Multiple Witnesses Report UFO in New Richmond, WI
NEW RICHMOND, WI, SEPT 4, 1979
Forty years ago, A UFO visited New Richmond on Tuesday, September 4, 1979. Three young men from Hudson were driving home in a pickup after an evening of scuba diving. Around 7:45 PM, just as the sun was setting in the west, they were on County A near New Richmond when “a small, silvery dome-like or disc-shaped” object in the sky caught their attention. The driver of the truck pulled over to the side of the road near the Doboy turkey farm. The object appeared to be “shining brightly” as if made of “polished stainless steel,” and it appeared to be solid in form, 2-3 feet in diameter. They watched the object hover 10-20 feet over a field. It seemed to display a “wobbling motion.”
One of the passengers, still wearing a scuba diving suit, leapt out of the truck and crossed the ditch. He tried to clear a small fence in order to get closer to the object. As the man approached the field on foot, the object suddenly rose higher into the air. With a wobbling motion, it started moving east toward Highway 65. By then, two other vehicles had arrived and stopped as well to watch.
As the object moved off to the east, the men hurriedly jumped back into the truck and set off in pursuit down a gravel road near the turkey farm, but they quickly lost sight of the object. All three men, who chose to remain anonymous, were employees at Andersen Windows in Bayport, described as “responsible, ordinary people, not kooks.” The three young men did not report the sighting until they read a Polk County newspaper account about the September 5 sighting in Dresser. Their own story appeared in the September 27, 1979 edition of the New Richmond News under the headline, “Other witnesses sought in UFO sighting near NR.”[1]
After reading the article, an elderly New Richmond couple immediately came forward to report their own encounter with an unknown flying object around 7:30 PM, near the same time as the three men from Hudson had seen the UFO on September 4. The man and woman, who asked not to be identified, reported that, while driving southeast of Boardman in St. Croix County on a town road near a former Dittman farm, they saw a “brilliant, globe-shaped metallic-appearing object” which seemed to be moving toward their car. After briefly losing sight of the object, it pass over their vehicle with “a tremendous roaring noise … like a dozen freight trains” that shook the car violently. This description is unusual for UFO reports. Most witnesses report no sound at all from the phenomena. The man and woman were extremely shaken by the encounter and returned home at once. They told no one about the experience until reading the request for additional witnesses in their local paper.
The New Richmond sightings were part of a series of a 1979 UFO Flap in Minnesota and Western Wiscsonsin. Read the whole story and learn about the former CIA operative who investigated the sightings.
UPDATE 9/8/2019: A witnesses has come forward to corroborate the sighting and provide more details. Read the story “Additional Witness to New Richmond UFO.”
[1] The New Richmond News, Sep. 27, 1979.
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