Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Very bright object hovered aboved the treetops for a long time before moving extremely slowly toward the west. ((Star??))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-13
- Where
- Ypsilanti, MI, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- Several Hours
- Geo
- 42.241, -83.613 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-ypsilanti-mi-2009-46a265
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…
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Ypsilanti, MI.
- This case is one of 125 Michigan reports filed in 2009.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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