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UFO case file · UFO-5053

Wausau unidentified-object report — April 6, 1975

CE3Unknown1975-04-06

Wausau, Unknown

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Wausau unidentified-object report — April 6, 1975
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Wausau unidentified-object report — April 6, 1975

Case description

At about two in the morning on April 6, 1975, eighteen-year-olds Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski were driving west on Highway A from Wausau toward Athens, Wisconsin. Their CB radio stopped functioning. Mike then noticed a pulsating silver-grey object about 1,500 feet north of the road, on or just above the ground. Its underside appeared flat and its upper surface domed. After watching for roughly five minutes, they noticed a dark vertical shape about a hundred feet away near the road. It was compared to a seven-foot tree trunk. Mike thought it moved slowly, and they drove westward. On returning, they reportedly found the luminous object still present but the trunklike form gone. The available description does not give the form eyes, limbs, clothing or any definite nonhuman anatomy; “entity” is a catalogue interpretation of an unresolved observation. Back in Wausau, the pair parked behind a restaurant and fell asleep around three. They later reported waking at 6:30 with the car in another position, dirt on themselves and an apparent fuel discrepancy. Investigators entertained an unremembered return journey, but those observations do not establish one or prove abduction. The HUMCAT card cites Richard Heiden’s preliminary report for CUFOS. Its additional claims about later memory or cognitive changes remain attributed observations without an accessible clinical baseline or demonstrated cause.

Recorded details

Local time
2:00 a.m.
Craft description
2:00 a.m. Two 18-year-old youths, Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski, were driving west on highway A from Wausau, Wisconsin toward Athens when their CB radio stopped working. Mike saw a UFO about 1500 feet north of the road..
Entity description
2:00 a.m. Two 18-year-old youths, Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski, were driving west on highway A from Wausau, Wisconsin toward Athens when their CB radio stopped working. Mike saw a UFO about 1500 feet north of the road..
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