UFO Sightings in Wisconsin and Minnesota .. a short study

UFO Sightings in Wisconsin and Minnesota Wisconsin and Minnesota are studied together here due to their proximity.   This improves the map and simplifies the statistics.

Sightings eras are in colors:   95 events from the 1890s through 1959 show as Blue dots,   75 from 1960 through 1974 are in Violet, and 117 from 1975 to the present are Green.

Wisconsin has more sightings (164) than Minnesota (125) overall, and a higher density of sightings per square miles of area.

The geographical center of the two-state area is at 91:22W - 44:45N, which is Southeast of Eau Claire, WI.

The earliest sighting mapped was from 13 April, 1897 at Lake Elmo, MN.   A vague figure was seen searching around with a lantern.   He (it?) ran into the trees.   A strange grey object flew away from there.

See a wider map for the North Central States.


Daily Sightings Histogram: Wisconsin-Minnesota <=   Daily Histogram: Wisconsin + Minnesota Sightings.

Sightings for all years and both states are combined and plotted as daily counts to show seasonal effects.

No compelling peaks show, but the busiest single days were 22 March with 8 events listed, and 7 July 1947 with 6.

The busiest month all-time was July (39 listings here) versus an average of 22 for the other 11 months of the year.

The busiest weekday is Wednesday (49) versus an average of 35 or 36 for the other six days.   Sightings here are mostly on farmlands.

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50-year graph of Wisconsin & Minnesota <=   50-Year Graph of Wisconsin & Minnesota

The violet running average curve at bottom has several peaks.   Six especially busy months are circled in green. Half of those occurred as Mars made close approaches to Earth.   Distance scales for planets are inverted, so high means near.   Correlation with Venus is nil to negative.

The busiest years for WI & MN combined were:

1947 (17)   1952 (25)   1956 (11)   1957 (10)
1965 (11)   1966 (10)   1967 (18)   1975 (11)
1978 (16)   1979 (15)   1993 (11)   1995 (10)
Years not shown have 8 or fewer listings.

The largest local flap, within 10 days and 20 miles, was around Scandia, MN   late March 1978. Robert Engberg wrote a special report.

A group of four sightings around Elkhorn, Eagle River and East Troy, WI took place on 7 July, 1947 .. far away from the western states.

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