- Date: Events started at the end of July, beginning of
August 2004
- Time: Events started roughly at 10:00 p.m.
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- HBCC UFO Research was contacted by way of telephone late
one evening. A fellow by the name of Shawn, asked me for some help as he
and his family were going through a number of unusual experiences, seeing
lights/objects which were happening around them on a non stop basis. Shawn
was extremely worried for his families safety as any parent would be. His
story is below.
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- Shawn said he and his family have property approximately
30 miles north of Frederic in Wisconsin. But this first incident took place
before they had moved into their new home. One night Shawn decided to drive
to the local bar to pick up some pizzas for him and his family for dinner.
When returning home on the one and a half mile drive he noticed a strange
light which was bouncing and zipping across the sky. Shawn knowing this
was really unusual, pulled his vehicle off the road and into a gravel
pit, turned off the vehicles headlights and sat and watched the light for
a short while. After watching this weird light maneuvering all over the
sky he decided to drive home quickly to tell his wife, also thinking if
the light was still visible he and his wife might get some video footage
of it. The couple grabbed the video camera and headed back outside, and
sure enough the light was still moving about the night sky. They managed
to film it, but later on after reviewing the video on the TV, Shawn told
me the light shows up as only a speck. He mentioned that what he used to
shoot the footage wasn't professional equipment so the object wasn't showing
up very good at all. Plus capturing night footage isn't that easy to begin
with.
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- They recently had purchased the home and it wasn't long
after that, that strange lights started showing up in the skies. It was
only approximately three weeks after the family settled into their home
when Shawn was out on the deck and he again saw this strange light. He
said it was primarily white and then would flicker a range of colors, red,
blue and green and running all around the white light. He says it would
zig zag through the sky and come to a dead stop. He also mentioned that
at one point he grabbed a strong flashlight and blinked it off and on in
the direction of the weird light. All of a sudden the light flashed back,
or Shawn said the light seemed to respond to him actions. He thought, no
way, this wasn't happening. He was totally surprised and went back into
the home and asked for his daughter's laser pointer. He brought the pointer
outside and shone it across the road to where he could see the beam clearly
on the trees. Shawn then moved the laser up the trees and just above where
the strange light was sitting in the sky. When the red laser light hit
the object Shawn tuned the pointer off and on a couple of times until he
saw a reaction from the mysterious light which immediately turned a solid
red and flickered off and on just like what Shawn was doing with the lazar
pointer.
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- After seeing this, he told his family that it was time
to head into the house as this was getting just a little freaky for them.
I asked him what distance he felt the light was away from his location
at the time he pointed the laser at it. His best "guess" would
have put the light at maybe four miles away. Seeing the light was so far
from him Shawn was asked if he believed it had actually responded to the
laser. He said yes, as later that night the object came down over the property.
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- While going about their business inside the home Shawn
and his wife noticed that something orange was illuminating through their
picture window at the east side of the house. Normally it is pitch black
and you can't see anything. Shawn went to the window to see what was causing
the whole area outside to be lit up. Just outside was a large circular
orange ball of light. He described it as being similar to a ball of Jell-O
that someone may have punched, as the object was wiggling and oscillating.
He said at arms length the object would have been roughly the size of a
bowling ball.
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- He gave a description of the area where the orange ball
of light was sitting. He said they live on a pine plantation and his home
sits in a notched out area amongst the pine trees. On the east side from
his home are six or seven rows of pine trees which have been spaced to
allow for better growth. On the back side of the rows of trees there is
a pond. This is where the circular orange object was sitting stationary,
just over top of the pond, behind the rows of pine trees. He and his wife
were looking through the spaced trees to see the object, it was that low.
Another point Shawn made was since it was a plantation the lower branches
of the trees are limbed which exposes the trunks and this gave them a
great view of the object. He said the "thing" was really close,
maybe 500 to 600 feet away at the most. The couple were observing this
at approximately 11:00 p.m./midnight. The entire area had been lit up
due to the object's brightness. Shawn grabbed his video camera and his
wife grabbed her digital camera and started taking photos. With the object
still stationary over the pond Shawn looked through the view finder on
the camera, but saw only blackness. He looked up with his naked eye and
the object was still sitting there shining brightly.
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- His wife took approximately twelve photos of the orange
object that night but later after looking at the photos, nothing showed
up. It was almost as if her camera stopped functioning properly.
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- Shawn said all of a sudden he felt a large jolt of electricity
surge through his body which almost knocked him backwards to the ground.
Both him and his wife panicked after this took place. He asked his wife
did she feel that, she said no. At the same time his wife asked him "did
you see that?" Shawn said what?????? She replied ... "that
thing shot a red light at you." He'd missed seeing the shot of
red light because he was busy trying to look through the view finder of
the camera.
