UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Coloma, MI, USA

I saw 3 Orange Spheres, with a Starburst effect about 500 feet AGL, heading due North, about 100 Knots Per Hour.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-24
Where
Coloma, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
90 seconds?
Geo
42.186, -86.308 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-coloma-mi-2013-9168c5
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…

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In context

  • Coloma, MI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 188 reports came from Michigan in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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