Date: 1973
Location: Stratford
County: Marathon
Source: Wisconsin UFO Sighting Report by Louise D.
Details of Incident:
In about 1973 every night for several nights my young son would tell me that he was watching a
UFO, and I would tell him to "go to sleep". I didn't want to see anymore UFOs as I was pretty
frightened by one in about 1966.
(See sighting report
on this website) I was happy not to see any ufos, but my son would not go to bed this night
and insisted that I come and look. I did! What I saw sent me running for binoculars which I
looked through and saw a cigar shaped ship moving smoothly and slowly to the West. It was dark
in color but had a bright orange band in the middle part. I watched it until it disappeared.
That night had been clear and calm and the ufo was again not like a star or a blob in the sky
but it was some kind of ship. I could not ascertain the size of it from the distance I was at,
but I think it was pretty big because an airplane at that distance would be tiny. My son said,
"see I have been telling you the truth". I don't think we watched for it again. I didn't want
to see any ufos, as they scared me prior to this sighting.
A few years later, a neighbor told our family of seeing a ship in back of our home and she said
it followed her to Marshfield from Stratford. I do not know the time frame compared to our
sighting, however. I never noted anything other than the original night of our sighting.
Nothing ever bothered us that we are aware of!
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