CaseOval1980

Black Earth, WI, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Black Earth, WI, USA
Start: 1980-07-01
Location: Black Earth, WI, USA

Bright, orange, silent oval that looked like a lower-case "e" moving slowly across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (91 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1980-07-01
Where: Black Earth, WI, USA
Shape: Oval
Duration: 1.5 minutes
Geo: 43.137, -89.747 · exact
Slug: oval-over-black-earth-wi-1980-dd33f0

In context

This is one of 1 reports logged in Black Earth, WI.
This case is one of 4 Wisconsin reports filed in 1980.
Oval craft made up 5.2% of 1980s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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