troy, MI, USA
The object at times looked like funnel shape. It was very fuzzy and sounded almost like a hurricane was coming off the coast of florid
Report quality: High73/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-05
- Where
- troy, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 42.606, -83.150 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-troy-mi-2004-b68d1a
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of troy, MI in April 2004 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- troy, MI has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 83 reports from Michigan.
Report
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