UFOMYST
CaseOval2005

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

I watched it in clear view and it suddenly dissapeared.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-04
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
oval-over-grand-rapids-mi-2005-84efdb
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 →

In context

  • Grand Rapids, MI shows up 121 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Michigan in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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