CaseFireball2013

Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Massive caravan of a hundred red/orange fireballs moving from west to east at a steady rate in formation for at least ten minutes.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-10-11
Where
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
~10 minutes
Geo
42.292, -85.587 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kalamazoo-mi-2013-90b1b2
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…

In context

  • Kalamazoo, MI has 46 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 188 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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