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
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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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