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Wisconsin UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 136 UFO sighting reports in Wisconsin from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (32 reports, 23.53% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (31 reports, 22.79% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (38 reports, 27.94% of total).
- 05/26/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (20 reports, 14.71% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (63 reports, 46.32% of total).
Wisconsin UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Wisconsin UFO reports from 2019, 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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Red circle inside red circle? Lights appeared like 2 red circles (one smaller and inside other one) there were 2 close to each other (one moving up one moving down) one appeared to fall into the lake and right after the other “zoomed” away. I do have video proof.
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At 6:30 p.m., I and others witnessed 30-40 rising lights in WSW Milwaukee for a duration of about 10 minutes.
Lights appeared similar to stars or satellites, and were spaced somewhat equally. Lights rose vertically from the horizon into space.
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There was a straight line of stars moving from West to east and it was disappearing up into the night sky.
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((NUFORC Note: Source of report provides no detailed information. PD)).
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Star like lights moving from west to east in straight line, in night sky. At 6:35 PM , while walking my dog in my back yard I often watch the sky. Tonight I saw something I have never seen before.
Approximately 7 lights in line from the horizon straight up. These lights were much like stars. No flashing, just like moving bright stars.
It was a clear, no moon night sky. Then I realized they were slowly moving. As they moved the first would disappear but another (nearest the horizon) would appear.
I realized they were actually moving from west to east, but at a very slow speed and high altitude. So slow that at first I wasn’t sure they were moving. I called my husband out to see it too.
It lasted a good 15 minutes, until they all disappeared, one by one never veering from course. We live outside of a small city and can see the night sky. Also there was no sound from them.
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A stream of slow moving lights coming from the west and disappearing as they flew overhead. Looking to the west above the horizon at about 18:35 several of us saw these lights coming from the west. One after the other spaced about a minute apart they would come from the west in a straight line then disappear as they got about overhead.
This went on for about 15 minutes.
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Confirmation sighting of star like lights moving east to west in straight line While looking in the western sky three of us saw 6 to 7 non-blinking star like lights evenly spaced traveling in a straight line from west to east. They appeared to move upward as they slowly disappeared one by one.
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7 lights slowly moving west to east, equally spaced, appeared to be moving upward and disappeared one by one at the same point. We saw 7 or 8 small lights moving very slowly from the west going East. They were all equally spaced the same distance apart and seemed to be going upward.
Slowly disappeared one by one as they were over us. Tried to get a photo with cell phone, but lights did not show up on photo .
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7 or 8 lights moving slowly from the west, all equally spaced apart and disappeared one by one above us. We saw 7 or 8 small lights moving very slowly from the west going east. They were all equally spaced the same distance apart and seemed to be going upward.
Slowly disappeared one by one as they were above us.
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Bright light seen for over an hour then moving and dimming intermittently. The object was first witnessed by a family member at around 5 pm on their way home from work. At 5:15 pm we all went outside and witnessed a bright light southwest of Janesville.
It looked like a very bright star but wasn't that high in the sky. We observed the bright light through binoculars and it looked like 3 separate lights. It was the same brightness from first noticing it at 5 pm until about 5:30 pm and stayed in the same spot.
Then it started dimming and slowly moving north. It stopped and it got very bright again, then dimmed until not visible. Then at about 6 pm it was moving north again while continually dimming and getting brighter until it was out of sight at about 6:07 pm.
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Driving through Fond Du Lac with my dad in the dark heading home and this ball of light comes speeding down very quickly then disappears. I have never seen anything that fast before.
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I couldn’t see the shape of a craft all I could see was a huge beam of light shining straight from the sky to the ground. It was so wide in diameter. The first thing I noticed was the corn field I was driving by was all light up bright white.
Then I tried to look up to see where the light was coming from but I couldn’t see because I was inside my car. When I could see it in my rear view mirror it looked like a beam that was not moving. Just straight up into the sky.
Much wider beam of light than I’ve ever seen from a helicopter search light. The strangest thing is is was totally vertical and so bright and straight up. Then it just turned off.
It was just a cornfield. After the bend on County Rd U it was in a cornfield off to my left. I was traveling E on U after the bend before or right close to Eastside rd.
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Large ball of orange light that slowly lowered to the west of where we were driving. A friend and I were driving home and the entire drive there was a large circular ball of orange light, we both don’t have a clue what this could have been and it seemed to lower from the sky in the west near the Twin Cities. We both tried to find any sort of logical explanation for it but we couldn’t.
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2 sphere orbs of light low in the sky side by side they seemed to disappear and reappear in the same spot photos will occupy this report looked strange thought I'd report.
