All Reported UFO Sightings in Manitowoc, Wisconsin

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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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Unknown object from a distance changed direction abruptly Mid day sunny conditions sitting in living room a bright object caught my eye moving north to south. Didn’t think much then observed object suddenly move south to north. Went out to porch and got video.

Object videoed seemed to be a great distance away I videoed for less than a minute. I have a little trouble with eyesight after cataract and retina surgery. When I reviewed the video and zoomed in the object does not appear domestic.

With more sophisticated video analysis one might see it more clearly.

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Shiny silver large disk in sky near cedar crest, hole in the middle with lights. Would hover in 1 place then start turning and spinning, would stop and hover. Was very shiny, hurt our eyes to look at it.

Took off into the sky after coming down and going back up.

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This is confermation of manitowoc siting. Went out for a smoke noticed 1 red glowing light hovering, then more started to join. Moving north along the lake.

Called my wife out to witness also recorded it. Together we seen at least 10 glowing objects moving slower than a airplane, watched until out of view. Was tempted to chase down.

That is all. This is not my first ufo in ne wisconsin.

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On what I believe was December 16, 2017 around 7:30pm, I was out shopping with my wife. At the Brandywine Town Center shopping center This is confermation of Manitowoc siting. Went out for a smoke noticed 1 red glowing light hovering, then more started to join.

Moving north along the lake. Called my wife out to witness also recorded it. Together we seen at least 10 glowing objects moving slower than a airplane, watched until out of view.

Was tempted to chase down. That is all. This is not my first ufo in ne wisconsin.

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3 white and red lights We were sitting in back yard when a white light with red in the middle came out of the south west, heading north east. The light was very high in the sky , it took about 1 min. To pass over.

After 15 min. Another passed then 15 min. Another passed over , the same direction .

There was no sound. I asked my I phone if there were planes above us and it said there were none. It was very strange!!.

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"Basketball" size ball flew in the sky in a "U" pattern the streaked in-between the two apartment buildings. Our apartment building is a few blocks from lake michigan and it is very dark in our neighbourhood. we were sitting and playing PS3 when I noticed a tiny ball of light fly from the street above our building, flew about a block then made a u-turn and then shot down and streaked in-between the two apartment buildings.

We are on the second floor and the orb appeared to my boyfriend and I as about a basketball in size and extremely bright as it flew past our windows. He says it was medium blue with a white core, and I say it was lime green with a very bright centre. either way, the block only has one light about fifty feet away, and the area around the apartment buildings is VERY unlit, so this thing really lit up the common area in the two seconds it whizzed in a straight line towards lake Michigan at twenty feet above the ground lighting up the area around it, again it was very bright and colourful and it left a "trail" in our eyes that lasted for a few seconds, kind of like seeing a bright flashlight in a black room.

This was not a meteorite or anything as I saw it fly to an altitude of maybe 150 feet before it dived and went by the window. shooting stars dont change course nor do they fly straight and level (at 20 feet) above the ground. We both work a lot and were not drinking at the time, we were just playing sky rim when we saw it.

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Red Orbs Near Lake Michigan At about 9pm on Sunday, August 17, 2014, while I was taking my puppy out to eliminate, I was struck by what I saw up in the sky. I initially saw about four to six red fireball shaped objects drifting together in a uniform pace and line. At first I thought they must be shooting stars, but on closer observation, it was clear that they were not that.

They did not seem very high up in the sky and were right above our neighborhood flying in an arc pattern. I called my husband to come out and he too saw them and confirmed that they were not shooting stars or airplanes. They were very quiet and appeared to shimmer and hover.

Several minutes later we saw two more slowly drifting along together. It seemed that they all flew slowly in pairs. We live one mile west of Lake Michigan and they were flying toward the southwest.

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The object rose above Lake Michigan 80-100ft and moved in every direction sporadically. It looked like a white light that apparently turned to reveal green-blue and red lights. We observed these lights two streets from the lake.

