CaseFireball2009

Beloit, WI, USA

Two big, round balls of fire hovering over beloit, Wi near the South Beloit border

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-05
Where
Beloit, WI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.508, -89.032 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-beloit-wi-2009-cc463b
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…

In context

  • Beloit, WI has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 63 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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