CaseLight1991

Shields, MI, USA

2 incidents, 5 min. apart(approx.) bright light hovering, about 300 ft. above, then fastest 90° turn/and speed we ever saw .

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-07-20
Where
Shields, MI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
:05
Geo
43.415, -84.056 · exact
Slug
light-over-shields-mi-1991-55bc27
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Shields, MI has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1991 brought 17 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.