CaseFormation2019

Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA

A line of 3-5 lights. ((NUFORC Note: Probably Starlink satellites? PD))((anonymous source))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (21 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
2019-05-26
Where
Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
3
Geo
44.834, -87.377 · exact
Slug
formation-over-sturgeon-bay-wi-2019-27fe09
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

  • Sturgeon Bay, WI has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 136 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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