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Wisconsin UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 138 UFO sighting reports in Wisconsin from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (36 reports, 26.09% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (32 reports, 23.19% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (29 reports, 21.01% of total).
- 03/06/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (15 reports, 10.87% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (64 reports, 46.38% of total).
Wisconsin UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Wisconsin UFO reports from 2020, 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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Straight linear formation of about 100 solid lights that went out one by one Driving into Whitewater from the north on Highway 59. Passenger spotted a straight linear formation of bright solid lights out the window towards the city and rolled down the window to attempt a photo. I only saw about 20 because I was driving, however he claims to have witnessed close to 100.
Turning off the road we witnessed the lights go out one by one. The total event took place over the course of about minute and we did not see them again.
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Straight line of 24 to 30 lights equally spaced moving across the sky. Observed a straight line of white lights - equally spaced - between 24 - 30, perfectly straight line and nearly equally spaced. No lights were flashing, no engine / jet noise heard, no contrails.
This line moved across the sky from SW to NE - got to a certain point to NE or our location then the lights would disappear one after the other as they entered that space.
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Coming home from work I saw a reddish color orb move from east to west horizon to horizon then seconds later it moved from west to east horizon to horizon at an incredible speed. I was at the top of a high hill and could see for miles. Going 50 mph I saw this object and only was able to travel approximately 100 feet in the time this object crossed the sky and came back then it was gone.
First thought was meteors don't retrace there exact paths too and fro.
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Bright light hovering in sky behind a dark long object. Object took off so fast it disappeared within 10 inches of sky. I was walking in to hunt on opening day of gun deer season.
I parked in the end parking lot west of the Ranger Station at Mead Wild Life Area. I walked on the dike across the river and started south on the dike for about 50 yards when a bright light started behind me. I thought someone was driving a vehicle behind me because the light was so bright it cast a shadow from behind me.
I turned to my left to look behind me and noticed there was nothing there. I looked up in the sky and there was a long narrow object hovering with no noise 1/3 up in the sky over an area just North and east of where I parked. There is a long grass field below that location.
The object had a round very bright light facing to the South. The object itself was dark but the light appeared to be a power source in the rear of the object. After about one minute the light had a burst of stronger light.
The object moved North and gained speed for about 10 inches in the sky and appeared to ! disappear. A normal object would have continued across the sky until it went out of sight, but this one appeared to gain so much speed that it became invisible. I did not think to get my phone out immediately and by the time I did it was gone.
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Super bright round object ,smooth rapid turn then gone. Super bright round object,smooth rapid turn then gone.
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Three bright lights traveling fast Let dogs out at 5a. Looked up at stars (facing east) and saw three bright white lights traveling at exact same speed heading south. They were equidistant from each other the entire time, no sound, constant bright light.
Appeared to be at height of a jet. They moved very fast.
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On night drive with kids, joked about object hovering in sky blinking red and white for nearly an hour when we suddenly came within maybe a couple hundred yards. Hovering low, grew into a large ball of light then appeared to shrink. Upon getting close it was disc shaped with blue lights.
Have video! Turned around to find it again and within a matter of minutes it was miles away but still visible until it suddenly disappeared.
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Blinking lights at close range just over tree line blue and yellow, then craft paused in air for 3 min or more emitting an orange light and mimicking a star. Craft slowly started to move north and then came back emitting a white light this time and started to blink in the distance that was irregular in pattern. Overall time 10 min.
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It was a rounded triangular shape with 3 bright white lights on each corner. In the center was red light that changed to blue. The color of the object was a white or light gray.
I could tell this because it was hovering as low as a crop duster plain. It was also as big around as a house. As I came up to it and pulled to the side of the road it hovered for bout 1 minute before zipping really fast to the next bridge where it then stopped, and sat for an additional 3 to 5 minutes.
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Predominantly white flickering various colors with inconsistent movement, it’s too stable on a windy night and too high to be a drone. Small object flickering in various colors (mainly white but occasionally flickering blue, green, and red). Has been hovering in roughly the same position for well over an hour now.
It’s hovering too high to be a drone and has been there for too long (drone pilots only have so much battery life and tend to move a lot to get as much done as possible in a single charge) It has moved around slightly but not like a helicopter, plane, or satellite would. It’s movements are similar to a drone but again it’s up too high and has been there for over an hour. It’s also probably worth noting the stability of its movement.
It moves side to side like a drone but when it stays still it maintains a spot in the sky without moving at all. It’s a windy night.there’s no way that things a drone.
It has been moving more since I started writing this. It’s a very slow and inconsistent movement south. It moves for a little bit but then maintains a position in the sky for minutes a! t a time.
I can’t identify a shape it’s up too high but it’s definitely flickering various colors while predominantly remaining white.maybe I’m over looking something but this is weird.
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Large flat black rectangular shape just hanging in sky. My husband and I were driving north on S 76th St between W Forest Hill and W Rawson Ave and I noticed this large, flat, black rectangular object just hanging in the sky. It was pretty big.
It was not moving except for turning sideways or straight up and back again. There were no lights on it. I said to my husband to look but he was driving and couldn’t see it.
I kept watching it until some trees got in the way. Once we passed the trees it was gone. There was no wind at the time either.
It happened so fast I didn’t get pictures. Weird!.
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A group of 3 and a singular orange spherical light came into view moving south to northeast. 3 orange spherical lights moved from a south to northeast direction. These 3 moved in a group.
Once these were out of my sight a 4th orange spherical light appeared over trees and followed the same path as the initial 3. The 4th light moved erratically from right to left as it headed in a northeast direction until it was no longer completely visible behind a distant tree.
