CaseUnknown1997

Sun Prairie, WI, USA

Woman (bird watcher) sees tiny white (or silver) disc in clear blue sky. Obj. does 180 deg. turn, accelerates, climbs from sight.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-27
Where
Sun Prairie, WI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 sec.
Geo
43.184, -89.214 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-sun-prairie-wi-1997-62b1f7
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Sun Prairie, WI shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 21 reports came from Wisconsin in 1997.

Report

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