CaseCigar2008

Edwardsburg, MI, USA

Bright orange object reported in the Edwardsburg sky.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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 (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-06-11
Where
Edwardsburg, MI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.796, -86.081 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-edwardsburg-mi-2008-725ca2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Edwardsburg, MI logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2008.

In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Edwardsburg, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 141 sightings in 2008.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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