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UFO sightings in Wisconsin

There are 88 civilian UFO sighting reports from Wisconsin in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1968 to 2013. The busiest year was 2013, with 14 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (28), sphere (19) and triangle (11).

Most reports come from Milwaukee (10), Gleason (5) and Kenosha (4), out of 53 places in the state with at least one report.

By place

UFO sightings by city in Wisconsin

Places with at least three reports. 45 other places in Wisconsin have one or two.

The reports

Recent sighting reports from Wisconsin

All 88 reports, newest first.

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  1. 26 Oct 2013 · 19:55EdgertonRectangle· 5 min

    Twin vertical, bluish light that pulsed to red then glowed to yellow.

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  2. 26 Oct 2013 · 19:00KenoshaOrb· 10 min

    two glowing white lights moving back and forth in sky

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  3. 25 Oct 2013 · 19:00MilwaukeeSphere· 2 min

    Reddish orange lights floating in the sky from west to east

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  4. 21 Oct 2013 · 23:00Twin LakesOrb· 15 min

    UFO glowing circle of light perfectly still then vanishes.

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  5. 21 Oct 2013 · 19:45Two RiversDisc· 15 min

    Unexplained lights over Lake Michigan and lake shore.

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  6. 21 Oct 2013 · 06:36MilwaukeeOther· 10 s

    I was pulling into work at 6:36am and a bright blue light lit up the sky. There were many clouds and this light was behind them. It f

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  7. 19 Oct 2013 · 20:53Fond Du LacOrb· 5 min

    3 seperate orange spheres flew from the southwest to the northeast, flickered and then disappeared into the sky.

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  8. 19 Oct 2013 · 20:15OshkoshSphere· 10 min

    2 objects over Oshkosh.

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  9. 19 Oct 2013 · 00:00Eau ClaireDisc· 3 min

    Four oval orange lights seen near Eau Claire Wi

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  10. 14 Oct 2013 · 19:30Green BayOrb· 3 min

    Silent light UFO spotted and rose into the clouds.

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  11. 13 Oct 2013 · 20:00Jefferson/Johnson CreekOrb· 20 min

    Saw abnormal lights over jefferson county

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  12. 11 Oct 2013 · 22:08DresserSphere· 1 min

    Large Orange Sphere over Polk county Wisconsin.

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  13. 2 Oct 2013 · 18:00JanesvilleCigar· 1 h

    Noticed Odd Shape Stationary Bright Light In Sky.

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  14. 1 Oct 2013 · 23:30ArlingtonOther· 10 min

    Strange Green/Purple and Orange Dancing Lights Above Farm Field.

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  15. 26 Oct 2012 · 20:00HartlandDisc· 1 h

    UFO Sighting In Hartland Wisconsin October 26, 2012.

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  16. 20 Oct 2012 · 20:30JacksonOrb· 10 min

    Two Unidentified Objects observed over Washington County (Wisconsin)

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  17. 20 Oct 2012 · 19:45Eau ClaireOrb· 5 min

    Three groups , each between 5 and 10 objects moved across the sky and disappeared low in sky-Another group appearing shortly after.

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  18. 20 Oct 2012 · 19:00JacksonOrb· 5 min

    Strange bright yellow lights moving across the sky.

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  19. 17 Oct 2012 · 02:15MertonAmorphous· 4 min

    UFO sightings almost every night now days

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  20. 15 Oct 2012 · 18:50Menomonee FallsFormation· 5 min

    Three orange, oddly moving lights in the shape of a giant triangle seen over Waukesha Co.

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  21. 15 Oct 2012 · 00:30HartlandAmorphous· 10 min

    UFO sightings every day in Hartland WI

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  22. 12 Oct 2012 · 20:00WaukeshaSphere· 15 min

    25 orange lights in the sky

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  23. 1 Oct 2012 · 20:00RacineOther· 15 min

    Odd lights in formation appering and disappering.

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  24. 27 Oct 2011 · 23:30MadisonTriangle· 7 s

    Triangular craft over Madison, WI

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  25. 27 Oct 2011 · 22:00MarshfieldTriangle· 1 min

    Wisconsin, Triangular, 3 red lights, no sound

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  26. 23 Oct 2011 · 22:15MukwonagoTriangle· 2 min

    My 13 year-old son spotted three bright orange lights in the sky while I was driving in a distance. We were trying to make sense of wh

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  27. 22 Oct 2011 · 03:15WausauDisc· 45 min

    3 "headlights" and 1 red light on the "back". It was a metallic chrome with hardly any sound, very slow and low to the ground

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  28. 21 Oct 2011 · 07:35GrantonOrb· 3 min

    Two different lights pass over Granton, WI, meeting and passing very close with jet following?

