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Place

Elmwood, WI

United States

44.78 N, 92.15 WView on OpenStreetMap

2 events here, 1976 to 1978, in date order.

  1. Sightings

    Elmwood, Wisconsin officer reports a UFO disabled his squad car

    Elmwood officer George Wheeler, who had reported an earlier sighting in 1975, said a large domed craft near a quarry hit his squad car with a beam; his radio went dead and he was found barely conscious. The town's sightings later drew a proposed UFO landing port that was never built.

  2. Media

    Elmwood, Wisconsin begins 'UFO Days'

    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.