Royal Oak, MI, USA
Fat disc shape. 3 lights. One light was red. I think other 2 were green and white. Went in different directions and hoovered.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-03
- Where
- Royal Oak, MI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.489, -83.145 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-royal-oak-mi-2016-4add71
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
- Royal Oak, MI shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from Michigan in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.