CaseLight2014

Evansville/Madison, WI, USA

A solid light traveling fast across the sky suddenly would stop, change direction, and then accelerate again until lost on the horizon.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-09-17
Where
Evansville/Madison, WI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
42.780, -89.299 · exact
Slug
light-over-evansville-madison-wi-2014-4df99b
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

  • Evansville/Madison, WI has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 147 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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