CaseFireball2014

Richfield, WI, USA

12 red lights all in straight line formation 30 miles north west of Milwaukee, WI.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-04
Where
Richfield, WI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
43.256, -88.194 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-richfield-wi-2014-c8ed0c
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

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Richfield, WI.
  • This case is one of 147 Wisconsin reports filed in 2014.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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