Detroit, MI, USA
Spherical type craft seen over Detroit river between the cities of Detroit and Windsor, disappears into small black rain cloud.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-15
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-detroit-mi-2006-37ac3b
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
- One of 94 documented reports from Detroit, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 109 sightings in 2006.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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