Holland, MI, USA
Cylinder shape, 2 bright lights on bottom, one on each side of craft as well as one in front, foggy skies, craft aprox 15ft from roof.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-27
- Where
- Holland, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 42.788, -86.109 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-holland-mi-2011-ddaeba
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
- Holland, MI has 40 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 161 reports from Michigan.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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