UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Norton Shores, MI, USA

Seen over Lake Michigan with binoculars. Was changing colors.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-06
Where
Norton Shores, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
43.169, -86.264 · exact
Slug
circle-over-norton-shores-mi-2020-e289b4
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

  • Norton Shores, MI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 179 reports came from Michigan in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.