La Crosse, WI, USA
this will be related to another report.... but we saw this cigar shaped object going slow and i thought it was going to stall..... it w
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-25
- Where
- La Crosse, WI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 43.801, -91.240 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-la-crosse-wi-2004-1e1259
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
- La Crosse, WI has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 53 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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