Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA
Distant sphere-shaped object in the sky seen moving about in unpredictable and impossible directions over Lake Michigan.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-28
- Where
- Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- About half an hour
- Geo
- 44.834, -87.377 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sturgeon-bay-wi-2011-c148f6
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…
In context
- Sturgeon Bay, WI has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 114 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.