CaseLight2008

Rochester Hills, MI, USA

I observed an object with flasing lights high in the sky, moving very quickly and sort of "jumping" around.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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 (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-07-31
Where
Rochester Hills, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.658, -83.150 · exact
Slug
light-over-rochester-hills-mi-2008-2774de
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2008 was a busy month for Rochester Hills, MI: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Rochester Hills, MI.
  • This case is one of 141 Michigan reports filed in 2008.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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