CaseCircle1990

Ortonville, MI, USA

Bright white circle above our atmosphere shooting across sky at impossible speeds

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-06-01
Where
Ortonville, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.852, -83.443 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ortonville-mi-1990-95197b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Ortonville, MI has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1990 brought 11 reports from Michigan.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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