack saw an object about 1000 feet from her and could see the shadows of occupants in the windows. When she briefly turned the other way, the object disappeared.
(Rosales)
1970
A father and his two adolescent children see an object land on a swamp near Manitowoc. When they returned an hour later, there was a seven-foot-tall creature on the side of the road. The family became frightened and drove off.
(Rosales)
April 1970
A Madison attorney claimed he drove beneath a hovering light just out of town that caused his radio to lose signal and heated up the interior of the car. As he continued to drive, he impulsively pulled off on a gravel-paved dead end that led to a marsh. A 100-125 foot object awaited him there, described as aluminum-like with blinking lights. His car went dead as he tried to back away. His next memory was of arriving home at dawn, and he claimed he had a welt on the back of his neck. He would later undergo hypnotic regression and claim to be taken aboard the UFO, where the occupants claimed they were from another galaxy and used antigravity motors. The occupants claimed they were just there to collect specimen.
(HUMCAT 1970)
October 5, 1970
A patient at a hospital called a nurse's assistant at the Sturgeon Bay medical facility to claim monkeys were swinging on trees outside the window and that some were on his window sill. She went up to the room and saw a balloon-shaped, yellow-ish green object emitting a beam of white light, though she saw no monkeys or occupants. The craft flew off while she tried to grab another nurse to corroborate her sighting, but a streak of white light was left behind.
(HUMCAT 1970)
July 1972
UFO reported to Wauwatosa police in the early morning hours of July 3 or 4.
(Alex Thien, "Could It Be Pie in the Sky?", Milwaukee Sentinel, July 5, 1972)
August 21, 1972
Greg Faltersack of Waukesha was driving home at 2:30 a.m. The engine to his car and its electrical system shut off, and as he hit the brake he was unable to control the vehicle because his power steering was out. He heard a series of two-tone noises three times. When he looked up, he saw a spherical object about 40-50 feet above the treeline. When he exited the car, the object began to move up, a sound of rushing air following it.
Faltersack's car would barely start after, with several fuses and systems blown and an overheated engine. Police verified both the car troubles and Faltersack's sobriety. Faltersack's sister was reportedly an "enthusiast" of the contactee movement. No traces of the encounter, save tire marks, were found at the scene.
("The Faltersack Case", APRO Bulletin, November-December 1972)
August 25, 1972
A hitchhiker outside Fort Atkinson claimed he saw a craft land in a field and saw two beings about five feet tall emerge from the craft, collect samples from a nearby field, and take off over the course of 15 minutes.
(HUMCAT 1972)
September 26, 1972
Amid a two month rash of sightings in Outagamie, Waupaca, and Shawano counties, six different sightings were reported in one day.
In one, a man in Appleton claimed beams from a motionless object followed him around a field near Appleton.
In another, dozens of shoppers in Hortonville claimed to see an object with blinking red and white lights over the town's main street.
Other reports during this rash include spotlights hovering over cars, burnt out electrical systems, and light so intense it peeled car paint. Some reports include that two objects seem to be passing lights back and forth.
("'Flying Saucer' Reports Fill Air", Milwaukee Sentinel, September 28, 1972)
January 1973
Thomas and Susan Colb report seeing an orange flashing light in Kiel. Susan became involved with local UFO groups, including some with roots in the contactee movement, shortly after. Colb's husband and father would later try to forcibly remove Susan from the group, which they thought to be a cult. (The Appleton UFO Education Center.)
(Schmitt)
October 14, 1973
A couple camping at Hampton Lake awoke to find their camper door burst open and saw a saucer-shaped, glowing craft zig zagging toward a landing. 20 occupants came out and approached the camper. All were described as roughly human, with one appearing to be African-American, another dressed in blue jeans and plaid with a german shepherd, and another appearing much like a swami. A disembodied face materialized in the camper and told them to not be afraid. Seven occupants then stood in a semi-circle around the couple's van staring at the couple. Three more beings — described as about four feet tall with whitish-green skin — emerged from the craft and began running around, with one climbing a tree.
Friends they were camping with a nearby tent claimed not to see anything, but at the couple's insistence got in the camper and drove away. The couple continued to report disembodied apparitions as their friends drove them to the hospital. The woman of the couple claimed she had a pre-cognitive dream of this incident and believed herself to be the reincarnation of Nefertiti and was described by CUFOS investigators Richard Heiden and Lee Jewell as a believer in the occult. (Heiden and Jewell seemed skeptical of the incident.)
(HUMCAT 1973)
October 15, 1973
CUFOS reports a witness awakened by a high pitched sound, then finding their room filled with a bright light and "he saw three humanoids 4-5 feet tall materialize" with rounded ears, gray skin, and bald heads, all moving mechanically. He passed out, and when he came to he was being medically examined with an oval object. He reported a severe headache that caused him to lose consciousness again. When he awoke at dawn, his bedroom light was on and his bedsheets neatly folded. CUFOS reports "some inconsistencies."
