Sighting record / 1966
June 6, 1966. A summer evening in Spooner, Wisconsin. At 9:30 p.m., Dorothy Gray saw two domed discs above a lake. Their upper surfaces sparkled. Square windows were set into their tops. The discs revolved above the water. Below them, the lake began to behave strangely, stirred by what one chronology calls a strange turbulence on the surface. Twenty-five seconds later, it was over. The US Air Force's Project Blue Book logged the report as case #10626. The verdict was Unknown. No photograph exists. No newspaper report from the time has been found. What remains is a single witness account, preserved in one summary line, and a lake that nobody ever named.
Spooner sits in Washburn County, in the lake country of northern Wisconsin. In 1960 the town had 2,398 residents. Washburn County has many lakes. In 1966 the US Air Force was still collecting UFO reports through Project Blue Book. One of them came from Spooner.