CaseUnknown2009

Ypsilanti, MI, USA

a bright light

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (14 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-24
Where
Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2-3 mins.
Geo
42.241, -83.613 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-ypsilanti-mi-2009-a06652
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 34 reports logged in Ypsilanti, MI.
  • This case is one of 125 Michigan reports filed in 2009.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.