CaseFormation2013

Dearborn, MI, USA

7 red/orange lights in a straight line formation before 4th of July fireworks, then faded and disappeared one at a time.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
Dearborn, MI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.322, -83.176 · exact
Slug
formation-over-dearborn-mi-2013-1b7d30
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Dearborn, MI logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2013.

In context

  • One of 25 documented reports from Dearborn, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 188 sightings in 2013.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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