1978: Police officer photographs disc in Colfax, Wisconsin

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Date: April 19, 1978

Sighting Time: midday

Day/Night: Day

Location: Colfax, Wisconsin

Urban or Rural: – Urban

Hynek Classification: DD (Daylight Disc) Metallic or whitish object was seen in the day.

Duration: lasted a few minutes

No. of Object(s): 1

Height & Speed:

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): Disc

Color of Object(s): metallic

Number of Witnesses: Single

Source: Wendelle Stevens (credit: UFOs at Close Sight (Ufologie.net)  Original Source

Summary/Description: On April 19, 1978, police officer Mark Coltrane was on patrol in the vicinity of Colfax. He then noticed a metallic-looking disc raising towards 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.

Full Report

In this photograph, the object is starting to move away.

The object was so close that it is possible to notice some details of its lower surface.

On April 19, 1978, police officer Mark Coltrane was on patrol in the vicinity of Colfax, a small town with thousands of inhabitants in Wisconsin. 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 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.

In [the second] photograph the object is starting to move away.

The total observation lasted a few minutes, the object being lost from his sight when it accelerated and fled in the distance.

Coltrane, shocked by the sighting, remained in amazement for two hours without saying anything, by fear of being ridiculed when he would have to submit his report to his chiefs.