Stoughton, WI, USA
A very bright white light, the size of a small house. It "shot" 3 bursts of light at our car, hitting it with loud booms but no feelin
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-15
- Where
- Stoughton, WI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.917, -89.218 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-stoughton-wi-1965-4e025f
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Stoughton, WI shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Wisconsin in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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