CaseTeardrop2004
River Falls, WI, USA
Immobile teardrop object in the west near evening.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-19
- Where
- River Falls, WI, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 01:25
- Geo
- 44.861, -92.624 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-river-falls-wi-2004-8fa47d
Wave
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
- River Falls, WI has 15 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 53 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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