UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Ludington, MI, USA

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Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (16 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-14
Where
Ludington, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
hour and half
Geo
43.955, -86.453 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ludington-mi-2011-b0e471
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Ludington, MI shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 161 reports came from Michigan in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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.