CaseCircle2012
Manitou Beach, MI, USA
Distance/size was important also they appeared lit from within.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-20
- Where
- Manitou Beach, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.491, -83.933 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-manitou-beach-mi-2012-ca63fa
Wave
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
- Manitou Beach, MI has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 236 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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