La Crosse, WI, USA
Saw two triangle shapes flying and doing odd things then got close and dissapered.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-09
- Where
- La Crosse, WI, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.801, -91.240 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-la-crosse-wi-2012-9fe4e9
Part of a wave
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 24 reports logged in La Crosse, WI.
- This case is one of 157 Wisconsin reports filed in 2012.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.