(The 1973 UFO Chronology A World-Wide Wave, NICAP, https://www.nicap.org/chronos/1973fullrep.htm)
December 23, 1973
Charlotte Blob, at one point involved with George Adamski's contactee movement, claims a pair of unusual men came into a workshop that scientists and teachers were invited to at an undisclosed location in rural Wisconsin. The young men had gold suntans, had unusual accents, and spoke with a singsong tone. Blob reported that she thought they were aliens.
(Schmitt)
November 17, 1974
A bar owner in Antigo claims she and her family saw a craft maneuvering in the sky on the night of November 16. The next day, a four-and-a-half-foot man with bright white teeth entered her bar with a bouncing walk. He could hardly see over the bar. He had black hair, a dark complexion, wore dark glasses, and wore a burlap jacket.
He incorrectly stated that she saw a bright light on Friday (the 16th had been a Saturday), and when the bar owner corrected him, he pushed back four times. He claimed a meteor had landed nearby, claiming it fell in Medford, a town 100 miles away. The bar owner had trouble understanding him due to his rapid speech, but when the man seemed to realize he wasn't following her he yelled "And the whole world lit up!" and left the bar. (HUMCAT reports that there were several UFO sightings in the area across the span of the prior week.)
("W-File: ce741117.html", The W-Files)
December 2, 1974
Frederick-area farmer William Bosak saw an object parked on the road ahead. When he approached it, he saw a semi-transparent object with a tall occupant with a square face standing nearby put his arms above his head as if scared. The being had long narrow ears, and brown fur on his arms and torso. IT had large, protruding eyes. Bosak sped off from the object, which was enshrouded in some kind of fog.
(HUMCAT 1974)
March 2, 1975
Jim and Peggy Zahn report seeing a ball of fire follow their car in Mattoon, at times getting closer. Peggy panicked and ran into her brother's house, where they called 911. Jim and his brother-in-law watched the object hover at tree-level for 10-15 minutes and disappear.
Others reported similar sightings in the area, including the next night.
(Leonard J Bongle, "Ball of Fire Viewed by Many", APRO Bulletin, April 1975)
March 13, 1975
The Baker family of Ashland claim they heard a high-pitched noise. When the daughter, Jane, went outside, she saw the object had landed on a nearby hill. It was yellowish-white with red and green lights around the bottom that alternated in color. She reported hearing metal on metal hammering noises.
The object was reportedly still there the next day, hovering over the trees. Jane went to retrieve heavier clothing, and the object was gone. There were other reports of objects in the area that night.
("Landing in Wisconsin", APRO Bulletin, April 1975)
April 6, 1975
Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski were driving on Highway A near Wausau when their CB stopped working. They then saw a UFO 1,500 feet away that was flat on the bottom and dome shaped on the top hovering just above the ground with pulsating silver-grey lights. They spotted a seven-foot-tall being that looked like a tree trunk moving slowly about 100 feet away. They turned westward for a bit and when they returned to the spot, the craft was still there. They fell asleep while parked by a restaurant at 3 a.m., and woke up at 6:30 covered in soot and missing about 1/4 of their auto gas consumed. This suggested they may have driven back to the UFO a third time, but did not remember. Lewandowski reported general memory issues after the incident.
(HUMCAT 1975)
August 2, 1975
Witnesses report seeing a 50 foot rectangular object hovering about 100 feet off the ground near Appleton at 8 a.m.
(Flying Saucer Review, April 1976)
August 18, 1975
A ten-year-old boy, Ronald McMahon, claimed to see a silver-colored UFO hovering over his farm near Wisconsin rapids. Through a window in the craft he could see a humanoid profile. His mother also witnessed the craft, which flew away when she drove into the driveway.
(HUMCAT 1975)
September 15, 1975
Garner Hadland of Bayfield saw a circular disc hovering over nearby hills in broad daylight. Hadland said it was 100 feet in diameter, with no windows and a cast aluminum appearance. There were also vapor trails near the object.
(Eugene T. Lundholm, "Man reports daylight disc", Skylook, December 1975)
October 1975
A truck driver encountered three UFO occupants, who gave him a crystal and told him to guard it with his life. A man in black threatened him and took the crystal from the driver.
(HUMCAT 1975)
November 4, 1975
A sheriff's deputy in Fennimore saw a large bright light at the edge of the town, in a "typical UFO flying pattern, banking side to side." The deputy took photographs.
