La Crosse, WI, USA
Extremely bright white light that I captured on camera over the city of La Crosse WI
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-05
- Where
- La Crosse, WI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- second
- Geo
- 43.801, -91.240 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-la-crosse-wi-2009-4842b1
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
- This is one of 24 reports logged in La Crosse, WI.
- This case is one of 63 Wisconsin reports filed in 2009.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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