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APwi 05/27 1752 UFO Meeting
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BELLEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Some local residents hope a meeting with
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UFO experts next month will yield explanations for a series of close
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encounters earlier this year.
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Marian Anderson, who has helped the Center for UFO Studies coordinate
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its investigation into the sightings, said the meeting at the Belleville
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High School June 5 will feature the center's report on the sightings.
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Don Schmitt, co-director of the Glenview, Ill.-based center, will
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take part, along with investigator Richard Heiden, she said.
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In the Belleville area, "the reports (of sightings) were very
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concentrated for about three months," Ms. Anderson said. "It started
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about mid January and went to about early April."
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Lavonne Freidig, a member of a state legislator's staff in Madison,
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said she plans to be at the meeting.
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She said she was looking out her patio doors on the west edge of
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Belleville March 6 at about 5:45 p.m. when she saw a something strange
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hanging in the air above the tree line.
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"It was like the size of a jet plane's fuselage, but there were no
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wings on it," she said. "It had three round cylinders attached to it,
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directly underneath it."
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She said the large top portion took off, leaving the other three
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parts behind, and then they too disappeared, leaving three smoke rings.
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"One minute they were there; the next minute there were smoke rings,"
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she said.
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She said another person, Harvey Funseth, was about five miles north
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of Belleville when "he saw it, too."
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Funseth, an employee of the state Department of Transportation,
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confirmed that he and a friend watched an object of a similar form for
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several minutes before it flew out of sight.
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He described it as similar to a jumbo jet airliner, but "wider than a
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jumbo jet body, with no wings, and just one little light in the front."
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Police Officer Glen Kazmar, who plans to attend the meeting, said he
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saw a cluster of red, blue and white lights while on the job late on the
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night of Jan. 15. The lights, he said, remained stationary and then
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moved away.
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"In all my 11 years as a police officer, I never saw anything like
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that," he said, adding that a neighbor accompanying him in the patrol
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car as part of the city's "ride-along" program saw the same thing, even
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though Kazmar never pointed it out to him.
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Ms. Anderson, of Madison, said her own interest in UFOs dated back
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to 1947, when she and others watched silvery, soundless objects fly over
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Stoughton, 20 miles east of Belleville.
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"There were nine of them, in a perfect row," she said. "We stood on
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the corner on Main Street and watched them go over our heads."
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Ms. Anderson said she has read extensively on UFOs since about the
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mid 1970s.
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