Sauk city, WI, USA
Lrg shiny metal object hovering emitted bright light and vanished
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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- Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-15
- Where
- Sauk city, WI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 43.271, -89.722 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-sauk-city-wi-2022-27470c
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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…
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Sauk city, WI.
- This case is one of 9 Wisconsin reports filed in 2022.
- Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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