Madison, WI, USA
On bike path just west of Black Hawk Golf Course. I looked up in the sky and it appeared to look like a shooting star. Then I could t
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-17
- Where
- Madison, WI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1-3 seconds
- Geo
- 43.073, -89.401 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-madison-wi-2016-a2ddf8
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
- Madison, WI shows up 117 times across the archive.
- 121 reports came from Wisconsin in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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