Appleton, WI, USA
Light flashed downward in the sky turning to a bright green, way too fast for a shooting star.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-23
- Where
- Appleton, WI, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 44.262, -88.415 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-appleton-wi-2015-cf0b3f
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
- Appleton, WI shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 130 reports came from Wisconsin in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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