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Wisconsin UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2,439 UFO sighting reports in Wisconsin to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (551 reports, 22.59% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (344 reports, 14.10% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (473 reports, 19.39% of total).
- 05/26/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (20 reports, 0.82% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (179 reports, 7.34% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1,232 reports, 50.51% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Wisconsin
These Wisconsin UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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I was taking a picture of the moon, when the orb caught caught my attention, it was darting back and forth, up and down, disappearing at times then re-appearing.
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Seen in a farm field I was driving on my way to work and seen 2 crafts hovering in a field I pulled over to get a better look and it seemed to notice me had an strange feeling then one craft flew at me and hovered 50 foot above me I felt heat from the lights but heard no sound I felt 100% at peace like iv never felt before after less than a min it flew back to the other craft they hovered for another min and flew off at an amazing speeds I don’t remember driving to work at all and a trip that would usually take me 40min or so seemed to take only 15 min so now I don’t know what to do with this info or my experience and would really like some direction.
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5 Crafts in Formation Whole standing on my roof I observed 5 dull orange lights moving from SW to NE in a V formation. After approximately 15 seconds they scrambled amongst themselves before settling back in a / formation going in the same direction. The sighting lasted 45-60 seconds and they were observed from horizon to horizon.
They did not blink or change color at any time.
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An object with two flashing lights hovering for about 5 minutes no sound. I was watching TV then I decided to look out my window for a brief moment this was at night. I seen a object didn't look nothing I seen before didn't looked nothing like a airplane I'm certain it wasn't.
it had two square lights blinking looking straight at them off and on for about 5 minutes hovering in one spot close to my location. Next it started to move then next I knew it was it was on the southwest side of Eau Claire in no time at all haven't heard any noise from in all that hovering in place or on the move. This is the second time I seen a object like this in the past 2 months.
I don't have any photos of this or video my cheap phone doesn't have a good camera for night photos.
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Cylindrical craft similar to ICBM no sound consistent speed. Wings on the side and tail seems small. My wife saw this cylindrical craft crossing through the skyway and got my attention to verify what she was saying.
We have seen hundreds of different types of airplanes due to being close to the Oshkosh EAA, as well as having missions from Fort McCoy that similarly go near our property. This was a cylindrical craft that looked very much like an ICBM. Small wings in the middle small wings at the tail white long cylindrical silent consistent speed.
We’ve never seen this type of craft go through before. It seem to be lower in height than what we see jet planes at, more similar to smaller aircraft, it did not have an incredibly rapid speed, according to our judgment of other known aircraft. There was no exhaust or noise.
That was what made us question even more, what this craft was.
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Light flicker on house then looked up and seen triangle with 6 lights. Family member was walking dog and seen light flashing on houses and looked up and seen extremely large triangle with 6 lights . Middle light was larger.
The color of lights were a color that couldn’t be described . The triangle blended in with dark sky but outline could be seen. The family member got scared because it was so large and was shining light out and ran inside the house.
This lasted a couple minutes.
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Reflection of ceiling lights.
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1 to 3 fairly bright orbs (varied) maneuvering and loitering in ways uncharacteristic of typ. aircraft. No reference to judge distance.
I observed what first appeared to be what I thought was a typical satellite, though in retrospect seemed to be a bit brighter and more white than the cooler, bluish hue a typical satellite displays. It appeared to be heading approximately due north and faded out from visibility as satellites do when crossing over the terminator line into darkness. It was just after 3:00 AM.
Given the time of morning and the fact that it was in the eastern sky and appearing to head due north, I simply assumed that it was just a satellite fading into the darkness while passing into the earth's shadow. Just a few minutes later I saw what appeared to be the exact same object (same size, color, brightness, speed, etc.) traveling what appeared to be due south and even appearing to “climb” in altitude some from my perspective.
