CaseUnknown2008

Shelby Township, MI, USA

Very very bright light it flew from the east toward me the the west it did have a sound like a plane but it was going very slow and it

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-17
Where
Shelby Township, MI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 min
Geo
42.671, -83.033 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-shelby-township-mi-2008-b07a68
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

  • Shelby Township, MI shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 141 reports came from Michigan in 2008.

Report

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