Battle Creek, MI, USA
A orange ball. Going up and down. The color would fade, then come back to color again. It almost looked like it was coming toward me.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Battle Creek, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Backyard
- Geo
- 42.317, -85.178 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-battle-creek-mi-2010-ded8df
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
- Battle Creek, MI has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 124 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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