CaseCircle2004

Pelican Lake, WI, USA

it was stationary object very high in the afternoon clear sky, which was visible until dark and gone the next day

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-20
Where
Pelican Lake, WI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 hours
Geo
45.499, -89.167 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pelican-lake-wi-2004-fd05d4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Pelican Lake, WI.
  • This case is one of 53 Wisconsin reports filed in 2004.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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