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Early in October 1977, Paul Fredrickson was driving home with his son
near Elmwood, Wisconsin. Travelling up Tuttle Hill, his son Mark pointed
to the southeast and asked, "Is that the way the moon comes up
dad?"
Paul, a North Bend native, who was working as a nursing home
administrator in Elmwood at the time, related what followed next: "I took
one look at the speed it was approaching, and knew it couldn't be the moon.
It was round and a bright orange, but as it came close, it turned out to be
crescent shaped. The light was coming from the front end. As it hovered
near us, we could see the underside very clearly. It was round, nearly
saucer shaped, dark gray, and about 50 feet in diameter. Before it came
over us it made no sound, but when it passed about 1,000 feet up from us,
it made a whoosh as it passed over. It disappeared so fast, it was gone
with a snap of your fingers."
This was one of three UFO sightings Paul
Fredrickson had while living in Elmwood. (Paul and his wife Fran are now
retired and living between Melrose and North Bend.) As he and his wife
discovered after living in Elmwood for 12 years, seeing a UFO around the
town of about 1,000 was not uncommon. In fact, he says, everybody looks for
them in Elmwood. They even began UFO days in 1978, as the town's yearly
celebration. (Elmwood is 93 miles north west of North Bend.) To the best
of Paul's knowledge, there have been over 40 UFO sightings in and around
the small community.
So it didn't come as a surprise for him to hear that
Elmwood was being considered as a likely location to build a multi-million
dollar facility to provide a safe landing for alien spacecraft. A newly
formed UFO Site Center Corporation (a non-profit organization founded by
Tom Weber), based in Chippewa Falls, is responsible for considering the
site. The two month old organization, which has received international
attention, recently held an informative meeting in Elmwood High School gym
on February 13th. Paul and Fran attended the meeting, along with nearly
300 other people. Paul, along with other people in the community who had
seen UFO's, was later interviewed by a variety of media on his UFO
experiences after the meeting.
He showed reporters the location of his
first and second UFO sighting.
The first sighting was also on Tuttle Hill near his home. It was April 22,
1976, and Paul Fredrickson was at home with his family. (for this part of
the article, see Wisconsin UFO Sighting Report)
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The last UFO sighting for Paul Fredrickson was that same year in June of
1976.
Paul says that after each of his sightings, "I felt elated and I felt
frustrated. I wish I had a piece of the ship so I could have concrete
evidence of what I say. It's no fun walking down the street and having
people look at each other and say, he's really crazy, isn't he. I don't
want to be made fun of." At the age of 70, he says he doesn't believe he
should keep what he saw to himself just because of what other people might
think.
Even at his age, he would like to be open minded in order to learn
more about UFO's. He says until now, people have by and large taken it as
a joke. At Elmwood he knows of many reputable people who have actually seen
these objects. "There's something out there," he says with conviction.
"If they're human or human-like, we don't know, but I think the country is
ripe for learning more about them. Creating the landing site for UFO's
seems for him to be a good place to start."
There's no question people in
the country are curious about UFO's. Paulwas asked to join several people
from Elmwood who have seen UFO's, along with the widow of George Wheeler,
the Elmwood Village President Larry Feiler, and Tom Weber, President of the
UFO Site Center Corporation, when they flew to New York to appear on the
"Geraldo" show, hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Unfortunately, Paul was not
feeling well at the time. The show is scheduled to be shown in the next
couple weeks.
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