◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The George Wheeler Encounter
On 22 April 1976 a police officer near Elmwood in Wisconsin reported finding a large silver craft with six blue-white lights hovering by a limestone quarry. He said a blue flash disabled his patrol car and left him dazed with almost no memory of the event. He was hospitalised and died within the year. This is the record of what he and others reported.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The George Wheeler Encounter is a reported UAP case in Elmwood, USA, 22 April 1976.
- Police officer George Wheeler went to investigate a glow he took for a fire and reported a silver saucer by a limestone quarry, with six blue-white lights, landing legs, a hose-like device and shadowy movement inside.
- As it rose it emitted a blue flash; his squad car's electrical system was burned out, and he was left dazed with near-total amnesia.
- The O'Brien family reported their television failing and dogs barking, and other Pierce County residents reported seeing an object.
- He was hospitalised for days, attributed later headaches to radiation, and the accounts put his death within six months to a year.
- Two of the four tellings describe instead a football-field-sized cigar-shaped ball of flame lurching through a ninety-degree turn, which he first took for a crashing aeroplane.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 3 distinct sources and 7 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
22 April 1976
LOCATION
Elmwood · USA
COORDS
44.78°N 92.15°W
INDEPENDENCE
L3 · MULTI-SOURCE
SOURCES
3 distinct
CLAIMANTS
7
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