It moved smoothly and silently, disappearing behind trees to the south.

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UFO Bright light dissipated than vanished out of thin air I was outside taking the dogs out at my home, I looked up in the sky and seen this very very bright light. I watched the bright light for a few minutes and it was dropping lower and speeding up and slowing down. The light became pretty low and I watched it hovering in one spot for a minute or two.

Then it started to move slow and I seen the light slowly dissipating and than it vanished out of thin air, I even watched for an extra few minutes and no luck it never showed, there was no clouds in the sky either. I cant explain what I saw tonight, I do not think planes would just vanish out of thin air . ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Three Bright Lights over Manitowoc Three lights that were far enough apart as to indicate three separate objects. They traveled from the SW sky heading NE. They were relatively slow and made no apparent sound.

At first I tried to rule out flying objects because they appeared to be ground generated from a larger laser light. They were bright orangish-red. A light fog was rolling in off of Lake Michigan and as they headed over the lake and got behind the fog I could still see them slightly through the fog which indicated to me that they weren't ground generated.

They flew in a straight line.

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Horizontal line of bright white lights accompanied by very small, red lights zig zaging around the object. I have always been open to the idea of UFO’s and other phenomena, but I’ve never seen anything unexplainable prior to this evening. I am a full-time advertising sales representative at the local newspaper, as well as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

I am not well informed on this issue, but I hope that I can describe what I saw well enough to be helpful. At approximately 11:45pm on Monday, December 29th, I went outside to smoke a cigarette. The deck that is at the back of our home overlooks the woods on a portion of the Manitowoc River.

My view was partially obstructed by trees, but I clearly saw some distinct lights quite low to the ground. There were three white lights in a horizontal row, the middle light was the largest and brightest and most directly focused toward me. The shape of the object was difficult to discern completely because of the brightness of the lights and the fact that the lights were reflecting off of some kind of slight smoke or haziness.

It appeared to be either a stunted oblong shape or a slightly rounded diamond shape. It stayed practically stationary the whole time, but would occasionally sway horizontally to one side or the other. I kept staring at it to try to figure out what it was, and then I saw three or four very small red lights zig-zaging around it.

I also thought I heard a sort of reverberating humming sound, but I’m near the highway so that could’ve been anything. I strongly regret that I did not take any photos. I got scared and came inside.

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a white egg shaped light with a trail of blue-aqua colored streak behind it moving in a downward motion towards the ground. My wife and I were turning down the street, and I was sitting in the passanger seat. We started to turn into our driveway when I noticed, to my left, a white egg shaped light streaking in a downward motion towards the ground and then dissapeared.

It left a trail of blue-aqua colored streak of light behind it when it was moving downward. it seemed to be about 2000 feet in the air. i decided to report this because I cannot explain what this was.

i stayed outside for a short time later but was unable to see it again.

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Silver oval sitting still in sky One Silver oval object seen sitting still with white smoke on one side,very high in the sky. The sky was clear, sun was setting,it had no lights or sound. When we turned the car around and went back it was gone.

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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.

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Bizarre object scene over manitowoc airport I was sitting in the passenger seat of my friends car sometime in may. We drove to a field that is directly next to the manitowoc airport and parked in the field. Their is a roadway that goes into the field and stops somewhere in the middle.

I can't think of the exact direction that we were facing, but i think we were facing North. We were in the middle of a conversation when my friend shouted "what the HELL is that???" He was pointing out the window on my side of the car when i turned and saw what he was pointing at. This object was NO plane.

We had scene one plane go by allready and it was still visible behind our vehicle. The shape of the object was unclear because we did not get the side-view of it. If I sat directly strait it was 75 degrees to the right when we first saw it.

We hopped out of the car and watched it fly away shocked by what we were witnessing. We watched it move past the field and over the tree line. We jumped back into the car to see if we could chase it, but we couldent find it again.

What we were looking at is extremly hard to describe. It had lights that moved rythmicly over the back. The object could be best described as liquid light.

