Union, MI, USA
Multiple craft forward red-orange light, slowly flying low east-southeast across Union MI, disappeared as they passed over. silent.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-11
- Where
- Union, MI, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20 minutes?
- Geo
- 41.786, -85.868 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-union-mi-2012-159cba
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 3 reports logged in Union, MI.
- This case is one of 236 Michigan reports filed in 2012.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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