CaseFlash2016

Greenville, WI, USA

Observed a high altitude flashing light, initially thought it was a aircraft, however the flight path was irradic and the flash was als

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-05-24
Where
Greenville, WI, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
44.300, -88.537 · exact
Slug
flash-over-greenville-wi-2016-649ada
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Greenville, WI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 121 reports came from Wisconsin in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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