CaseCylinder2012

Detroit, MI, USA

I saw a hollow, cylinder shapped object the color of a bubble, or rainbow, hovering and spinning above a bush.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-17
Where
Detroit, MI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 min.
Geo
42.331, -83.046 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-detroit-mi-2012-4e405d
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

  • One of 94 documented reports from Detroit, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 236 sightings in 2012.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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