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Wisconsin UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 67 UFO sighting reports in Wisconsin from 2003 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (17 reports, 25.37% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 14.93% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 19.40% of total).
- 01/14/03 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 4.48% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (27 reports, 40.30% of total).
Wisconsin UFO Sighting Reports in 2003
This is a sampling of 20 Wisconsin UFO reports from 2003, 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).
Full Report Text:
I Looked up at the moon which was amazigly bright and I saw to the right what appeared to be a very bright large light that just sat there for over 45 minutes. It was beacon shaped with a light extending down with a bright line running through it all. After 45 minutes the UFO started moving west but not at high speed.
There also appeared to be a red light on top of the craft. This was at a distance and the craft was next to the moon. It would have been rather large in size.
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Shape -changing brown "tarp" I've finally decided to send this in after hearing of two other similar UFO descriptions in the last month on Unknowncountry.com. One was about a dark-colored form changing parachute-like (not the round kind but the more oblong or oval ones) and the other a brownish jelly-fish like one that appeared to be "swimming".
The one I saw, I at first thought to be a orangish brown tarp or plastic sheet or trash bag that had been blown up into the wind and was just blowing along while slowing undulating or changing shape as though made of a very light material. And it very steadily traveled in its general direction, from north to south over the Isthmus/Willy St. area.
(Unfortunately I did not think to check if it was actually going with the prevailing wind - though I do remember there being only a light wind that day.) It did not radically change shapes or take on any definite common shapes, but just stayed generally oblong (like the "parachute" story). The sky was clear and it was a around sunset so the object was fairly well lit.
However I had hard time focusing on it. Sound-wise I heard nothing from it and the neighborhood was quiet. It was about the size of my fingernail at arms length.
Moved right to left about a fist width every second or two. I watched it for about ten seconds then it became obscured behind tree branches so I walked down the block about 40 ft to a clear view. But in the process I looked down for a second, and when I got to the clearing I could not find the object again.
Very puzzling. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
green fireball shooting across sky In SE clear night sky there was a large green fireball that streaked across the sky like a shooting star. It was much lower and larger than any shooting star or comet and did not have a tail.
Full Report Text:
two "star-like" objects in southern sky, right light flashed brightly then disappeared, left light started to "fall" then did the same. While waiting for the lights to change on the corner of Lake Drive and Kenwood Blvd, facing south, I noticed in the clear southern sky two "star-like" objects that were very close together (the one on the right was up higher than the one on the left). Within seconds of spotting these lights I witnessed the higher of the two flash very brightly, then disappear.
Immediately after that the second light began to "fall" then flashed very brightly and was gone. - That was it.
Full Report Text:
Goldish orange light in the southeast sky. Driving south on I39, I noticed a bright light in the southeast sky. It was the brightest thing in the sky, but no brighter than mars was at it's full intensity.
I was trying to figure out if it could possibly be an airplane going for a landing or a planet (not sure what is going on astronomically these days) and driving and trying to watch for deer. The object didn't appear to be moving, but the light (goldish orangish)did vary in intensity. I calculated it to be in almost a direct line with Orions dagger which was pointing in a southerly ground direction so I could go home and see what planet it might be.
It suddenly disappeared. No clouds in the sky.half moon in the other half of the sky.
Strange. ((NUFORC Note: A perfect description of the dramatically bright, twinkling star, Sirius. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Large, bright star-like object with no tail traverses the sky east to west; seen through city lights My wife and I were traveling west bound on I-94 within the city limits, just east of the Zoo interchange which is around 8-10 miles west of Lake Michigan. We noticed a broght light moving very fast from east to the west, north-west; from overhead to around 10 to 15 degrees above the horizon. It was approximately the size of 3 or 4 stars put together and was whiteish in color.
The city street lights were so bright that I said that it must be low to be seen below the clouds. Once we got out of the city, we saw the stars come out because the sky was clear so this object had to be very bright to be seen by us through the street lights. It covered the distance in the sky in 2 seconds and did not leave a trail.
