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It Came From the UFO? The Creature-Lights Connection

March 6, 2014 by Linda Godfrey

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One question I hear a lot from radio callers, blog readers and conference attendees is whether I think that unknown, upright canine creatures are related to UFOs. It’s actually a concept that’s been around for some time and is also asked in regard to Bigfoot and other cryptids. My usual answer is that while I don’t have any reports from witnesses who’ve seen a dogman hopping directly off a UFO (although I know there are a few cases where people have claimed this about Bigfoot), it just so happens that places where mystery creatures abound are also often UFO hotspots.

A  perfect example of this type of area is the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest which stretches through Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and Washington Counties in Wisconsin. This wooded, well-watered and hilly terrain encompasses the Holy Hill region which has had numerous sightings of upright, wolf-like creatures — probably the most famous of which was the 2006 incident where the DNR’s carcass removal contractor saw one such beast drag a fresh deer from the back of his pickup truck. It’s also an area where many Bigfoot have been spotted, and includes old legends of a Goatman and ancient sacred places to boot.

It’s just as well known for its UFO activity. The city of Hartford, in fact, was named the site of one of the Top 10 UFO Cases of 2012 by the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON. The incident occurred July 13 when a woman in her 50s and her daughter both saw a silent, lampshade-shaped object equipped with lights and measuring about two hundred feet long zip over the trees in their yard before shooting away in classic UFO style. The sighting lasted about half a minute, which is actually longer than most sightings of unknown phenomena.

The little town of Dundee, one of Wisconsin’s three self-proclaimed UFO capitals (the others are Elmwood and Belleville), has a long history of unidentified flying objects in its skies. A woman I met at a library signing told me of one that she’d had just off Hwy. 67, about ten miles south of Plymouth, on her family farm at the age of ten in November, 1967. She had been sent to fetch some chickens, whose wings hadn’t been sufficiently clipped, from a tree. She was busy pulling them out when she saw a large, silent, cigar-shaped craft hovering just above a nearby tree only forty feet away. It had small portholes or windows, and on one end were two curved, pipe-like appendages that emitted yellow and blue, laser-like lights that appeared to float off on their own. It eventually zoomed off but the girl had quite a long look at it. She didn’t know if the craft’s occupants were aware of her. She also had an aunt who saw a round, disk-like craft over her fishing boat in the same general area.

Cheeseheads aren’t the only ones to see such things. The late Fortean investigator John Keel, best known for his in-depth investigation of, West Virginia’s Mothman of Point Pleasant, said in an interview for the Sept., 2007 issue of FATE Magazine that there were “countless” sightings of UFOs in that vicinity in the mid-1960s, and described seeing many unidentifiable lights himself when he inspected animal mutilations that were also associated with the strange goings-on. The part of the interview that grabbed my attention, however, was his statement that, “Mothman left tracks that looked like giant dog prints.”

That has pretty interesting implications, if true. I’ve never received a report of a dogman with wings, although plenty of people have claimed to have seen flying things with hairy, un-bird-like bodies. But it hints at some sort of Protean, multi-formed entity able to look like several different animals or a blend of them, with some connection to weirdly behaving lights. And yet, most dogman and Bigfoot witnesses believe they have encountered solid, flesh-and-blood creatures. Keel also thought the lights he saw in Pt. Pleasant were “mischievous masses of energy,” but the two witnesses mentioned above who saw UFOs in or near the weird-creature-infested Kettle Moraine both described craft-like forms with defined shapes. Perhaps they were entirely different phenomena – who can really say?

I have to confess that I’ve been working on a case for several months that involves large, bipedal canine prints that do such inexplicable things as appear suddenly in the middle of a secluded field, then track into nearby woods. They seem to belong to some large animal that is somehow able to obscure its image from multiple trail cams as it drags or carries off deer carcasses. The trail cams have caught weird, anomalous lights overhead when these things occur – all of it so far unexplainable. The investigation is still in active progress but I’ll admit it has me questioning some of my own biases at this point.

