Oshkosh, WI, USA
((HOAX??)) Glimering lights stationary in formation same as what was on the news in New Jersey.
Report quality: Low21/100
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
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2009-01-08
- Where
- Oshkosh, WI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 44.025, -88.543 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oshkosh-wi-2009-333a7d
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
- One of 31 documented reports from Oshkosh, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Wisconsin logged 63 sightings in 2009.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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