UFOMYST
CaseSphere2018

Nahma, MI, USA

Fishing on L. Michigan, headed back to launch, a glowing white sphere the size of a basketball emerged out of the lake and followed

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 (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-20
Where
Nahma, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.842, -86.664 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-nahma-mi-2018-f43c1b
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Nahma, MI.
  • This case is one of 62 Michigan reports filed in 2018.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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