UFOMYST
CaseOval2018

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Egg-shaped light shot from clouds to ground.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-28
Where
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
Instant
Geo
42.963, -85.668 · exact
Slug
oval-over-grand-rapids-mi-2018-7bb3a3
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

  • This is one of 121 reports logged in Grand Rapids, MI.
  • This case is one of 62 Michigan reports filed in 2018.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

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.