UFOMYST
CaseCigar2005

Shelby, MI, USA

Shinny silver tube craft no wings - some dark areas.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-02
Where
Shelby, MI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
one miniute
Geo
42.671, -83.033 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-shelby-mi-2005-0c5d83
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Shelby, MI shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Michigan in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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