Still, even that case isn’t solid proof of a relationship between the unknown creatures and mysterious lights or sky vessels, to my mind. But I do believe that the fact that they often appear in the same areas and sometimes the same time frames, too, means that any open-minded investigator ought to take a serious look. Our universe is seldom simple or predictable, and perhaps there’s an unimagined answer out there that no one’s thought of. Yet. I think we’d best keep looking for it.

 

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  1. on March 14, 2014 at 2:27 pm lindagodfrey

    And the weirdnesses keep coming, Bill!


  2. on March 14, 2014 at 2:27 pm lindagodfrey

    Hi Victoria, that episode came from my investigation that’s written up in my book, Real Wolfmen. I put the producers in touch with that family, by their permission. The show does exaggerate some things such as the perfect footprints, family going to bed with an ax, the extent of those lights in the trees, etc. I do believe the eyewitnesses and still talk with them.


  3. on March 14, 2014 at 12:12 pm Lisa Falour

    I posted a story on this site years ago called, I think, BARBARA SAW MOTHMAN. It was in the ’60s in West Virginia, USA while visiting relatives, and she found it terrifying. Red glowing eyes and all. There was evidence the next morning in the snow. She screamed bloody murder and no way could any beast nor prankster get up to that window in a split-level house. She had not heard any stories prior to this incident. The family was accustomed to hunting and knew how to look at tracks. In this case, they, the tracks inspected next morning in new snow, came out of the woods and there was no retreat pattern. It scared the bejeezus outta her. I knew her to be quite an honest person and she had no gain from telling me this story. She’d gotten up to go use the toilet in a relatives’ house late at night. If anyone faked this, it was a cruel and very sophisticated thing to do to a little girl. Barb was not prone to sleepwalking — we were roomies for two years in Ohio. Was she of sound mind and body? I cannot say. She does have mild epilepsy and is Native American, so go figure. But those tracks? Were here whole family lying? I don’t see a motive. I knew her to be a very responsible person. Go figure. I also met some of her relatives and I guess you could call them the salt of the Earth but these were not wild and crazy people. Quite a story and I must say, I always believed her.


  4. on March 10, 2014 at 12:33 am lillian

    Thank you for this interesting point of the ufo’s and the upright canines creatures. I also thought that to b a coincidence or that they actually could b multidimensional just because they tend to disappear in thin air in an instant after being spotted by a human. I truly believe these things are real and intelligent. I myself had lost 6 hours time i can’t account for and only remember the very last thing i could. I was smoking ny cigarette as usual @ 2:30 pm, before going in the subway, but like in a blink of an eye found myself in another place 6 hours later in a crowded fas food joint startled and confused not remembering a thing. All my life ive been drawn to wolves and the night mysteries. Thanks again Linda for this intetesting research!!!


  5. on March 7, 2014 at 5:42 pm Victoria

    Hi Linda I am a huge fan of your books and unexplained “manwolf” creatures. I was wondering if you had heard of a family who appeared on the show Paranormal Witness who were stalked and effectively confined to their home by a pack of unexplained creatures. What is interesting about the story is the fact the husband and wife saw flashing lights in the marsh before the activity began. I suppose my question is in your opinion could this suggest other worldly phenomenon? Or could it be a mere coincidence coinciding with the sighting? Also if you’ve perhaps already seen the episode and/or have spoken with the family what are your thoughts on the occurrence?


  6. on March 7, 2014 at 5:26 pm Bill Hancock

    Excellent write-up Adnil. Interesting situations here. Like Keel, I keep seeing way too many overlapping weirdnesses in far too many areas to hold on to “rational” views about “adaptive or mutated” lupines.


  7. on March 6, 2014 at 2:21 pm lindagodfrey

    Thanks Ellen, I’m a big fan of trail cams, whether you catch anomalous things or not. The normal wildlife is always interesting, too! Would love to see anything really weird!


  8. on March 6, 2014 at 7:01 am Ellen

    Interesting post as always, Linda. My friend live adjacent to the Forest Preserve along the Des Plaines river. His son gave him an infra-red camera and he captures some really weird things on it. Doesn’t run the camera in the winter, but soon he’ll start checking it again.



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