CaseCircle2005

Vanderbilt, MI, USA

white light bright 60 - 75 mph it was about 30 min long

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-01
Where
Vanderbilt, MI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Geo
45.143, -84.660 · exact
Slug
circle-over-vanderbilt-mi-2005-cc246b
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…

In context

  • Vanderbilt, MI shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Michigan in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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