UFOMYST
CaseCircle2006

Traverse City, MI, USA

Five nearly circular "fire colored" objects drifting across the sky

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-09-02
Where
Traverse City, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 Minutes
Geo
44.763, -85.621 · exact
Slug
circle-over-traverse-city-mi-2006-274c60
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

  • This is one of 31 reports logged in Traverse City, MI.
  • This case is one of 109 Michigan reports filed in 2006.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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