Sparta, WI, USA
Seen two orange lights moving together. Then one went dark and then the next one went dark. Then a group of four showed up and moved to
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-04
- Where
- Sparta, WI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 43.944, -90.813 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-sparta-wi-2019-56bbf7
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
- Sparta, WI has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 136 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure 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.