UFOMYST
CaseOval2011

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Light - Oval

Report quality: Moderate54/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (12 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-09-21
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
< 2 sec's
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
oval-over-grand-rapids-mi-2011-62adb4
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…

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In context

  • Grand Rapids, MI shows up 121 times across the archive.
  • 161 reports came from Michigan in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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