It instantly occurred to me that this was not a satellite. Additionally, I dismissed this as being a typical aircraft as it's trajectory appeared completely perpendicular to my line of sight, making it clear to me that what I was seeing was not landing lights and it was also the wrong color, number, and brightness to be aircraft navigation lights. Similarly, the apparent speed seemed a bit too fast to be a passenger jet at altitude or even a prop-driven craft at lower altitude.
I have taken flight lessons and grew up around major Air Force installations. I have always had a fascination with aircraft of any kind and pay close attention to all air traffic of any kind that I see, day or night. I have been that way since childhood.
This was not a typical aircraft in either marking, appearance, speed or trajectory. After traveling south through approximately 20 to 30 degrees on the azimuth, it then turned back to the north and went into what appeared to be a turning dive heading almost directly toward me and downward. At this point, two other orbs of the same brightness, speed and direction seemed to “peel” off the object from each side veering slightly away in trajectory from the original so that 3 objects were now visible within a very close field of view.
This “shedding” of the 2 other objects looks a lot like when a meteor breaks up except that it was clear after the split that all 3 objects were operating under apparent intelligent control. These objects appeared round and had no tail just as the first. This was not space debris of any kind like others I have seen.
These objects took separate flight paths and each faded out independently of each other (different times). I watched these objects for approximately a full hour. I did take a break and went into the house for about 10 to 15 minutes and then went back outside to check if they were still there.
While I can accurately approximate the range of both the bearing and slope of the field these objects operated within, judging their size, distance and speed is difficult as I had no visual frame of reference to which to compare. I wish I could be more specific as to range, altitude and speed as that. I not only attempted to search online immediately thereafter, hoping someone else was reporting something similar in real-time, but I also “downloaded” flight radar data, hoping for either an explanation or other witnesses with integrity such as airline pilots.
The radar data showed virtually empty skies in proximity to the airspace where one would expect these objects to either be or at least a location from where these objects could be observed from aircraft.
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Looking out window, saw new bright flashing light. took picture, dimmed and moved across sky very fast i was looking out of my window when i was doing some work for class and i saw an unusually bright light that i hadn’t seen before. i don’t have all the answers so i thought it might be the north star or something, it started flashing not like how stars twinkle.
i have a habit of taking pictures of strange things to make sure they’re not hallucinations so I took a picture of it, after I did the light dimmed to a feint orange and moved out of sight behind a roof top. I got scared and called my bf and showed him the photos and he got freaked out too.
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Coming home from work at night. Thought it was helicopter then it darted off. I’ve flown on hundreds of helicopters this wasn’t one.
I was on my way home from work. I saw what I initially thought was a helicopter off the end of the curve of road. It appeared to have bright lights on bottom.
It quickly changed direction by about 30 degrees and almost instantly disappeared.
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I was terrified and it got very close but was silent and huge I saw two lights at first, and they look to be moving fast so I thought shooting star but they kept going back and forth in different directions very fast and then seemed to hover over the water before coming in closer . Looked like something was happening with the water but I couldn’t be sure. I was in shock and in almost and instant , it was right off the shore and stopped as if it saw me.
The whole experience was weird and I could not look away. Something happened because I went there at 7:45 pm and this first happened that I noticed 30 minutes after being there and when I finally went home it was after 11 pm. I don’t remember anywhere in between.
I got sick afterwards, but then it went away. Feverish something is happening.
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I was in my parked car in the Aurora Pharmacy parking lot when I saw a large cross shaped white object slowly circling in the sky. I was in my parked car in the Aurora Pharmacy parking lot when I saw a large cross shaped white object sort of slowly circling slowly in the clear blue sky. I viewed it for 5 to 8 minutes.
It then suddenly disappeared. I continued to watch the area for another 10 minutes but never saw it again.
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I was driving when I saw a blast of blue light cover the entire sky. I parked and saw 2-3 more blasts. Got camera out, then it stopped.
