Other over Janesville, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Small black dot, VERY HIGH ALTITUDE, hovering and no movement, may have been rolling, hard to see
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158270). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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October 30, 2021 · 7:37 AM · OTHER
Janesville, WI
My son first spotted it and said I needed to come look at the moon. It was 7:37 ish and I knew that sometimes early in the morning you can see the moon before it goes down. I stepped out of my house and looked up and saw a glowing crescent shape that looked just like a moon. What was weird was that it seemed to me moving and so I kept looking at it. I then noticed it was moving and I was trying to determine if it was moving or clouds were moving across it. After a couple of minutes I could see it was moving and it wasn’t moving down like a moon setting in the early morning. Instead it was moving like a plane or a jet. There was no smoke trail or exhaust coming off of it like there would be with a jet or plane. It also did not make any noise like a plane or a jet would have. It kept moving and was moving towards me so that it was moving over me. If I was to hold a dime up it would have covered it. It also seemed to kind of glow like a moon would. It clearly w! as not a moon because it moved south to north. It was a clear day with only a few clouds and temperature was in the 40s. I watched it for a bit and took several photos and videos. In one video on my phone camera it went blurry but I didn’t change the focus and when I looked at it in the sky I could still see crescent shape but on my phone it became kind of a glowing blob. I do not like near an airforce base or military base. There is a very small airport near and it made no sound like a plane. It also moved too fast to be a hot air balloon and it glowed kind of. I went in just for a second and looked back out and it was gone.
February 11, 2020 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Janesville, WI
I was driving south on Harmony Town Hall road between Rotamer and Wilcox roads approximately 3 miles northeast of Janesville, Wisconsin. The sky was dark and clear, visibility was unlimited and the stars were shining brightly. My wife and I both noticed two groups of bright lights in the sky which appeared to be similar to aircraft flying in formation. The unusual thing was the color, all 5 objects were round and solid orange in color. I am a pilot and very familiar with aircraft lighting, there were no visible navigation lights (red or green) nor any white strobe lights. I pulled over to the side and stopped near the Wilcox road intersection. Despite the temperature being around 20 degrees (F) we opened the front seat windows and moon roof window to reduce internal light reflection in order to see clearly. One group of 3 lights was at our 2 o’clock position moving to the left (eastbound). The other group of 2 lights were at our 1 o’clock position moving in the same direction. At arm’s length I probably would relate all of the lights size to that of a BB that was bright orange. The two orange lights at our 1 o’clock position maneuvered unlike any flight formation would. The trailing light, which was to the right following the lead light, sped up and appeared to either pass through or around the other and it became the lead light still heading east. As they continued eastbound, the lights dimmed until they disappeared. The following group of three, continued moving east and two of the three lights dimmed in intensity and disappeared, leaving one light visible which by now was just about over the top of our ! van. With the moon roof open, we could not hear any sound from the light. As it passed over, it accelerated to an incredible speed and disappeared towards the east horizon in a matter of two or three seconds. I could not guess what the exact altitude might have been of any of the objects, but my guess would be based on the angle in relation to the horizon when we first noticed them, I would say maybe around 3,000 feet. The distance that last one covered would probably have taken a commercial airliner at altitude probably 5 minutes or more to cover. I am a licensed private pilot and worked for 4 years as an air traffic control specialist (tower) at one time. I since have retired from many years in manufacturing management. I am very familiar with the different types of aircraft but have never seen anything like what I saw tonight. The other witness, my wife is a registered nurse.
January 29, 2020 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Janesville, WI
When I first spotted the lights it looked like two bright fireballs in the sky. I thought I was seeing a crash in the sky. Then I got a better view and there were actually four red orange lights making a equal square shape. Then the bottom right started moving very quickly and very close to the bottom left light. They stayed like that flying close for a few mins. Once I got outside they were in a straight line with a fifth one coming up faster from the distance as the others were one by one dissapearing into the clouds I guess. The fourth light seemed to almost slow down to wait for the fifth light.
December 16, 2019 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Janesville, WI
The object was first witnessed by a family member at around 5 pm on their way home from work. At 5:15 pm we all went outside and witnessed a bright light southwest of Janesville. It looked like a very bright star but wasn't that high in the sky. We observed the bright light through binoculars and it looked like 3 separate lights. It was the same brightness from first noticing it at 5 pm until about 5:30 pm and stayed in the same spot. Then it started dimming and slowly moving north. It stopped and it got very bright again, then dimmed until not visible. Then at about 6 pm it was moving north again while continually dimming and getting brighter until it was out of sight at about 6:07 pm.
May 26, 2019 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Janesville, WI
Wy wife and I decided to do a little stargazing and went to our front yard after having a campfire under the trees in the backyard. We laid down on the driveway to look up at the stars and almost immediately noticed a string of three equally spaced lights moving from southwest to northeast. The satellites were moving in straight line one after another after another. We like to look for satellites and these appeared to be satellites, except there were three in a straight line moving at the same speed and approximately one-half inch apart from our vantage point. They were located approximately 60 to 70 degrees above the horizon. We first noticed them when they were almost straight north of us. We watched them till they started to fade away, like a satellites do when moving into the earths shadow. They faded from sight after we watched them travel through approximately 45 degrees of arc. These definitely had the appearance of bright satellites but high! ly unusual since there were three of them equally spaced in a straight line. We suspected they might be the international space station and resupply vessels, but all three had the same brightness and where one support/supply vessel makes sense two at the same time do not. Space Link satellites. PD
April 24, 2019 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Janesville, WI
Nine ornage orbs located East, North - East of Janesville, Wisconsin. Eight appeared to be in a random figure with one quite a distance in the South that was moving faster to catch up with the group. They appeared to be about 60 degrees off the horizon. They eventually moved in a group North and after 10 minutes disappeared into the night. They were as orange as the fruit and moved in synch with each other.