CaseUnknown2016

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
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…

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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