The light was red and Waved into the center (the center of the back, not the center of the object). The BACK of the object was cigar shaped (not to say that it was a cigar shaped object) but the object itself was barely visible. It flew very slow and couldent have been more then 55 meters off the ground.

It was larger then any aircraft that lands in manitowoc's airport. It also was completly silent. I will send a drawing if i can with this later.

I originally tried to report this about 2 days after it happened, but it didnt turn up on the site so i rewrote it today. Prior to this expirence I refused to believe that a UFO of extra terrestrial origins would ever come anywhere close to earth or even our galaxy. I dismised every report i had ever heard and thought the people were either just crazy or liars.

This expirents made me FAR more open to these stories. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Lights traveling in a north-northeast direction There were a pair of lights that did not make any sound traveling in a Northeasterly direction. The lights were silent and were traveling very slowly.

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I was siiting on my porch and i saw two perfectly round orbs. It was about 3:00 in the afternoon and i was sitting on my back porch tanning. I looked up and saw two round objects moving across the sky.

They were both perfectly round and one was followed by the other. They were going about the same speed as a jet. All of a sudden they moved opposite of each other very fast and crossed moving towards the ground as if they were crashing.

They went bellow the tree line and I couldnt find them again. They were both complete circles and had a orangish+red hue. Also all the lights in my house flickered and i couldnt here any animals or bugs.

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We were looking out in the easterly direction when we saw a chevron shaped object hovering above the lake We saw a chevron shaped object hovering over the lake. It seemed to move very slowly left to right. Then it disappeared.

It was seen by 3 people. The lights were orange and red color and seemed to fit the chevron shape that we saw. They were flickering on and off.

Almost immediately, it disappeared into the darkness.

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Two saucer-shaped objects at low-mid altitude, silver in color, moving eastward in broad daylight over the middle of town. It was a perfectly clear summer day. I don't remember the exact date, month or year, but I would estimate the summer of 1987.

I was in my back yard around mid-day and I looked up in the sky and saw two silver disk-shaped UFOs flying eastward toward Lake Michigan at a rapid speed. We lived in the middle of the city near the corner of South 35th Street and Custer Street. The objects were flying at about the altitude a single-engine prop plane might fly.

The UFOs were flying at slightly different altitudes but perfectly parallel to each other and at the same speed. The objects were circular in shape, but not as flat as a saucer. The bottom of the objects were smooth and metallic, but had seams/crevices originating in the center and extending to the edge of the object, almost like the edge of a scallop shell or sea shell.

The objects made no sound. The objects were flying directly overhead in an easterly direction. I ran into the house to notify my mom, who came outside in time to see the objects herself but not in time to capture a photograph as their speed was too high and they had disappeared on the horizon within about 20 seconds' time.

In hindsight, my first thought was that the objects were two round parachutes or balloons, but there were a few problems that would make that impossible. The objects were flying low enough to tell there was nothing suspended from the bottom-- no person and no scientific instruments. The objects could not have been parachutes because the bottom of the objects were not concave.

Most importantly, it was clearly visible that the objects were not made of fabric, but of a harder material; and there were no ripples or indentations caused by the wind. Lastly and most importantly, the objects were moving too fast to be an un-propelled object such as a balloon, parachute, or a fan-propelled parachute. The object was moving at at least the speed of a small single-engine prop plane-- faster than the wind could naturally move the objects, especially on a clear day.

What is most interesting about this sighting is that it was in the middle of the day, over a metropolitan area of about 35,000 people. This is the first time I have ever posted this story online, but I have told many friends and relatives about the sighting. I have done a lot of research to try to find photos of the objects online, similar stories both in Manitowoc and elsewhere, but I have found nothing.

The only similar story is a sighting that took place in 1987 in Sheboygan in the northern sky, also in mid-day. That sighting is similar in geographic location, time of day, and the color and shape of the object (silver and round). It differs in that the sighting only mentions one object (not two), and they witnessed oscillation, which I did not.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date may be approximate. PD)).