Blanchard, MI, USA
A very bright reddish orange light, appeared as if something was burning for at least one minute; the object then slowly disappeared.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-10
- Where
- Blanchard, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 43.520, -85.080 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-blanchard-mi-2015-37ce6f
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
- Blanchard, MI has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 186 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.