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
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
- 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
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.