East Lansing, MI, USA
4 orange fireballs in a row, sitting in the sky, close to ground, disappeared then reappeared.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-15
- Where
- East Lansing, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ?
- Geo
- 42.737, -84.484 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-east-lansing-mi-2011-d6450e
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
- East Lansing, MI has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 161 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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