CaseCigar1999
Shelby Township, MI, USA
8-12 lights in a pattern of orange and red;there were no sounds; no mechanical trouble; object faded slowly; may have changed direction
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Shelby Township, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- <20 seconds
- Geo
- 42.671, -83.033 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-shelby-township-mi-1999-38d019
In context
- Shelby Township, MI shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 91 reports came from Michigan in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% 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.