Stoughton, WI, USA
Near Stoughton, Wisconsin in the summer of 1966, a family reported an alleged abduction experience associated with a sphere-shaped object, lasting about one hour.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-15
- Where
- Stoughton, WI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 42.917, -89.218 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-stoughton-wi-1966-7c8e37
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Stoughton, WI shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Wisconsin in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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