CaseLight2004

Beaver Dam, WI, USA

Very bright motionless light suddenly vanishes, and a separate fast moving light/object vanishes earlier ((NUFORC Note: Venus. 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: 2250s, 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
2004-05-05
Where
Beaver Dam, WI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30-45 minutes
Geo
43.458, -88.837 · exact
Slug
light-over-beaver-dam-wi-2004-850cb6
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

  • Beaver Dam, WI shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 53 reports came from Wisconsin in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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