1 1/2 Mi SE Of Gills Rock, Wis., September 1959September 1959

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Summary

On the early morning of September 13, 1959, a resident near Gills Rock, Wisconsin, reported witnessing an unusual object rising rapidly into the night sky. The witness, who was outdoors picking night crawlers around 1:05 a.m., first heard a loud pulsating noise similar to a jet engine. Within a few minutes, he saw a round, yellowish object with eight blue lights on its outer edge and five larger red lights in the center. The object rose straight up at tremendous speed until it resembled a star in the sky. The entire event lasted about ten minutes. The witness's mother and wife also heard the noise from inside their house, though they did not see the object itself. The sky was clear at the time. The observer immediately sketched what he had seen and was reluctant to report the sighting publicly.

The Air Force requested the witness complete a detailed technical questionnaire to gather more information for analysis. The witness estimated the object was about 200 feet away and described it as appearing as bright as eight 300-watt blue bulbs, with the red lights flickering and flaring like hot exhaust. However, no exhaust or jet stream was visible. The Air Force's file shows the report was forwarded through official channels from the Weather Bureau and the Air Research and Development Command to the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The case file itself contains no final ATIC evaluation or conclusion regarding what the object was. The complete case file, comprising 35 pages, is held by the National Archives.

Reported location

1 1/2 Mi SE Of Gills Rock, Wis., September 1959

Date of incident

September 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

35 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Ik i ia ( | Ig Re oa ‘ 4 ane nl : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2 i : = EE US Tr SE ROE ATE Se ia 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |i [ Eo O Was Balloon | 13 Sep 59 1 1/2 mi SE of Gills Rock, Wis 0 Probably Balloon i 3 Bol he? 1 1/2 mi SE of Gills Rock, Wis, |o ak 4 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ale VALE CON F 0105 fe g : 0 Was Aircraft 3 Local TEE er re tGround- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft | GMT. 2/0705%, a Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aireroft 1 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE OQ Was Astronomical : O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical a ERE 0 Possibly Astronomical 4 -B:No dvi l3=2n 4 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE O Other INI DEN TEED 4 BL Insufficient Data for Evaluation: 2 O Unknown i fis 10 mina hl A RE Te ast a Ea RE oY E 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ~ : . Rnd, yellowish light w/eight blue lights er ifiodent dota —fomsrchan cnoeloeia : : Just inside the ring which appeared about a as bright as eight 300 watt blue bulbs. Eo Inside the ring of the blue lights were 3 five red lights many times larger than 3 the blue lights which appeared to flicker oh ; 3 & off. The red lights ecmed to flare up like 4 a very hot exhaust. | "ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) a ; 4 4 us f : a