CaseCircle2012

Drayton Plains, MI, USA

The highway in Waterford runs alongside a lake they were going across also.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-11
Where
Drayton Plains, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
(minutes)
Geo
42.684, -83.377 · exact
Slug
circle-over-drayton-plains-mi-2012-e95850
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

  • Drayton Plains, MI has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 236 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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