And now for something completely different. . .

Colfax, Wisconsin, April 19, 1978

On April 19, 1978, police officer Mark culturing was on patrol in the vicinity of collapse, a small town with a thousands of inhabitants in Wisconsin, USA. At midday, he decided to stop the car to eat something, in a small isolated area. He noted that his radio was emitting crackles.
He then noticed a metallic looking disc raising towards the the sky at a short distance from the parking space.
While the object seemed to move towards him, Coltrane picked up his Polaroid camera, came out of the car and snapped some photographs. The object was so close in one of the images that it is possible to notice some details of its lower surface.












Taken from http://ufologie.net/htm/colfax78.htm

Apparantly Colfax and surrounding area is a hotspot for U.F.O. activity. According to this site: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/topufos.htm three counties surrounding Dunn (where Colfax is) rank in the top 300 as far as U.F.O. sightings go in the U.S. Pepin (direcly below Dunn) is number 12.

Here's a description of a sighting in Colfax from October 2, 2005
http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3287

One from August 6 and 7, 2005 in Colfax
http://ufoinfo.com/sightings/usa/050806.shtml

And Feb. 3 by a Retired Parole Officer in Colfax right by good ol' Kirkwoods Market.
http://ufoinfo.com/sightings/usa/050806.shtml


The pictures taken back in '78 by Coltrane are widely considered to be some of the best ever taken (according to various U.F.O. nuts).

We'll have to dust off the telescope soon here to see what we can spot ourselves. I like Jay's idea of finding a way of positioning it in the hottub.