UFOMYST
CaseFlash1997

Stoughton, WI, USA

Just a violently fast moving bright light that crashed.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-10
Where
Stoughton, WI, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
seconds
Geo
42.917, -89.218 · exact
Slug
flash-over-stoughton-wi-1997-7cfa77
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Stoughton, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Wisconsin logged 21 sightings in 1997.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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