I was driving west on Bender Road when I saw a bright blue light, light up the entire western sky. I pulled into the Speedway gas station on Bender and Green Bay Road to park and the blue light lit up the sky again. When I parked, I pulled my phone out to capture it, but by the time I got it out, the phenomenon stopped.
When I was recording, a man parked next to me and I asked him if he saw what I did and knew what it was. He did see it and seemed just as confused about it as me. I then went inside and asked the cashier's.
One of them saw it and had a lot of panic in her voice about it. I proceeded to drive to my next destination with my video on, but I witnessed no further instances of the unknown phenomenon, as of approximately 8:48 pm, when I reached my next destination. Tonight's weather is a cool 33° and there was a snowstorm when the phenomenon happened.
I thought I may have heard some unusual bangs or rattling when the lights appeared, but not sure if it was related to the many plows out.
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A formation of five focused areas of light, objects-, moving incredibly fast from west to east, and east to west At approximately 9:15 p.m. on December 31st 2023 from a ground-based observation point looking to the 090 dissappearing the east, a single orb or white light source within the cloud layer with no evidence of spot light projection beams, the object of white light was single and moved at an incredibly fast rate of speed from east to west.
Then another pass from west to east, followed by a formation of five white orbs or white objects, in a linear pattern of all five with the leftmost to the north and the rightmost to the South, all moving in formation at an incredible rate of speed from west to east. An airliner at 500 mph would take several minutes to transit this swath of sky, these objects did so in a matter of 1.5 seconds, from an angle of 70° up, and transiting off to the horizon before dissappearing, then reappearing, and heading from the horizon to observation point, from 090, heading to 270 degrees.
Then they would switch directions and all five would go from west to east, followed by a pass of one object and then that one object going the other direction followed by all five going in both directions, basically doing passes from the west to east and the east to the west at an incredibly high rate of speed. Did not see any evidence of a spotlight; there was no forecasting beam, these were individually appearing light sources and appearing a couple thousand feet above ground level, hard to say exactly what altitude but the weather was overcast, and these objects appeared to be within or just below the cloud base. No sound.
Silent. No sonic boom, no engine noise, no plume, no exhaust. Just round light.
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Increased UFO activity in Wisconsin On 12/30/2023 at 0315 hours and it became more spaced out at 0440 hours. Direction in sky from West Baraboo, WI is 90 degrees due East. Elevation in the sky no more than 5-35 degrees.
Estimated 50-100 miles away from sighting location. Object #1 classified as the 'Mother Ship' was extremely bright upon spotting. (It remained the brightest of all Objects.
) Objects #2-3 were less bright. Other objects unconfirmed as distance was too great to establish clear differences when #1 was too close. Objects all appeared to reflect some form of light or produce it, with variables in how bright they were.
It appeared that they could change this on demand. Objects conducted aerial maneuvers such as syncing motions, twists and turns. At one point, Object #1 glowed extremely bright and shot at a slight angle up at well over Mach 2.
It appeared to have easily cleared 30 miles in less than a second. It left a clear and visible dark trail for a few moments afterwards which dissipated. Objects #2-3 conducted their own separate maneuver paths from Object #1 for a majority of the encounters.
At one point all crafts did form a triangle, with the possible appearance of two other Objects near #1, but unable to confirm with video. Towards 0440 hours Object #1 was only present and fell from the sky in a slow spiral motion. It reset this motion every few minutes.
This ended around 0450 with no more confirmed sightings at this time.
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Silent craft with 9 flashing lights was seen on a clear night before the clouds interrupted visibility. I stargaze often and know the constellations to a ok degree and upon looking up I noticed something in the sky looked out of place. Upon focusing my eyes and eliminating the rest of the lights you could very well see the silhouette of a triangle shaped vessel.
From my perspective the vessel looked as if it was lowering its altitude and would increase multiple times. It would also rotate clockwise or counterclockwise. Never rotated it's axis.
