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BELLEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Some local residents hope a meeting with UFO
experts next month will yield explanations for a series of close encounters
earlier this year.
Marian Anderson, who has helped the Center for UFO Studies coordinate its
investigation into the sightings, said the meeting at the Belleville High
School June 5 will feature the center's report on the sightings.
Don Schmitt, co-director of the Glenview, Ill.-based center, will take part,
along with investigator Richard Heiden, she said.
In the Belleville area, "the reports (of sightings) were very concentrated
for about three months," Ms. Anderson said. "It started about mid January and
went to about early April."
Lavonne Freidig, a member of a state legislator's staff in Madison, said she
plans to be at the meeting.
She said she was looking out her patio doors on the west edge of Belleville
March 6 at about 5:45 p.m. when she saw a something strange hanging in the air
above the tree line.
"It was like the size of a jet plane's fuselage, but there were no wings on
it," she said. "It had three round cylinders attached to it, directly
underneath it."
She said the large top portion took off, leaving the other three parts
behind, and then they too disappeared, leaving three smoke rings.
"One minute they were there; the next minute there were smoke rings," she
said.
She said another person, Harvey Funseth, was about five miles north of
Belleville when "he saw it, too."
Funseth, an employee of the state Department of Transportation, confirmed
that he and a friend watched an object of a similar form for several minutes
before it flew out of sight.
He described it as similar to a jumbo jet airliner, but "wider than a jumbo
jet body, with no wings, and just one little light in the front."
Police Officer Glen Kazmar, who plans to attend the meeting, said he saw a
cluster of red, blue and white lights while on the job late on the night of
Jan. 15. The lights, he said, remained stationary and then moved away.
"In all my 11 years as a police officer, I never saw anything like that,"
he said, adding that a neighbor accompanying him in the patrol car as part of
the city's "ride-along" program saw the same thing, even though Kazmar never
pointed it out to him.
Ms. Anderson, of Madison, said her own interest in UFOs dated back to 1947,
when she and others watched silvery, soundless objects fly over Stoughton, 20
miles east of Belleville.
"There were nine of them, in a perfect row," she said. "We stood on the
corner on Main Street and watched them go over our heads."
Ms. Anderson said she has read extensively on UFOs since about the mid
1970s.
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