CaseRectangle2012

Oxford, MI, USA

Rectangular Orange object low in sky

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-04
Where
Oxford, MI, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
Within a minute or so
Geo
42.825, -83.265 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-oxford-mi-2012-63d416
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…

In context

  • Oxford, MI shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 236 reports came from Michigan in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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