CaseDisk1990

Platteville, WI, USA

Close encounter on the highway with a hovering craft / bright lights (white, red and orange).

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-01-15
Where
Platteville, WI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
42.734, -90.478 · exact
Slug
disk-over-platteville-wi-1990-0e9f94
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Platteville, WI.
  • This case is one of 11 Wisconsin reports filed in 1990.
  • Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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