CaseCylinder2006

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Cylinder or Cigar over Grand Rapids

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 (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-06-04
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
3 minues
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-grand-rapids-mi-2006-5b0ec6
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

  • This is one of 121 reports logged in Grand Rapids, MI.
  • This case is one of 109 Michigan reports filed in 2006.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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