Rectangle over Wisconsin Rapids, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
When I was walking out to the barn to check on the animals as I do everynight, I always look up at the sky on clear nights. I never expected to see the object I did. It was high up in the sky in the West direction, was very bright like a prism, and took on a slight rectangular shape, almost square It was close enough, there was no way too miss seeing it. It came straight down very fast, and just disappeared before hitting ground. There was no sound, no aircraft, etc around. We are out in the country. I wondered if it was falling space junk from a satellite, but there was no flashing light, or suggestion that anything was "burning out".
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144019). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-12-06 → 2018-12-23
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