Portage, MI, USA
round yellow metallic object flew near my house just before thunder storm.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-08
- Where
- Portage, MI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.201, -85.580 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portage-mi-2008-d5f6f5
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…
Local cluster
Portage, MI logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2008.
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Portage, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 141 sightings in 2008.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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