CaseRectangle2020
Franklin, WI, USA
Large flat black rectangular shape just hanging in sky.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-31
- Where
- Franklin, WI, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30-60 seconds
- Geo
- 42.889, -88.038 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-franklin-wi-2020-9e778c
Wave
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
- Franklin, WI has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 137 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2020s skewed 1.8% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.