CaseChanging2017

Dearborn Heights, MI, USA

Pulsating object observed over Michigan.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-13
Where
Dearborn Heights, MI, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
42.337, -83.273 · exact
Slug
changing-over-dearborn-heights-mi-2017-ccd9b0
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

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Dearborn Heights, MI.
  • This case is one of 134 Michigan reports filed in 2017.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

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.