Madison, MS, USA
Sphere with red and green lights hovering over Ross Barnett Reservoir in Madison, MS. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-12-14
- Where
- Madison, MS, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.462, -90.115 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-madison-ms-2015-0c5640
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
Madison, MS logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2015.
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Madison, MS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Mississippi logged 41 sightings in 2015.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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