CaseFormation1999
Detroit (north of, driving east on I-696), MI, USA
Witnessed 5 balls of light in the sky, lasting as long as 30 seconds, while driving east on I-696. My location was between I-75 and I-9
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Detroit (north of, driving east on I-696), MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-detroit-north-of-driving-east-on-i-696-mi-1999-c6c609
In context
- Detroit (north of, driving east on I-696), MI has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 91 reports from Michigan.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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