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Artists capture UFO sighting in paintings

Whether or not you believe in Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), the account of an alleged eyewitness always makes one take notice. Why do some people see them, and others don't? A photograph is often taken as evidence of a sighting, but how many have painted a picture of what they saw?

Chrystal Jackson and her son Chris reportedly saw a UFO Sunday evening, July 20. Both Chrystal and Chris are watercolor artists, and they each painted a picture of what they saw that night.

Chrystal, her mother and her son, Chris were returning that night to where they were staying in the Saynor area from a demonstration at Nicolet College in Rhinelander. It was about 11:30 at night, and Chrystal was tired after a particularly draining demonstration. There had seemed to be a special magnetism in the workshop that night. She and her students were drawn together, and Chrystal had worked feverishly to correct something in her painting that wasn't quite right. Now she was exhausted and rested in the back seat as her son drove.

Chris spotted the UFO first. They were just outside of Sugar Camp on Hwy. 17 North, when he spotted a red orange object over a potato field on the left side of the road. "We were about 300 feet away from it," he recalled. "The bottom side was tilted up towards us, and I could see three orange lights on the bottom, and stripes. There were two bars hanging down from it that joined to form a triangle. It glowed, and it didn't make a sound."

He turned to his mother and said, "I think you'd better look through the back window. There's a UFO out there." Chris was a skeptic about UFOs and science fiction in general. Hearing that from her son, Chrystal turned around and looked out the back window.

"I saw a red orange object just over the trees. It was elliptical in shape and slightly tipped up," she recalls. "It couldn't have been a sign because we were in a wooded area. It was too big to be a helicopter."

It seemed to be following the car. "I saw it again, low over the trees," Chrystal said. "It didn't get smaller as we went away from it. As we went around curves, it was always on the right side as I looked out the back window." She thought it was going at the same speed as the car.

Meanwhile, the cars ahead of them had disappeared. Wanting to catch up with them, Chris pressed on the accelerator. "But the car wouldn't gain power," he said. "We had been going 55, now we were going 25 or 30. We have an Olds 98, and it had just been tuned up."

The object followed them for about 10 minutes, until they got to the Hwy. 70 turnoff between St. German and Eagle River. Then it disappeared and the car regained speed.

The next day they discovered the dash and tail lights had gone out. They still had headlights, but Chris didn't think their brake lights worked. They found this out when a car pulled up alongside them and said they almost hit the Jacksons, because the taillights were out.

"We hadn't used the car since the night before, so it must have happened the night we sighted the UFO," Chrystal says.

The next day they took the car to Woodland Auto in St. Germain, where it was discovered that a fuse had blown. "The man at the garage was puzzled because only one fuse had blown," Chrystal said. "Usually they go together."

"What I saw that night was what I saw physically with my eyes," Chrystal emphasizes. Her mentor, Marie Larsen, a summer art instructor at Nicolet College, has another theory about the UFO sighting.

"When an individual becomes engrossed in what they are doing, especially in painting, the thought or intellectual process seems not to exist," Marie explains.

That night, at the workshop, Chrystal was giving a watercolor demonstration. Marie recalled that the other people at the workshop seemed to be especially in tune with Chrystal. "You give your all when you do this," Marie said. "There is a secret place within yourself, and when you reach it, it touches the secret place of other people. It's intangible, who can define it?"

Chrystal was very worked up about something in the painting that didn't look right. She pressed on to continue the workshop long after the allotted time was over, to perfect the painting. "I couldn't stop, I wouldn't let them go. We were all held together forming a huge pressure of energy. There have been heat sensitive photographs taken showing an aura surrounding people. I think that together with the workshop students, we sent out an aura, a vibration, there in the middle of the woods, that touched or attracted whatever was out there."

"Or it attracted you," Marie adds.

Whatever they saw, or thought they saw, the controversy about UFOs continues. According to the Oneida County Sheriffs Department, no other UFO sightings were reported that night. It seemed to turn the Jacksons into believers, but until hard, tangible evidence is presented, much of the world remains to be convinced.

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Date: July 20, 1981 Location: Sugar Camp County: Oneida Source: Minocqua, WI Lakeland Times, August 6, 1981

Details of Incident:

Artists capture UFO sighting in paintings

Date: July 20, 1981
Location: Sugar Camp
County: Oneida

Source: Minocqua, WI Lakeland Times, August 6, 1981