Cigar over Wausau, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Source of the report provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133070). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-03-08 → 2017-03-25
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November 17, 2020 · 11:45 AM · LIGHT
Wausau, WI
Small object flickering in various colors (mainly white but occasionally flickering blue, green, and red). Has been hovering in roughly the same position for well over an hour now. It’s hovering too high to be a drone and has been there for too long (drone pilots only have so much battery life and tend to move a lot to get as much done as possible in a single charge) It has moved around slightly but not like a helicopter, plane, or satellite would. It’s movements are similar to a drone but again it’s up too high and has been there for over an hour. It’s also probably worth noting the stability of its movement. It moves side to side like a drone but when it stays still it maintains a spot in the sky without moving at all. It’s a windy night...there’s no way that things a drone. It has been moving more since I started writing this. It’s a very slow and inconsistent movement south. It moves for a little bit but then maintains a position in the sky for minutes a! t a time. I can’t identify a shape it’s up too high but it’s definitely flickering various colors while predominantly remaining white...maybe I’m over looking something but this is weird.
April 19, 2020 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Wausau, WI
I was sitting in my hot tub with my wife and I was in mid sentence when a triangular type something caught my eye. At first I thought it was a flock of birds as it was pretty low, but it was moving way too fast to be birds and the formation of the white triangles was in perfect symmetry. It flew from east to west over my house. I assume it was one craft with about 10-14 white triangles on the bottom there were no lights associated with it and no sound that I could hear. The only reason I could see it was the white triangles were reflecting against the black sky. My wife had her glasses off so she couldn’t see it.
October 5, 2019 · 8:17 PM · DIAMOND
Wausau, WI
Once the object crossed my path, it quickly sped up and I lost track of it due to its speed, the tree line, and my focus needing to remain on the road.
May 27, 2019 · 10:30 PM · CIGAR
Wausau, WI
Standing outside showing my son constellations, satellites and airplanes at about 10:30pm when an extremely large linear object with 8-9 white lights in a row appeared in the WSW sky. Over the course of 30-45 seconds we watched it silently move across the night sky ENE. A second later a plane appeared just off the path of the unknown object, the plane dwarfed in size compared to the massive size of whatever it was we seen. We ran in the house to tell my husband and he said the cat was just screaming like he was stuck. He ran to help the cat but our cat was at the door screaming for us. My son is completely freaked out. Space Link satellites. PD
April 9, 2018 · 8:48 PM · CHANGING
Wausau, WI
I was outside facing east. I saw what I first believed to be either a meteor or a disending sattilite. But I noticed a form behind the light which was in the shape of a pill or tick tack. The object then seemed to slow and change either shape or direction. It then stopped and became a light a bit larger than my thumb nail at arm's lenght . When it disappered it didnt just go away but closed from the outside in ; until I could no longer see it. It traveled (facing east) from my "5 o'clock and stopped and vanished at my 11 o'clock. (south west headed north east. I have not yet ask any one else in the neighborhood if they say it but will and report if so.