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- The frightened couple ran back into the house. As Shawn
and his wife made their way upstairs and being visibly shaken up their
daughter woke and saw her distressed parents and she got upset. They finally
got their daughter settled down and back in bed and to sleep. They were
still thinking about what had happened and Shawn decided to have a peep
out the window. There, again...... was the same light. While he was watching
it Shawn said it looked as if someone was striking metal with an arc welder
as the flashes from the object were extremely bright. Also beams of bluish
colored light were shooting out from the object and across the families
yard. As they watched, looking off to the side of the home they observed
what appeared to be at least ten of these similar but smaller lights sitting
in the air. Shawn said at this point the wind blew up and literally shook
the house and for a while they thought they were going to lose their home
due to the strength of the wind. When they saw the ten lit up objects they
had no idea if they were all separate objects or one large craft with the
different lights on it. It was just to hard to determine Shawn said and
he was getting more concerned and scared by the minute.
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- Shawn said the beams of light were so intense that they
lit up the valley. It was approximately 4:00 - 4:30 a.m. when this was
taking place and he said three cars drove by on the highway past their
home and under the beams of light which were lighting up the entire area.
None of the people driving the vehicles seemed to notice what was happening
because Shawn said not a brake light came on, nor did the cars slow down
even a little. He was concerned and mentioned to his wife, "don't
these people see what is going on". The whole episode with the wind,
lights and beams lasted for approximately three hours off and on during
this time. It became so bad that Shawn, his wife and daughter covered the
window in their daughters bedroom and huddled in the corner because they
were so scared to look outside.
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- Eventually the wind died down and Shawn felt he just
had to have a look out the window and he noticed all of the lights had
disappeared. It looked as if whatever was out there had finally gone.
Feeling a little relieved the couple sat in their daughter's room discussing
and wondering about what had just taken place. Both weren't able to sleep
due to their nerves still rattled, and not wanting to leave their daughter's
side they remained in her room.
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- It was finally silence around them and after about forty
five minutes Shawn decided to take one last look out the window. His wife
said "please don't". He slowly pulled the curtain aside and
saw an object in the shape of a half circle, filled with tiny lights heading
off towards the southeast. The family was thankful it was all over and
finally they could get some sleep.
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- On another evening one of Shawn's friends came over for
a visit, this friend of his has been witness to a number of unusual happenings
around this families home. But on this one particular night Shawn was inside
talking with his friend's girlfriend and his buddy was outside watching
the sky. Finally his friend walked into the house and said you have to
come outside and see what is happening in the sky. When they all went outside
and to the west of the home they could see something strange which had
a red ball of light at the top and on the bottom. The body of the object
was white which extended out leaving the red balls of light sitting in
the middle of whatever it was. Shawn's friend told him to look towards
the back of the object and a bit in the distance. Looking through a good
pair of binoculars Shawn looked, and could see a red colored pyramid shaped
object and the object they first observed seemed to be towing the pyramid
behind it. As the objects moved towards the east they dropped down behind
the tree tops and they all could hear what sounded like a jet aircraft
for a brief period of time. Whatever these things were, both had been silent
the whole time they were traveling across the sky.
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- Shawn's wife Robin added her comments to what has been
going on at and around their home over the weeks that have gone by. She
said they have gone through the process of shock and being overwhelmed
to acceptance and as she told us, they will never be able to understand
what has been going on. Robin said it is just really bizarre !
- She added that being a Christian lady, the unexplainable
chain of events has really rocked her world. You think all that you have
learned, been taught and believed and yet we don't know what is real anymore.
Robin said this was the hardest part for her, not knowing.
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- Shawn also said that he asked a few people around the
area if they have ever witnessed any strange lights and all of the people
he spoke to said no and walked away. One person did say he had seen some
unusual lights, but went on to say that he doesn't even bother looking
up anymore. Shawn didn't want to pursue it any further as he did not want
to be known as the crack pot in the community as he was the new fellow
in town.
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- HBCC UFO Research Note: There is a lot more to this experience
than I have written here. So much in fact that a fellow investigator by
the name of Sam Maranto and colleagues (Illinois, MUFON) will be driving
to the families home and spending a couple of days with them to carry out
interviews and an investigation. We all are hoping that they will be fortunate
enough to get a glimpse of what the family is witnessing. I am sure once
they finish up their work with the family they will have a full report.
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- My deepest thanks to Shawn and his family for coming
forward to tell their story and sharing it all with us.
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- Brian Vike, Director
- HBCC UFO Research
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