Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Day lift, bright bar became triangle, then faded away.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-21
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-grand-rapids-mi-2014-3194a4
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
3 reports came out of Grand Rapids, MI in May 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Grand Rapids, MI has 121 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 184 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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