Racine, WI, USA
21:00 hours and total of five fast moving red objects going WSW to East at low altitude, no engine noise, no aircraft lights
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-15
- Where
- Racine, WI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.726, -87.783 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-racine-wi-2016-0c7fed
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
- Racine, WI has 37 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 121 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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