Auburn Hills, MI, USA
A white metallic cigar shaped aircraft with no windows (only a few black patches?),lights or wings on it. This craft was the size of 5
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-19
- Where
- Auburn Hills, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.688, -83.234 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-auburn-hills-mi-2017-6719af
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
- Auburn Hills, MI shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 134 reports came from Michigan in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.