South Manitou Island, MI, USA
UFO caught on camera and captured with video. ((NUFORC Note: Object seen to the left of the person n video. PD))
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 (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-04
- Where
- South Manitou Island, MI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 44.999, -86.120 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-south-manitou-island-mi-2021-b63f3b
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
- South Manitou Island, MI shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 57 reports came from Michigan in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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