Space Pancakes & Flying Saucers Land in North Woods!

It’s a famous UFO encounter and it happened in Eagle River, Wisconsin, more than forty years ago,  April 18, 1961. Joe Simonton, a chicken farmer, plumber, and part time Santa, got up from breakfast and  reported hearing a sound, “like knobby tires on a wet pavement.”  Simonton went outside and saw, hovering in the backyard a silver  spaceship, he said “as bright as chrome and like one soup bowl turned upside down on another.”  Then the craft landed, and a  hatch went up… click here for live stream broadcast

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Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network attended a flying saucers, UFO Convention, hosted by the Mutual UFO Network, (MUFON)  in Eagle River, a few weeks ago, and files this  space report.

 Back in the early sixties, Bill Mc Neff was working  in Minnapolis as an electrical engineer in the aerospace industry,  when he heard about Joe Simonton’s experience.  About a month after the encounter, Mc Neff visited Eagle River to talk with Joe Simonton.

 

 When the UFO landed, Simonton walked right up to the ship.  A hatch opened.

 

“There was man standing there about five feet tall with a darker complexion, but a fine complexion, the envy of a woman.  The man was holding a shiny container in his hand that would hold about a gallon of water.  And the man made motions towards his mouth that he wanted to fill it up with water.  So Joe took it down to his basement and filled it up with good well water and handed it back to the man in the spaceship.”

 

Simonton could see three well appointed black instrument panels inside.  Another man sitting in front of one of those.  And another man appeared to be turning over pancakes on a flameless grill.

 

And Joe Simonton, still hungry from his interrupted breakfast, motioned towards his mouth.

 

“And Joe made some eating motions trying to communicate by sign language with them and the man in the hatch reached over to get four pancakes and handed them down to Joe.”

 

The spaceship had been making a rumbling noise, the hatch closed, the craft lifted about twenty feet, tilted at a fourtyfive degree angle, then  blasted off,  in about two or three seconds it was out of sight!

 

“The backwash hit the top of his jack pine tree, but bent back to shape a few days later, according to Joe.”

 

So here was Joe Simonton, standing dumbfounded, holding three, warm intergalactic pancakes in his hands, and he absentmindedly takes a bite.

 

“He said, it tasted just like cardboard.”

 

A few days later Joe Simonton got up the courage to report the incident. 

 

Sheriff patrol Marv Elliott investigated.  Elliott reported seeing some flattened grass where Joe had tethered a goat.  Dan Satran, editor at the Vilas County News Review and his brother Bob interviewed Simonton, but when they started laughing Simonton said he wasn’t going to talk anymore.  The story literally went around the world and next weekend almost two thousand people were in Simonton’s backyard asking questions.

 

The Military got involved, sending an astronomer from Northwestern University.

 

“And the Airforce sent Dr. Hyneck to interview him, Dr. Hyneck said I have no reason to believe he’s not telling truth.”

 

The Air Force analyzed the pancakes and reported the pancakes were made out of flour, grease, and water.

 

“The interesting thing about that was their test for protein was negative.  They didn’t tell Joe what kind of flour it was made from.

They should have done a better analysis, maybe they did, but they never told Joe.”

 

Joe Simonton’s life changed pretty dramatically.  He went up to Canada for several years telling his story at UFO gatherings. In a 1970 interview he said he’d had several more encounters with flying saucers but never mentioned them, anymore, for fear the ruckus they’d cause.  Joe died in 1972.

 

Another person at the UFO event in Eagle River,  Ann Hanke, a long time resident says Joe Simonton was a very charming fellow.

 

“I knew Joe all my life. I’m gonna keep this short, and not to believe this story you wouldn’t believe Santa Claus, Leprechauns, or the Loch Ness monster.  That’s about all I’m gonna say.”

 

And Bill McNeff thinks Joe Simonton represented this world well, when meeting the flying saucer near Eagle River.

 

“Joe gave them water.  He treated them in a friendly manner.  Joe was a very good representative of the human race I thought.”

 

I’m Nick Vander Puy for the Superior Broadcast Network, on earth.......

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