Other over West Bend, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
i was driving down hwy 33 east and i was just on the outside of west bend when i saw this unknown light above trees and marsh. i have b
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July 23, 2022 · 10:54 AM · CIRCLE
West Bend, WI
I was driving home from dropping of a friend during a really bad rain storm from west bend highway to menomonee falls, wipers where on max and I couldn’t see anything, I was sliding in water and almost ran off the road a couple times, I said to myself I might actually die then I see a very bright light illuminate in front of me in the sky not up but straight ahead, and I could see everything now but I thought it was lighting at first until I noticed the light was green and then turned red and that’s when I got a little scared and I looked ahead and saw a black circle in the sky like the emoji and the lights where coming from behind it and then it went from red to blue and then everything just went dark again and I couldn’t see anything anymore just how it was before the lights. I thought it could’ve been lighting when I saw the green light but once the red appears instead of green and was still aluminating the sky I was confused and looked straight a head and seen the black circle kinda looked like the silhouette of the moon but not up in the sky but straight ahead
April 27, 2017 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
West Bend, WI
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2014 · 8:15 PM · UNKNOWN
West Bend, WI
Leaving my parents' home, they walked me to my car. My father and I are typically looking up when we can for satellites, aircraft or celestial bodies. My father was discussing flashing satellites and he spotted a strobe and pointed it out. I'm a bit of an aviation enthusiast and this did not fit into anything I could readily explain. It was a strobe, but interval was just over slower. I would say approaching 3 to 4 seconds. A single xenon-like strobe (blu-ish) was all that was visible to us. My father and I both thought weather/observation balloon as it was coming from the North heading SSE. Twelve to fifteen seconds after initial observation was when the path deviated. It appeared to head to the East. It turned out that this was a loop to the East and after approximately 360 degrees it slowed to near stationary for 3 or 4 flashes of the strobe and either started a slow descent or heading East again when we lost it. My father went for his binoculars! at this time and I walked to the North along the road to a more open spot from atop a hill. Neither my father or mother nor I saw it after that, though I spotted a faint orange meteorite (assumed) dispersing in the North. I asked my parents if they were messing with me as they'd recently been in contact with a commercial pilot friend of mine who was into RC aircraft as I am. They said no. I thought it moved as if it could have been a radio-controlled quad-copter, but heard no motor whine at all. If it were at a much higher altitude, I cannot fathom a civilian RC aircraft that had that rate of speed. I don't know that a weather/observation balloon would make a loop as this did unless there is some wind phenomenon I'm unaware of (which is possible.) The last explanation I could think of was perhaps a night-skydiver wearing a strobe. It would explain the loop and apparent stationary position afterward, but the strobe did not increase in intensity I would expect with the descent that would occur. Also, the local municipal airport does not have skydiving and I saw no GA aircraft headed back to the airport or in sight at all.
September 27, 2014 · 9:12 PM · TRIANGLE
West Bend, WI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
West Bend, WI
5 Orange/Red orbs/fireballs in a parallel line with the last one trailing behind. The last caught up to the 4 other orbs and they disappeared. I would estimate they were 5-10 thousand feet high and about a half mile away from our location. Total time we observed was about 6 minutes. The orbs looked to be about the size of an average house.
July 20, 2013 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
West Bend, WI
Large orange oval glow from South to W Bend, hovering, noiseless and then disappearing rapidly.