It was simply there. After a while I suddenly starting hearing animals from other properties acres away and even wild animals all howling together which spooked me enough to run inside. While inside I could still observe the vessel.
Upon viewing it from inside, I realized not only was there one vessel but 2. The second one was so massive it made the first one look small.
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4 Objects Moving and Dimming On and Off Objects were at the 30-40 degrees position off the horizon. They would move at the speed of a small plane it seemed but sometimes move in circles - not a straight line. Event went on for 15 minutes.
There was 1 bright white object that appeared in the sky like when you slowly turn on a dimmer switch for a light. This object would brighten up in the sky, move around a bit and then dim back out and disappear. Then maybe 15 seconds – 30 seconds later, the same object and as many as 3 objects would brighten up at the same time and dance around each other and move to the north slowly but steadily.
After 15-30 seconds all objects would dim back down and disappear. After another 15-30 seconds the main object would appear again but further from where it was originally. Then seconds after it appeared another 2 objects would brighten up and start moving around the main object in a circular and back and forth pattern.
Objects dimmed out again. Then after another 15-30 seconds, the main object brightened up and 4 smaller objects brightened up after and buzzed the main object like bees being stirred up. Quite spectacular.
Event occurred for 15 minutes between 3:00am - 3:30am. The same event happened two days earlier on 11-28-23 at the same time too and in the same location in the sky. Objects are not drones.
They appear to be very high above cloud level. At least as high as small propeller planes fly. Objects appeared in major flight path of jetliners.
They drop down over Racine County and bank north and land at Milwaukee airport. On 11-28-23 event, a jetliner was approaching from the south going north. As it got closer to the objects they disappeared and did not return.
Weather: clear skies/ 30 degrees. Planets: The planet Venus was rising on the horizon to the east. Event occurred north/left of Venus location in sky.
Location: Seen objects while driving east on 5 mile road from Raynor avenue all the way to I-94. I stopped in parking lot of Extreme Fireworks on 5 Mile Road/ I-94 to watch for a while.
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I'm 34 and in the air force and I've never seen this craft before it wasn't a tr3b it was a unknown craft and only 9000 feet above me Me and my friends were visiting my uncle, and we ate then my friend ran outside and I followed him then we saw 2 triangle shaped uaps hovering over the Mississippi river and it looked like they were conjoined. Together how they were moving together I have never seen a plane move like that. Then they vanished.
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Pulsing reddish light that turned to a very bright white light and went straight down for a second and vanished. Walking in neighborhood when at around 9 PM I observed a unique reddish light pulsing (not blinking and not super bright) SSE of me, with no distinct separate lights but seemed more than one singular light, maybe moving slowly or appearing to move slowly because of its trajectory, or maybe it was still, hard to say as I never stopped walking. Its average intensity didn't change aside from the pulsing and I Kept an eye on it as I walked, but the immediate homes I was walking past obscured my view at times.
Initially assumed it was likely a low aircraft, as planes are pretty common to see in that general area of the sky and the pulses were at a regular interval - I could also see white headlights of a plane further south down near the horizon. While catching it in a gap between two rooftops in the area where I was expecting to see the reddish light, was a much brighter white light, falling straight down, like a very bright shooting star. I ran to clear the next house (2-3 seconds), but there was no sign of anything in that part of the sky anymore.
I continued to scan the sky and watched the distant plane as it slowly approached, identifiable as a plane by the clear individual lights as it passed me to the east heading north. It seemed like the area where the reddish light was seen was more to the west of that plane's flight path. I checked a flight tracker replay at home and saw the northbound plane, around 9:05, but nothing else that matched what I saw preceded it.
Sky was clear with no cloud cover.
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I have been reading all things ufo for years. I have seen things a few times but never really was sure it couldn’t be explained away. Until a few days ago! Im in true shock as I try to type now.
