CaseUnknown2017

Manistee, MI, USA

Saw a hovering object with 3 horizontal lights in the night sky, and it appeared, disappeared, reappeared numerous times.

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 (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-26
Where
Manistee, MI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
44.244, -86.324 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-manistee-mi-2017-6104a0
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Manistee, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 134 sightings in 2017.

Report

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