Lake Orion, MI, USA
Circular object flashing red and green, mimicking a star. ((NUFORC Note: Possible "twinkling" star?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-09-03
- Where
- Lake Orion, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.784, -83.240 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lake-orion-mi-2016-179f6d
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
- Lake Orion, MI has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 136 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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