CaseFireball2012
Fond du Lac, WI, USA
Witnessed 18 to 20 fireball orange round orbs
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-23
- Where
- Fond du Lac, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.775, -88.439 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fond-du-lac-wi-2012-dd2caa
Wave
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
- Fond du Lac, WI has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 157 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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