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  29. 2 Oct 2010 · 22:55Twin LakesCigar· 15 s

    Navy blue lighted wide object appeared over Twin Lakes Wisconsin and disappeared behind trees.

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  30. 1 Oct 2010 · 08:30MiddletonOther· 3 min

    Glowing orange barrel-shaped objects in sky over town of Middleton, WI

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  31. 25 Oct 2009 · 18:15Sturgeon BayDisc· 6 min

    Low Flying oval craft with flashing colored lights moving slowly across the sky.

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  32. 18 Oct 2009 · 04:00MilwaukeeOther· 30 s

    yellow circle that materialized with a small circular craft and then vanished afterwards

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  33. 11 Oct 2009 · 21:55MadisonOrb· 3 min

    Amber orange light moving very slowly, dimming out, shooting away.

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  34. 26 Oct 2008 · 06:00LarsenOrb· 4 min

    Vast moving bright light traveling west to east at approximately 4 + mach with no sound.

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  35. 10 Oct 2008 · 22:30MadisonSphere· 20 s

    Tanslucent orange/yellow UFO in Madison WI

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  36. 26 Oct 2007 · 20:15WaukeshaOrb· 30 s

    Dancing, circulating lights observed in Waukesha neighborhood.

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  37. 24 Oct 2007 · 05:30KenoshaOther· 5 s

    they did not burn up as normal and were a much more greenish color of light then a meteor

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  38. 21 Oct 2007 · 04:00Eau ClaireFormation· 10 s

    Arrow shape flying fast

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  39. 20 Oct 2007 · 20:00Rock FallsOrb· 15 min

    Arcing green lights viewed at night in rural Wisconsin. ((NUFORC Note: Report is suggestive to us of advertising lights. PD))

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  40. 19 Oct 2007 · 02:00BruleSphere· 1 h

    3 objects 1 white 1 red and 1 blue. red and blue pictures show it best zoom in and go hmm whats that!

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  41. 13 Oct 2007 · 24:00HudsonSphere· 3 min

    6 Balls of Light Swooping Behind Chem-Clouds 9:30 p.m. CST

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  42. 12 Oct 2007 · 21:30AppletonSphere· 5 min

    Blue circluar ufo

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  43. 22 Oct 2006 · 16:00PaoliSphere· 30 s

    Metalic aerial object seen from vehicle to the west of Paoli, WI.

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  44. 25 Oct 2005 · 23:00MilwaukeeTriangle· 2 min

    I have never seen anything like this before in my life.

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  45. 19 Oct 2005 · 22:45MilwaukeeTriangle· 5 min

    Tilted Strobing Lights in the Sky... Circular or Triangular Object

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  46. 17 Oct 2005 · 18:05MilwaukeeSphere· 1 s

    Glowing object on Milwaukee's lakefront

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  47. 15 Oct 2005 · 23:00GleasonSphere· 2 s

    One sphere craft (viewed by two different groups) similar characteristics of the craft.

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  48. 15 Oct 2005 · 22:30GleasonSphere· 5 s

    orange spherical-shaped ufo flies over lake; amazing speed

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  49. 15 Oct 2005 · 22:00GleasonSphere· 20 min

    orange glowing sphere, very low to the ground

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  50. 15 Oct 2005 · 01:30La CrosseFormation· 5 s

    5 lights in V formation, racing across night sky before abruptly disappearing

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  51. 23 Oct 2004 · 14:05GreendaleSphere· 5 s

    "UFO Files" Observation

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  52. 10 Oct 2004 · 23:30GleasonSphere· 50 min

    It was about 9:30PM my friend and I were going to go out deer shining with my step dads truck and my friends spotlight. We left his hou

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  53. 26 Oct 2003 · 18:30Stevens PointSphere· 5 min

    I observed a circular yellow-orange-red flashing light go above the tree line straight east of Wal-mart at Hwy 10 and Brilowski Road

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  54. 21 Oct 2003 · 21:00RacineSphere· 30 min

    Circular craft over Lake Michigan

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  55. 18 Oct 2003 · 21:30MukwonagoOrb· 20 min

    Fireball flew over our heads on a clear night.

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  56. 18 Oct 2003 · 21:30MukwonagoOrb· 15 min

    Orange Ball in the West Sky.

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  57. 14 Oct 2003 · 23:50TregoOther· 1 min

    Oct 14th뺓 - about midnight, huge ufo in eastern sky in Trego, Wisconsin

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  58. 10 Oct 2003 · 23:25GleasonSphere· 30 min

    UFO Contact, Amazing close sighting

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  59. 10 Oct 2002 · 00:01HaywardOrb· 43 s

    we saw pure a light that occasionaly split into 3 to 4 different lights.

