CaseCigar2017

Northville, MI, USA

Ten twinkling lights moving across the sky, and then two cigar shaped lights moving after them.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-08
Where
Northville, MI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.431, -83.483 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-northville-mi-2017-5fb502
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

  • Northville, MI has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 134 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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