Stevens Point, WI, USA
Orange fireball travels west then north.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-15
- Where
- Stevens Point, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 44.524, -89.575 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-stevens-point-wi-2011-380896
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Stevens Point, WI in July 2011 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Stevens Point, WI has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 114 reports from Wisconsin.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.