Fishermen Photo Saucer Over Five Island Lake

Palo Alto: This May 7's Fishing Opener Day netted four Emmetsburg anglers more than just a mess of walleye. Paul O'Neal, Michael Fitzwilliam, Oscar Dowd, and Jacob Mullen reeled in a real-live UFO sighting and managed to snap a picture of the encounter.

     According to Jacob Mullen, a veteran Five Island Lake fisherman, the encounter stunned him and his comrades.

     "We were just coming around the shallow far curve-we wanted to avoid the other side 'cause of all those pteranodon stories; I mean who knows what they are, really. Anyway, we just finished the turn and Paul was headin' us out in towards the middle of the lake when Oscar sings out that something's in the sky up a head. I was baitin' a hook just then, so I didn't look up right a way. When I did, Oscar took the picture. So I spin around and there it is, big as life and twice as bold! Looked just like what you see in the movies. It was amazing! Just amazing! It was about forty-foot in diameter and executing a left slow bank-then just zipped away. I swear to hell, I have never seen anything move like that! Incredible!"

     "Well, Paul said it was heading towards Aerodyne Labs and that we should just forget about it if we knew what was good for us. He's a little nuts, you know; puts aluminum foil over his windows, uses a voice-scrambler on the phone. Bought himself an AK-47 and a few buckets of ammo just because he thinks civilization as we know it will end with Y2K. Anyway, that's why we contacted you."

     When shown an archival drawing of the fabled Messerschmidt-271bz, the craft thought to be responsible for destroying the University of Emmetsburg's Sparky Field (see: Flying Saucer Terrorizes U of E Football Game: Is Aerodyne Responsible?, WINTER, 1998-99, vol. 5 & 6, Issues (v5)#12 & (v6)#1 & #2), Mullen says it may have been the same aircraft.

     "It had the same saucer-shaped belly, but we couldn't see the top or engines. It just sort of floated by. But once it finished its turn, it was gone-zoom!"

     Dr. Immelmann Stahl was unavailable for comment. A spokesperson for Aerodyne Propulsion Labs dismissed Mullen's story as "just another drunkard's fish-tale".