CaseDisk1997

Hayward, WI, USA

I was driving with my son and noticed what I thought was a plane, but wondered why it was so low above the tree line...the as it moved

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-10
Where
Hayward, WI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
three minutes
Geo
46.013, -91.485 · exact
Slug
disk-over-hayward-wi-1997-351ff1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Hayward, WI has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 21 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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