Date: August 9, 1997 11:35 and 11:55PM
Location: Manitowoc
County: Manitowoc
Source: UFO Roundup - Volume 2, Number 33.
Also, see the Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter for August 8, 1997.
Details of Incident:
Manitowoc County in Wisconsin reported its second week of UFO sightings,
with two in the vicinity of County Highway G. Manitowoc (population
32,547), a port city on Lake Michigan, is approximately 82 miles (131
kilometers) north of Milwaukee. The area has a long history of UFO activity
dating back to the "airship sensation" of 1897.
On Saturday, August 9,
1997, a Franklin man and his two sons "spotted it (a UFO) from their van
while driving north (at) about 11:35 p.m. on County Highway G south of
Maple Grove.
The UFO hovered silently in the sky for about 15 seconds
over a woods, then descended rapidly, almost as if crashing, he told the
Manitowoc, Wisconsin Herald Times Reporter. He described the UFO as "large
and triangular with three reddish-orange lights."
"It was the strangest
thing," he said, "There was no sound. Not a cricket, not a dog, not a frog.
Nothing."
At 11:55 p.m., the man's family "was sitting in its living
room when his daughter saw the second UFO."
This was another triangular
UFO with "rounded corners but with the same reddish-orange lights. It
hovered for a few minutes, then disappeared as quickly as the first."
"I should have run and got the 35mm camera. But I was so awe struck by it,"
he said.
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