Detroit, MI, USA
20 orange circular objects appearing in sky making formations, then lining up in a zigzag then disappearing one at a time within 10 se
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
- 2020-04-02
- Where
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.331, -83.046 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-detroit-mi-2020-8e23e0
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
- This is one of 94 reports logged in Detroit, MI.
- This case is one of 179 Michigan reports filed in 2020.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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