UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Jackson, MI, USA

Very, very bright led type light moving slowly west to east. High in the atmosphere.

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-12
Where
Jackson, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
50 seconds
Geo
42.246, -84.401 · exact
Slug
light-over-jackson-mi-2016-b06c5b
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Jackson, MI shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 136 reports came from Michigan in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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