CaseLight1977

Black River Falls, WI, USA

My girl friend and had been on a road trip to see my brother further up north. I turned off the interstate to take a short cut but I ma

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-18
Where
Black River Falls, WI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
44.295, -90.852 · exact
Slug
light-over-black-river-falls-wi-1977-4be262
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • Black River Falls, WI has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 5 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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