Waupaca, WI, USA
Saw multiple flying objects; first there were three and then one and then 3 again. Heading toward Iola. ((anonymous report))
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-16
- Where
- Waupaca, WI, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 44.358, -89.086 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-waupaca-wi-2016-6d9fd3
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
- Waupaca, WI has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 121 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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