UFOMYST
CaseSphere2021

Wayland, MI, USA

Amber Orb/Sphere changing brightness and color slightly and moving quickly. Possibly more than one.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-16
Where
Wayland, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes maybe longer
Geo
42.674, -85.645 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-wayland-mi-2021-4bf3e5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Wayland, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 57 sightings in 2021.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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