The out-of-this world event is taking place on Saturday at the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc. This festival celebrates a 20-pound piece of Russian Sputnik IV that landed in the middle of the ...

MANITOWOC – Aliens, UFOs and space debris are just some of the absurd delights awaiting visitors to the annual Sputnikfest event in downtown Manitowoc. The annual event will be from noon to 6 p.m.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Sept. 6, 1962, a hefty chunk of the Soviet Union's Sputnik IV satellite dropped into the ...

Ursula Marvin was a planetary geologist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Masschusetts, when she and her colleagues were asked to examine an extraterrestrial object: a ...

MANITOWOC - Manitowoc will be featured Thursday as part of the Travel Channel's "Hot Hunk Lands In Small Town," but alas, actor Brad Pitt is not paying a visit. Rather, the 10-minute segment in the ...

MANITOWOC - Once again, the Rahr-West Art Museum is bringing Sputnikfest back to Manitowoc. This Saturday, the Rahr-West commemorates the story of Sputnik IV: the Soviet spacecraft that crash-landed ...

When Sputnik became the first manmade satellite to enter space on Oct. 4, 1957, its alien beeping shocked America. Its signal stopped after just three weeks, and three months later sky gazers could no ...

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After a series of bright, meteorlike objects had shone in Middle Western skies, and cops picked up a 20-lb. piece of hot steel on a quiet Wisconsin street, word got out that a Soviet Sputnik had ...