UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

River Falls, WI, USA

Spherical luninous multi-colored hovering in the same position, now heading west toward the twin cities, St. Paul, Mpls. 18:57pm

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-18
Where
River Falls, WI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes so far
Geo
44.861, -92.624 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-river-falls-wi-2017-388b59
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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In context

  • One of 15 documented reports from River Falls, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Wisconsin logged 88 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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