CaseTeardrop2004

River Falls, WI, USA

Immobile teardrop object in the west near evening.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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  • 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

  • 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…

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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