Jackson, MI, USA
It was right after a football game when I was on my way home on my bike when I saw it, I don't nornally go but my it was my ex's first
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-17
- Where
- Jackson, MI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 42.246, -84.401 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jackson-mi-2012-018e91
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 34 reports logged in Jackson, MI.
- This case is one of 236 Michigan reports filed in 2012.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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