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They're still around! UFO sightings continue in area

Unlike vampires, they no longer only come out at night.

The UFO phenomenon heated up several hundred degrees over the weekend with Friday's daylight sightings by several people of four cigar-shaped objects slightly northwest of Belleville. At least four and perhaps up to a dozen people reported having seen the unusual sight late Friday afternoon, and the reports are remarkably similar.

The reports marked the first public reports of daytime sightings of UFOs in this area. In addition, with any luck, the sight may have been captured on film by one of the observers.

Harvey Funseth, Belleville, said he and a friend, Fred Gochenaur, were a couple of miles north of Belleville on Hwy. 69 late Friday afternoon when they spotted something unusual in the western sky. Funseth described the sight as "four objects, one above the other. It looked like a long (Chinese) kite."

The two men then took a road to the west to get closer and made their way to an open field where they stopped to watch. "I tried to take pictures, but the sun was in the way," Funseth said.

The four objects were cigar-shaped, in a vertical position, and unmoving, Funseth reported. "They looked grey at first, but as (one) came closer, it looked like a light blue color."

The four objects were about 1/8 mile away from them at this point, Funseth said, and no more than a "couple thousand feet in the air."

As Funseth and Gochenaur watched, the uppermost craft changed position in the sky. "The top one started drifting away from the rest," he related. That gave him another chance to take photographs, away from the sun.

"When it flattened out, it looked like the fuselage of a plane."

As the highest of the four moved away to their right, it emitted flames from its end, Funseth continued. "A vapor trail started coming out of the back of it."

At first, it moved slowly but "after it went by, it picked up speed; in a minute it went out of sight," Funseth said.

"When I looked back, the other ones were still in about the same position, but there was some mist or steam in front of them, and they were starting to get blurry like clouds."

The entire episode, which began between 5 and 5:30 p.m., took about 15 to 20 minutes, Funseth estimated.

The moving craft had flashing lights on its front end, but none of the others displayed lights, he added.

When Funseth and Gochenaur called the Dane County Airport at Truax Field, "they wouldn't confirm that they saw anything on radar," Funseth said.

The sighting corresponds closely with that of Lavonne Freidig, a resident of Belleville's northern subdivision. She said at about dusk on Friday, she was looking out her patio door to the west when she saw what she also at first thought was a kite, hanging in the air above a nearby grove of trees.

She called her son to look, but he attributed the sight to geese and left again. Lavonne stayed to watch and then saw the top "part" (they seemed to be connected, she said) move off to her right toward the north or northeast.

"Then these other things under it...after (the top one) went, there were just puffs of smoke left." The entire sighting only lasted about two or three minutes, she said.

"I thought it was so strange," she recalls, but then forgot about it until she heard that others had seen the same thing.

Throughout the sighting, there was no sound she could detect although it was a very quiet time.

In addition, Jim Venden, Mount Horeb, said his wife observed something similar as they were driving to Belleville for supper last Friday. From Hwy. 92, off to the west she saw something which looked like a Chinese kite hanging vertically in the sky.

Because his wife, Shirley, did not watch it continuously, she did not see how it happened, but later the column had separated into four segments in the sky, Venden added.

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Date: March 6, 1987 Location: Belleville County: Dane Source: Monticello, WI Messenger, March 11, 1987

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They're still around! UFO sightings continue in area

Date: March 6, 1987
Location: Belleville
County: Dane

Source: Monticello, WI Messenger, March 11, 1987