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Colfax Close Encounter Case

The Colfax close encounter case is a controversial Wisconsin UFO photo story from April 1978. It is usually told as a police-officer sighting in which Mark Coltrane photographed a metallic disc near Colfax after his patrol-car radio began crackling. But later photo-archive versions attach the same images to an anonymous witness and his girlfriend near Tainter Lake, making the case important not only as a photographic encounter claim, but as a lesson in how unstable UFO case histories can become.