Woman Claims to Have Seen Black, Seven-Foot-Tall Winged Humanoid with "Glowing Yellow Eyes" at Wisconsin State Fair

Warning: This article contains explicit language.

Manuel Navarette of UFO Clearinghouse received the following message earlier this month from a woman who claimed to have seen a black, seven-foot-tall winged humanoid with “glowing yellow eyes” while working at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee the night of August 5th.

I am very sorry for sending this so late, but I had to write it all down while the experience was still fresh on my mind, and let’s face it, after what I just saw I seriously doubt I will get any sleep till the sun is up and I have calmed down somewhat.
I am working as part of the clean up crew during the Wisconsin State Fair and tonight I was by the main stage, helping to clean up after the concert that had let out earlier tonight. I was with another person who was about my age, we were talking about the concert that had let out about two hours before (some Christian rock group) and we were toward the far right hand side of the stage picking up trash and just talking when my partner all of a sudden yelled out “What the fuck is that?”
I looked up and there, about 30 feet in front of us toward the parking lot, was what looked like a very tall being—but it wasn’t like any person I have ever seen before. It was about seven feet tall and thin, but still looked very solid; it was coal black and had two glowing yellow eyes and it had wings! Literal fucking wings that must have stretched out 12 feet from tip to tip coming out of its back. This thing looked like a literal demon from the depths of hell and it appeared to be staring directly at the stage where there were still people breaking down equipment from the earlier concert. It’s only now that the irony sticks out, what looks like a literal demon from hell checking out the stage after a Christian rock concert.
This thing took a couple of steps toward the stage, it looked like it wasn’t all that steady on its feet but I wasn’t close enough to see what its feet looked like nor was I stupid enough to get close to this thing. It stood there for about 10 seconds before it turned its head and looked right at us. The air felt like it was drained straight out of my lungs and I felt an overwhelming sense of terror, not fear but absolute terror, like my life was going to end right then and there and this thing was going to snatch my soul and drag it down to hell. It then flapped its wings rapidly a couple of times, almost like it was stretching them out, and took off into the air and was gone. It was swallowed up by the night and was done in a matter of a few milliseconds.
I’m not sure how long we stood there but it wasn’t until someone came up to us and asked us if we had seen someone they were looking for that we snapped out of it. The person asked us if we were alright and then asked us if we were high. We told him what we had seen and I’m not sure if that only helped reinforce his belief that we were actually stoned. He told us that maybe it was just a big owl or some other bird and maybe the lights from the stage and the shadows had made it seem bigger than it really was.
I’m confident that what I saw was real and it stuck in my head all night long. My partner looked like he had seen the devil himself, he said it had scared him and he was going to stick toward the well lit areas for the rest of the night. We eventually got to work and went home about 2:30 a.m.

Christian rock band Skillet did play at the fair that night. The show began at 7:30 p.m. and the fair closed at 11 p.m., making the likeliest time for the sighting sometime between 11 p.m. and 2:30 a.m.

Navarette said he was able to “get in contact” with the witness, who told him she was “doing cleanup at the Wisconsin State Fair for added money as [she] is a student going to her final year of college.”

She reportedly told Navarette that "she was approximately 30 feet from the stage and was picking up trash after a concert had let out for the night" and that the entity was standing in "what would be a parking lot."

The area is used as a motor track when not in use as a concert venue, and the location of the reported sighting is usually the infield for the track.

"When asked to describe what she saw, she stated that the entity was approximately seven feet tall and was a very dark shade of black and that it had a thin look to it and glowing yellow eyes," Navarette said. "I asked her if they were glowing from within or [whether] they may be reflecting the surrounding light and [that] gave them the illusion of glowing. The witness said she could not answer that and that they only appeared to be glowing."

Navarette went on to say the woman told him that "the entity seemed to be preoccupied with people who were helping put away equipment after the concert and initially did not seem to notice her or her partner. After watching the stage the entity seemed to have noticed them and turned toward them.”

At that time, he said, “she felt as if all the air in her lungs left her body and she was gripped with a feeling of fear that immobilized her and prevented her from screaming or trying to run away. The entity then extended its wings and took off."

The woman said that “she was certain it was not a bird or other creature" because "it was too large and seemed to have some intelligence to it.”

When the investigator asked her what she thought it could be, she replied that "it was probably a demon."

Following this terrifying event, the woman reportedly returned to work at the fairgrounds the very next night and continued to work there on subsequent nights.

As for her partner, whom she claimed also saw the creature, she said that she has not seen him since and has no way of getting in contact with him.

Navarette said that, in his opinion, "the witness did indeed see something that night, but without further corroborating evidence from the other witness, then what it was that they witnessed is inconclusive. It is [my] opinion that this case warrants further investigation and will be passed on to members of the Phantoms and Monsters Fortean Research team."

Despite the presence of other Wisconsin State Fair personnel at the time of the sighting, so far no other witnesses have come forward.

Navarette provided The Singular Fortean Society with an email address for the witness, but inquiries made by investigator Tobias Wayland received no response.

This report constitutes the latest news in a string of ‘Mothman’ sightings from within a few hundred mile radius surrounding Lake Michigan, including every state bordering the great lake. These sightings ostensibly began in the spring of 2017, but more historical accounts are being reported as more people become aware of the phenomenon. They generally take place in the evening or at night, often in or near a park or natural area, and around water. Witnesses consistently describe a large gray, brown, or black, bat or bird-like creature—although in a small number of cases the creature was described as insect-like—sometimes with glowing or reflective red, yellow, green, or orange eyes, and humanoid features such as arms and legs are often reported. Some witnesses have reported feeling intense fear and an aura of evil emanating from the creature they encountered. Many of the sightings are also of something seen only briefly or are described only as a flying creature with few details, which leaves open the possibility that a misidentified large bird—such as a heron or crane—or some type of anomalous avian species could explain some, although certainly not all, of the encounters. A number of associated high strangeness incidents have also occurred alongside the creature sightings; these include reports of UFOs, other anomalous flying creatures and mysterious humanoids, parapsychological phenomena, and bizarre events experienced by those investigating the sightings.

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