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, was covered in popular media nationwide and internationally. Lab analysis revealed one fragment came from an "ordinary pancake of terrestrial origin". The account, with its "humorous absurdity", was divisive even amongst UFO believers. In the ensuing years, the Eagle River story would be cited by skeptics and mainstream sources as an example of preposterous UFO accounts. Meanwhile, the story led some extreme-fringe UFO authors to reject the suggestion that UFO reports were caused by extra-terrestrial spaceships in favor of the idea that such tales might be caused by some paranormal phenomenon akin to fairies or elves. The case has been described as "Wisconsin's most famous claim of alien encounters".

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