UFOMYST
CaseFireball2013

Madison, WI, USA

Red light hovering in sky over Lake Mendota, too high and could not be tower as it was over the lake, constant red light (no blinking)

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-07
Where
Madison, WI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
43.073, -89.401 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-madison-wi-2013-f3a993
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

  • This is one of 117 reports logged in Madison, WI.
  • This case is one of 179 Wisconsin reports filed in 2013.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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