CaseUnknown2012

Rhinelander, WI, USA

White lights over rhinelander wisconsin

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-17
Where
Rhinelander, WI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
45.637, -89.412 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-rhinelander-wi-2012-52f4c8
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

  • Rhinelander, WI has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 157 reports from Wisconsin.

Report

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