UFOMYST
CaseFireball2013

Madison, WI, USA

Five fireball looking objects appeared moving at high speeds from the northwest moving south, southeast. One after another they moved a

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-08-16
Where
Madison, WI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
43.073, -89.401 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-madison-wi-2013-a89be9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Madison, WI logged 4 reports in the single month of August 2013.

In context

  • One of 117 documented reports from Madison, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Wisconsin logged 179 sightings in 2013.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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