UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Lake Leelanau, MI, USA

I saw more than a dozen of these craft.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-03
Where
Lake Leelanau, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
44.981, -85.715 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lake-leelanau-mi-2012-32730b
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…

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Lake Leelanau, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 236 sightings in 2012.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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