Fireball over Greenfield, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We have amended the time above, to reflect a sighting at midnight, not noon. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129642). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-08-30 → 2016-09-16
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July 7, 2022 · 10:13 PM · OTHER
Greenfield, WI
I am contacting you in regards to multiple incidents that my family and I witnessed on Thursday July 7th, 2022. Around 10pm, my fiance and I took our 4yr old son and our dog for a walk in our neighborhood. Maybe 10 minutes into our walk, my fiance asked me "what the hell is that?" and pointed to sky. There was a bright orange glowing object flying in a northeastern direction, above us. I scrambled to get my phone out to take photos and a video of it. It flew almost directly above us, making NO noise/sound. The bright orange light began to dim and went completely dark within seconds. The object was barely visible and appeared almost transparent(I described it as being similar to the Predator's "camouflage" from the original Predator movie)before completely disappearing. I was able to get a short video and a few photos during this first incident. Once we calmed down (we were pretty freaked out)we continued on our walk. We were now on the street, directly south, of the street we live on and only 1/2 block away from the first sighting. Out of nowhere, I see another bright orange glowing object, flying northeast, in our direction. Again, I was able to get a short video and a few photos of the object. Just like the first, it was making no sound/noise and began to dim and then disappear within seconds. We were now concerned and hurried back to our house. My dog and I were 2 houses away from our home, as I spotted another one. My fiance had gone ahead with our son, to get him inside to safety, but were still in the garage, when I yelled for her. Unknowingly, one of our neighbors was outside and heard the commotion. When I showed her one of the videos, her daughter said that her brother had seen something similar, while swimming in their pool. They too, could not explain, nor identify what these "things" were. I then set up my son's telescope in our backyard, facing south to southwest, the direction that these objects all came from. My fiance was inside, with our son and our dog, putting my son to bed. After 30 to 45 minutes, of no further sightings and multiple mosquitoe bites, I decided to pack up and head inside. I put the telescope and chair, that I was sitting on, in the garage and turned to close the door to the backyard and saw another one. I banged on the kitchen window, to alert my fiance, and tried to turn the light inside the garage off, but instead I hit the button to open the garage door. By the time I looked back, it was gone. This took place in a span of 10 seconds, maybe less. Now my adrenaline was going and decided to smoke a cigarette or two, ro help my calm down, before going inside. No Bull Sh!t, another "orange light" appeared, heading the same direction, some distance away but directly in line with the house behind ours. Again, I banged on the kitchen window to alert my fiance. This time, however, the garage light was already off and I was able to get both a video and a few photos of the "orange light". In all of the videos that I was able to take of these "things", you can see them moving/traveling and in one or two of the videos you are able to see the objects change direction. You are also able to see these things begin to dim and even disappear in most of the videos I took. I can not emphasize enough, how bright and vibrant these things were. I am baffled. There was little to no wind that night, you can check the weather reports or watch the trees in my videos. They made no noise. Everyone we saw was heading in the same direction. If it was a drone or something, I would think that it would have to turn around at some point, let alone the distance that these traveled were far greater than what I would suspect a drone could travel and be remotely controled. Additionally, we are not too far away from the airport and I'm sure that there are some rules/regulations in regards to flying drones near airports. I don't know? I don’t know what we saw, but I do know that I have never seen anything like it before. I tried to attach a couple videos and photos during my first attempt at contacting you/filling a report, but failed. Please contact me so I am able to get you these videos and photos. Please feel free to contact me with any other questions or concerns.
October 18, 2016 · 2:20 PM · DISK
Greenfield, WI
Driving down 76th St, heading south towards 894 to get on highway. Saw a disk in the sky moving slowly going from east to west. Way too low for an airplane, maybe about 400-500 feet off the ground. Unusual look to it because it was so bright at times, assuming it was sunlight reflecting off of it but maybe it was its own light as well. Object stopped and got a better look at it. It was silver, disk-shaped, wouldn't say it was a large object but a good enough size. It sat there for about 20 seconds then it began to move southwest, starting slowly then picking up speed, going so fast that it was just a dot in about 20ish seconds. The whole thing lasted about 2 minutes, maybe close to three. First time experiencing something like this, never thought it would be this casual in the day time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 2, 2015 · 11:00 AM · CHANGING
Greenfield, WI
While I'm on my way to work, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, as I sat at the traffic light waiting for it to change. I looked my right, west, there was something relatively low in the sky that I initially thought was a balloon. It was hovering over and near a strip mall. But as I'm watching it, it changed shape as it flew rather slowly. Its color seemed to be copper. I couldn't really tell how far away it was or how big it was or how far away it was. As I'm watching it- it vanishes! It just disappears in an instant. I don't know how long it was in the sky as I rolled up to the stop light, but I only caught 2 minutes of it. I also want to mention, I've been experiencing truly paranormal (?) events with UFOs since about 2011 and on a fairly regular basis. I live in Wisconsin suburbs, so it's not like I'm out in the middle of nowhere.
August 5, 2014 · 8:46 PM · CIRCLE
Greenfield, WI
Was walking out of a local walmart. Noticed a person looking up in the sky. I observed two orange fire balls raise off the ground straight into the air, to the south of my location. Once fire balls reached 2000-3000 ft off the ground they quickly burned out. I ran to my car and grabbed my night sky binoculars. Once I focused on the two objects I noticed two very black cylinders floating to the west direction. It may sound dtrange but I have never seen anything so deep in the color black before. Almost metallic blackish. They slowly floated out of my view leaving me puzzeled as to what they were. Much too small to be a plane but too big for a balloon. Both very solid objects.
March 31, 2001 · 9:10 PM · FLASH
Greenfield, WI
There were three quick trailing flashes in the sky; direction of objects were eastshotting south to north. This occurred 2 times within