CaseSphere1997
Onalaska, WI, USA
Silver ball, became stationary and shot at a sharp right angle at a high rate of speed and disappeared
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-10
- Where
- Onalaska, WI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 secs
- Geo
- 43.884, -91.235 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-onalaska-wi-1997-73528f
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Onalaska, WI shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 21 reports came from Wisconsin in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.