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
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
- 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 daysReport
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