CaseCircle2012
Troy, MI, USA
Eight orange round shape flying objects over Troy-MI
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-07
- Where
- Troy, MI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.606, -83.150 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-troy-mi-2012-ed27d1
Wave
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
- Troy, MI shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 236 reports came from Michigan in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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