CaseFireball1999
Madison, WI, USA
Very large fireball with trail arched silently from SE to E/NE. Thought it was a plane crashing. When it went over the horizon, I wai
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Madison, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 43.073, -89.401 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-madison-wi-1999-8e294c
In context
- Madison, WI has 117 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 80 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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