CaseLight2009

L'Anse (Alberta Village), MI, USA

A white orb traveled 1/4 of the sky. It came to rest Se of the logging town of Alberta. It disappeared 1 1/2 hours later. Completely.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-03
Where
L'Anse (Alberta Village), MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
21:07-22:41
Geo
46.757, -88.453 · exact
Slug
light-over-l-anse-alberta-village-mi-2009-35e587
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…

In context

  • L'Anse (Alberta Village), MI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 125 reports came from Michigan in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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