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Sighting record / 1987

The Belleville UFO Flap

January 15, 1987 · Belleville, Wisconsin (sky west and southwest of the village, toward New Glarus), United States
31Partially documented UAP Cigar 6 sources 3 videos

January 15, 1987. Belleville, Wisconsin. A village police officer named Glen Kazmar and his passenger, Jeff Furseth, watched a tight cluster of red, white and blue lights hang in the sky west of town. No sound. No visible structure. Just lights, wavering close together in a straight line, much brighter than a star. Kazmar called it in. Deputies in two counties took reports that same night, and radar in Chicago reportedly tracked something slow moving in the area. Over the following weeks, residents described wingless, cigar-shaped craft. A small village learned to look up.

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Context

Belleville is a small village on the line between Dane and Green counties in southern Wisconsin. In the winter of 1987 it became the centre of a UFO flap that, by one count, ran from mid-January through early April.

Sources (6, most influential first)

  1. AP wire on the Belleville police officer's sighting · Associated Press (text archive mirror)· 1987-01-26 · Press, book, documentary · news
  2. AP wire on the June 5 Belleville UFO meeting · Associated Press (text archive mirror)· 1987-05-27 · Press, book, documentary · news
  3. The Wisconsin Magazine; Waiting for the UFOs (episode 1325) · PBS Wisconsin (WHA-TV) via American Archive of Public Broadcasting· 1987-04-10 · Press, book, documentary · tv
  4. Belleville report r1987_0115_dane · UFO Wisconsin · Research organisation · org report
  5. Watch now: Real or not, UFOs arrive once again in Wisconsin village · Wisconsin State Journal · Press, book, documentary · news