Chelsea, MI, USA
White light shot in front of my car, not high enough for a plane or shooting star. No blinking light, like a plane, way too fast to be
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-23
- Where
- Chelsea, MI, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 42.318, -84.022 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chelsea-mi-2019-9f3c4a
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
- Chelsea, MI shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from Michigan in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.