It seems UFO’s are reported more frequently these days. I believe the “snicker factor” has been falling at the same pace reports rise. The fear of people making sport of a citizen making such claims is less inhibiting. Five decades ago, when I was a youngster of eleven, (1958) my brother and I saw one. It was early summer at about ten in the morning. A beautiful, warm day in Amery, Wisconsin. Together, Jim and I stepped out of our house with a can of worms and our cane poles. Sitting on the bank of the Apple River, (behind the Stella Cheese factory) our focus shifted from bobbing bobbers to a HUGE cigar shaped object cruising soundlessly across the river no higher than the water tower. Soundlessly it floated towards us and then directly over our heads. I could have hit it with the slingshot dangling from my rear pocket! Brilliant red, blue and yellow lights revolved around it’s football field long side. No external engines or propellers were apparent. This was no blimp! The lights alone were beyond the technology of the times. My brother and I dropped our poles and raced around the corner of the factory to keep it in sight as it slowly zig-zagged over town. Quite as a mouse, it just floated towards North Twin Lake until out of sight.

Today, at family gatherings, Jim and still talk about that “thing.” It stands out in our memories clear as yesterday.

Have you ever seen something that seemed “not of this world?”