Bay City, MI, USA
We witnessed a strange aircraft that traveled much higher, faster and was a lot larger than anything we've ever seen or read about.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-30
- Where
- Bay City, MI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 43.594, -83.889 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bay-city-mi-2013-350782
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 18 reports logged in Bay City, MI.
- This case is one of 188 Michigan reports filed in 2013.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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