UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

West Bloomfield, MI, USA

Orange glowing sphere seen over West Bloomfield, Mi.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-29
Where
West Bloomfield, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
44.221, -88.972 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-west-bloomfield-mi-2012-a2ce71
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 14 documented reports from West Bloomfield, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 236 sightings in 2012.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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