Pontiac, MI, USA
..it seemed the show was over-then 20 seconds later another orb slowly fades in.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-30
- Where
- Pontiac, MI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 42.639, -83.291 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pontiac-mi-2010-1430a9
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Pontiac, MI.
- This case is one of 124 Michigan reports filed in 2010.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.