Madison, WI, USA
Straight line flight of 8 equally spaced.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-06
- Where
- Madison, WI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 43.073, -89.401 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-madison-wi-2020-078d46
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
March 2020 was a busy month for Madison, WI: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Madison, WI.
- This case is one of 137 Wisconsin reports filed in 2020.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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