Lake Mills, WI, USA
A very bright orange light passed overhead from south to north at a high rate of speed silently traversing the sky completely.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Lake Mills, WI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7:00
- Geo
- 43.081, -88.912 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lake-mills-wi-2013-e9d625
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…
In context
- Lake Mills, WI shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 179 reports came from Wisconsin in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
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