UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2004

Portland, MI, USA

Lighted object in sky that danced around in the sky and moved closer to me and then farther away several times

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-17
Where
Portland, MI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
20min
Geo
42.869, -84.903 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-portland-mi-2004-6ee7c9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Portland, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 83 sightings in 2004.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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