UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Ft. Gratiot, MI, USA

Cigar shape, brightlights, very fast, low.

Report quality: Low36/100

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
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-25
Where
Ft. Gratiot, MI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
—
Geo
—
Slug
cigar-over-ft-gratiot-mi-2009-f7e52c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Ft. Gratiot, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 125 sightings in 2009.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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