Hertel, WI, USA
Bright red/orange light at first, no lights after it turned, black craft, no sound.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-23
- Where
- Hertel, WI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5-7 minutes
- Geo
- 45.809, -92.175 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-hertel-wi-2015-9d03a7
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Hertel, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Wisconsin logged 130 sightings in 2015.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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