Irma, WI, USA
300ft silver cigar shape, 900 ft up, no wings, windows, engines, sound, Lights, markings, fuselage, tail section, or exhaust!!!
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-10
- Where
- Irma, WI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 45.351, -89.667 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-irma-wi-2016-1f8612
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Irma, WI has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 121 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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