Grayling, MI, USA
We were in our house when 3 bright orange flashes lit up the sky. Too fast to go out to see any objects.
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-16
- Where
- Grayling, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 44.661, -84.715 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-grayling-mi-2016-86affe
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 9 reports logged in Grayling, MI.
- This case is one of 136 Michigan reports filed in 2016.
Report
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