CaseSphere2020

Waupaca, WI, USA

Brightest object in the sky next to the moon. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus in the western sky? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-02-28
Where
Waupaca, WI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
44.358, -89.086 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-waupaca-wi-2020-2f5841
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Waupaca, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Wisconsin logged 137 sightings in 2020.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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