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CaseDisk1965

Appelton, WI, USA

Three children near Appleton, Wisconsin reported a circular, disk-shaped object at close range in broad daylight, an account reported to local authorities, lasting about five minutes, May 1965.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (193 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
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Slug
disk-over-appelton-wi-1965-b8e413
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  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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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%.

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