Date: July 17, 2003 00:30
Location: Dousman
County: Waukesha
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Details of Incident:
Some friends and I have been watching the skies from Herr Road (near Sullivan, WI) for a few
years now. This long, narrow road has a unobstructed view of the night sky, almost like being
atop a huge tower. After many disappointing visits to this area, myself and three of my close
friends saw something absolutely mind boggling. It was approx. 12:30 AM when we first noticed a
strange orange and red light sitting still above the tree line in the southeastern sky. It was
much larger and brighter than any of the planes or stars that we saw. It did not move from that
location, so we really didn't think much of it. Approx. five minutes later, the exact same
light we saw above the tree line, had moved to the eastern skyline. We didn't take our eyes off
of it from that point on. The light began moving from the northeastern skyline to the southeast
and then back again for approx. 10-15 minutes. It seemed to have no pattern whatsoever to it's
direction of flight. We could tell that it was getting closer to us, and then very far at a
tremendous rate of speed. The most amazing thing happened after it had dimmed away for minute
or so; We suddenly witnessed it very close again, mostly orange in color, but sometimes red,
blue and white. It was close enough that we certainly would have been able to hear if it was
jet or prop powered, but there was dead silence. It got even closer, staying just above the
tree line. It was moving from south to north when we ran down the road to catch a glimpse of it
between two large trees. We saw a classic "movie made" disk hovering at a 45 degree angle. We
could see 4 or 5 bright white round lights either on the top or bottom perimeter of the disk
spinning on axis at a relatively slow speed.
We witnessed this actual disk for only 10 or 15 seconds. The object changed from a spinning
disk, to a white ball of light and took off at an amazing rate of speed (again, no sound)
making almost a horseshoe loop in the sky, and then it was gone. I've been back there many
times since we saw the unexplainable, and have never seen anything like it.
((NUFORC Note: The planet, Mars, would have been in the southeastern, or southern, sky on this
date, and at the time indicated. However, it would not have moved across the sky ask quickly as
the witness describes. We do not know what they observed. PD))
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