Eagle River encounter
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In 1961, Joe Simonton of Eagle River, Wisconsin reported an encounter with an unidentified aircraft and its three occupants. His account, in which he gave the occupants water and received pancakes, wa
Investigator stands outside Simonton residence in photograph taken by USAF investigator J. Allen Hynek
Walter Weller and John Tumlin outside Joe Simonton residence
Vallée (right) with J. Allen Hynek
Project U.F.O.
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Project U.F.O. is an American television series which ran on NBC from 1978 to 1979. It was also known as, and remembered by many, as Project Blue Book. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the
Eagle River encounter
…1971. A 1952 newspaper featured an ad for Simonton's plumbing services. In 1959, Simonton lost an election for Constable. In 1978, the television series Project U.F.O. based an episode on Simonton's story, with aliens offering a strange loaf of bread in exchange for a jug of water. In 2023, it was reported that a…
Opening title card, photographed from black-and-white television screen. The show was filmed and broadcast in color.