Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Large UFO mistaken for airplane bright lights shines down went one direction and instantly went opposite direction w/o turning around.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-11
- Where
- Ypsilanti, MI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.241, -83.613 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-ypsilanti-mi-2016-cb426c
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
- One of 34 documented reports from Ypsilanti, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 136 sightings in 2016.
Report
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