UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Janesville, WI, USA

When I first spotted the lights it looked like two bright fireballs in the sky. I thought I was seeing a crash in the sky. Then I got a

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-29
Where
Janesville, WI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.683, -89.019 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-janesville-wi-2020-b6e9d9
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

  • Janesville, WI shows up 32 times across the archive.
  • 137 reports came from Wisconsin in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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