CaseFormation1977

Milwaukee, WI, USA

Awesome Light Display with Following

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-20
Where
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
< 5 min
Geo
43.039, -87.906 · exact
Slug
formation-over-milwaukee-wi-1977-aadeed
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • Milwaukee, WI shows up 124 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Wisconsin in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 1.3% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.