Appelton, WI, USA
Three country kids see circuler craft in plain light of day at near stones throw, report it to authorietes.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (107 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-05-01
- Where
- Appelton, WI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-appelton-wi-1965-b8e413
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Appelton, WI has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 4 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.