I am familiar with seeing satelites, conventional aircraft, and meteors and this definately was not one of those. Two other couples at our family get-together saw the object as well. I am trying to convince them to write a report.
They were also west bound on I-94 when they saw it.
Full Report Text:
object was spoted two nights in a rowe south-east of siren wis.change shape,move from side to side and up and down fast. oval shape,moved up and down real fast moved from side to side hover in one spot for awhile kind of fade out,than get real bright blue and white and red.
just one object tonight.last night their was two.the object was south-east of siren wisconsin.
((NUFORC Note: We have spoken with the source of this report, and have learned that the object was in the southeast sky. Hence, we suspect the object sighted was the star, Sirius. PD)).
Full Report Text:
went out side at 11.10 p.m.
to get mail.seen objects south/east of siren.object changed colors moved up and down fast .
disk shape move up and down then would stay in one spot.different colors bright blue red green.look like had windows around it too.
Full Report Text:
Pair of lights over Lake Michigan I noticed a pair of lights, orange and blue, over Lake Michigan to the east and southeast dimming and brightening alternately. The lights were in a straight line and seemed to remain stationary for about 4 minutes or so. I heard no noise and the lights continued to remain in place.
The formation gradually moved very slowly due north, again silent. The lights continued to dim and brighten alternately. When the formation moved due east of my position, the lights disappeared and did not reappear.
Full Report Text:
Brite light flash seen in bedroom. While in bed, was awoken with a strange feeling of being watched and unable to talk properly. lous thrumming sound in ears when woken up.
Wife woke me up like I was having a dream. Felt high magnetic discharge in house. Bright flash of light seen shortly after being woken up.
Heard strange noises in my bedroom and in my daughters room. (note Daughter is only 7 months old) Noises heard sounded like chattering unlike anything ever heard before. Feel very tired and like I was on a very long trip.
currently feel like I am not alone and being watched right now at 1:20 A.M.
Full Report Text:
3 Amber Circles enclosed in Rectangle - Healing requested. On November 20, 2003 I had been taking a nap and at 6:00 p.m.
"something" told me to wake up and open my eyes. As I did, the first thing I saw was a big white light in the sky across the street. It was so big and nearby, it could have only been coming from a helicopter.
But it was an unusually warm day in WI and I still had my windows open. Had it been a helicopter, there would have been loud noise coming from it. There was no noise whatsoever.
I watched it for about 15 seconds and it went behind the house across the street so I lost sight of it. It just silently glided out of my view. About 15 minutes later again "something" told me to take the dogs outside.
My dogs never go out at that time (they're on a regular pattern and had gone out a little earlier already). As I took the second dog outside, I looked up in the sky and telepathically said: "Are you still in the area?" Right then I noticed a plane going overhead. I said out loud: "Oh, that's just a stupid plane again!" And before I finished that sentence, I saw something else and said: "THAT's not a plane!" Not too far behind the plane was a configuration of three amber circles enclosed in a amber rectangle.
It glowed amber as if it was pure energy and a sentient being in and of itself. As it glided through the atmosphere, it didn't fly straight like human made planes do, rather it traveled on an angle. I watched it only for a few seconds before it just disappeared.
For character reference: I am a Disclosure Project Representative, have worked directly with Golden Eagle, have investigated the two WI Crop Circles this summer, been healed from PID from an ET in 1995, am a Natural Healer and Metaphysical Teacher/Student. Among many other things I am directly connected to Aztalan and Rock Lake, WI. I was born at 11:11 a.
m. during a Grand Cross / Planetary Alignment. Something to watch: In December my mother was diagnosed with Advanced Breast Cancer.
Since I myself was healed by an ET, I have strongly requested those same ETs to heal my Mother. Beginning in December, the Phoenix area (within WALKING or WORKING distance from my family) has had a UFO Sighting / Flap. And in that time, a mysterious white "UFO" van has been spotted numerous times right near where they live.
So I have Faith that they are going to heal her. It will be a Miracle that will be widely talked about with documentation.
Full Report Text:
Cloud cover, very low ceiling, six rings would move around, then move into one ring, then separate, move around, and go again into one ring and continue this pattern. Outer perimeter of ring was about the size of the moon as you see it on a clear night. You could liken the rings visual appearance as ghostly.
