CaseCross2008

Ionia, MI, USA

Four pointed star shaped light sighted on 11/24/08 at 6pm, near Ionia, Mi.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-24
Where
Ionia, MI, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
~45 seconds
Geo
42.987, -85.071 · exact
Slug
cross-over-ionia-mi-2008-857451
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

  • Ionia, MI has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 141 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.3% cross reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.3%.

Report

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