A few nights ago my husband and I were driving and I at first thought it was a huge light on a pole but then I saw lights go on around the object it rose up and blinked out. I clearly saw a saucer with lights one by one in quick order showing its shape and size before rising quickly to blink out. I was almost scared to finally witness a true ufo as I always asked for clear proof.
I was asking my husband he had to have seen what I did and telling him I finally know and I remember irritation because he kept saying he wasn’t sure what he saw but it was so close and clear there was no way to have confusion. Then im feeling overwhelming excitement and feeling to we both somehow dropped it completely. I was surging with emotions and instantly completely calm somehow.
It left us both and we had no memory whatsoever. Tonight we were in the car at night don’t recall our conversation or my thoughts but it hit me out of no where what we saw the other night. He barely remembers it but recalls parts.
I had to question it a dream like im crazy but I know it happened. We witnessed something real and it left our minds mind conversation. I have read of people claiming this and I now lived through this.
I would never let this go it’s not like me at all. What happened to us? Is this worth sharing? We experienced something strange and I understand others whom claimed they dropped the subject quickly more than anyone might. We lost our memories I feel like I have something worth hearing.
I have never experienced memory loss especially happening with my adrenaline racing while taking to completely nothing and calmness. I wasn’t supposed to remeber and im grateful I was with someone to corroborate something so hard to believe. At least can someone reply so I know it was read and if possible share any thoughts or information to help me not feel so taken advantage of… can’t think of the right word to describe an invasion of memory like this.
Thanks for your time i.
Wisconsin UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 551 reported sightings | 22.59% of all reports |
Circle | 265 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Triangle | 216 reported sightings | 8.86% of all reports |
Fireball | 190 reported sightings | 7.79% of all reports |
Unknown | 170 reported sightings | 6.97% of all reports |
Other | 156 reported sightings | 6.40% of all reports |
Sphere | 153 reported sightings | 6.27% of all reports |
Disk | 122 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Formation | 109 reported sightings | 4.47% of all reports |
Oval | 87 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Cigar | 64 reported sightings | 2.62% of all reports |
Changing | 55 reported sightings | 2.26% of all reports |
Diamond | 42 reported sightings | 1.72% of all reports |
Flash | 40 reported sightings | 1.64% of all reports |
Rectangle | 34 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
Cylinder | 32 reported sightings | 1.31% of all reports |
Teardrop | 24 reported sightings | 0.98% of all reports |
Chevron | 21 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
Egg | 17 reported sightings | 0.70% of all reports |
Orb | 14 reported sightings | 0.57% of all reports |
Cone | 11 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
Cross | 9 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 344 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
August | 289 reported sightings | 11.85% of all reports |
September | 252 reported sightings | 10.33% of all reports |
November | 230 reported sightings | 9.43% of all reports |
October | 211 reported sightings | 8.65% of all reports |
June | 201 reported sightings | 8.24% of all reports |
May | 188 reported sightings | 7.71% of all reports |
March | 160 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
January | 143 reported sightings | 5.86% of all reports |
December | 136 reported sightings | 5.58% of all reports |
April | 133 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
February | 121 reported sightings | 4.96% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 473 reported sightings | 19.39% of all reports |
Sunday | 376 reported sightings | 15.42% of all reports |
Friday | 342 reported sightings | 14.02% of all reports |
Thursday | 318 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Monday | 308 reported sightings | 12.63% of all reports |
Wednesday | 303 reported sightings | 12.42% of all reports |
Tuesday | 288 reported sightings | 11.81% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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05/26/19 | 20 reported sightings | 0.82% of all reports |
03/06/20 | 15 reported sightings | 0.62% of all reports |
11/16/99 | 13 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
07/21/01 | 9 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
07/04/11 | 8 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1,232 reported sightings | 50.51% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 442 reported sightings | 18.12% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 331 reported sightings | 13.57% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 170 reported sightings | 6.97% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 140 reported sightings | 5.74% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 93 reported sightings | 3.81% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wisconsin
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wisconsin.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Wisconsin
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Wisconsin