(After calling the other witness outside to take a look, went back in the house so cannot say for how long the occurrence lasted.) The hazy appearance could have been because of the heavy cloud cover. (Very close to the top of the house, like the same distance a plane has come close to the house during low ceiling due to cloud cover.
).
Full Report Text:
Silvery sphere, glowing white, headed southwest very quickly from Paddock Lake, Wisconsin While driving on a dark side street headed south-west and coming to a complete stop, I saw a silvery sphere glowing a white light color. It was extrememly fast and the light seemed to be coming from the front of the object and encompasing it. The object flew over my head and continued in a southwesterly direction.
It was fairly high up in the air and it was about the size of a superball (large gumball) if held at arms length.
Full Report Text:
I was driving along on I94 about 25 miles from St. Paul, Mn. I seen an oval shape object moving south.
it was approximately 1 mile away, it was moving too slow for a plane and the shape was not near a helicopter. Just towards the end of my siting, it gained speed and disapeared.
Full Report Text:
I observed a circular yellow-orange-red flashing light go above the tree line straight east of Wal-mart at Hwy 10 and Brilowski Road I was traveling from the mobil gas station on Hwy 10 East going East towards Wal-mart. I observed a circular yellow-orange-red flashing light looking out my windshield on the left side of my truck. I watched the object go above the tree line straight east of Wal-mart.
This sighting took place at Hwy 10 and Brilowski Road in Stevens Point, WI. The object passed from the North over Fleet Farm to the South East over Wal-Mart's parking lot then disappeared.
Full Report Text:
Circular craft over Lake Michigan Strange circular craft(a) with 3-4 blue, flashing marker lights. Craft(a) Would dartat high speeds in varoius directions then hover. Also noticed a very fast craft(b) perform a complete vertical climb from ground towards object, then vered and went east.
Suspect craft(b) was military. Craft(a) hovered over Lake Michigan area. Appeared to be near Chicago,IL area.
Object was observered for aprox 30 minutes. Unusual amount of civilian aircraft observing object as well for this area. Took photos, but lens was not powerful enough to capture craft.
Full Report Text:
night , wooded, ufo, big, three aliens seen, the stuf the goverment don't want you to know about but i seen some! first we see a small silver ball going wp and down. we were in a hevly wooded area. (river valy) later my friend wakes me up, he was in a nerves stage.
we whent to look out the door to see a ufo, it was about 100 feet long 50 feet wide, it was just above the trees. it made a humming noise. the only lite coming out was from the windo.
it had to be at lest 10 feet long and 5 feet tall. we when bake inside. when we when back out there, we saw in the windo two beings looking back at us.
as creeped out as we were, we wached with excitment. the being had a normal alien dipeked head, but the eyes were redis coler! then a nother one shot out of the from the left side of the windo. the wered thing was, we only saw the heads and when the other one came out, it was probly siting on some chair or sumthing.
the skary part abot it was that the snip was so close only about 200 or so feet away, that the eyes stud out the most in the windoes were was like the sechers cat smile, in the windoes the bak drop was bright wight. later i shined a flash light at it, it was a matalika coler and it had some black blockey righting on the side of it, once the sun came up we did not hereit or see it. since then i've seen many ufo,s all over the plac.
it doesent even fase me if i see them any more. but it still kerps me out a bit. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Fireball flew over our heads on a clear night. My neighbor, my fiance and I were outside having a campfire when out of the corner of my eye I saw something in the sky. I looked up and saw a fireball.
I said "What is that?" Everyone looked and no one knew what it was. It came from the northwest and was going to the southeast in a perfectly straight line. It flew over our heads about 1,000 feet up.
It looked like a big ball of fire. It was the same exact color as fire. There was no sound and no shadows.
At first I thought it was a hot air baloon, but it was going to fast and we couldn't see anything other than the fireball. My fiance thought it was a meteor or asteroid, but there was no contrail and it was not falling. When it got behind our trees, my fiance and I got up and walked back to the tree line.
