Last updated on June 1, 2024

Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1993

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Wisconsin during 1993.

How many Wisconsin UFO sightings were there in 1993?

  • There were 9 officially reported UFO sightings in Wisconsin in 1993.
  • In 1993, Wisconsin ranked #10 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Wisconsin ranks #17 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 1993, with an average of 0.18 reports per 100,000 residents.

Wisconsin Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 1993

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Milwaukee, WI 2 UFO Reports
2 Oshkosh, WI 1 UFO Reports
3 Hudson, WI 1 UFO Reports
4 Viroqua, WI 1 UFO Reports
5 Oconomowoc, WI 1 UFO Reports

Wisconsin UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 9 UFO sighting reports in Wisconsin from 1993 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Wisconsin UFO Sighting Reports in 1993

This is a sampling of 20 Wisconsin UFO reports from 1993, 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).

Green Bay, WI

Full Report Text:

Low circular light/flying object and multi-directional changing lights in the sky This is something that I experienced back when I believe I was 16/17. I was driving my girlfriend home one night, on Humboldt Rd. just passed over the highway heading away from the city.

As we were driving up to the left I saw this circular light. The best way I can describe it would be that of light coming out of a lampshade that angles downward. This object was not very high, had absolutely no other lights such as a tail light on helicopters or any wing lights, and made absolutely no sound, or no sound we were aware of.

The object travelled exactly the same speed as traffic. As soon as I saw it and realized it wasn't a glare or reflection I asked my girlfriend what the hell that was. She looked and watched it in awe.

As we drove down the road watching it, it suddenly literally just took off. Instantly flew forward out of view, I've never seen anything move so fast in my life. It was very eerie, I felt excited because I knew I saw something that is very rare to see and something some people simply can't believe exists as they haven't experienced it themselves.

I dropped her off and she too was shocked and knew she saw a "UFO". I haven't seen anything of that nature since. However, in summer of '99 I was swimming in the backyard of a friends house around 3-4 a.

m. when we saw a blinking light as far as the stars. Now, this blinking light we found very odd, especially the individual whose pool it was because he watches the stars a lot, because this light changed direction numerous amounts of times.

We would watch this light blink once in one area of the sky. About a minute later it traveled I would say the length of the big dipper and blinked again. Then another minute later it would blink up in a total different area as it had changed course.

We watched this object for approximately 20-30 minutes. Very odd. ((NUFORC Note: Date, time, and duration of sighting all appear to be approximate.

PD)).

12/15/93 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 1-2 minutes

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Viroqua, WI

Full Report Text:

Perfectly straight line left behind by a light traveling through the sky. We were driving home at approximately 2:40am when we saw a light traveling from north to south. It crossed the entire sky in a matter of minutes.

After the light was gone a single thin laser like trail remained in the sky for another minute or so. This line was perfectly straight and stable. You could actually see it curve away with the radius of the atmosphere.

There was no burning or anything, not like anything any of us have seen before. There were four of us in the car, we also called two of our friends and they confirmed that they saw the same phenomenon. Also keep in mind that all of us have seen a satellite before, and this object was traveling several times faster than that.

10/27/93 2:40 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Hudson, WI

Full Report Text:

Object was playing with or trying to elude the jets that were chasing it. At around 12:30 AM me and two others were having a camp fire up on the bluff overlooking the St Croix River when we noticed something coming up the river vally. The object had multiple lights on it and wasn't makeing any noise.

It was just kind of glideing along and when it passed in front of us it was no more than 200 feet out from the bluff but right at our level. To me it looked kind of acorn shaped and you could see little windows on the side facing us with what appeared to have passengers cause you could see the shape of there heads through the windows or ports. After it drifted past it went another quarter mile or so and took off almost verticle and within 15 to 20 seconds there were jets chasing it at tree top level when they roared over us.

I reported this incident back in the 90's on another reporting sight and was able to track by the other's in the USA that had reported it. From what I recall it was firt spotted around New England then it tracked down the coast as far as Florida and it then shot back up from there to Wisconsin where it was then sighted in Appleton before it came our way. At the same time we were watching it someone in Afton Minnesota was watching because they also reported on that site.

