The Wakefield UFO Mystery
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 426 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit a pond near a rural farm in Wakefield, New Hampshire. Back in January of 1977 a local farmer found a three-foot circle cut through the thick ice of his small pond. At the bottom of the shallow pond, he saw a strange black cube. He called the police and set off an investigation that led to radioactive readings, the National Guard getting involved, and a mystery that persists to this day.
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| 0:00.8 | Oh, it's getting cold, Jeff. Winter is practically here. That it is. Although here in Wakefield, New Hampshire, I think it's safe to say, winter's already here. Now, we're walking by a pond near a farm in a wooded section of town. The pond already has a layer of ice on it, too. And that ice is just going to get thicker and thicker in the coming weeks and months. So what brings us to this small town on the New Hampshire and Maine border, Jeff? |
| 0:23.4 | Ray, this pond was ground zero for an out-of-this-world event. |
| 0:27.1 | There's a mystery about a strange object that may have been recovered right here. |
| 0:31.8 | Keep your eyes peeled skyward, Ray. |
| 0:33.3 | We've come to New Hampshire to explore the Wakefield UFO mystery. |
| 0:41.7 | Music we've come to New Hampshire to explore the Wakefield UFO mystery. Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 0:43.2 | Welcome to episode 426 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 0:47.1 | And I'm Ray Osier. |
| 0:47.9 | Thank you for joining us on our mission, |
| 0:49.4 | a chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time. |
| 0:52.6 | We're always on the hunt for aliens, UFOs, |
| 0:54.9 | ghosts, monsters, roadside oddities, and all the other wicked strangeness that makes our region |
| 1:00.3 | like no other place. If you've got a story lead, you think we should check out. Please reach out |
| 1:05.2 | to us anytime through our website. Our website's also the place to see dates for my ongoing story tour, |
| 1:10.7 | dates for Ray's band The Pub Kings, plus a link to buy the Christmas ghost stories issue of Shadowseen, the 26 haunted New England calendar, just a few left. |
| 1:18.5 | And my latest book, Wicked Strange, New England. We'll go searching for the Wakefield UFO right after this quick word from our sponsor. |
| 1:26.5 | So we're standing by this frozen pond on a cold December day. We are, and the pond is already iced over. And we didn't even bring our rice gates. It's not a very large pond anyway. No, no, it's not. Just a small pond by a farm. You wouldn't look at it twice. No, you wouldn't. Now, as we mentioned, Wakefield is a small town, |
| 1:44.8 | just a bit east of Lake Winnipecchi, and it's located right on New Hampshire's border with Maine. |
| 1:50.2 | It was first settled by colonists back in 1749. It was mostly farms back in those days. It was a |
| 1:56.1 | popular town to make a stop on your way to or from the White Mountains. Today, it's still pretty rural with a population of about 5,200 people. |
| 2:04.5 | A small town where things can go unnoticed, but also small enough that anything out of place |
| 2:10.1 | sticks out to the people who call this place home. |
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