Wixom, MI, USA
((NUFORC Note: Witness is anonymous. Possible hoax? PD)) Poval-shaped object seemed to float above several farm buildings,
Report quality: Low5/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-10-17
- Where
- Wixom, MI, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.525, -83.536 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-wixom-mi-2005-4aea10
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
- Wixom, MI has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 93 reports from Michigan.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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