UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Unknown, WI, USA

Five patterned bright lights seen over highway and car engine was affected.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-15
Where
Unknown, WI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
formation-over-unknown-wi-1997-687cf3
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

  • Unknown, WI has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 21 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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