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Area farmer reports UFO observations

A week before Belleville Police Officer Glen Kazmar and his ride-along companion, Jeff Furseth, reported the first of a long series of reported UFO sightings in this area (see Report), the mysterious flying objects were apparently already being observed.

A Mount Vernon farmer, Gregg Kahl, revealed recently that a UFO visited his farm a week before Kazmar saw strange lights in the night sky, and that the craft was evidently also aware of his presence.

Kahl consented to an interview this past week after the Center for UFO Studies reported to this newspaper that it had begun an investigation into a Mount Vernon UFO sighting. Word of Kahl's report reached the Center through a third party, after which Kahl decided to talk about his experience.

When the farm couple heard about Kazmar's UFO sighting in mid-January, "My wife said there was somebody else just as crazy as I was," Kahl said.

Jan Kahl's remark was made in jest, however, - she also saw what Kahl first was on the night of Jan. 7, give or take a day.

When Kahl first noticed the group of red, white and blue lights moving around at the top of the hill across the road from his house and barn, he "thought it was someone up there messing around with the cattle" that he had fenced into that field.

Kahl described the lights as appearing to be about three feet in diameter, "and they moved, although (the object) sat right there."

When Kahl drove around the hill and approached from another direction, the lights began flying across the field. "It came to the trees and went over them," he said, drawing perfect right angles in the air to show how the craft lifted straight up and then moved forward again.

Kahl then followed the lighted object, taking Hwy. 92 to County Trunk A to "Vinneyville," north of Belleville and south of Paoli. There he stopped, got out of his truck and watched the object which hovered motionless in the sky.

Coincidentally or not, that is exactly the same area from which Harvey Funseth and his friend said they made their daytime UFO sighting in February.

At no time did the UFO make a sound, Kahl said.

Then, as the strangeness of the experience seeped into Kahls' consciousness, he got cold feet. "I got scared and said, 'That's enough of this,'" he related.

Kahl got back in his vehicle and drove home. "When I got back to Mount Vernon, there it was again," Kahl stated.

And, he added, "When I got back here, there it was back on the hill again."

"My wife saw it from here," Kahl said. "She said it left shortly after I left." When I stopped it seemed like it stopped. It was almost like it was playing Catch with me."

Later, Kahl said he tried to estimate the size of the object as it appeared at the top of his hill, perhaps 300 yards away. It looked to be as large as "maybe three hay wagons together."

Telephoning several family members that night, Kahl said his brother's reaction was to ask Kahl if he was "drinking again."

"I don't drink," Kahl said with conviction.

There were at least two other occasions, and maybe more, on which Kahl saw the lighted object, but it was never as nearby as the first time.

"If I heard that a UFO was seen that night, chances are I'd seen it the night before."

Several times, Kahl tried to get a closer look with the use of high powered hunting scope, his small telescope and a better telescope owned by an acquaintance. But each time, the lights merely seemed to converge, he said. For whatever reason, the naked eye provided the best view.

Similarly, his acquaintance's attempts to photograph the UFO failed to produce results.

Kahl said, "It takes me about two hours to do chores. It would be there before I started, and it would still be there when I came out of the barn."

What does Kahl think it was that he saw? "I don't know," he replied. "I ruled out a helicopter or airplane" because of its hovering, its silence and the way it moved through the sky.

However, he added, he "firmly" believes that, whatever it was, it did not come from this planet.

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Date: January 7, 1987 Location: Mount Vernon County: Dane Source: New Glarus, WI Post, July 29, 1987

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Area farmer reports UFO observations

Date: January 7, 1987
Location: Mount Vernon
County: Dane

Source: New Glarus, WI Post, July 29, 1987