Home | File a UFO Report | View UFO Reports Photo & Video | UFO Education UFO News | Calendar Sky Watch | Help UFO Wisconsin Store | Holiday Shopping | Contact Us Your complete source for Wisconsin UFO Sightings, News, & Information!

- Learn More - - Buy Now -

 
The Best Collection of Unique UFO, Alien, Outer Space & Sci-Fi Products Anywhere!



Don't Miss Our Annual Holiday Gift Guides for Christmas & Halloween!

Date: November 16, 1999 18:00
Location: Madison
County: Dane

Source: National UFO Reporting Center



Details of Incident:

Very large fireball with trail arched silently from SE to E/NE. Thought it was a plane crashing. When it went over the horizon, I waited for the sound of a crash which never came.

I walked outside of my house just before 6:00 pm to walk the dog. The sky was clear, dark and the air temp cool. I noticed how starry the night was. About 10 seconds after walking outside I looked up straight up and saw this massive fireball with a long trail behind it. My first instinct was it was some sort of a jet plane going down. Although the airport is 5 - 7 miles away, planes from Milwaukee & Chicago fly over my neighborhood on their approach. This "plane" was coming from what seemed to be SE and headed E/NE. I thought that if it was a plane, it had taken off from the Madison airport to the SW, encountered problems and continued an arc that brought it E/NE and over my house. Elevation seemed to be maybe 4000 feet and then as it headed towards the horizon & went over the trees, it looked like it was going to crash on the east side of town or in the village of Cottage Grove. The speed of the object was no faster than a plane making a landing approach. It moved silently. When I first noticed the fireball, it was directly overhead. From that moment until it went over the tree horizon, about 45 seconds to maybe a minute went by. It was long enough that I contemplated running to my next door neighbors house to tell him to come out and watch this. After the object disappeared and I heard no explosion, I went on my walk with the dog (who by the way did not act strange during this event) all the while trying to figure out what I had just seen. I knew about the upcoming meteor shower, but I thought that 1) it was so huge, I didn't know meteors looked like that 2) I thought the meteor shower was going to be in the middle of the night. When I got home, I ran in the house & turned on the local news. The Channel 3 weatherman was on and talking about the meteor shower. Since I turned on the TV in the middle of talk, I missed most of what he said. He was indicating however that the meteor shower was already starting & that was what people were seeing. He said (paraphrased), "we've just had several calls about sightings, and that's what you're seeing folks - the meteor shower." So that did it - I just assumed I saw a meteor. Then last night I turned on Art Bell, because I was curious to hear if he would talk about these impressive meteors. Boy was I in for a surprise. When you came on and played the tape from that lady in Northern Michigan, I nearly died. It was incredibly similar to what I saw. Like she said, it was moving slow enough to pull over and get out of a car. Just incredible. To give you a bit of background - although open to the idea of UFOs and such, I have never seen anything which I would describe as unidentifiable until last night.

Read more about Madison UFO sightings exclusively in this book:

Learn More!

Wisconsin's Top Five UFO Hot Spots!

Help show your support for this site and our efforts by visiting www.GetGhostGear.com and any links below!  

All information contained above and elsewhere on www.UFOwisconsin.com has rights reserved to GetGhostGear.com Enterprises and appropriate permissions must be gained before utilizing anything contained here on www.UFOwisconsin.com to aid in assuring our visitors, report filers and resources used to bring this site to you have all protections and due rights made available.  Interested parties please contact us through "Copy Right Services @ GetGhostGear.com"

Disclaimer: UFOwisconsin.com has not verified the validity of every UFO report published within UFOwisconsin.com.  All reports are added to the database 'as is' received.  The sighting reports posted have many possible explanations, including but not restricted to stars, planets, airplanes, known natural earthly phenomena, hoaxes etc.  We leave it up to the individual viewer to judge the report based upon the content of the report itself.  As investigations occur, that information will be notated on the individual report.