Erie, MI, USA
ball of light moving slow as a plane would then speeding up dramaticly and doing 90 degree turn and shot off!
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-18
- Where
- Erie, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.794, -83.496 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-erie-mi-2005-001901
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 2 documented reports from Erie, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 93 sightings in 2005.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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