Shelby Township, MI, USA
Craft that appeared as a flashing cloud hiding in the clouds and created it's own to hide in. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-09-02
- Where
- Shelby Township, MI, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 42.671, -83.033 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-shelby-township-mi-2006-a1c8b6
Part of a wave
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
- Shelby Township, MI has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 109 reports from Michigan.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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