Oak Creek, WI, USA
Glowing sphere/light hang in the sky in the E over L Mich. for about 10min. 3x the size of a star. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-09-22
- Where
- Oak Creek, WI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.886, -87.863 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oak-creek-wi-2015-78e9b6
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
- Oak Creek, WI shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 130 reports came from Wisconsin in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
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