Onalaska, WI, USA
Large shiny silver ball, stop in mid flight and then moved off quickly at a sharp right angle, and dissappeared.large
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-10
- Where
- Onalaska, WI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.884, -91.235 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-onalaska-wi-1997-eb99d3
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Onalaska, WI.
- This case is one of 21 Wisconsin reports filed in 1997.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.