CaseRectangle2006

Sault Ste. Marie, MI, USA

UFO with rectangular 2 section construction seen in daylight by several people

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-06-28
Where
Sault Ste. Marie, MI, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
46.495, -84.345 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-sault-ste-marie-mi-2006-9ca0ea
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Sault Ste. Marie, MI in June 2006 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Sault Ste. Marie, MI has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 109 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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