CaseOther2017

Leota, MI, USA

Very bright low tracking slow squarish or round light. Like Chinese lantern. Work at airport 34 years not a plane. ((anon. report))

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-09
Where
Leota, MI, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.139, -84.889 · exact
Slug
other-over-leota-mi-2017-687958
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Leota, MI.
  • This case is one of 134 Michigan reports filed in 2017.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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