CaseOval2005

Pelican Lake, WI, USA

Three-Hour UFO Sighting Accompanied By: A Beam Of Light - A Nosey Helicopter - And A Creature,

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-09-03
Where
Pelican Lake, WI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 hours
Geo
45.499, -89.167 · exact
Slug
oval-over-pelican-lake-wi-2005-3b5c39
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Pelican Lake, WI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 66 reports came from Wisconsin in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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