UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Madison, WI, USA

Bright orangy-red and white light in SW sky over Madison, WI, travelling slowly and then disappearing.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-22
Where
Madison, WI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
43.073, -89.401 · exact
Slug
light-over-madison-wi-2013-54165c
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

August 2013 was a busy month for Madison, WI: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 117 reports logged in Madison, WI.
  • This case is one of 179 Wisconsin reports filed in 2013.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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