CaseDiamond2015

Franklin, WI, USA

Diamond or prism shaped flickering light in N/NE sky over Milwaukee. Obj. was holding steady in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-09-13
Where
Franklin, WI, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
30+ minutes
Geo
42.889, -88.038 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-franklin-wi-2015-ef73c0
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

  • One of 14 documented reports from Franklin, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Wisconsin logged 130 sightings in 2015.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Report

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