The Oshkosh report wasn't on there but I was glad to see it on this site and of course that was due to the late reporting of the incident. All I can say is that was the coolest thing ever actually seeing one right there in front of me. Another thing I almost forgot to ad is it was about the size of a Hot Air Balloon.

09/23/93 12:30 AM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Oshkosh, WI

Full Report Text:

Two military jets chasing illumnated object over Wisconsin I live on a dead end private lake road. Across the road, from my cottage, is a well treed woods . My brother came over to talk about mothers estate after I had gotten out of work late .

After talking for a few hours , I walked my brother out to his car parked in my driveway . The conversation continued out at the driveway for a while and was interrupted by the sound of a jet. My brother, whom knows more about aircraft than I do, said it sounded more like two jets and that they were military.

I moved back towards the cottage to get a better field of view and witnessed an illuminated object being chased by two military jets . I called my brother over to the spot in witch I was at to see what I was seeing . When he got there he thought that the jets were F-16s , and that they had their after burners on.

The object was elevating and taking a zig zag pattern. Every time the object would make a radius turn , the jets would take an intercept angle . The object seemed to be a bit faster than the jets and seemed to me that it was checking their capabilities.

After three or four turns , my brother , told me that the jets were at their max ceiling and that they would have to stop elevating . About twenty to thirty seconds later , the two jets , turned off their after burners and turned 180 degrees as we watched the illuminated object fly straight out of the atmosphere and disappear into the stars. From what I could tell , the craft was disk shaped and illuminated , and from what my brother and I could tell , it was about twice the size of one jet .

We also could not tell exactly how far from us this had occurred, it could have been two miles or several. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

09/23/93 12:30 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Milwaukee, WI

Full Report Text:

five lights over wisconsin state fair well i was really young. see i am only 18 so i guessed on the date. i was at the wisconsin state fair with my neighbors and i pointed to the sky because i am a star gazer and here are five lights coming rapidly lower and closer to us.

by this time hundreds were watching. some shrugged it off as a helecopter but there was no sound when it was really close, just five lights, you couldnt see anything else just black and the five lights. then it all disappeared.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. We would welcome additional reports from other witnesses. PD)).

08/20/93 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: about three minutes

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Beloit, WI

Full Report Text:

2 Triangle UFOs Spotted over Wisconsin Not real sure on the Exact Date, it was Late 93 0r Early 94. Sighting was East of Beloit, Wi. about 45 Miles On I-43 2:45 a.

m. Craft was spotted coming over a tree line south of I-43 Moving North, Very Slow. I pulled over on the Shoulder, and called out to a couple of truck drivers behind me on the C.

B. to see if they could see what I'm Seeing? First Driver advised he could, and then the other 2 could too. they also pulled over and we all watched in in a mild case of shock.

The Craft moved across the Hwy, and the 2nd Craft started to clear the Tree Line just a little east of the first one. Both Craft where Huge, Triangler in Shape, with thick rounded Edges, almost Gun Metal Blue in Color, But No Lights of any kind. It was a very Clear Night, Middle of No-Where (No City Lights) And the Crafts Blocked the Stars as they moved to the North.

Alt. was about 500-600 Ft. Speed Dead Slow, and Not a Sound.

No Humm or Nothing. Not one of us had a Camera. All we could do is watch as they moved Right Over Us to the North Tree Line and out of sight.

After they had gone. we talked for a few minutes about what we should do, Make a report or What. Come down to NOBODY would believe it.

And we left it at that. BUT! The Next Day, On the Paul Harvey Radio Show, He Talked about some Air Port & Air Base Spotting 2 Unknown Objects that Very Night, as Possible UFOs. Funny Thing is, You Never heard anything else about it.

Nothing! I wish the Other Drivers that where there that night with me would come forward. I Heard of your UFO Center on Coast to Coast A.M.

It's Been 12 year from the Time of the Sighting, and to be able to tell it at last, is like a breath of fresh air!!!! If you can Track Down that Paul Harvey Report, it will Nail down the Exact Date of the Sightings. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).

08/09/93 2:45 AM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 8-10 Minutes

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Oconomowoc, WI

Full Report Text:

Hovering craft with illuminated cross in its center. My wife and I saw a hovering craft in the western sky at approximately 10pm during late spring, early summer 1993. The craft was at the 11 o'clock position in the sky.

