Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Five to seven yellow/orange round objects appearing to hover in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-22
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-grand-rapids-mi-2014-6feddb
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…
Local cluster
Grand Rapids, MI logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2014.
In context
- One of 121 documented reports from Grand Rapids, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 184 sightings in 2014.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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