Gleason, WI, USA
orange spherical-shaped ufo flies over lake; amazing speed
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-15
- Where
- Gleason, WI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 45.309, -89.497 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-gleason-wi-2005-4a10df
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…
Local cluster
Gleason, WI logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2005.
In context
- One of 7 documented reports from Gleason, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Wisconsin logged 66 sightings in 2005.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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