UFOMYST
CaseOther2008

Rochester Hills, MI, USA

Sawjagged brown / metallic object rotating in sky - hovering then accelerating and moving - saw it through binoculars.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-05
Where
Rochester Hills, MI, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.658, -83.150 · exact
Slug
other-over-rochester-hills-mi-2008-306722
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Rochester Hills, MI reports filed in July 2008.

In context

  • Rochester Hills, MI shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 141 reports came from Michigan in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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