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Date: August 9-10, 1996
Location: Stanley
County: Chippewa

Source: UFO Roundup -Volume 1, Number 27.



Details of Incident:

If you're on the streets of Stanley, Wisconsin, USA between the hours of 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Central time, you're liable to run into UFO buff John K., out for his nightly walk. Stanley is a small town in north central Wisconsin, 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Eau Claire and 165 miles (264 kilometers) west of Wausau.

"On Friday night (August 9, 1996), I was walking up a street that faces due east," John K. reported. "August can really exhibit beautiful clear skies, and this (night) was one of them. I was just gazing upward and taking in the panorama when I saw this white light which seemed to be almost 'floating' (the closest I can describe it) across the sky, heading northward. I stopped walking, for I thought the motion was just an illusion caused by my own motion. Well, I stopped but the white light didn't. I'm not too good at judging altitudes and speed, but the light was way up there, seemingly right in between the stars. My guess is that it had to be at least 30,000 to 40,000 feet. The object's speed was probably between 100 and 200 miles per hour. It had to be a craft of some sort because it was an exceptionally clear sky. The object would sort of dip toward the east, then slip back into a northward direction. The weirdest thing is that after ten seconds of watching this thing, it simply disappeared."

"I didn't think too much about it, except that it was strange, so I kept walking up the hill. I stopped about halfway and looked upward, and saw an F-16, or what I took to be an F-16. It was going pretty slowly (usually by the time you hear them, they're gone.) The F-16 was at about half the altitude of the white object and heading east. When I reached the top of the hill, it had banked and was heading north in the path of the object."

"On Saturday night (August 10, 1996) I was on the other side of town and saw something rather unusual. Once again it was about 10 p.m. but I was heading south this time and saw the same kind of bright white object heading at a very slow pace toward the southeast. The strange thing is that it was being flanked by an F-16 (which was practically above my position) about five miles to the north of it (the UFO), maintaining the same airspeed."

John points out that the UFO seemed to be headed in the direction of Fort McCoy.

This is the first UFO sighting in Stanley, Wisconsin since October 1995. For a month, residents reported seeing F-16s flying combat air patrols over the town. On one occasion, an F-16 circled downtown Stanley three times, as if searching for something. The October 1995 flap began when the police department in nearby Chippewa Falls, 26 miles east of Stanley, received numerous reports of "a star" that literally "dropped into the atmosphere and zigzagged to below treetop levels."

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