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Two rows of parallel lights each containing 6 lights hovering stationary in the night sky until I started taking pictures. At approximately 19:35 on Thursday, October 15, 2020 my attention was abruptly directed to look outside my sliding doors beyond my balcony some 30 ft. to the edge of my balcony railing from my 4th floor apartment.
I was talking to a friend on the phone when I said “There’s something hovering in the night sky.” I walked over to my balcony narrating what I was seeing to my friend. There was a group of about 12 lights clumped together in the north sky.
The night sky was clear but there was only a single star lower from the group of lights that I saw. The lights ran parallel in two rows 6 in each row. The lights did not move until I started to take some pictures.
Some I took through a screen door and others I took directly from the balcony in the night air. Only one picture remained on my phone camera. It was as if they did not want to be photographed and began squiggling and jerking.
Were they moving or was the camera moving? Good question. I would say both. As! they moved I was desperately trying to capture their movement.
I should have started the video:-) Other lights moved away from the squiggly lights and looked like it could have been a plane. I know this may sound strange but it’s like there was a meeting in the sky between a UFO and a plane. When I pinched the picture on my camera to enlarge it, it appears to suggest 3 sections on two limbs with joints and feet.
Then, it was gone without leaving a noticeable trail.
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A bright gold light mass that has other different colors blinking i live in West Wisconsin the object is is straight east.
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I noticed this red light N about a 1/4 mile distance then just above the tree line. Then these white dots started appearing dim then grew brighter in a triangle. I got my phone, started shooting video, but it only took a picture.
The next 5 minutes was nothing less than phenomenal with nothing being short of spectacular with the naked eye while what I thought I was capturing taking a video of it all. The triangle pinpoints were then connected by beams at the same time in synchrocy. Then another bar shaped light from the lower left side to the center grew brighter and brighter dividing itself in sections on both sides from the middle as if imaging the fields below facing in a southern direction for a few minutes.
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bright star like form moving up and down I was laying in bed and looking out the window at what I thought was a blinking star or airplane with flashing lights. Sometimes the lights would flash blue and/or red. The object suddenly dropped in the sky and slowly rose back to its original position.
It was a slow moving object, much slower than an airplane and was in my window for at least 30 minutes moving horizontally through the window area.
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Going north on nation ave 130th looked to my left above trees line going parallel with nation ave about 200 feet off ground high rate of speed watched it disappear in distance went right by my in car.
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7 sided bright object, zero sound, straight flight path Avid star gazer. Was using NVGs to show my Mother-in-Law The Andromeda Galaxy, both with the naked eye and with NVG. We watched the international space station fly over along with some space junk rocket boosters.
My Mother-in-Law was in control of the NVGs(PVS-7 Auto gate) at the time of the sighting. She asked me what an object was coming across our sky from West to North East and while looking through the NVGs she pointed to a spot in the sky where I saw something moving a bit faster than a satellite, was a lot brighter than a satellite and instinct told me it was in the Earths atmosphere based on size. This was a very clear night with the Milkyway in view.
The naked eye easily picked this object up. It seemed just a bit faster than commercial aircraft passing so I decided to start to video it after it passed overhead and counted to about 31 seconds expecting to hear the jet engines like every other commercial jet which passes, yet I waited and waited and even mentioned in the video it was far enough away that we should have been hearing it, but there was silence. I took the NVGs because my Mother In Law kept saying there were 2 objects one black and the other the bright ball of light.
So I too wanted to witness what she was able to see with the more advanced technology. I peered through the NVGs and the object flared them as much as a ground based street light would and it was still far away by then. Afterwards I was able to take still zooms of my video and this appears to be 7 sided and 3 dimensional with some sort of opening on 1 side and based on the stills it appears that it was rotating yet my eyes, camera and NVGs don't pick that up.
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Me and two friends were getting ready to go into a grocery store and disc shaped object with m no lights or engine sounds which lasted 5 minutes and have the picture that I took with my phone.when we came out it was gone.
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There are 4 they are all glowing red upon seeing I looked through a range finder and took pics but it been doing weird shit let alone the satellites that are currently monitoring the crafts they are not planets and it still on going thought I'd see if anyone else seeing it.
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 36 reported sightings | 26.09% of all reports |
Circle | 18 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Other | 15 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Triangle | 12 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Sphere | 11 reported sightings | 7.97% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 5.80% of all reports |
Formation | 7 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
Disk | 7 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2020 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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March | 32 reported sightings | 23.19% of all reports |
April | 19 reported sightings | 13.77% of all reports |
July | 15 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
May | 12 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 7.97% of all reports |
February | 10 reported sightings | 7.25% of all reports |
September | 9 reported sightings | 6.52% of all reports |
November | 8 reported sightings | 5.80% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
June | 7 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Friday | 29 reported sightings | 21.01% of all reports |
Sunday | 24 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Saturday | 22 reported sightings | 15.94% of all reports |
Monday | 19 reported sightings | 13.77% of all reports |
Thursday | 15 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Wednesday | 15 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Tuesday | 14 reported sightings | 10.14% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/06/20 | 15 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
04/26/20 | 6 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
04/19/20 | 5 reported sightings | 3.62% of all reports |
01/15/20 | 4 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
03/15/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
Wisconsin UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 64 reported sightings | 46.38% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 34 reported sightings | 24.64% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 15 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 14 reported sightings | 10.14% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
All Wisconsin Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Wisconsin, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wisconsin
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wisconsin.