We could still see it in the distance. It had now changed directions and was going south. I ran inside and grabbed the camcorder.
After a few minutes, I came back inside and got the tripod. By now, we were not sure how far away it was. We just left the camcorder alone and sat by the fire talking about how weird this was.
When we watched what we had recorded, it flickered a little - brighter and dimmer. Then it would fade away to nothing. It would reapper in about a minute.
Then do the same thing over agin. Until it finally just disappeared. I called our local police department, the county police and two neighboring police departments, but they had no reports about anything in the sky.
My neighbor was talking to another neighbor (with her daughter there also) about what we had saw and the daughter looked at her mom and said "see I'm not nuts." She had seen a fireball about 2 weeks ago outside their living room window. We can come up with no reasonable explaination as to what it was other than a UFO.
None of us have been able to stop thinking about it and are all always looking up to see if we can see it again.
Full Report Text:
On October 18, 2003 at roughly 9:30 p.m., myself, my fiance and my next door neighbor were having a campfire in my backyard.
Suddenly, my fiance noticed an orange ball in the west sky. All of us stood up and observed the orange ball come slowly over our heads and slowly fly in the distance. When I first saw it, I thought it was an asteroid and told everyone to get out of the way because it looked like it was heading right to us.
As it got closer, the orange ball got bigger in size. I gestimate it was about 10 - 20 times the size of my thumb at arms length. I estimate it was anywhere from 500 - 2,000 feet off the ground and moving about 200 mph.
It was the same color as fire. All 3 of us heard no sound whatsoever. When we first saw the ball it was coming straight from the west.
Once it was over us it seemed to curve slightly to the south. After it went over us, my fiance asked if she should get the camcorder. I said by the time she got it, it would be gone.
Then it came to a stop in the distance and I told her to go and get the camcorder. I set the camcorder on the tripod and recorded the orange ball for about 6 minutes. The ball hovered in the distance for close to ten minutes.
When it was stationary, the ball of light turned off and on twice. The first time for about 30 seconds and the second for about 5 seconds. It was a very clear night.
After a few minutes of watching it stationary, it slowly drifted away while the ball was flickering or illuminating in and out.
Full Report Text:
Oct 14th, 2003 - about midnight, huge ufo in eastern sky in Trego, Wisconsin It was very huge; sitting silently in the eastern night sky. It was at a complete stop, clouds were going by it, but it remained still. Blue, red and yellow lights flashed across it's front.
I could not discern the shape,but it was big - it was above the clouds, above my barn and it appeared to be approximately half as wide as my barn (20 feet). I ran in the house to get my camera; which took me no more than 30 seconds tops, and when I went back outside, it had completely disappeared; I waited for five minutes to see if it would return, but it did not. My dog had been barking which is why I went outside.
Earlier in the evening, I had been trying to make calls on my phone and first the calls would not go through, when they finally did. the line was staticy and we were cut-off. Also, approximately two hours earlier, what sounded like a helicopter flew very low over my house.
I went outside to see what exactly it was, but I couldn't see anything in the night sky - it was very loud though and scared my dogs.
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2003 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 | 17 reported sightings | 25.37% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 5.97% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2003 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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August | 10 reported sightings | 14.93% of all reports |
January | 10 reported sightings | 14.93% of all reports |
November | 8 reported sightings | 11.94% of all reports |
October | 7 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 8.96% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 8.96% of all reports |
July | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2003 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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Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 19.40% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 17.91% of all reports |
Saturday | 10 reported sightings | 14.93% of all reports |
Wednesday | 9 reported sightings | 13.43% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 13.43% of all reports |
Sunday | 7 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
Friday | 7 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2003 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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01/14/03 | 3 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
08/13/03 | 3 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
12/01/03 | 2 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
08/31/03 | 2 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
10/18/03 | 2 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2003 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 | 27 reported sightings | 40.30% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 18 reported sightings | 26.87% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 13 reported sightings | 19.40% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.97% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.97% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
All Wisconsin Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2003
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Wisconsin, in 2003
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wisconsin
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wisconsin.