Eagle River, 1961: Joe Simonton's Pancakes and the Laboratory's Ordinary Finding
On April 18, 1961, Joe Simonton, a 60-year-old chicken farmer living alone near Eagle River, Wisconsin, reported that a silver saucer-shaped craft landed near his farmhouse around 11:00 AM.
Narration
April 1961, a silver disc-shaped craft descended over a Wisconsin chicken farm.
Eagle River, Wisconsin, April 1961, a quiet morning on an isolated rural farmstead.
Joe Simonton stepped outside and watched the silver disc-shaped craft settle onto his yard.
The rectangular hatch stood open as the silver disc prepared to depart with a rising whine.
Government laboratory analysis found the pancake cakes were ordinary terrestrial buckwheat, nothing anomalous.
The silver disc-shaped craft accelerated south over Eagle River pine forest, leaving only questions.