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  60. 1 Oct 2002 · 06:30MonroeOrb· 20 min

    Very intense orange-yellow light moves from south to north in early A.M. and late P.M.

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  61. 22 Oct 2001 · 23:00Sturgeon BayOrb· 30 min

    strange light

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  62. 22 Oct 2001 · 00:35VeronaTriangle· 7 s

    Transparent object of unknown origin, exhibiting previously unknown capabilities, appears overhead.

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  63. 16 Oct 2001 · 20:30PlymouthTriangle· 5 min

    A large quiet moving object that has dim star like lights that formed a triangle like shape.

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  64. 16 Oct 2001 · 20:30PlymouthTriangle· 5 min

    A very large, quiet, moving, object with dim lit star like lights that formed a triangle like shape.

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  65. 11 Oct 2001 · 01:00Somerset?Orb· 3 h

    My brother and I went outside to have a smoke and then noticed a moving, multicolored light in the sky....

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  66. 22 Oct 2000 · 04:30OshkoshOther· 15 min

    Flashing lights around planet or star.

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  67. 21 Oct 2000 · 09:30AlmaDisc· 15 s

    white/silver, oval, high altitude high rate of speed

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  68. 20 Oct 2000 · 21:00KenoshaOrb· 5 h

    Stars that move erradically and make trails like meteors.

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  69. 16 Oct 2000 · 18:10KenoshaOrb· 20 s

    Bright object seen moving across the sky shortly before sunset.

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  70. 10 Oct 2000 · 16:00JueanuTriangle· 45 s

    5 bight light V shaped

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  71. 26 Oct 1999 · 14:45OshkoshCigar· 7 s

    On my way to work I was traveling south on highway 41 between Oshkosh and Fond Du Lac, Wi. I was watching a plane high in the air spray

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  72. 24 Oct 1999 · 11:30BaldwinOrb· 2 h

    I am a former pilot and current skydiving student. I was near a small private airport in Baldwin WI watching several loads of jumpers

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  73. 20 Oct 1999 · 22:30MilwaukeeSphere· 8 s

    Bluish Orb Seen Above Milwaukee, WI on Wednesday 10/20/99

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  74. 13 Oct 1999 · 19:45BoscobelOrb· 5 min

    A red light making smoke and stopped making smoke going east.

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  75. 11 Oct 1999 · 06:10Somerset?Other· 2 min

    Huge pulsating red light over I-94. High overhead, moving east

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  76. 26 Oct 1998 · 04:50PewaukeeOrb· 30 s

    three blue green firebals falling.

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  77. 24 Oct 1998 · 20:15MilwaukeeOrb· 2 min

    observation of an orange object in the night sky

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  78. 23 Oct 1998 · 17:00New BerlinDisc· 7 min

    Three disc shaped objects with 2 C Shaped formations extending from each side. Objects were hovering motionless & in an instant vanishe

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  79. 15 Oct 1998 · 22:35Port WashingtonTriangle· 2 min

    Craft a cross between Triangle/Chevron/Arrowhead/Diamond; clear, starry night; witnessed what I believe to be: quiet, low humming craft

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  80. 1 Oct 1998 · 23:10MosineeOther· 5 min

    I was driving south on U.S. Hwy 51 and I saw a craft that didn't move for 5 or more minutes. The craft also made no noise.

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  81. 15 Oct 1997 · 20:00WestfeildOrb· 4 min

    We were driving down the road. We saw it out of the window. we lost track of it and then saw it again whan we reached our destination.

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  82. 1 Oct 1997 · 19:00Green BayOrb· 20 min

    Three red lights

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  83. 14 Oct 1995 · 22:30MadisonOther· 6 min

    Co. emerg. dispatch relays sighting of "pointed, oval obj." by family of 4. When bright light dimmed, "spikes sticking out" visible.

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  84. 10 Oct 1995 · 19:45MilwaukeeOther· 2 min

    Man on Hwy 43 SW of Milwaukee sees large, bright blue light streak by his car, descend, turn, cross road ahead, strobe. Bizarre!

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  85. 10 Oct 1988 · 18:00MilwaukeeTriangle· 10 min

    A silent black triangular object with no lights moved over us as we walked our dog across a school playground.

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  86. 26 Oct 1987 · 23:00JacksonFormation· 1 min

    3 reddish orange objects spotted in formation.

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  87. 15 Oct 1976 · 23:00AlmenaOther· 4 h

    Electrical failure of my reliable vehicle and some missing time.

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  88. 15 Oct 1968 · 20:00BancroftOrb· 2 min

    Two, non-blinking white lights perform a high speed, 75-degree ascent.

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Where these reports come from

Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.