CaseCigar2008

Armada, MI, USA

I saw a silver red object that seemed to go about 2 milesin 3 seconds turn and gone.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-21
Where
Armada, MI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
42.844, -82.884 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-armada-mi-2008-4e1346
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

  • Armada, MI has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 141 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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