Date: August 5, 1999 23:20
Location: Tomah
County: Monroe
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Details of Incident:
The object was a distorted mass of some sort that moved in a northwest direction across the sky, not
real fast but not slow either.
On Thursday night 08/05/99 around 10:30pm my wife, our son and I had just finished preparing for my
wifes rummage sale the next morning and as it was such a nice evening we decided to relax outdoors and
stargaze for a while. We had watched a number of airliners fly over we assumed they were all out for
the twin cities. We had watched a couple of satellites move across the sky. We had also witnessed what
seemed to be a short meteor shower with some leaving very brilliant orange trails behind them. At
around 11:15pm or so my wife and son had decided to go inside. I remained outdoors for a little longer
just hoping to see more of the show. As I sat looking up at the sky looking southward as we had been I
noticed some movement from my left. When I turned to focus on it what I saw is very hard to describe.
It seemed like a patch of the sky had a wavy transparent distortion, somewhat oval shaped and moving
within itself. It made no sound at all. There weren't any blinking lights as I recall. It was like
looking through a magnifying glass about 8 to 10 inches away from your eye. I only saw it for about 15
to 20 seconds as it moved in a northwest direction at around a 60 degree angle up from the horizon.
The sky was very clear. The temp. was about 70 degrees. I'm 41 years old, I work as a Dept. Manager
for a local retail store. My family and I have always enjoyed looking at the night sky. This is the
first time I have ever seen anything like this. If you or anyone can explain what it was I would be
very grateful.
Help show your support for this site and our efforts by
visiting
www.GetGhostGear.com and any links
below!
All information contained above and elsewhere on
www.UFOwisconsin.com has rights
reserved to GetGhostGear.com Enterprises
and appropriate permissions must be gained before utilizing anything contained
here on www.UFOwisconsin.com to aid in
assuring our visitors, report filers and resources used to bring this site to
you have all protections and due rights made available. Interested parties
please contact us through "Copy Right Services @ GetGhostGear.com"
Disclaimer: UFOwisconsin.com has not verified the validity of every UFO report
published within UFOwisconsin.com. All reports are added to the database
'as is' received. The sighting reports posted have many possible
explanations, including but not restricted to stars, planets, airplanes, known
natural earthly phenomena, hoaxes etc. We leave it up to the individual
viewer to judge the report based upon the content of the report itself. As
investigations occur, that information will be notated on the individual report.