CaseCone2006
Royal Oak, MI, USA
Strange, white balloon like craft over Detroit metro area
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-13
- Where
- Royal Oak, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.489, -83.145 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-royal-oak-mi-2006-ea29d6
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
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Royal Oak, MI.
- This case is one of 109 Michigan reports filed in 2006.
- Cone craft made up 0.5% of 2000s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
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.