There was reportedly a cattle mutilation in Patch Grove that night as well, with a ball of fire seen hovering two days later near a farm. However, MUFON did not believe the sightings were related.
("Wisconsin sightings reported", Skylook, December 1975)
November 13, 1975
Red, green and white lights flying in an erratic fashion spotted over Whitewater and Eau Claire. Bright white lights dimming, disappearing, and reappearing seen in Fort Atkinson.
(The 1975 SAC Base Northern Tier Overflights October 27 - November 18, 1975, NICAP, June 14, 2007)
April 22, 1976
Police officer George Wheeler of Pierce reports seeing a glowing light in the sky. He eventually came upon a lens-shaped, silver colored object about 250 feet in diameter hovering 100 feet above the ground. The craft had a glowing orange cupola window. A black hose hung from it, and Wheeler could see the shadows of occupants moving inside the craft. The craft took off, and he lost consciousness as the power system of the car also shut down. The spark plugs were burnt out after. Other witnesses also reported the craft.
(HUMCAT 1976)
May 2, 1976
A couple driving between Winter and Waukesha say a machine that looked like a car "and yet it didn't look like one." It was a whitish-blue color. It stopped about 200 feet in front of them, and a man in a dark colored suit jumped out of it and bolted across the road toward a dark red UFO shaped like an upside-down bowl with some dark markings. Both objects seemed to dematerialize.
(HUMCAT 1976)
July 11, 1976
A golf course groundskeeper, Dean Anderson, saw two round discs "coming off the moon." One of the craft landed about 200 yards away from Anderson, and three occupants emerged from the craft via a ladder. Anderson heard a pounding coming from under the ship. The occupants re-entered the craft a few minutes later and it flew off, leaving indentations in the golf course. The occupants were described as being 5'8-6' tall and "very agile."
(HUMCAT 1976)
August 1976
A 20-year-old woman in Milwaukee reported a noise outside her window and saw two strange beings of average height, with a loud voice talking in an unintelligible language. The beings emitted a strange white light.
(HUMCAT 1976)
August 7, 1976
Orville Ziegelbauer and his son Mark, both of Malone, saw a revolving object "about the size of a small camper-trailer" land in a nearby hayfield. Giving chase to the site, the craft was nowhere to be seen, but two occupants around 5'7 with green skin put their hands up to their eyes and disappeared.
(HUMCAT 1976)
August 16, 1976
Two men in Egg Harbor, Dean Anderson and Wayne Schutte, saw a craft come in for a landing, and saw a figure running across a golf course, who Anderson chased with his riding lawnmower. The figure was wearing a glowing helmet and a belt that changed colors. The antenna on the helmet flashed bright red. When Anderson neared the occupant, he saw it was seven-feet-tall with a long nose. The occupant disabled the lawnmower with some kind of beam, which also numbed Anderson. The occupant looked at him before a very small craft, 3' x 3', opened a door and the occupant floated inside. The craft briefly glowed in blue, red, and orange colors before taking off. "The footprints of the man were 20 inches long, 8" wide, and 5 ft apart," according to HUMCAT.
(HUMCAT 1976)
August 23, 1976
Anderson reports another craft on the golf course, an orange colored craft from which two figures emerged via a beam of light. The occupants introduced themselves as Sunar and Treena from Jupiter and Saturn, respectively, and extended their hands for a handshake. Sundar told Anderson they were to collect specimen. They also claimed the last being he had sighted was named Muton, and that Sunar had met the founder of the Bahai religion. Anderson was given an envelope filled with nylon cloth. They allowed Anderson to take a picture of the craft. The envelop also had an amulet inside with an inscription about "Peace and friendship forever."
(HUMCAT 1976)
September 1976
Michael Bailen of Milwaukee awoke being levitated from his couch and over to his kitchen and through a hallway, where a short being dressed in black with sharp-pointed features, dark olive skin, and black eyes stood holding some kind of device. As Bailen was pulled out his front door he lost consciousness and came to while standing in his own driveway. The occupant reportedly drove off with his car yelling "Don't dare follow me!" He then saw a dwarf with an enormous head on his left side. He twice more lost consciousness, once coming to on a hillside where the moon itself appeared dim but light radiated off the sides, next finding himself back on his couch.
(HUMCAT 1976)
August 31, 1978
Charles Larson of Beaver Brook found dark patches on his lawn roughly one foot wide. The grass was covered in black beads that felt "like graphite." The smears appeared in an 18-foot circle, but may have been fungal in origin.
("Strange Smears Appear on Grass", Spooner Advocate, August 31, 1978)
March 13, 1992
A WFRV-TV videographer captures a cigar-shaped object over Bellevue travelling at a height of 25,000 feet. The event took place at 10 a.m.
(The 1992 UFO Chronology, NICAP)