There was no sound associated with the craft. When viewed through binoculars an illuminated cross could be seen. It appeared to be an inverted tear shaped object.

We viewed it for more than an hour and a half.

06/01/93 10:00 PM

UFO Shape: cross

Lasted: 1+ hours

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Milwaukee, WI

Full Report Text:

Milwaukee-- one winged, silent, brightest lights, huge, 1993 I was a passenger in a vehicle with three other people (a friend, his brother, his mom, me). We were traveling from Milwaukee south to Kenosha on a road running parallel and just east of I-94. We first noticed what we thought was a plane flying very low with extremely bright lights flying directly at us.

The plane took a long time to reach us and eventually we pulled over to witness this flyby. The three lights were so bright. We pulled the car over and turned off the engine.

The craft was flying around 100 ft off the ground—amazing. It was all-white, one winged, no windows, and had to be two stories thick but rounded with slightly swept back wings. The most amazing part was it made no noise! It looked like it weighed 300 tons, as big as a passenger jet but much thicker.

Moreover, it was flying no more than 15 mph. I had a good long look at it 100 feet away. It flew right along the west side of the road.

By far the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve told the story many times with a response most often of “hm.” I have yet to look on the site but more people had to see this thing.

It was flying in the direction of the Mitchell airport, so I’ve always wondered if it landed. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that date of the event is approximate. PD)).

04/04/93 7:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 5 mins

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Brookfield, WI

Full Report Text:

A triangle craft this huge and so low does not seem possible but it's true. My wife and I were driving west on Capitol Drive when for no special reason we were attracted to this very bright light near the horizon in the west. It looked like a very bright star and was about that size when we first noticed it.

It took only a couple minutes to get home from there, we got out of the car and kept looking at it as it slowly came closer. It was very slow and very low. It was a perfect triangle in shape and had round muted lights around the three sides,on the bottom of it about 8 or 10 lights on each side.

The color of it was gray-black. It looked no more than several city blocks up in the air it looked that low. We were able to watch it for at least 10 minutes till it went south east and I thought it was going towards the airport.

Was a beautiful Craft very huge and no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. PD)).

01/12/93 7:45 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 12 to 15 min.

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Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 1993 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Triangle 3 reported sightings 33.33% of all reports
Other 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Disk 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Light 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
Cross 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports

Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 1993 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
September 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
August 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
December 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
January 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
October 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
June 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
April 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports

Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 1993 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
Wednesday 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Tuesday 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Thursday 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Monday 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
Friday 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
Sunday 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports

Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 1993 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
09/23/93 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
01/12/93 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
08/09/93 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
08/20/93 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
04/04/93 1 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports

Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 1993 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
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 5 reported sightings 55.56% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Night 20:00 - 23:59 2 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports

All Wisconsin Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1993

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Wisconsin, in 1993

City Number of Reports View Reports
Milwaukee 2 UFO Reports Milwaukee UFO Sightings in 1993
Oshkosh 1 UFO Reports Oshkosh UFO Sightings in 1993
Hudson 1 UFO Reports Hudson UFO Sightings in 1993
Viroqua 1 UFO Reports Viroqua UFO Sightings in 1993
Oconomowoc 1 UFO Reports Oconomowoc UFO Sightings in 1993
Green Bay 1 UFO Reports Green Bay UFO Sightings in 1993
Brookfield 1 UFO Reports Brookfield UFO Sightings in 1993
Beloit 1 UFO Reports Beloit UFO Sightings in 1993

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wisconsin

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wisconsin.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 13 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 56 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 72 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 40 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 138 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 136 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 42 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 89 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 123 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 131 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 147 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 179 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 157 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 114 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 65 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 63 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 70 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 59 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 36 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 66 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 54 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 67 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 50 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 85 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 52 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 78 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 38 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 22 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 17 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 24 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 6 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 9 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 8 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 3 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 11 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 5 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 5 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 12 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 1 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 6 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 5 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 3 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 3 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 2 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 4 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 4 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 2 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 5 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 5 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 10 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 5 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 6 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 3 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 2 UFO Reports Wisconsin UFO Sightings in 1971