UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

De Pere, WI, USA

When I looked at pictures I took off the sun setting, I noticed what looked like an orb with lights. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares. PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (100 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
2017-04-07
Where
De Pere, WI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Only saw it in photos aft
Geo
44.449, -88.060 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-de-pere-wi-2017-eb1e50
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • De Pere, WI shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 88 reports came from Wisconsin in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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