Lake Geneva, WI, USA
Follow-up to article in Chicago Sun Times 12/3/97 re "Fireball" in Will Co, IL. 12/30. Saw similar in Lake Geneva, WI.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-28
- Where
- Lake Geneva, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.592, -88.433 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lake-geneva-wi-1997-6095dc
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Lake Geneva, WI.
- This case is one of 21 Wisconsin reports filed in 1997.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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