CaseFireball2014

Detroit, MI, USA

I was driving home down livernois ave going north, as I crossed west 6 mile I saw about three red lights hovering low in the sky betwee

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-11-22
Where
Detroit, MI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.331, -83.046 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-detroit-mi-2014-51f178
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Detroit, MI logged 3 reports in the single month of November 2014.

In context

  • One of 94 documented reports from Detroit, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 184 sightings in 2014.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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