Spring Lake, MI, USA
Three brightly lit objects the color of a flame..very orange / yellow / red, flying quite low to the ground 100 ft or so. moving over
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-02-16
- Where
- Spring Lake, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 to 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.077, -86.197 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-spring-lake-mi-2012-81863c
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
- Spring Lake, MI shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 236 reports came from Michigan in 2012.
Report
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