CaseCylinder2009
Madison, WI, USA
((HOAX??)) air force story
Report quality: Low22/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2009-01-30
- Where
- Madison, WI, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 43.073, -89.401 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-madison-wi-2009-e22e70
Wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Madison, WI.
- This case is one of 63 Wisconsin reports filed in 2009.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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