The Madison Mallards, a collegiate summer level baseball team in the Northwoods League, will pay tribute to Wisconsin’s dairy industry and one crazy summer of UFO sightings with a new alternate identity. The team will take the field as the Madison Space Cows for one game this summer.
The Mallards are seizing on the federal government’s plan to declassify thousands of UFO documents, hoping that the now-public information will shed a green beam of light on 1987 in Wisconsin, when Dane County recorded the highest concentration of UFO sightings in the nation.
The jersey, set in a color the team calls “galactic green,” features a cow being lifted into an alien vessel by a beam of light. A sleeve patch on the left arm illustrates a face that is part alien and part cow, leaving the team to ask, “Who’s to say the aliens aren’t the cows themselves?”
Perhaps most notably, the temporary rebrand comes complete with caps meant to evoke the tinfoil hats preferred by conspiracy theorists, which, per the team, are “guaranteed to shield your mind from alien signals, government surveillance, and, of course, space cow abductions.”
The Space Cows will take to the field June 20.
