A MIDWEST man has recalled his close encounter with a UFO when he was just four years old.
Tom Forster from Elmwood, Wisconsin said that he and his family saw something strange in the sky when he was a boy in 1975.
"We were coming home from my grandma and grandpa's and we had seen a bright star in the sky," Forster told local ABC affiliate WQOW.
He explained: "We were singing Star light, Star bright and it didn't land in the road in front of us but it came close and stopped us and we stopped at a neighbor's."
"Are they from outer space? Is it the government? Experimental ships?" Forster said. "Will we ever know?"
Elmwood, known for the many reported UFO sightings in the town is near the west border of Wisconsin, about 67 miles away from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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While Forster may have seen his first UFO at age four, it certainly was not his last.
Forster and his wife saw a UFO one night on top of a pole shed on their property, he told Republican Eagle in 2019.
His wife was concerned and asked him what they should do, Forster said.
To which he recalled saying: "I'm going to bed."
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Forster said at the time that the most recent UFO he saw was in 2007 and said he was never drinking when he saw one of them.
Elmwood claims to be the UFO capital of Wisconsin, however, it has competition from Belleville and Dundee who has also claimed the title.
From 1975 to 1976, local police officer George Wheeler claimed that he saw multiple UFOs near a rock quarry right outside of town.
"People started talking about it because he doesn't have anything to gain, his whole reputation is at stake," said Amy Bechel, president of the Elmwood community club.
Bechel's group puts on the UFO Days festival every year in late July which includes tours of reported sighting locations.
"We're not state football players every year, we're not state basketball players every year so that would be our claim to fame would be the UFO sightings and our town celebration," Bechel said.
Elmwood's 44th annual UFO Days will take place from July 28 until July 30.
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