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I just had a feeling to take my camera out & that I might capture something & yes I did & it was flying pass then stop in mid air then Everytime I tried to focus it Distortion started to make my camera go out of control then it vanished camera is distroyed it will not focus anymore.
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Pictures I took show an odd looking object in the sky surrounded by bright light. I was outside of a store called “JoAnn Fabrics” facing west when I noticed a nice sunset. I then proceeded to take two pictures from my phone camara, one right after another, holding one higher in the air than the other.
Upon viewing the pictures, I immediately noticed that a light with some sort of saucer type shape, above right to the sun, was apparent that was not there when I took the pictures. I am assuming that this may be the moon, however, there were no clouds in the sky to cover the lower half of a would be moon, and the object seems to have risen much higher in the sky in the 2nd picture, which doesn’t make sense for the object being the moon as the pictures were taken seconds apart. Please let me know if this is a valid UFO or if it is some sort of weather anomaly.
If it could be identified as a UFO, I can only assume the reason for it not being visible by eye would be because of some sort of cloaking? Thank you.
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I submitted this earlier but with the wrong date. I had put down 10/24/2019 but it was 11/24/2019 (yesterday morning). On 11/24/2019 I went out to my deer hunting stand.
I got to the stand and laid down in it flat on my back to wait for the sun to come up. It was very close to 6:00 a.m.
Central Time. It was a very clear night sky (technically early morning) with only a sliver of moon and I was just enjoying the stars when I saw what looked like a star traveling across the sky but rather quickly, about a ¼ the speed of a shooting star. It went in a NNE direction.
As I was trying to figure out what would travel at such a speed I spotted another one on the same trajectory and then another and another, usually spaced a similar distance but not always. Some were rather close together but always on the same path and speed. All told I counted 29 of them and the very last one was slightly off the path of the others.
I cannot reason what could travel that speed so far in the sky. The lights did not blink and they did not fade while traveling until they just got to far off in the distance. ! Like I said, they looked exactly like the stars around them and there was 29 of them.
It was very quiet, no wind and yet there was no noise. Sincerely rb.
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I saw a straight line of about 40 lights in the sky with another light shadowing them. I was sitting in my tree stand in the dark, waiting for the sunrise. It was about 6 AM, and I noticed a distinct line of lights in the sky traveling in a straight line.
They were all going SW to NE. They were just lights. There was no sound.
They just kept coming. There had to be 40 of them. At one point, I could see that they were being shadowed by another, bigger light off to the side, following them on the SE side of the stream.
They seemed too high up to be aircraft. At first, I almost thought they were satellites, but they were traveling in a straight line and there were so many of them. I lost track of them as the sun came up.
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30+ Evenly spaced, fast flying, a white objects, no sound, not blinking A string of 30+ evenly spaced objects, like stars, were in a straight line. Heading NE, two to three times faster than the commercial planes visible at the same time. No sound, not blinking, continuously light, heading toward us and going away.
Directly overhead. One broke formation and in 90 degrees went SW. One pair few side by side in close proximity to each other.
The rest were evenly spaced. Observers were 65 and 30 years old. Construction sales and asset relocation specialist.
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100 lights flying overhead in a straight path Over 100 "stars" flying overhead in a single file formation with a few flying side by side. The lights were seen by me and my dad and we watched for 5 min before heading into our tree stands. There were more coming when we left.
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 32 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Circle | 23 reported sightings | 16.91% of all reports |
Formation | 14 reported sightings | 10.29% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 6.62% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 4.41% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 4.41% of all reports |
Flash | 5 reported sightings | 3.68% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 3.68% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 1.47% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.47% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.47% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2019 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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May | 31 reported sightings | 22.79% of all reports |
November | 16 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
October | 14 reported sightings | 10.29% of all reports |
December | 13 reported sightings | 9.56% of all reports |
August | 12 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
September | 12 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
April | 8 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
July | 8 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 4.41% of all reports |
March | 5 reported sightings | 3.68% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Sunday | 38 reported sightings | 27.94% of all reports |
Friday | 23 reported sightings | 16.91% of all reports |
Monday | 21 reported sightings | 15.44% of all reports |
Saturday | 20 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Thursday | 15 reported sightings | 11.03% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 14.71% of all reports |
12/22/19 | 7 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
11/24/19 | 6 reported sightings | 4.41% of all reports |
10/18/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
05/27/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 63 reported sightings | 46.32% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 23 reported sightings | 16.91% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 17 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 12 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 4 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
All Wisconsin Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Wisconsin, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wisconsin
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wisconsin.