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