Travel over the Highway 151 bridge from Iowa
to Wisconsin (over the Mississippi River) and take
the first exit in the Badger
State east to Highway 11.
Along the scenic rolling hills near Sinsinawa is a massive tree topped mound
which served as native, mining, Black Hawk war, and spiritual centers. Save all
of that for a future 42N blog post.
Continue east of the mound about a mile and you will notice
a slight rise of a hill on the highway. As you crest the hill (still east
bound) you will plunge into an alien world of dinosaurs and an UFO. There’s
about eight metal dino sculptures in a pasture greeting you
unexpectedly. New to this mixture of creatures is this UFO craft
complete with a green faced alien at the controls.
While photographing these objects of art I parked along the
shoulder of the busy highway. I walked outside of the guard rail to
get closer to the dinosaurs. Not surprisingly the ground was littered with discarded containers of energy drinks, beer, fast food wrappers, and
miscellaneous plastics, broken glass and paper. Oddly no cheese wrappers were
found despite being within a few miles of curd central, Shullsburg. Friendly
Wisconsinites even blew their horns as if I cared to look at them zipping by at 55 mph rather than observing the herd from Jurassic
Park, plus one alien.
Today a daytime sighting of a disc-shape object was observed in the clear sky over Wellman, Iowa. While most of the overhead traffic near Wellman is filled with east-west jets flying between coasts, this classic 1950s saucer shaped object just hung in one spot. Perhaps a check of the MUFON web site is in order to determine if other discs have been observed lately. Mmm perhaps not, if we pull back a bit from the suspended disc the rest of the story comes into play. Hey, this is Iowa. We have plenty of discs near the ground and aimed towards the heavens.
