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Close encounter of the Hillsboro kind

A strange visitor recently appeared in the skies over Hillsboro. One warm night in the latter part of August, Betty and Harley Pliner watched an unidentified flying object for over five minutes as it hung motionless in the night air above the city.

"I worked for the Knights of Columbus that night, helping out with the bingo at the Community Center," recalls Harley. "I drove home about 10:30. I put the car in the garage, and walked up the sidewalk toward the house, when I saw this big thing in the sky."

Harley was startled to observe a large lighted object hovering above some trees across the street from his house on Mill Street.

"It was on the other side of the Albrecht's house," he continued. "It was stationary, and it wasn't making a sound. It was round and covered with red and blue lights. I ran into the house and yelled at my wife, and she came out and looked at it."

Betty Pliner described the object as having "...a million lights all around it, and they were all blinking. I thought it was beautiful. They never quit flashing...they just kept flashing."

"I know it was no plane. They can't hang in the air like that. A helicopter would make noise, but this didn't!"

The couple estimate they watched the strange lighted object for nearly five minutes before it slowly moved away.

"I was going to jump in my car," reveals Harley, "but it moved out of sight. I was going to chase it!"

"When it disappeared over the tree," says Betty, "he thought he saw another light. So he went clear across the road looking for it. I would have been afraid, but I guess when you see a spectacle like that, you're too astonished to be afraid."

Though Harley continued to look, the UFO had apparently vanished, returning to whence it had come. Later, he wondered why he and his wife alone were privy to the unusual phenomenon.

"I'm surprised that nobody else ever saw it," he commented.

Betty won't speculate on whether or not the object she observed originated in outer space.

"I don't think it was from around here, though," she remarked. "It was weird. It was nothing we had ever seen."

The couple's brief glimpse of the unknown proved tantalizing, and they hope that maybe someday they'll get a second chance to view an unidentified flying object.

"We've looked every night," reports Betty, "but haven't seen it since."

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Date: October 1989 Location: Hillsboro County: Vernon Source: Hillsboro, WI Sentry Enterprise - October 12, 1989

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Close encounter of the Hillsboro kind

Date: October 1989
Location: Hillsboro
County: Vernon

Source: Hillsboro, WI Sentry Enterprise - October 12, 1989