Novi, MI, USA
A formation of 4 lights appear over Walled Lake on the 4th of July. Eratic motion and behavior suggest none-human aircraft...
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Novi, MI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-10 min
- Geo
- 42.481, -83.475 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-novi-mi-2008-87e0f9
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
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Novi, MI.
- This case is one of 141 Michigan reports filed in 2008.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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