Madison, WI, USA
Saw and counted a line of 10 pretty much evenly spaced lights moving fairly fast and horizontal ((Starlink satellites?))
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-26
- Where
- Madison, WI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 43.073, -89.401 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-madison-wi-2020-d056e6
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 has 117 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 137 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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