Milwaukee, WI, USA
Glowing object on Milwaukee's lakefront
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-17
- Where
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- <1 second
- Geo
- 43.039, -87.906 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-milwaukee-wi-2005-7b5508
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Milwaukee, WI reports filed in October 2005.
In context
- Milwaukee, WI shows up 124 times across the archive.
- 66 reports came from Wisconsin in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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