Detroit, MI, USA
Seen 3 middle one flashed as if it were a mirror, commercial plane flew past within no time jets flew through and went around objects,
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-20
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-detroit-mi-2020-c451c8
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
- One of 94 documented reports from Detroit, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 179 sightings in 2020.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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