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Elmwood, Wisconsin begins 'UFO Days'

Name: Elmwood, Wisconsin begins 'UFO Days'
Start: 1978
Location: Elmwood, WI

When: 1978
Where: Elmwood, WI
Sources: 2 public sources

The village of Elmwood, Wisconsin, which began its UFO Days festival in 1978 Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After a mid-1970s run of local UFO reports, including a 1976 police officer account, the village of Elmwood began an annual UFO Days festival, one of the longest-running small-town UFO celebrations.

Sources

PressWisconsin Community Remembers Strange Lights With UFO Day (opens in a new tab)The Post-Journal (Associated Press) / 2018-10-21
PressWhen UFOs visited western Wisconsin (opens in a new tab)MPR News (NewsCut) / 2018-07-27

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