Grand Rapids, MI, USA
On September 11, 2021 I was awoken with the sprinkler system turning on at 4:20 AM. A beam of light coming down from the sky shined int
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-09-11
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-grand-rapids-mi-2021-d04d50
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
- Grand Rapids, MI shows up 121 times across the archive.
- 57 reports came from Michigan in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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