Date: October 1973
Location: Cato Falls
County: Manitowoc
Source: Wisconsin UFO Sighting Report by Dayn M.
Details of Incident:
I grew up in Manitowoc, Wis and was in 9th grade in the fall of 1973. I can't remember what the name
of the school club I was in but we decided to take a bike trip, which included a 9th grade school
teacher, to, I think it was, Cato Falls, a small distance away from Manitowoc. It was sometime in
Sept/Oct, I think on a Friday night/Saturday, but couldn't be sure of the exact date. We were to
camp out overnight. We got there when it was still light, sun just starting to set, probably around
4-4:30 pm or so. As it started getting dark, I noticed towards the west as the sun was setting, an
orangish colored ball or something like that, which I took as a sunspot (I didn't know what a sunspot
was then), but it was above the high voltage power lines about, I would guess, a mile away from us.
After about 20 minutes or so, the sun had basically went down but the one "sunspot" turned into 4
and had moved towards my left and still over the power lines. We were out in the field trying to
shine our bike lights into the sky to see if we could see the geese and ducks flying over(migrating)
as it got dark. You could hear the birds but not see them. Anyway the next day after I got home, my
mom asked me if I had heard about the UFO sighting. I said no and never really thought about it again
until I got older and started reading about UFOs, etc. Something during my reading about UFOs one
day triggered my memory about the sighting I may have seen.
I do believe I did see something out of the ordinary. Can't explain it. I did ask my mom if she
remembered anything, but she said she didn't remember.
Since I live in California now, I am not able to research the Manitowoc Herald Times files for that
time period to see if anything was ever printed about it. Any help and an email back to me about it
would be greatly appreciated.
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