UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Milwaukee, WI, USA

Strange objects descend to tree tops, cruise across tree tops and vanish into Lake Michigan.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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 (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-07
Where
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 MINUTES
Geo
43.039, -87.906 · exact
Slug
other-over-milwaukee-wi-1997-590c47
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Milwaukee, WI shows up 124 times across the archive.
  • 21 reports came from Wisconsin in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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