CaseChanging2006

Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Probable HOAX: 5 ufos, silent black objects, moving slowly

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2006-01-02
Where
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 mins
Geo
42.278, -83.741 · exact
Slug
changing-over-ann-arbor-mi-2006-64ce6f
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

  • Ann Arbor, MI has 47 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 109 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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