Aliens Make Pancakes For A Dude

Location. Eagle River, Wisconsin
Date: April 18 1961 Time: 11:00 a.m.
60-year old chicken farmer, Joe Simonton, was startled by a strange loud noise outside and above his farmhouse. He stepped to the window and was surprised to see a silvery object coming down vertically in his yard. He approached the object (with no fear), whereupon a hatch in the upper portion opened and he saw three dark-skinned men inside. One of them handed him a silvery jug with two handles, made a motion like drinking, apparently indicating that he wanted water. Simonton took the jug filled it and handed it back. Looking into the object, he saw a man ‘cooking’ on some kind of flameless cooking appliance. There were several small perforated cookie-like objects beside the griddle, and Simonton motioned that he wanted one, whereupon one of the men handed four of them to him. Then the object took off at a 45-degree angle and was gone in just a few seconds. As it left, pine trees near the take-off path bowed over, apparently as a result of air turbulence as the object went over them. Joe Simonton reportedly ate one of the “cookies” and said they tasted like cardboard. The occupants of the UFO were small, about 5 feet tall, had dark hair and skin and wore dark blue knit outfits with turtle-neck tops and knit helmets similar to those worn under headpieces such as crash helmets. They either had no beard, or were clean shaven. The whole episode lasted about five minutes and Simonton observed a few details of the inside of the craft. It was dull black, instrument panels included, he said, and somewhat like wrought iron. One of the occupants appeared to be cooking and stacked beside the ‘stove’ were some of the ‘cookies’. One man took care of getting water, and the other stayed at the instrument board. The two who were cooking and watching instruments did not look around. Just after Simonton obtained the cookies the man hooked a line or belt into a hook in his clothing near the waist, closed the hatch, and the object raised to 20 feet above the ground, and then took off straight south.
The object itself appeared ‘like two washbowls turned face to face’. The sound Simonton heard before coming out of his house was like ‘knobby tires on a wet pavement’. The craft hovered a short distance (probably only a few inches) off the ground all during the episode. The hatch was about 30 inches wide and about 6 feet tall. All this, Simonton admitted was guesswork.

Humcat 1961-5
Source: Judge Frank W Carter for Nicap, Cecile Hess for
Apro, J Allen Hynek & Walter Webb for Air Force, John Tumlin
& Alex Mebane