UFOMYST
CaseCigar2019

Kiel, WI, USA

Circle of light out of no where, then four dots into a formation. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-05-26
Where
Kiel, WI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
43.912, -88.036 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-kiel-wi-2019-17ebce
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Kiel, WI shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 136 reports came from Wisconsin in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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